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[QUOTE="Nestrick, post: 1143470, member: 45162"] Photo 7 ... [Lower photo] It's 1430 in the afternoon and the temperature is beginning to drop, especially in the valleys where you are in the shade. We are circling back to Williamsburg and are crossing one of the many streams in this area of the forest ... luckily for me, Indy couldn't find a trail that necessitated fording this creek, otherwise this photo might well have depicted something quite different ... whenever entering water I usually picture two perfect rubber arcs protruding from the surface of still waters, perhaps the worst time one could imagine to have the rubber side up ... only in the mind of a novice rider, eh? Hey, for those of you who didn’t know … sold my CRF-450R [Crash Gordon] and bought the 06 KTM 300 XC-W [Orange Crush] … I paid extra to have the this KTM “pre-trained” to keep the rubber side down despite conflicting input from novice riders … so far this new KTM Soft Parts offering is paying dividends for me! Photo 8 ... [Middle photo] Many of the side roads leading into and out of the National Forest are asphalt similar to what is shown here. Actually I had a blast riding these smooth, lightly traveled, very curvy paved sections. Per the suggestion of Indy, I equipped my KTM 300 XC-W with a Michelin Desert Front and a Michelin Baja Rear tire ... aside from being nearly impossible to obtain this time of year, these tires appear to be working very well*** ... they hook up nicely in virtually every situation I have encountered thus far [pavement, gravel, mud, rocks and sand] ... and after approximately 750 miles the front is near virgin condition while the rear is just beginning to show a distinct, flat, center wear pattern on the knobs ... they do not show any chunking or hair-line cracking of the knobs of either tire even though they have been subjected to high speed pavement running and considerable forays through rocky terrain. We stopped here for Indy to check our route back to the Motel on his Garmin. [*** It is probably important to mention that because of my rather limited riding skills any assessment of tire performance mentioned herein should be taken with a large dose of salt or perhaps, alcohol ... anytime I discover a brand that remains down more than up with respect to the rubber side, I tend to like and promote it.] Photo 9 ... [Upper photo] It’s the beginning of our second day’s ride … couldn’t pass up showing off my new ride with such scenery in the background … we washed off the KY clay every evening and since we have ridden only pavement to this point, the bike still looks like a million bucks! [/QUOTE]
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