crash tested
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2000 3:39 pm
OK So I bought my 11 year old son an 83 Yamaha MX100 this weekend. We went on an
OHV powerline trail near our house ( Cleghorn ). We had a blast, I can't tell
you how proud I was that my son learned how to ride a bike in 5 minutes. I
decided to show off and went up this hill, It was all rutted up and hard packed
with loose stuf over the top of the hard dirt. Got up it NO PROBLEM.. Was pretty
fun actually.. Coming down was another story. I have read on here a couple times
today about how heavy it is to pick up your KLR on a 60% and you are so right.
First of all I tried to go slow.. But that wasn't happening because when I tried
to slow down I just slid. So I fell over, Got up, managed to pick up the bike
and tried to walk it down a little, nope, ain't happening dropped it again.. So
I was almost to the bottom of this hill now, Got back up started to ride down
the rest of the way A little faster I might add, because I was almost at the
bottom.. Wham-O hit a rut and was picking grass outta my helmet. Didn't do too
much damage, My handle bars are pointing a little to the right and I think
that's gonna be easy to fix(I think).. and my mirror got pulled towards the rear
of the bike, another easy fix ( I think) All in all I had a BLAST..
Well just wanted to share..
Dale
Y2k KLR650 with 2110 miles ( 3 weeks old tomorrow)