Wilsons Sandbox

> >We did ride hard -- at > >speeds approaching 90 on graded dirt > > Damn!! Bogdan

Bogdan: I loved it. The San Rafael desert was mine. It wasn't dirt. It was sand -- some hard packed; some patches apparently bottomless. Here's what the XT600 rider said (he was no.2 rated open class motocrosser in Colorado in the mid seventies): "I kept thinking you were going to have big problems in the deep, soft sand sections [because of the heavy KLR650 and AM24 Gripsters] and your dust cloud just kept getting farther away." It's good for my self-esteem. We didn't race. No one passed. But we traded leads often and the lead rider set the pace. This sand road is where I was pushing 90 a couple times but had to shut down for cattle near the road. BTW: he's 58 and I'm 61 -- it's not like either of us could outrun younger riders weaned on long-travel suspensions and we know it. But four days of this kind of riding makes being 61 bearable. I keep thinking, "What if I had bought a golf cart?" Verle Nelson Cedaredge CO '97 R1100R '99 KLR650

> > >We did ride hard -- at > > >speeds approaching 90 on graded dirt > > > > Damn!! Bogdan > > Bogdan: I loved it. The San Rafael desert was mine. It wasn't dirt. It was > sand -- some hard packed; some patches apparently bottomless. Here's what > the XT600 rider said (he was no.2 rated open class motocrosser in Colorado > in the mid seventies): "I kept thinking you were going to have big

problems

> in the deep, soft sand sections [because of the heavy KLR650 and AM24 > Gripsters] and your dust cloud just kept getting farther away." It's good > for my self-esteem. We didn't race. No one passed. But we traded leads

often

> and the lead rider set the pace. This sand road is where I was pushing 90

a

> couple times but had to shut down for cattle near the road. BTW: he's 58

and

> I'm 61 -- it's not like either of us could outrun younger riders weaned on > long-travel suspensions and we know it. But four days of this kind of

riding

> makes being 61 bearable. I keep thinking, "What if I had bought a golf > cart?"

great stuff Verle...you're breaking trail for me... Kurt (53 and no golf cart on the horizon unless it has a Guzzi V-Twin engine in it...)

> Also read a paper from gino {said he used levers 12"or bigger,but did't >say what brand?} > >Steve Becker [old and weak but eager] >KLR A13 >PC800

I make a point of using levers that fit in my moto- tool kit (8"?) Bogdan ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com