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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost

n8r posted:

You might have more endurance if you stopped smoking.

Or started cooking for yourself instead of playing tic tac toe with the pizza guy.

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echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
New Zealand certainly has some awesome places to go dirtbiking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVMi5aU02A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVMi5aU02A

echomadman
Aug 24, 2004

Nap Ghost
I was in Canada last week for work and took a few vacation days.
One of them I did a full day at https://www.trailtours.ca which is a couple of hours east of Toronto.
$260 Canadian all in, including bikes, fuel, gear, drinks, lunch, and optional insurance in case I yardsale'd a bike.

I did 3 hours of enduro riding in the morning, there are thousands of acres of woods there and they have a variety of trails for different skill levels. We did a mix of single track, hill climbs and hardpack fire roads with sections of deep sand. I rode a crf230l initially then stepped up to a crf250x. Their bikes are all brand new from Honda every season and were in perfect condition. Instructors/guides take you around a small section at their base initially to assess your skill level then they split everyone off into appropriate groups.

Got a decent lunch back at the base.

In the afternoon I did 3 hours of 1:1 trials instruction, starting with the complete basics of body position and trials theory and working up to slightly more advanced techniques.

If i was going again I'd try to do an afternoon enduro session and the Trials the next morning to spread out the torture to rarely used muscle groups, and to avoid being out in the sun wrestling the trials bike in the afternoon.

I've no pics really as i was too busy riding most of the day and i didn't bring my gopro.
Here are a few I snapped at the lunch break.

The trials bike


Abandon all hope ye who enter here


crf 150s up to 450s


Irish people are not built for the heat + MX gear


A souvenir of the day

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