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| Thread ID: 64887 | 2006-01-01 02:15:00 | More Helmet Camera goodness, this time on a quad,in the dirt | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 417047 | 2006-01-27 14:41:00 | Ouch!!! Touching/landing in gorse bush is not nice I would of thought!!! any crash where you not in screaming agony is termed nice. :lol: Rocks are far less comfertable then a gorse bush, which in comparison is like a soft pillow..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 417048 | 2006-01-27 14:44:00 | 4 hours later I have a video, after wading through 2 hours of footage and slimming it down to 3 minutes, and then having my video encoder flat-out refuse to encode the file time after time after time.....Then it just started working. anyhow, The riding is sluggish, but the scenery is killer. rapidshare.de Look at how steep the hills are, a gorse bush would be a god-send..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 417049 | 2006-01-27 21:49:00 | Mets, the video is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for going to all that trouble to create it, I love it . :thumbs: That track is exactly like some of our trail rides, particularly the one coming up next month at Parnassus, which I am still debating whether or not to go on as it is a bit scary with the steep and narrow tracks . It's a hellava lot harder (well, for me anyway) to ride on tracks with a bit of shingle on them and even more so when they are steep and narrow . Can't blame the riders one bit for going slow and careful, it's not as easy on two wheels as it is on four . Ouch!!! Touching/landing in gorse bush is not nice I would of thought!!! Certain gorse bushes are now my best friends . ;) Actually, landing in them isn't anywhere near as bad as trying to extract oneself from them with a bike upside down on top of yourself . . . . on a slope . :stare: Like Metla says, rocks are the enemies - they are hard and unforgiving to land on and they have a nasty habit of jumping out in front of you when you are belting flat out down nice grassy farmland . Or they park themselves very conveniently right in the middle of a slippery shingle-covered track, forcing one to either take the skin off ones knees and knuckles riding close to the bank or take the risk of going over the edge on the other side . :stare: It scares me utterly witless but geez I love dirt biking . :thumbs: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 417050 | 2006-01-27 22:04:00 | Its not as easy on 2 as of 4? I beg to differ, I could ride all that terrain and at any speed I desired and that the terrain permmited on a 2 or 4 wheeler, and as I have mentioned in the past that 4 wheeler of mine revs up to 12000rpm, Instantly, ride one of them babies on that terrian without the right skills and your as good as dead. Some 2 wheeler riders can be a smug lot when it comes to 4 wheelers, but every single person I have given a ride on that bike has been out of their depth, some realise it straight away, others don't but its obvious that they haven't tamed the beast and would soon end up busted to bits if they tried anything dangerous. On the otherside of the coin there are of course many riders who would have no issue, provided their arrogance didn't stop them from understanding that they had to give the bike a lot of respect. Anyhow, I rant, and its not directed at you, I'm all for riders taking everything at their own pace, But I spew when they refuse to pull over and let the faster bikes through...Manners go both ways out on the track. Glad you enjoyed the video :thumbs: :thumbs: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 417051 | 2006-01-27 22:34:00 | Sorry, I didn't mean to say that riding a four-wheeler was easier than a two-wheeler everywhere as I have been behind them many times and seen the riders struggle in places that I found a breeze . What I was referring to was the stability factor on shingle tracks . I'm not a good rider on loose surfaces and find the shingle bits the worst of the lot . If you don't keep to a dead straight path your wheels can go from under you before you have time to blink so swerving around obstacles and going around corners has to be taken rather carefully in my circumstance . I am sure having four wheels would mean more stability in those places - in fact I know it does because the four-wheelers leave me for dead on those tracks . As for getting stuck behind the slow coaches, I know what you mean about it being frustrating as that happens to me a bit more regular now, though I often find myself the Pied Piper leading the pack through the narrow bits when passing is not an option . :p I always keep an eye on what is behind me though and pull over and let them all go as soon as possible but sometimes it takes a while before it is safe to do so . Last weekend I got stuck behind a couple of four-wheelers going up a hill which gave me the heebie jeebies as I was nearly forced to stop on a dangerous slope thanks to them . Speaking of manners, it does need to go both ways - there are a lot of inconsiderate riders that just have to accelerate hard when they go screaming past people, flinging up stones and small rocks in the process . If I weren't wearing boots and goggles I would have had many a nasty injury thanks to them . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 417052 | 2006-01-27 22:45:00 | Certain gorse bushes are now my best friends. ;) Actually, landing in them isn't anywhere near as bad as trying to extract oneself from them with a bike upside down on top of yourself.... on a slope. :stare: LOL! :D Like Metla says, rocks are the enemies - they are hard and unforgiving to land on and they have a nasty habit of jumping out in front of you when you are belting flat out down nice grassy farmland. Or they park themselves very conveniently right in the middle of a slippery shingle-covered track, forcing one to either take the skin off ones knees and knuckles riding close to the bank or take the risk of going over the edge on the other side. :stare: LOL!! :lol: |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 417053 | 2006-01-28 01:17:00 | meh....Im so full of crap,lmao. If I hit those tracks on a 2 wheeler and tried to ride em at the speed I used to do 10 years ago I'd end up bent and broken, a victim of my own arogance and lack of respect for the machine..... Speaking of gorse bushes, back when I was youngster (about 1985,86) my old boy puchased himself a brand new racing quad quad (this was a big big deal as money was so tight) we went out to the hill country and I nagged him into giving me a ride, 5 minutes later I was heading full speed over the crest of a hell, the ground dropped sharply away to a sheer cliff, a good 200 foot straight down. Lmao. I let go of the bike as it went airbourne and rolled off the back, I landed and stopped before the edge of the cliff and watched the bike gracefully sail out of view. Seconds later the old boy arrived on my bike trying top decide to be happy I was alive, upset about the bike, or angry enough to box my ears. Anyhow, on hands and knees we crept to the edge of the cliff (the angle to the edge was pretty much to steep to stand on) and peered over, To see the bike 20 feet from the ground, upside down and buried deep in a gorse bush. Coming up from the bottom of the vliff we were able to flip the bike out, it landed on all four wheels and coasted to level ground. Barely a mark on it. The moral of the story, If you going to launch your dads brand new bike off a cliff....aim for a gorse bush. Muhahahahaha. Story time has finished for today. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 417054 | 2006-01-28 09:35:00 | Scarey stuff . Lovely vid; thanks Metz, but what worried me most was you glancing to the side at times on that perilously narrow track! :dogeye: Nearest thing to that which I've done, is after rebuilding my old Alfa Romeo, went for a wild spin to test it out through the Yorkshire Moors - that was the closest I've ever been to heaven ;) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 417055 | 2006-01-28 11:29:00 | Great footage. Thanks for sharing that Metla! :thumbs: |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 417056 | 2006-01-28 12:29:00 | Unlucky I cant play it as Windows Media Player cant fine the codec to play that file…. :( | stu161204 (123) | ||
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