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Had a blast racing with you dude!

It was so much fun, but honestly not that cold, a few layers and we were overheating tbh.

ahhhh i just loooked up those gloves, they look decent and probably can still actually feel the controls haha. I have some wooly gloves that are windproof i like to use, but i didn't bring them this week. Having said that in those i get hot unless its truly -5 or so. That all said, we dont really get to ride much in this colder weather so probably not the best investment unless i decide to get a snowmobile....

I saw some videos about that race. Do you have an event link for it next year?

I totally understand, family first! Glad he made it back safely, having your passport stolen is an absolute nightmare, but atleast its not a PR card, that's even worse as the embassy want nothing to do with you. and long as i dont have to iron man a 6 hour! my soft frail body wouldnt survive!

@@woodlandwugui Doing 6 hours is how we un-soft and un-frail our bodies (and learn to know our own pace and stick with it even if it means a certain New Zealander might get himself on video passing you). Embassy was actually great. Didn't open until Monday but they had a temp passport by the end of the day, once they Embassy opened.

@@brenton900 No link yet, but it runs Thanksgiving Saturday each year

I did wonder why we skipped the first entrance to the trail! But I wasnt going to question it I figured your group knew best and I was happy to just follow along anyways. Not like we were out hunting for hardcore intensity, its just a nice trail ride to wrap up the end of the year! Does this place get horribly overgrown like baxter does in the summer?

@@woodlandwugui That was the first time I've ridden with Mark Z and I was confused but it all worked out fine. Drury never seems to get overgrown like many of the other areas. In the spring, there are large areas in Drury carpeted in trilliums beside the trails. It's quite pretty.

definitely needs some tweaks its really odd how little mid and top power it has! I'm still not convinced I enjoy the geometry personally though, but it could just be because im so used to the beta.

mmmm theres not a huge amount done. I got a ST base valve and shock piston put into the suspension, the bladder kit too for the shock. Which made a enormous difference, the stock suspension wasn't coping after a few years of improvement. Upped the rear sprocket to a 50 tooth Drew my own decals and slapped some white plastics on. Pull strap on the rear and front because im always fucking stuck because i cant ride for shit. Theyre both very useful and the s3 punk foot pegs as i caved the stock ones in on greens mountain a few years back. Slapped some mousse in for the cord and run the michelin enduro medium front and IRC ve33s on the rear. Thats about it! haha 🤣

GOT YOURSELF A NEW ONE YET? 🤣

@woodlandwugui no lol I'm still trying to decide what to get

@@BakeBoat07 haha what you had seems fine, just get a steel version. bit heavier (probably cheaper) but will last much longer, and if you have cash burning a hole in your pocket, get the same but steel teeth with an aluminium core.

happy riding man! shame the season is almost over but atleast you have it all now for next season :D

ya mun we running out of weeks lmfaooooo.

This isnt part of the OFTR sadly, its the ganaraska which is east of toronto. They have their own seperate pass which is why i dont come so often. For the OFTR trails just download the app and you'll have maps and markers for everything OFTR related! :D

haha what does TOG stand for...?

@ taste of ganny

you gotta try!!!! some of the classes have fewer tests to make it less intimidating too if youve not had much experience racing!

i reckon thats closer to what fox was saying too, yellowy/browny tint. Can you still see in the woods? lol

hellls yeah!

Id love to do the cord, but with the baby coming, i dont think i can justify going away for a weekend to play. I'll def do it again in the future.

n+1 man, the woods/enduro bike will be a world of difference from your adv/ds bike!

sick!! nice one man, and you a pro?! so far forward in the minutes! I kinda wish I bought a beta 200 tbh, but ya know first dirt bike didnt really get it. Now I do :P

Vet Expert, 49 yo. It was a tougher race this year compared to other years in my opinion (Since 2015 in my case) A long run like this gets mental, you just have to not give up. When it's hard for yourself, it's hard for others too :)

@@ericlessard4950 Ive heard a few people say it was tougher this year than others, so that definitely makes me feel better about my body feeling like i was falling apart! You are right, its a mental game too to not give up and the advice to pace myself I think definitely helped as i've never attempted this amount of distance before. Found myself holding back, perhaps too much, but like you im proud to just finish :D

big like, ktm 790 adventure bike big, or 450 mx bike haha?

@@woodlandwugui T7

Thank you! It was really rather a long way, but if you enter one of the vet classes they cut out greens, butt and weylands to make the day less brutal. So you definitely can get it done!

Thank you! I was glad to finish, was kinda super annoyed when i was stuck on the second day mind you. hahah

FUCKIN STRESS MAN, if there wasnt the pressure to get going and it was a normal trail day, probably just laugh and take our time doing it. But the fact my minute had passed began really didn't help haha

Thank you! glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! yeah I had a few people tell me it was pretty gnarly, I was feeling pretty down after the first day because of how beat up i was from it, but the 2nd day was much smoother afterwards and I just wanted that peice of wood more than a 'fast time' haha

next time, full send, right?!

Thank you and to be fair, you were on a Kove Rally! That machine is designed to be pinned across a desert, not pottering through cord country haha. Its also quite a bit heavier than my bike! Next time I'll definitely try and ride faster as In hindsight riding at 70% meant i felt every bump and it was compounding the exhaustion. Gotta learn to skitter across the top like everyone else was.

Hey! I was back and forth with you on the Kove! Great riding - I followed your lines up obstacles a few times. - learnt a lot from your lines up obstacles choices 😊 I lost my GoPro on day 1 when I crashed in front of you at McCrumms , got it back from the sweeps. Saw you turn around at Burnt river on Day two.. good choice not doing miserable lake transit. It was brutal. Zip ties saved my camera on day 2 from becoming lost 😂

@@kiwi-moto thanks I did my best. I accidentally started out with almost full tanks, nearly 380lbs of bike. It had TONS of traction tho! Hahaha. But it wore me right out. The vintage race on Friday also took a bit out of me. I managed 2nd in V100 on my XL175 and that wasn't easy. Lol.

@@gronkvbs2795 Nice! I was there too at the vintage.. The Yamaha IT 175 I was riding broke its chain on the second to last test. I need to get around to editing my video! I'm just too dang lazy these days.

@@kiwi-moto was that you on row 1 with me? The It175 with the front disc brake conversion?

Thanks Darko! your support when i started helped me massively improve!

haha yeah I remember you saying, i think you said you were the last to get through, and whilst i didn't know it was you going through, I think i saw you get through relatively easily, and decided to follow... terrible idea haha. I think if it was raining a gummy tyre would massively help, all my own errors it wouldn't have mattered what i was running. Next time id like to try a full gummy rather than an hybrid, but i was still very satisfied with the hybrid.

Thanks dude! Cya at the 6hr hopefully!

Thank you!

I had it at pretty much mid settings for my forks and the same soft for my shock. I usually crank it up on my forks to make it harder for sommerville/racing, but softened it a bit for day 1 because i knew greens was gonna be rough, and that felt 'fine'. The second day was like smooth butter though, compared to the first day! I do have a minor upgrade from stock, valve change in the forks and a bladder kit in my shock. And I dont doubt that, haha, gotta get the training in now to prepare for the chaos to come.

Soft. Run your suspension soft to handle the constant chop over the 300km.

BTW you should get into yoga man it would help buffer some of those injuries! :)

Thanks Derian!

YO wathc those tree branches daang that's dangerous i never thought of that being an obstacle.

haha yeah just do a freaking wheelie! You doing the cord?

@@woodlandwugui yes sir, I will see you there!

@@raglanrippers fuck yeah see you there man! what row are you on?

@@woodlandwugui 48 I thinks

You?

haha 50lbs up for you, 5lbs down for me! neither feels good 🤣

I absolutely love this tract, ill def come back again after the cord

I almost managed them! Need to keep the throttle going so my rear gets over properly haha.

You got the hard part down though lol. Glad you fixed your rad

Was kinda gutted we didnt get to the other two, i really enjoy the one that is full of steps going up! but alas it was a learning experience to see what happens when you break a rad!

ahhh thanks so much man, and I'm so glad to hear you finished second!!! FELLOW BRIT EH! we'll slowly, probably, take over OO! haha :D

@@woodlandwugui yeah I was born and raised in Manchester

@@PAYNO561 ahhh a Northerner! Southampton here, total shithole never wanna go back haha. You doing the cord?

@@woodlandwugui yep Manchester also a shit hole lol I’m never going back lol not this year my cyclinder needs re niklesealing and my gear leave shaft is bent from Chloe’s kingdom but next year I will for sure

@@PAYNO561 haha, ive never actually been to Manchester tbf so i'll take your word on that haha. Ah damn, next year it is in that case! maybe see you at the 6hr if i decide to send that this year. That was a blast last year, i'll see if its announced.

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