New to RideForum.. =)
Posted: 22 Jun 2015 17:16
Greetings everyone!
While I have had a good time passing emails back and forth with Troy, I thought I should take a moment and say hello to everyone.. So Hello! =)
Little history: Wife and I moved in the last couple of years down from Northern Minnesota, the job brought me down here and to my horror, I found I can't just ride my dirt bike from my front yard to trails that connect all around the state.. What's up with that? Was there some sort of War down here against dirt bikes? I can see all the fuss about them silly quads and such, but dirt bikes!?!
When we moved we sold our previous bikes (DRZ400sm for me, DRZ400s for my wife) (also sold the snowmobiles) and spent a couple of years getting the job, house stable for our newborn.
Well, this spring I couldn't handle the withdrawl any more and purchased a new 14 WR450f. Went ahead and put the FMF Q4 slip on, the racing ECM w/shorter throttle stop screw and picked up the programmer to go along with it. Few weeks later hauled it all the way up to MN to rides with some of the friends up there. Love it, the bike just rips and is so much more controllable then my old KX250 2t that was setup somewhat for woods riding.
So, here I am a month later going through withdrawls again, my next trip up to MN isn't until late Aug (MN state fair time) and am looking for a few good people to do some trail riding local (what ever that might mean down here) with. I can ride fast, or I can ride slow, I enjoy riding with others and have no problems riding with kids, watching them learn is almost as much fun as riding myself. Am not really into the racing scene (MX or harescramble), although that might change if my Son sparks an interest.
I've been over to Perry Lakes (think that's the name) a while back with the DRZ, found it to be really small and it seemed the quads just went everywhere, no real trail anywhere. I do hope that is not the case everywhere down here and there are area's that are just nice single track trails.
So yup, that's some info about me - Am open to ride weekends or occasionally during the week depending on what my Job schedule looks like (week day rides will be short notice, equipment broke or some such getting repaired, etc).
Also want to give a shout out to Troy for providing this Forum - I've searched high and low and there is just not a "good meet up" place for anywhere around here (thumpertalk, ADVrider are about it).
To toss out a quick question - who's been to finger lakes - I think that is just north of Columbia over to the east on 70? Is it decent over there? I live on the east side of KC out on 70 and that might be close enough to make it a spur of the moment ride. =)
- Jamee
While I have had a good time passing emails back and forth with Troy, I thought I should take a moment and say hello to everyone.. So Hello! =)
Little history: Wife and I moved in the last couple of years down from Northern Minnesota, the job brought me down here and to my horror, I found I can't just ride my dirt bike from my front yard to trails that connect all around the state.. What's up with that? Was there some sort of War down here against dirt bikes? I can see all the fuss about them silly quads and such, but dirt bikes!?!
When we moved we sold our previous bikes (DRZ400sm for me, DRZ400s for my wife) (also sold the snowmobiles) and spent a couple of years getting the job, house stable for our newborn.
Well, this spring I couldn't handle the withdrawl any more and purchased a new 14 WR450f. Went ahead and put the FMF Q4 slip on, the racing ECM w/shorter throttle stop screw and picked up the programmer to go along with it. Few weeks later hauled it all the way up to MN to rides with some of the friends up there. Love it, the bike just rips and is so much more controllable then my old KX250 2t that was setup somewhat for woods riding.
So, here I am a month later going through withdrawls again, my next trip up to MN isn't until late Aug (MN state fair time) and am looking for a few good people to do some trail riding local (what ever that might mean down here) with. I can ride fast, or I can ride slow, I enjoy riding with others and have no problems riding with kids, watching them learn is almost as much fun as riding myself. Am not really into the racing scene (MX or harescramble), although that might change if my Son sparks an interest.
I've been over to Perry Lakes (think that's the name) a while back with the DRZ, found it to be really small and it seemed the quads just went everywhere, no real trail anywhere. I do hope that is not the case everywhere down here and there are area's that are just nice single track trails.
So yup, that's some info about me - Am open to ride weekends or occasionally during the week depending on what my Job schedule looks like (week day rides will be short notice, equipment broke or some such getting repaired, etc).
Also want to give a shout out to Troy for providing this Forum - I've searched high and low and there is just not a "good meet up" place for anywhere around here (thumpertalk, ADVrider are about it).
To toss out a quick question - who's been to finger lakes - I think that is just north of Columbia over to the east on 70? Is it decent over there? I live on the east side of KC out on 70 and that might be close enough to make it a spur of the moment ride. =)
- Jamee
