Bouquet Canyon staging.
Mile marker 10.72 on Bouquet Canyon road.
Kick stands up, ready to ride at 9:30
Mile marker 10.72 on Bouquet Canyon road.
Kick stands up, ready to ride at 9:30
South Rowher Flats 2.10.13
- Thread starter SPEAKERMAN
- Start date
Take the 14 north, exit at Sand Canyon. Go left across the freeway, stay straight to go up and over the hill. At the end is a T-intersection traffic light. Make a right onto Sierra Highway. Go about a 1/3 mile and make a left at the traffic light for Vasquez Canyon. Take Vasquez Canyon up over the hill 3 miles until it ends in a T-intersection with Bouquet Canyon Rd. Make a right and 7.3 miles later is the staging area on your right. This is about 1.3 miles past the Big Oaks restaurant.
the stagin area is actually a trail head across from drinkwater entrance (6n19)
the stagin area is actually a trail head across from drinkwater entrance (6n19)
Is this Krannie ?
You bums missed a beautiful day.
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/...her flats/2-10-12-rowher/?albumview=slideshow
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/...her flats/2-10-12-rowher/?albumview=slideshow
I'm hating this virus. It won't go away...
Oh, and DEATH TO KTM.
much better...
much better...
I got my own virus this Saturday called a bladder infection. Musta been from wiping my va jay-jay the wrong direction. I really want to check this place out.
I got my own virus this Saturday called a bladder infection. Musta been from wiping my va jay-jay the wrong direction. I really want to check this place out.
You getting rid of the 450 ?
Yes.
I will keep working on getting the FUCKING BRAKES to work and the FUCKING FORKS to work, cause if I did, then maybe I could figure out how to make it FUCKING HANDLE, which would be cool, cause it's light and it's e-start.
But it's been a brick wall so far...the fine line between oversteer and clean cornering quality is ridiculous.
I've been messing with front and rear sag, fork height, fork damping, bar height, .....
I can get it to do predictable oversteer/drift, but then it will NOT turn when going downhill with the engine braking. It hunts all over the place. I cannot hold a line, and have to slow way down.
Then I make other adjustments.....I can get it to track down hill, and hold a line even with heavy or light engine braking, but then it will NOT drift turn. I cannot turn with the rear wheel when going too fast, so I have to slow way down.
Every other bike I've owned I can get both, to some degree.
I have fallen down at low speeds on this bike more than all my other bikes combined...and I've only ridden it 5 times in 4 months..
Then there is the front brakes. I've tried (2) different rotors, 600degree fluid, and (3) different pads, and they are all the same: 4 or 5 minutes of good brakes, then they overheat, glaze over, and fade, and squeal like crazy.
Next thing to try is ultra-soft pads, with a toe-in shim under them, greasing all the pad plate contact points, and bead-blasting the disc.
AAARRRGH
I will keep working on getting the FUCKING BRAKES to work and the FUCKING FORKS to work, cause if I did, then maybe I could figure out how to make it FUCKING HANDLE, which would be cool, cause it's light and it's e-start.
But it's been a brick wall so far...the fine line between oversteer and clean cornering quality is ridiculous.
I've been messing with front and rear sag, fork height, fork damping, bar height, .....
I can get it to do predictable oversteer/drift, but then it will NOT turn when going downhill with the engine braking. It hunts all over the place. I cannot hold a line, and have to slow way down.
Then I make other adjustments.....I can get it to track down hill, and hold a line even with heavy or light engine braking, but then it will NOT drift turn. I cannot turn with the rear wheel when going too fast, so I have to slow way down.
Every other bike I've owned I can get both, to some degree.
I have fallen down at low speeds on this bike more than all my other bikes combined...and I've only ridden it 5 times in 4 months..
Then there is the front brakes. I've tried (2) different rotors, 600degree fluid, and (3) different pads, and they are all the same: 4 or 5 minutes of good brakes, then they overheat, glaze over, and fade, and squeal like crazy.
Next thing to try is ultra-soft pads, with a toe-in shim under them, greasing all the pad plate contact points, and bead-blasting the disc.
AAARRRGH
Well that just about sucks... big time. I have not put my new gen 350 through it's paces yet... hope I don't run into the same problems.
Good luck sorting it out.
Good luck sorting it out.