Well last race didnt go as planned, I had an amazing first lap, best one of the season so far, had a blast on it, but as soon as lap 2 came, I lost all strength in my hands, got bad arm pump, and made mistake after mistake. I got to the sandy creek, stopped to see if there was a good line, and next thing I know I am a foot under sand, just by sitting there. Spent some good time there, and helped another rider, who helped me. I ended up breaking my subframe, and loosing 2 bolts, so that slowed me way down, as I was getting ready to do my 3rd lap, just before the first muddy crossing my bike just stopped, like somebody locked up my rear wheel, found a piece of barbed wire, took it out, and tried to take off again, rear wheel was still stuck. Well turned out my chain guard had come loose, and was wrapping around my sprocket, well from that I decided to stop the race, no point in trying to ride without that guard. But the huge blessings, is the chain guard coming of, praise God that it did, because after I loaded my bike, I found out that KTM has a bad design, and the airbox is in 4 pieces, and it separated leaving a big gap in the side, right in front of the air filter, bypassing, causing anything, and everything to go straight into the motor. If that chain guard had not stopped me, I would have gone through a muddy wet section, and destroyed my brand new motor. in the long run, I had a lot of fun, and cant wait till next season. https://youtube/watch?v=0o98kzMYir4
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:03:20 +0000