Can you elaborate? (I'm eager to learn why!)
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Moderator: Harold_V
Can you elaborate? (I'm eager to learn why!)
Russ, years ago I rode the "China Hat" 100 mile Enduro about 45 minutes outside of Bend, OR. The "dirt" was like reddish brown rice crispies, and it FLOATED on water. The only way one could tell you were about to drop into a water filled rut was that the rice crispy rock was perfectly flat. By the time our minute came up, the course had been worked up into about 12" of loam which we could get on top of if we went fast enough. I almost died that day because I hit a big rock underneath the rice crispies in the top of 4th gear and did a superman over the bars, narrowly missing landing on a large rock. Thankfully a 5' round sagebrush broke my fall like an airbag and I only suffered minor injury and was able to limp on to finish the race with bent handle bars, kinked pipe, and a big dent in my front wheel. I finished just a couple minutes before the DNF time cutoff and was surprised with a Bronze (inside top 30%) simply because I didn't break down, get injured, or quit. It was a brutal event.chiloquinruss wrote: ↑Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:26 pm 1. We don't have dirt at TM, you know the nice clay kind. What we have is volcanic ash or pummy dirt as we call it. It will never pack! Period!