I was asked to pre-run a route from their proposed rides to see what I thought about its suitability for "Big Bikes" and Novice-Intermediate Riders.
After finishing I told the developer that it was ok for big bikes but not for novices, I scared the shit out of myself several times, sorry no pix of the scary sections, I was busy. The worst was just before I fell the second time, an extremely deep rutted, dry slick dirt descent that had my front and rear ABS chattering to keep me going slow enough to maintain control. Somehow the Jeep and I that met each other in the middle of this stretch made it past each other.
My two falls were both dumb shit moves on my part.
Fall #1 was stopping/stopped and no ground under my left foot, boom!
Fall #2 was a bad choice of line - The SxS and ATVs had roosted a lot of silt going around the corner, I chose the high silty side when I should have chosen the inside line which was solid. A learning experience.
One wouldn't want to run most/any of this route the morning after a thunderstorm, the resulting mud would be killer.
