Hey Kh!!!!!

[blndebmbr]

I know nothing on the camera. One of the guys brought theirs. We don't have one.

[OFFICER737]

Originally Posted by blndebmbr

Oh I know!!! No worries! But unfortunately it looks like we won't be able to go back for 3 weeks or so. Between gun deer season starting and work schedules....boooooo! Oh well!
My daughter summed it up well. All the way home she's going "I'm in LOVE with my dirt bike!"
KH~Should we ever make it over there I'd LOVE to ride but I don't see that happening for a LOOOOOONG time!!!!

I was thrilled with the way the video turned out. I wanted the music to "move" the viewer! hahahaha!!!

errrr....I can't say anything, I am waiting for deer season to open up too Plus work and I have 3 court dates this week and the court seems to always fall on my days off.

[OFFICER737]

Originally Posted by Carolyn

Nah, there's only 1 thing hard aboug jumpin' and that's the landing part :p

BB - That was a great video aside from the crash I like the music choice too.

Nahhh!!! Landings ain't bad unless toast them.

[bodydropcbr6]

Originally Posted by OFFICER737

Nahhh!!! Landings ain't bad unless toast them.

lol officer its the other way around take off and air is the easy part the ground rushing up to meet you and wanting to beat the living crap out of you any time it can is the hard part

[OFFICER737]

Originally Posted by bodydropcbr6

lol officer its the other way around take off and air is the easy part the ground rushing up to meet you and wanting to beat the living crap out of you any time it can is the hard part

Nahhh...never had a problems with landings...LOL

But some of the take offs were a little scarey

[blndebmbr]

It's all a little scary right now!!! hahahaha!

[Carolyn]

Originally Posted by OFFICER737

Nahhh!!! Landings ain't bad unless toast them.

First time I cased the double hurt like a b*tch but I got use to it since then

I learned a month ago to finally listen and just give it a little bit more gas so I stop casin' stuff

[bodydropcbr6]

Originally Posted by OFFICER737

Nahhh...never had a problems with landings...LOL

But some of the take offs were a little scarey

lol you never had a problem with landings cuz you have never been off the ground try jumping a metal super kicker from freeride technology(think thats the company) and tell me that the landing isnt scary

[Krazy Hawaiian]

One of my favorite jumps was a downhill one into a huge ravine about 300 - 400 feet deep. A forest fire cleared all the brush and small trees out so it was basicly a giant V shaped ditch... dam steep.... most 4x4 truck n jeeps can't get out of it it's so steep.

Fairly smooth and the bottom is maybe 10 feet long before it goes almost straight up. It's about 200 yards wide where its ride able.

Theres a small cluster of trees at the edge with some exposed roots. One root right at the edge I used as a launch into the ravine. Gawd it was such a freakin RUSH to launch off and drop easy 100 feet down or more landing on the steep downhill to G - Out at the bottom so hard you would crush down onto the tank as the frame ground into the dirt a second then it was wack it on and wheelie all the way up to the top! Both sides had a nice sized flat area up top to turn and shoot back into it wheelie up the opposite side and launch off my root!

I'd do that for hours on end, people would stop and watch, but no one else did it! It was really a ballsy thing, only reason I was doing it was I had the first Monoshock bike to hit the Island (I was sponsored by Domenicos Kailua Yamaha and got the first one that came from Japan, we got them several months ahead of the US). A 1976 YZ400E everyone else was still on the lay down twin shockers.

Occasionly I'd hit the root wrong and the back would kick up Geeeeezus a few of them were scary!! The bike would be vertical front wheel down! Almost going over the bars on a 100 foot + drop into this ravine! Talk about changing the shorts!

One time I launched off too hard and landed right at the base of the downhill. That blew my right knee out, broke the foot peg right off the frame, bent the handlebars a little bit and put a dent in the aluminum gas tank where my helmet chin guard hit the tank! * Beer Influenced * liquid courage put me on crutches for 4 months! Couldn't ride. But had to wait for the new frame to come from J land. The factory couldn't believe the peg ripped off! The new frame had a reinforced mount.....

Man the RUSH from launching off into that ravine was AWESOME! You'd look down and the ground was a easy 100 - 200 feet below! You were literally free falling down into this huge crevasse! The landings were super smooth like most downhill landings, you were falling nearly parallel to the hill face it was amazing considering how far you would fall....

Luckily I never ate it doing that, I must have did it 500+ or more times! That was lucky because if I did it would have been ugly.... real ugly.

I love to show off and that was the ultimate show...... back then jumps like that were never done. On the old twin shock bikes you would have ate shit instantly....

One of my favorite things I would do was get some dood that thought he was fast chasing me and I'd blow through a nasty whoop section, the long travel YZ would skim over the tops like nothing and the sucker behind would nearly always go down trying to stick with me

OK thats the KH story of the day.... Everyone called me Krazy for the way I rode back then..... it kinda stuck.... LOLz

[OFFICER737]

I have jumped table tops, doubles, triples, whoops, trees...hell anything I could jump and never had that much of a problem. Give it a little sudden thottle blip at the top of the jump. If you are nose high push down on the bars, if you are ass high pull up on the bars and push down with your heels. Try to let the rear land a fraction of a second before the front and adjust the load on the shocks for the terrain.

Never thought it was that hard.

[bodydropcbr6]

lol i always use the gas and brake to control the pitch of the bike its more responsive than the push pull i think especially on bigger jumps and nice story kh that seems like one hell of a jump

[blndebmbr]

Um yeah...me too. When I'm too fast I grab a handful of brakes in the air and teeter totter back and forth...yeah, it's pretty cool...
HAHAHAHA!!! You guys kill me! Someday I'll know what you are talking about !

[Krazy Hawaiian]

Originally Posted by bodydropcbr6

lol i always use the gas and brake to control the pitch of the bike its more responsive than the push pull i think especially on bigger jumps and nice story kh that seems like one hell of a jump

Thanks It was a wikid jump even by todays standards... I swear the RUSH from doing it was intense. Your stomach shot up into your throat and the fall was a second or 2 long easy!

Ya gotta remember back in 1976 those techniques wern't figgured out yet... You controled attitude with the throttle on takeoff and winged it from that moment on.... Landing on the front wheel on a hill that steep was pretty hairy! It put the fear of God into ya!

The bad ones were from me panicing at the last second and letting off the throttle (because I was going a bit too fast, I didnt want to over jump and land on the bottom like I did when I messed myself up) as I went off the root. It kicked the back up and when you were dropping a coupla hundred feet down into a ravine it REALLY got your attention!

[Krazy Hawaiian]

BB what we are talking about is when you do a really big jump and the bike is in the air for a fairly long time you can control the attitude of the bike with the rear brake and the throttle. The brake stopping the wheels "inertia" from its spinning will cause the back of the bike to rise. Just the opposite if you give it a big hand full of throttle it will make the back drop.

Watch some of the freestyle guys, when there in the air you can sometimes see a blast of smoke come out of the pipe. Thats them gassing it to tilt the bike for landing.

You can also see the back wheel stop spinning sometimes as well. There making adjustments in the flight plan of the bike.

[bodydropcbr6]

ya if you watch the xgames or any fmx contest you hear alot of panic revs while they are doin back flips