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This is the exact correct use of this bike. Good job!
Just wipe off lights + plate and wear the mud with pride the rest of summer.Wish there was more/ ANY legal offroad in Scotland. Got a few offroad centres then some proper dirt bike circuits (only folk who like spending more time airborne than possibly in hospital with an exploded pair of collar bones need apply), in the northern reach's of England (reachable with a dualsport) theres some good lanes and rural roads/boats across the moors, not so much mud as miles of baby head sized rocks akin to riding in a riverbed, where your dualsport then does a good job of trying to crush you at every opportunity. Van or trailer with a 2s 250 or similarly light and forgiving bike is whats needed up here.
Once took my Funduro down a lane, been on them all day and was feeling confident, mostly just about managed, then ended up in a deep ravine, 2' deep ruts becoming worse ruts and then undercut where a land drain had burst and basically cut the bottom of the trail off, a nice steep cliff.
Someone without the fear might have just gone for it. Spent an hour breaking away the edge of the cliff so could roll down it without toppling over. Couldn't go any further, back up the over side of the stream crossing was trials bike/enduro terratory, ZERO chance for me.
Turned bike around by basically rolling it totally over then levering it around with an old fence post, got back on and then immediately grounded on frame on way back up, not enough commitment. Got it back up top with help of many branchs and progressively faster more reckless run ups.
Defo should have got off and walked out the next 100m before committing to those deep ruts, lesson learnt for next time! Think that part was put on the 1st version of the UK TET, messaged them in that maybe wasn't suitable with photos of the state of it, they took it out after that, otherwise they'd be a clutch of 1200GSA down there permanently.
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Went for an explore and did a whole load of lanes I’ve not touched before. Mostly because my gps had run out of battery so I went the complete wrong way to the lane I knew! Ended up trying all sorts of great little routes including a couple rutted steep climbs (in both directions) and a singletrack too.
Along a very rutted byway I came across a puddle with a track running wide of it. One rut puddle was double the length of the other. Photos are after my return journey through the deep side. Pretty much totally submerged the bike and found myself in a cloud of muddy steam!
Great fun.
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