This day was out into the depths of Radnorshire/Herefordshire Borders.
We organise ride-outs va the www.advrider.com site, in the Europe section.
There is a really keen bunch of folks in the UK now, some of them organise weekends and rallies which you can put your name down to attend. The advantage of this type of meeting is that you get to see how a wide range of bike performs when the going gets un-tarmaced, if you know what I mean.
Most of the folks are also keen memebrs of the TRF, www.trf.org , ensuring we are using legal trails.

The pictures are of a day organised by Garry H and Louisdut.


The tyres are Pirelli MT21, 90/90x21 front, 130/90x17 rear.
As for riding on snow, well a lot of it is luck, as unlike sand, the snow conpresses and exposes you to what is lurking underneath, ie, bogs, ditches, ruts and rocks.
Tyre pressures need to be lowered, I ended up being 1bar, so 15psig. I do have rimlocks fitted to my Tenere to prevent tyre creep.
Riding involves obtaining momentum and keeping it, so some real commitment is required. Try not to induce wheels spin but feather the revs and clutch until your moving at a suitable rate. Then try to maintain the speed.
After some practice you'll soon have the tail steering for you, it is great fun.
But as I have mentioned, the lurking hazards can soon have you off, hence I required an indicator and mirror on Monday morning. Unfortunately, Pumpy, our female german off-road goddess fell heavily after the bike plunged into a hidden bog, and causing a broken upper arm.

Take a look through the thread on advrider.com, here:- Snow business.

Maybe we can sort a trail riding weekend out this summer sometime for the braver of the XT660.com riders.

Timpo.

Thanks for the info Timpo,I will have a look on the advrider.com site. If we could sort a trail ride out this summer for all the north west lads and who ever else would like to join in that would be great.

Gary

Hi timpo
I have been trying to register on the adv rider site recently but it keeps saying registration disabled any ideas why?

I believe the advrider site has some IT issues wth new registrations at present.

I can definately organise a trail ride for the braver of the Tenere owners....
It will be tailored to the Tenere's capability, with some camping and beer involved.

As soon as I get some freetime, I will start to sort a weekend on the North Wales trails for the Teneres...........


Timpo.

....a weekend on the North Wales trails for the Teneres....
....It will be tailored to the Tenere's capability, with some camping and beer involved....

Sounds interesting!!!:laughing7::applause:

Ah thats why i cant register then, i will keep trying.
Thanks.
Trail weekend in wales on a tenere sounds like a great idea, i will be up for that.

I took delivery of this beauty today :wav::bounce016::mbounce:

http://ktim.smugmug.com/photos/473405263_UJoMm-L.jpg

together with a very suitable registration, bought for me by my lovely wife :054:

http://ktim.smugmug.com/photos/473405508_DkXWX-L.jpg

That looks very nice and shiny!
Be getting mine soon (two weeks)!:HappyRoll_ANPIUI:


Barry.

That is a very nice bike, hope you enjoy it!!
I have been looking at buying a blue one today as well!!

Nice! Many great miles ahead of you! =)