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Originally Posted by
Chris1811
it was no where near as slippery and steep as the decent we did at the lakes 09 on the coach road GULG took us on......
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I rode that road yesterday, there was a bl00dy big hole in it for ages, but now it's got so big it has become a valley, with a lovely smooth dip on one side, a greta drop off in the middle of a mud bath! You takes your choices and hopes you make the other side!!
I took the smooth dip, then on the return run I took the drop off... and landed in once piece.
I think I tend to agree with the whole 'don't wanna scratch it' vein. The first time I dropped the Tenere I was bl00dy furious with myself, mostly because I was lead into a situation by a cage driver up a very slippery steep slope (slippery in that it was very very dusty), anyway, the less said about that the better! Now, I'm not so bothered - the bike has it's 'memory marks' and every time I look at the chips and scratches on the tank it reminds me of a great trip. But..... I still use the TTR nearer home and I realy don't care if it goes down, as a result it almost never does, and when it does it's because of some other 'event' (sheep, walkers, mountainbikers)
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