6.17.22 That sure was one muddy mess. You had a good start but then 3 people got around you at the first turn. Are you glad you did not have to deal with a clutch and shifting? Did you run mode 2 instead of mode 3? Maybe a larger rear tire? I think this is the worst conditions I have seen you ride in. If you would have known the conditions were going to be this bad would you have stayed home? Did not look like much fun. Could you identify the vegetation when you fell over? That sure was a pile up where you fell over the 2nd time. On the flat surfaces looked like moved along real good. Then there was the next pile up and the 3rd tip over. That was good those younger people help you get unstuck. Did you pack on like 30 pounds of mud? Did the electric motor get over heated? Had bout another ½ of the course to go to finish lap 2. To bad did not make 2 laps maybe could have come out 1st.
@edfessler2 жыл бұрын
It was a muddy mess! I let a few of the other riders around me on the start. I like to get the holeshot but I know some of the other riders are faster than me, so I don’t want to hold them up. I have not tried mode 2 instead of 3 on slop days yet, but I think that might be a good idea. I will try it next time, although I try to avoid these types of races. And yes, I may have stayed home had I known. :-) I did ride one other race last year with similar conditions, but I knew it was going to be a mess and had optimal tires for the race, so I did better on that one. It was the First K-XCR race of 2021 and my first race on my electric motorcycle. I was not posting videos at that time, but I do have 2 laps of good footage before a mud clod blocked the view. I may go ahead and post it sometime in the future. There was a ton of mud on the bike for sure on this race, and it made it that much harder to pick up on crashes. The electric motor never overheated, but I heard a quite a few of the other gas bikes had that problem.