Popham MX track - have you been?

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What's it like?

I've been looking for a track that is a little less hard-core than the two I have done (Tonymoto and Cusses Gorse) in the hope I can hone skillz a bit more incrementally ... watched some youtube vids and it looks like it has a fair amount of stuff still, just not as extreme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBXDWuiZ94 ... some kid that saw my Tonymoto vids and PM'd me saying he was in one has recommended I try it (after I asked if he knew anywhere less hard core).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBXDWuiZ94

Don't like the look of the wooden posts/fences mind!!

G are you game to go there on your enduro? Anyone else wanna come play one day?

Anyone got any idea when it is open (if you don't, then I'll google-fu, but if you do, all the better!! ).
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I'd be up for it... but at the moment my enduro bike has a broken exhaust ... needs a few other bits consumables replacing too, so if we're talking a new exhaust, that comes to £300-£350 or so to get sorted. Not sure if I've got that much money to spend this month with all the other stuff I've got to spend money on too .

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Credit card - the last useful one I had was an Egg one. Ironically they decided to take it off me (poor credit history thanks to issues with DVLA in the past) just after I paid off the entire £4k I owed them ..

Last month I maxxed out my overdraft and borrowed £250 off Danny so I could go off-roading towards the end of the month, to add to the rather larger sum I already owe him for a holiday at the beginning of next month.

Really need to find a reasonably priced second hand exhaust in one piece and I'm sorted (actually, I forgot I was going to get a fly-wheel weight and throttle cam, that's more like £450 with a £200 new exhaust ). It's not actually quite so bad as I've recently paid off Dusty (my flat mate), so he'll be paying me rent/half bills at the end of the month, but that won't be money until the end of the month .

Basically, I'm pretty skint at the moment, really!

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Unfortunately not, it seems. The exhaust is not only broken at a weld at the rear, but is bent out of shape so it doesn't seat quite properly in the exhaust port. Annoyingly it was a pretty low speed drop that didn't seem to do anything else (I later lost traction and ended up using a tree to brake my sideways motion, which did break other stuff and left me with a nasty bruise, but that's another matter.)
Anyway, Adysmith, who has had a few KTMs in his time, says that this is the weak point of the 200 design; a big sticky-out exhaust - the exhaust gets a knock when it's hot, so gets bent in a way it's impossible to properly undo.
It did have multiple dents anyway when I got it, so no big loss, just would have preferred to replace it later rather than sooner.

What I really need to do is stop writing long irrelevant posts on BCF and sell some of the masses of bike spares I have lying around .