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ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

I bought a WR250F to do some light green laneing just before christmas and decided i needed to up the game a little.

After watching more and more enduro racing videos and extreme enduro events i decided it was time to give it a shot. I had also seen many videos recorded on go pro with the statement "Be a Hero". Booooyakasha i like this shit.

Luckily for me i have Tong off-road center which is well know in the off-road world and often the worlds best riders turn up and take part in events held there.

So i kitted up this morning at 9:00 and turned up and found it was a private event but luckily the nice lady let us pay our £25 for the day to use the tracks. We then had a nosey round every ones bikes and realized that we may be a little out of our depths as they had some amazing looking bikes and my mate had a nakered TTR250 and i had a WR250F.

Anyway, i borrowed my brother go pro again as if i was to die, i would at least want some good footage.

Every one started their engines and we were waved to the front by one of the marshals, oooooohhhhh shit. There were about a pack of 15 bikes all about to race round an extreme enduro course and we blagged our way when signing forms telling them we had loads of experience ect...... ect..... Then the moment dawned upon me that i did not have a clue what i was doing and had a set of bikes sat behind me ready to jump off small cliffs and jump across small rivers.

The problem for me at this point was the most extreme thing i have ever done is go through a puddle fast in Tesco car park.

I am in the process of uploading some photos and videos from the day that give you an idea of what it is like.

I will be honest at this point, it did not all go to plan and if it was not for people watching me i would have never done any of the things i did on the bike. When we started the course i looked at it and thought fook that nobody can ride a bike over that terrain. Then realized you cant turn round on the course as you may smack head on into someone doing 70 mph 6 foot off the ground.

This is how my day started. More footage to follow.

https://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii302/ian505050/ian505050%202/1_zps857b584b.jpg

For those of you are interested, they do an extreme enduro practice the last Sunday of each month and its £25 per bike and runs 9:00 till 3:00. You need a good bike, with good tyres and bones made of steel.

andyscooter · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 May 2009 Karma :

thats very similer to the track i bent a rm250 on when i tried motocross/endurance

i was fine on a 125 battered old yamaha bought a brand new rm and came off the bike hit a tree and the frame bent Embarassed

it was the third corner Embarassed

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nightshaddow · Nearly there... Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Karma :

go pro = video Thumbs Up

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kelvyn · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Karma :

Looking forward to the footage",!

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ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

Went to get petrol and just had to.........

https://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii302/ian505050/ian505050%202/doubledecker_zps0713a2a7.jpg

"Double Bloody Decker!"

ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

This was the easiest route and gives you an idea what the area is like. On the harder rated routes i was just getting stuck and and shattered.

I am going to see how to upload in HD before uploading any more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYDKlXbsjC8&feature=youtu.be

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https://youtu.be/kYDKlXbsjC8

LOL cant embed the video, just click the top link.

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Ariel Badger · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Karma :

Good effort! That tape you rode through, was it there for a reason?
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recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

Looks ok to me, you can see what's going on just fine.

Very jealous of that facility btw, we have some lanes around here but nothing like that. Thumbs Up

Wonko The Sane · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2013 Karma :

I recognise a fair few bits as places I've been when going off roading in Land Rovers with my uncle,

I learnt to drive at Tong!
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drzsta · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Karma :

Just so you know, this isn't an "extreme" enduro.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

ian505050 · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Oct 2010 Karma :

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recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

thx1138 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Karma :

Your video looks cool, I could ride my XR round there I think.

I couldn't do the stuff in the second video Eddys Extreme Enduro, I'd just fall off. Laughing

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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

awesome way to spend a sunday!

I love all this extreme enduro stuff, it's just like a faster version of trials riding, without the gaps standing still between sections and plenty of places to go full throttle!

recman · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Karma :

I was in The Dirt Bike Center in Dunstable a couple of weeks ago! Doh!