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Posted: 12:02 - 24 Apr 2016 Post subject: Re: Ok....probably a stupid question about green laning .... |
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Meh, I think people in this country get too worked up about how super duper specialist their gear should be before attempting certain things. It's just wheels over a surface, looks easily doable with a bit of care. In fact it looks piss easy if I'm honest. I bumped along worse surfaces in India on the bog standard CB100 I rented for a while.
Sure if the guy wants to get serious about it and dive in at the deep end, get some good kit, but for testing the water I think grabbing an old 125 and sticking a nobbly back tyre on it is perfectly fine.
For comparison, I'd gladly take any old mountain bike for some downhill riding just to give it a go before splashing out on the serious kit. Same applies for all pursuits, I think. |
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When I was a teen a guy I knew took an old trailie-style bike with a blown engine and put a fairly meaty four stroke twin engine in it, I forget the details. He went out every weekend, used less petrol, made less noise and was more reliable than most of the crossers/enduros that went along. It was a bit of a lash-up but cost him next to nothing and he had a lot of fun on it. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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depends where you green lane
some of the lanes I ride, on a dry summers day - during a long dry spell, you could probably ride it all, and tiptoe round the tricky bits on standard tyres
try it when it's wet, and you'd get stucker than a stuck thing that's very stuck indeed, after falling over many times - but put some appropriate tyres on, and away you go, no bother
but I've seen anything and everything green laning with the TRF, from +1000CC Behemoths, to C90s, to ancient Matchless
anything can green lane with adjustments in my opinion, but not anything can green lane everywhere
or is that not anyone? Cos what I can't do on a bike, someone else can... |
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never had any issues with my chineeeese bike
the chain did come off after a jump once and break the sprocket cover but other than that it was fine and i abused the shit out of it!
https://i.imgur.com/MrtdtPy.jpg ____________________ Fin: no matter how much I look at It I can't understand what was going through my head, all I remember is going about 80 and redlining it to stop it seizing.
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I started off on my MT5 with Chinky Katspaws on it with a 19"front and 16" rear wheels, rubbish tyres but about all that fitted with a sort of 50/50 tread pattern. That never let me down and it was light enough to pick up and carry if need be. My C70 has been laning, the Varadero 125, my Super Four has been laning.
Ironically, the ones I get least pleasure green laning on is the TTR and CRM, they're too capable for green lanes and there's not really a challenge in it with those two bikes. ____________________ Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
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If I wanted to go green-laning on two-wheels, I'd probably be looking to get myself an old two-stroke trail-bike, like a twin-shock Yamaha DT100 from the late 70's early 80's... and I'd deem even THAT rather more over endowed for what's 'needed'.
Green-Lanes is public roads without a permenant tarmac surface; they ent MX tracks! If you are good enough to try some of the more challenging Green-Lanes we have in this country, and there ent that many, then you'd get more of what you are probably looking for doing competition trials or real enduro's on a dedicated comper.
Comp-Trials, at clubman level's also probably a darn site cheaper, too!
At about £10 an entry plus petrol; you can compete a full 14 round 'season' in the sport for less than you'd likely pay for tax and insurance on a CG125! Let alone changing the tyres! An old club-man rock-hoppa's probably cheaper to buy, and likely to prove more reliable too!
Biggest challenge in the pursuit though is actually finding LEGAL lanes you can ride down; you cant heqad down any old farm track or bridle-way you chance upon! Means lots of time pouring over OS Maps and checking Way-Finder data-base and or obscure council web-sites to find TRO announcements and the like, then plotting a route between lanes you can ride.
And there ent many legal lanes about; so even after all that, you can easily spend more of a day riding about on hard-top hunting for the little feckers as actually on'em!
Which begs the compromise over whether you get something light and nimble for the rough stuff, or big and comfy for the slogs between'em.
Notion of loading bike up in a van or trailer and heading to one of the lane-rich districts like the Peaks or Sowdonia or the Lakes? Well? Might as well load the bike in van or trailer and go do a comp-trial or enduro and get more saddle time, less hassle, and more challenges per minute than 'trucking' it.... or as I do, just leave the bike behind and do the lanes in the comfort of a Range Rover!
But, yeah, in principle, a reasonably standard road bike, on more appropriate block-tread tyres aught to be more than capable enough on most lanes, especially the popular ones they have been tending to 'grade' with road-stone to deliberately make them less challenging in the last decade or so, that are often smoother than a typical farmer's drive way, or even the pot-hole ridden streets about town! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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The dad and I checked out this abandoned brick quarry sometime last year (in Malaysia btw). Mostly dry dirt with some muddy patches which didn't faze the Ninja at all. I was actually having an easier time going through the mud on my wider tires compared to my dad's narrow-tired Honda Wave. Just keep your wits about you, don't panic on the slippy muddy stuff and you'll be fine on a road bike. The most important thing to keep in mind is that rocks and bumps will hit you much harder on a road bike because of the suspension so take it slow and don't try to blitz through.
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Houndkirk Road looks like major fun. A wee googling revealed this:
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 321 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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