Winter Fix

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Scott21, Aug 25, 2017.

  1. looking for a winter fix as of November I do my last Euro track days till march next year.

    I'm looking into green laning or something with endurance.

    What's other people's fixes? Or offer advice

    Scott
     
  2. Iron butt organization as in the sore-saddle challenge? Maybe join one of the many obstacle running events across the winter.

    There is more mild stuff like zip-lines & raise some money for a charity??
     
  3. It needs to be something on 2 wheels
     
  4. Depends how much do you want to spend and intended use.
    For green laning you won't need a "race ready enduro"
    Suzuki Drz400 and the likes.£2000 should buy you a good one and very easy/cheap to service and more than enough for green laning.
    Had a Drz400 needed only oil(every 1500miles) coolant,(every 3 years) spark plug + valve adjustment once... nothing went wrong in 15000k miles. Weight 140kg ish
    For more serious enduro you need a lot lighter bike.
    KTM Exc250 for example(injected 2stroker if you have £7500 for a brand new one) or get an older one, however these need a lot of servicing and expensive to run. These are road legal race bikes....
    I have a 2017 model 250exc six days 2 stroke model 100.5kg :) 30 hours of use, so far nothing went wrong.
    Need gearbox oil every 5 hours (I am doing every 10 hours as not racing it) top end every 80hours (factory recommends every 20 hours if raced). Main bearings every 80 hours(again factory recommends every 20 hours if raced)
    As you can see quite a lot of servicing required if used for racing and even green laning.
    Hope this helps
     
  5. Mx/enduro
     
  6. I'm thinking more green laning as I've done mx in the younger days and I'll probably end up in bits.

    Just looking on what routes to use as I live about 20 miles from north wales.
     
  7. So basically 20 miles away from the greenlane paradise :) I am going to Transylvania, Romania in September to do the Red bull Romaniacs and Enduro panorama route (well more and less the same I am not Graham Javis level)

     
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  8. Euro track days?
     
  9. I do these through the summer up until November. I just can't be off bike longer than a week!!!
     
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