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A little PNW Gifford Pinchot trail action

Gifford looks like awesome riding area. Is that a 125/144 in the video?
Wonder if one of those would haul my 225lbs (less gear) around?
 
Camstyn on here is WAY bigger than you on a 125/144. The lead guy you see for about 1.2 seconds in that video is on a 125 husky.
 
Cool, thanks
FWIW Clete, last night myself and the 125 guy in that video where night riding and on a long loose clime a guy on a KTM525 was behind us, we can lug our 125/144's so low that his bike coudnt chug at our lazy pace, we where goofing off and he caught us on the hill and had to turn around and try again because his rig wont run that slow.

for
hatever reason husky smallbores will still pull at what seems like 1000RPM. Bang the clutch on my 144 and i can grab a couple gears on the same hill i am crauling up in first. I will probably spin out and fly off the trail into a ravine if i do that but it is entirely possible with these bikes. Motosportz (kelly) is bigger than me (165-170 no gear) and he has no issues with the small bikes.
 
Motosportz (kelly) is bigger than me (165-170 no gear) and he has no issues with the small bikes.

I'm about 200 naked and 220 geared up and those little bike will pull me up and nastiest of hills no problem. What Ben is saying but might not realize is the 125 first gear and 50+ rear sprockets (super low gearing) make a light bike crawl up everything with relative ease. Might not be the fastest bike up the hill but will almost always make the top of any nasty hill.
 
ive been finding the same thing with the 144, it's simply amazing. i'm ~175 sans-gear. i call it 'the little goat'. thing can chug and grip so well for such a small motor. i have minor gripes about the WR ignition on fast open ripping sweepers, but in the tight woods, the thing never gets out of control.

favorite dirt bike i've ever ridden hands down. currently running 12/50 gearing + standard mods.
 
im running 13/52 gearing, i am thinking about running a fly wheel weight though, my mid hit is a bit much, takes a lot more clutch work than jakes stock 125 to keep the trials tire from spinning out sometimes.
 
Ben,

When you go to the other top end your mid will smooth out/bottom gets better. That is the advantage of the high compression. It will have a little more in both places just will feel smoother.

The Steahly FWW is pretty nice. It doesn't have a huge impact like a larger weight on the bigger flywheels but does tame the hit a bit, trading some wheel spin for a little more traction. The CR's smaller flywheel just doesn't allow you to get more weight spinning farther from the crankshaft center. I mounted one up on my 165 as it was still a bit of a handfull in really tight steep rocky sections. It is also pulling 14x49 gearing there just to give you a comparison of the bottom pull/mid hit. Tractors up just fine but one slip of the wrist and my talent fails.:)
 
Some photo's from the ride...

Ben here yes the pic is rotated, I should fix it. It is much steeper than this.

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This shows it better... Larry, 52 and still completely rails.
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It rules up here!
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Husky country...
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Even saw a high flying squirel...
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Heaven...
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Later,
 
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