Rode Pala MX today. Rode with 10 really good buddies. We all said a group prayer before todays ride... Kind of like a football huddle... go out to warm up...Two laps on Vet track... forks are real hard every jump is hard hitting ?????
Come in to pits... adjust rebound 4 clicks just like LTR tells me to do ( all good here - Les is a Guru)
Go out to the main MX Pro track with a good buddy to show him the track...( his first time here) big downhill with a double right at the bottom... hit it, clear it land. Forks compress all the way.. big bang... forks stay at the bottom, I pile drive my upper body into the tank and bars... feel like my wrists are going to snap, shoulders are jarred very hard... every link in my vertebrae feels like it popped loose....chest feels like it gets caved in.... roll in to a big berm out of control that keep's me from being ejected over the bars. All happens in the blink of an eye. I think I even cried a little bit it hurt so much.
Riding my Husky is done for the day just about the same time it started.... Ibuprofin and Ice tea in the pit for an hour... Can't leave the track on a bad note... had to get back on a bike, any bike and conquer any fears before going home... not going to let that linger until my forks are fixed.Get on my buddies 2009 fuel injected CRF 450 R Honda... went out and nailed all the jumps I wanted to. Fully realize that the Honda is just so so so much better than my 2005 TC450 Husky on a track..... I need a new bike.
Anybody care to venture to tell me what failed in my forks? I haven't stripped them yet.
God was on my side today.
T
Come in to pits... adjust rebound 4 clicks just like LTR tells me to do ( all good here - Les is a Guru)
Go out to the main MX Pro track with a good buddy to show him the track...( his first time here) big downhill with a double right at the bottom... hit it, clear it land. Forks compress all the way.. big bang... forks stay at the bottom, I pile drive my upper body into the tank and bars... feel like my wrists are going to snap, shoulders are jarred very hard... every link in my vertebrae feels like it popped loose....chest feels like it gets caved in.... roll in to a big berm out of control that keep's me from being ejected over the bars. All happens in the blink of an eye. I think I even cried a little bit it hurt so much.
Riding my Husky is done for the day just about the same time it started.... Ibuprofin and Ice tea in the pit for an hour... Can't leave the track on a bad note... had to get back on a bike, any bike and conquer any fears before going home... not going to let that linger until my forks are fixed.Get on my buddies 2009 fuel injected CRF 450 R Honda... went out and nailed all the jumps I wanted to. Fully realize that the Honda is just so so so much better than my 2005 TC450 Husky on a track..... I need a new bike.
Anybody care to venture to tell me what failed in my forks? I haven't stripped them yet.
God was on my side today.
T