Thanks! Such is the life! Plan is to go back and ride the route I wanted to try in 4x4 to see if it’s bad sand everywhere or just in that one spot. I love adventure riding but 2 days worth of surprise sand isn’t exactly by dean ride…
Heavy bikes are not good on sand/silt... but that's just something you'll need to get used to rather than a disaster. Technique can help quite a bit but I've not yet found a technique that eliminates the occasional sand wipe out on 450+lb bikes. On my 701 I can avoid wipes on sand completely by keeping speeds down (20 or so when I'm carrying full luggage)... but there is no speed that I've found that works on heavyweight bikes like the DesertX. Going faster is actually better but you will still have issues and then when you wipe it'll be more energetic. Low tire pressure helps a LOT but on big bikes that's not a typical option (not even sure how easy/hard it would be to get bead lock rims for a bike like that).
I’m been telling myself ‘it is what it is’ a lot. Looks like going slow and duck walking is going to be the baseline approach. My biggest challenge is that this stuff comes out of nowhere on this trail.
Buddy... you need to be riding no less than 35mph in sand to stay up and straight on these big bikes. Look at some of my videos, we eat up sand like it's a dirt road, some times riding in it as slow as 45mph, alot of times 60+. With a t7 and a klr650
The new logo and all the tech add so much to the videos. Makes the wipeout not as bad, hope you're okay though!
Thanks!! I’ll be trying out a couple different logos - you heard it here first I have stickers coming!
Gravity mixed with loose sand... sucks lol... wiped out a many times that way....safe riding out there!
Thanks! Such is the life! Plan is to go back and ride the route I wanted to try in 4x4 to see if it’s bad sand everywhere or just in that one spot.
I love adventure riding but 2 days worth of surprise sand isn’t exactly by dean ride…
Heavy bikes are not good on sand/silt... but that's just something you'll need to get used to rather than a disaster. Technique can help quite a bit but I've not yet found a technique that eliminates the occasional sand wipe out on 450+lb bikes. On my 701 I can avoid wipes on sand completely by keeping speeds down (20 or so when I'm carrying full luggage)... but there is no speed that I've found that works on heavyweight bikes like the DesertX. Going faster is actually better but you will still have issues and then when you wipe it'll be more energetic. Low tire pressure helps a LOT but on big bikes that's not a typical option (not even sure how easy/hard it would be to get bead lock rims for a bike like that).
I’m been telling myself ‘it is what it is’ a lot. Looks like going slow and duck walking is going to be the baseline approach.
My biggest challenge is that this stuff comes out of nowhere on this trail.
Buddy... you need to be riding no less than 35mph in sand to stay up and straight on these big bikes.
Look at some of my videos, we eat up sand like it's a dirt road, some times riding in it as slow as 45mph, alot of times 60+.
With a t7 and a klr650