2022 Desert 100 Race VLOG Honda CRF450x {Race} now including upside down KTMs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2022
- The long awaited, 2 year delayed return to the desert. Come along for a great and grueling race on my 2008 Honda CRF450x and watch its struggle as it tries to force me to the finish line.
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Great video and solid wisdom shared! Thanks for that. This is a bucket list event for me and will take some doing to get there as I live on the other side of the country.
Worth the trip. We live about a 12hr drive from Odessa. Terrible drive but worth it for one blast every year.
Cool video, thanks. Did this race back in, I think 1986 on a KDX 200 and did pretty well. After 30+ years of not riding I recently bought a new bike and I'm going to give it another shot.
Anyone in the 50+ group is legend imo. That’s a lot of getting rattled around.
Oh my goodness, that's bananas! My regular riding buddy is keen to have a go, 'hey they have an over 60s class, let's go do it' says he with numerous forever injuries collected over decades of riding, me with a body 5 years old than his 'yeah sure I'll crew for you!' Respect to you Sir.
Oh you’ll sit the sideline on year 1 but it’s get under your skin and it will be unavoidable to suit up for year 2. :). Best of luck. The real heroes are the 60,70 and 80 class riders.
@@danielleppington I believe it. The CRF250X I bought a few months ago is just about ready to roll, going to mount some studded tires and do some winter riding, if I can get enough miles in, my confidence level might be high enough to give it a try this year ... save the wait LOL. Love your videos and commentary
Thanks. Hope to see you there. Stop by and say hi when you get out there. We’re always against the pit line at very north west end. Should be flying a Saskatchewan flag.
As always, great video and the narrative is my favorite part. A look into the metal struggles of your race. You must have coughed up dust clouds for weeks.
Seems like I’m still finding places where that dust got into. :).
Great video. The rock is volcanic its balaslt rock and the valley area is a coulee an area carved out by an glacier.
It’s such a unique and weird combination of terrain. Love it.
Great ride D. Not a cake walk to be sure.
The rock I didn't see
Been there 😂
My wrists were jammed up for a couple of months from that. Best memories though
This was great to watch while on the stationary bike prepping for 2023!
Thanks, checked out some of your videos for your EJ swap. I’m restoring a 72 super beetle with an EJ22. Could come in handy as a guide. How was the wiring? I pulled the whole loom from a 98 legacy but haven’t started cutting it back yet.
@@danielleppington Unfortunately I lost most of the footage from the swap. The wiring isn't too bad if you take your time and test it between changes. I had some trouble getting it to fire after trimming the loom down. I bought a label maker and labeled the loom as easy reference when I was at that step. I had a 92, so it was obd1 and I believe its more simple than the obd2 loom. I think youll need to figure out how to mount the Crank position sensor - I dont believe mine had one. I've also owned a few aircooled Vws, It'll be cool to see yours done.
Very good quality thanks for the video 💯
Appreciate it
Outstanding and I can appreciate your reasoning and motivation to compete. I'd love to do this race, looks like the right mix of chaos and fun!
Thanks. Checked out your race videos, looks like fun out east.
Great video and thanks for sharing!
Great vid; have been following your D-100 adventures since 2016 on the WR250. Your narration about transitioning to the CRF250X in 2017 & upgrades in 2018 convinced me to do the same later that year. Entered the 2019 50 miler (I’m a decade or two older than you😳) on my own CRF250X, had a blast & finished. Finished again this year, agree with dust, rocks & hill climb comments. See you transitioned to a CRF450X, would enjoy follow up footage with commentary about pros & cons. Will likely stay with my CRF250X, look forward to your 2023 vid recap. 😎
Awesome on the finish, anyone who gets through deserves full kudos. 250x is awesome. I’ve been playing with doing a comparison video. My son is on the 250 now so I could do a direct comparison back to back. Spoiler alert though, the 450 makes me grin more, but if I could only have 1 it would be the 250 hands down.
Great vid and loved your narration. I rode the poker run and ate enough dust on Saturday.
Poker run was awesome. Me and my son (14) did the iron man and between that and the race, ate several pounds of dust I’m sure.
Best video I have seen for this year. I came from Kansas and I was certainly out of my element. Definitely a bucket list item.
Thanks Tom. Appreciate that. Did you complete the main or just up for the weekend? Unfortunately for how much pain it causes, it’s super addictive. :)
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I was in the over 60 class. Think i got 32 in my class. Great test of man and machine. Just wish i had better vision.
That’s awesome. The way I’m headed I’ll be lucky if I can endure the drive to Washington by 60. :). This year it would have been hard to know if my vision was failing or it was just the dust. Hopefully see you there next year.
Great video dude and great finish.👍
Thanks, appreciate it. Have you been out to the d100 before?
@@danielleppington ya I raced this year. Had bike issues and only got 1 lap. I have 2 vids of my attempt.👍
I have thought about going to this race for about the last 5 years. I better take that 06 450x that I have and give it a shot. Next year. Nice video and glad you made it ok.
4 for 5 or 5 for 6. Memory is getting fuzzy these days. :). You’ll have a blast. X bikes dream of this event at night.
Great narrative, thanks
Thanks. Appreciate it. Looking forward to next season. Joining a new series on new courses so it should be great chaos.
good commentary made it interesting.
Thanks. I’ve never liked when people just throw raw footage up without a story.
Ha! That's me at 2:20 being ejected from my bike. Ended up bending my brake pedal down under my clutch cover and spent the next mile or so trying to figure out why my bike was so slow! Total chaos, and it was so fun!
lol. Nice. It’s not if you’ve been ejected, it’s how many times. I love watching other videos looking for me and any of my mistakes. The whole event is just absurd. So much fun.
Good video! I finished in 5:55. Got like 320. First year and I didn't think it was a really difficult race. The hard part was all the dust and jam ups. The second lap was much better. I was very surprised that only half of the people finished!
I'd rather do 100 miles in the desert than my normal 75 mile woods races! Not too many trees to hit in the desert.
True on the trees not being there, but from my woods racing, hitting the ground in the woods doesn’t just as much as one of those stupid sharp rocks in the kidneys.
Definitely some gnarly dust this year but had a blast
It was volcanic I live here haha you guys were riding kinda by my bosses farm great job
Thanks for the clarification on the volcanoes. I was feeling dumb making that link because of how flat it seems right there so it’s a relief. :). Great place you guys have there. People in Odessa have always been so nice to us.
Good video! I finished 282 we probably went back and forth for awhile.
That’s awesome. Fun watching other videos looking for myself. Did you record anything?
I shared your video on my facebook hope that was ok it gave a good perspective of the race that’s why
@@1980perks Go for it. Hopefully get some more people lining up for this year
At 1:54 you sent that poor fella right into my footpeg! i tried my best to get his bike off of him, poor guy 😓🤣
:). If you look back in the comments, he’s been in here too. Have to have a reunion next year. Same place, same time, round 2. :)
@@danielleppington Looking forward to the reunion 😆
@@100Rounds Come over and say hi this weekend. We camp at the very end of the pits against the ropes closest to Odessa. There will be a Black Ridgeline with a flat trailer and Alberta (Red) plates and a tent.
@@danielleppington sounds like a plan.
@@danielleppington I walked around trying to find you but no luck. Are there any flags or anything else I could identify that’s close to you?
Great video! What do you think the ideal class is for a race like this? 250cc?
Best bike for the race is always the one you bring with you. :). I love 250. I’m a big guy at about 230 but honestly I keep going back to them. Tried 450, love the 350 but they’re just so much less twitchy when you’re on bumpy ground and that makes a huge difference over 6hrs. You never really get past 3rd or 4th maybe twice so you don’t need the top extra grunt.
Looks fun, where is this race held.
The little town of Odessa Washington. About an hr and a half south west of Spokane. Amazing event they put on. About 10-15000 people there every year.
@@danielleppington thank you for the info. What club and association organizes it? I would like to go online and look at the flyer about registration details.
@@dirtracer2044 stumpjumpers.org/sjmc/events-and-races/desert100/
StumpJumpers. Hopefully see you there next year. Worth every penny.
@@danielleppington thanks
Heard there were lots of broken cases from rocks.
Would not doubt it. It’s weird having done it a few times now that some years seem more rocky than others. They did add a couple rock garden climbs this year that would have had some effect though. Awesome course.
Did your teeth smash together over that Boulder surprise?!
Thankfully when my helmet hit the bars it stopped my bike departure. So close to a really bad wreck.
Wow, it looks like you'd need a respirator!
Really not the best part. Adds spice to the experience.
Do you think the Husky could have done it?
100%. Would have been a blast. My one regret of never getting to try it there. That thing was a beast. Likely would have gotten hot from place to place in the gardens but I think it world have handled it.
It's racing. No one takes anything personally. Run over bikes if you need to, no rules once the flag drops!
Rubbin is racin. lol
Great video, thanks for sharing!!