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Mother of All Mexico Dirt Bike Rides - March in 2015!
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<blockquote data-quote="yamafitter" data-source="post: 1218423" data-attributes="member: 15141"><p>Brakes are way too touchy on the Suzuki. They were like having an on/off switch. I was using my pinky finger on the front brake lever trying to get a feel for modulating the brake. The rear brake was hopeless to get any feel for. I just could not stop locking the rear brake. Throttle response to me seemed slow.</p><p></p><p>The Suzuki DR first gear is too tall and there were times the motor was really lugging in low speed situations. The bike was also on heavy pig to pick up. The bike was good at highway speeds but top gear almost seemed to be like overdrive and you had to drop a gear to overtake.</p><p></p><p>I am very use to my WR450 and have done numerous mods over the years to make it right for me so I'm very biased towards my Yamaha. Five decades of riding enduro bikes have given me the experience to ride pretty much any kind of terrain and there are not many situations that I find impassable. I've crossed everything from peat bogs in the Massasauga Enduro to the rock setups on Green Mountain at the Corduroy Enduro with varying degrees of success.</p><p></p><p>One thing I can say for sure is that having that Suzuki DR stuck in a deep mudhole would make for a bad day.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not you Jim. I know you were sore and wet but I was getting tired of listening to the whining from those Beemer Jam Tarts about getting a speck of mud on their boots after riding through some micro mud puddle. If they kept their feet on the pegs where they belong instead of paddling their feet every time there was a droplet of moisture on the ground maybe they would have kept their pristine BMW designer gear clean.</p><p></p><p>I came to ride and I was not about to be scared off by Alberto saying the road was too rough. In the town of Alma Cima Juan told me it was going to get more difficult but once I got through the mud section in town I thought the rest of the ride up was actually pretty easy.</p><p></p><p>If they were going to get a couple of pickups up that road I knew I could certainly get a bike up there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yamafitter, post: 1218423, member: 15141"] Brakes are way too touchy on the Suzuki. They were like having an on/off switch. I was using my pinky finger on the front brake lever trying to get a feel for modulating the brake. The rear brake was hopeless to get any feel for. I just could not stop locking the rear brake. Throttle response to me seemed slow. The Suzuki DR first gear is too tall and there were times the motor was really lugging in low speed situations. The bike was also on heavy pig to pick up. The bike was good at highway speeds but top gear almost seemed to be like overdrive and you had to drop a gear to overtake. I am very use to my WR450 and have done numerous mods over the years to make it right for me so I'm very biased towards my Yamaha. Five decades of riding enduro bikes have given me the experience to ride pretty much any kind of terrain and there are not many situations that I find impassable. I've crossed everything from peat bogs in the Massasauga Enduro to the rock setups on Green Mountain at the Corduroy Enduro with varying degrees of success. One thing I can say for sure is that having that Suzuki DR stuck in a deep mudhole would make for a bad day. Not you Jim. I know you were sore and wet but I was getting tired of listening to the whining from those Beemer Jam Tarts about getting a speck of mud on their boots after riding through some micro mud puddle. If they kept their feet on the pegs where they belong instead of paddling their feet every time there was a droplet of moisture on the ground maybe they would have kept their pristine BMW designer gear clean. I came to ride and I was not about to be scared off by Alberto saying the road was too rough. In the town of Alma Cima Juan told me it was going to get more difficult but once I got through the mud section in town I thought the rest of the ride up was actually pretty easy. If they were going to get a couple of pickups up that road I knew I could certainly get a bike up there. [/QUOTE]
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