Damn, feels nice to put motorcycle back into the bull eyes of my hobby life. Been too long out. So, as I was saying in my previous post, after a summer of Harley riding in Corsica and South of France, I returned to Dubai for some off Road fun.
Plan is Saturday desert on the 450 CRF and Sunday off road and trail riding on the GS 1200.
But before I move on let's just take one min for her majesty. She rode motorcycle.
So last sunday, I took my second Trail ride with X-enduro. More of a beginers ride than anything but nice to be out in the open.
But as I was getting myself ready for a new ride this weekend, noticed some issues with rear of the bike. Went to Touratech and after dismantling the shaft, it turned out it was broken. Apparently, a common things amongst beamer, especially for some doing lots of offroad.
Anyway, so we are presently trying our luck trying to find a second hand in Europe. Not sure when I'll be riding her again.
So, I went back on the XT for street riding. I hadn't started for 6 months and she fired up after only one kick. And it got me thinking. I could actually take the XT for offroad rides. After all, the XT was the first winner of the Dakar in 1979. Up till now, I was very protective of it and did not want to ruin the bike by dropping it. But considering I actually got 2 XT, I might as well use one for offroad.And this got me thinking of new project. The XT will need some upgrade, especially on the suspension side. I think I need to swop the fork and mount a YZ or CRF fork on it, then I need to replace the rear swing arm and rear suspension and probably fabricate an engine guard. Just to give you some ideas, something along the lines of the below pics I stole on the net
and just to finish this week update. one random shite.
