A day in the life of a Southern Ontario sand duner

[ratchracing]

Well guys, some of you maybe remember one of my previous posts here about sand riding in Ontario. As nice as those shots were, I've got even better now, thats right, I got some action shots (finally). So heres a few choice selections from my outing today with my cousin. In case your wondering hes riding an '82 Honda XL 185S enduro bike. Hes pretty crazy on that damn thing.

Lets start off with the first sand pit, called "the pines"

My cousin on his tried and true machine

Me on the 350

Just a little too far there ^^^^

And now onto pit #2 "West Horseshoe" this place is HUGE! The camera batteries died so we didn't get as many pics here.


Cuz on the XL

Time for me to rip this pit up

the rain maker hahaha ^^^^

Enjoy the pics guys.....it sure was one heluva ride

 

[warrior350x]

looks like some fun

 

[98warrior]

in the second pic of your cousin climbing the hill it looks like theres tracks where someone shot up to the right of the main climb. if so that looks mighty steep lol. oh ya and the first big picture looks like a possible POTM

 

[ratchracing]

Posted by 98warrior on Today at 5:29pm
in the second pic of your cousin climbing the hill it looks like theres tracks where someone shot up to the right of the main climb. if so that looks mighty steep lol.

In pics 4 and 6 of "me on the 350" im coming off the top of that hill, it IS mighty steep, its a rush man, i love it. There isn't a hill at these local trails that I have yet to climb. Beleive it or not I showed up a couple dudes on 660s last weekend here. They wouldnt touch the hills.

 

[hillclimbingrecon]

how steep?? my freinds go up some pretty damn steep hills on there 450's,looks like a good place to ride

 

[ratchracing]

there are a couple hills where the top foot to 2 feet are 90 degrees, hit them fast enough and you can get about 4-5 feet of air off the top, pretty tricky stuff

 

[warriorspeed350]

those hillular jumps look like soo much fun, lately i have had the craving to do it

 

[hillclimbingrecon]

do,its so fun to do that,but whats really fun,is jumping the hill going down!!! becarfull though,you do NOT want to over shoot it,or you WILL get hurt,and brake somethin,my feeind tried it on his POPO 325,nailed his nuts on the gas tank,hit his chin on the bars,and some bruised ribs,but its pretty fun...you know what is also fun,say there is a drop off where it goes straight down for about 10 ft and there IS no way to straight out climb it,well look for a little bump on the hill ,aim for that and you jump the hill...Only my freinds on there 450's and dirt bike have dine this,but ONLY about 3 times,Most of the times i have seen they make it,but when they dont.........i'll just leave that alone. didt mean to hijack the thread

 

[ratchracing]

Posted by hillclimbingrecon on Yesterday at 7:25pm
do,its so fun to do that,but whats really fun,is jumping the hill going down!!! becarfull though,you do NOT want to over shoot it,or you WILL get hurt,and brake somethin,my feeind tried it on his POPO 325,nailed his nuts on the gas tank,hit his chin on the bars,and some bruised ribs,but its pretty fun...you know what is also fun,say there is a drop off where it goes straight down for about 10 ft and there IS no way to straight out climb it,well look for a little bump on the hill ,aim for that and you jump the hill...Only my freinds on there 450's and dirt bike have dine this,but ONLY about 3 times,Most of the times i have seen they make it,but when they dont.........i'll just leave that alone. didt mean to hijack the thread

I've seen a dude on a KX 250 try to jump down a hill, he smacked his head off the bars bad, seemed kinda hurt, but he took off before I could talk to him

 

[02yfm350]

where in ontario is it? looks like a lot of fun. Your raptor looks awesome with the white on the front!

 

[warriorguy5]

man those pits look awsoem and look liek a blast to ride... you did some cool stuf in those pics too.


~Eddie

 

[ratchracing]

Posted by 02yfm350 on Today at 10:09am
where in ontario is it? looks like a lot of fun. Your raptor looks awesome with the white on the front!

Its about 20 min from my house ;D I live in Delhi Ontario FYI, you'll have to mapquest it, its also 20 min from the Lake Erie beaches! Thanks for the compliment on the hood! I thought it would make it look real original.

Thanks to all for the positive replies, if your even in Southern Ontario you know who to call for some ridin now!

 

[warriorxcr1]

awesome pics man..... raptor looks great too

 

[evilhaze]

**** ya, southern ontario just about looks as nice as eastern ontario this time of year!
killer pics man

 

[ratchracing]

Posted by evilhaze on Today at 12:23am
**** ya, southern ontario just about looks as nice as eastern ontario this time of year!
killer pics man

****** eh! I'll have to take some more pics while the weather is super

 

[Guest]

hey ratchracing how much of a power difference did you notice with the new piston?

 

[atv]

dude this is an old topic if your gonna ask somthing like that ask in PM

 

[ratchracing]

hey ratchracing how much of a power difference did you notice with the new piston?

Well, I did the piston, cam, P&P, Yoshi pipe and header all at the same time, and all that combined made a big ass difference, heaps of power over the stock configuration.

 

[Guest]

ok thanks. and the white hood looks great

 

[schppppeeiiddiiiee]

those look more like sand pits than sand dunes