Tracks in , Kidneys Hurt !

We just put in our two acre Motocross ATV track this weekend . Road it hard today trying to make good lines for my bikes and the track itself. It is going to take allot of run time to get it where we want it , or I want it I should say . :blink:
Even using the Case Loader Back-Hoe tracktor it needs to have like 100 bikes riding on it for a week to get it smoothed down and lines cut into it for the bikes to run smooother on it . It is quite rutty and bumpy right now with only two bikes on it running several hours today . Plus it did not rain like they promised me, so all I could do was my best Ricky Carmicheal impressions in first and second and third gear cutting lines in the dirt . It is too bumpy right now for anything faster . My kidneys actually hurt today, between the Back-Hoe for 7 hours and todays riding three different bikes to check out my work on the track . Tuesday will be a painfull day at work . :biggrin:
I am sooooooo impressed with the Viva 250 dirtbike , what a machine it is. It loved this track today, but it keeps telling me to go faster man go faster . I think its trying to kill me :biggrin:
This bike has adjustable dampeners and ride soft and hard settings on the fork tubes that are hand tunable , even while riding, so it is very nice to have that today . Man I beat myself up , but it was worth every minute. In a month or two this track will come into its own for sure . Made for me and my mate, exactly what we want it to be like. Now thats a cool ride !
Hey, where are all the Moto-Crossers on this forum ? ! ? ! Speak up and post would ya, I feel alone here :helpsmilie:
Well that was our ride today . Nice to have your own custom two acre track indeed . The little ATV67 from Rocketa , thier race model ATV is really nice out here for my Fiance' . And to finally have a good place to use it thats safe and close . Hell, we have an esspresso machine right in the backdoor of the hosue too, so ride up and I will Latte' your motorcycle butts if anyone actually shows up some year to ride our track with us . Give me some notice and you can probably even spend the night , if you bring Prawns to cook !!!!

Cheers, thats my day of riding, I am done, hurting now, ouch, good day , Snortin Norton out

Will get some pics out soon of the track, just too tired tonight for it .

Cheers, Snortin Norton

I would totally be all over that, but I would need to move about 1500 miles north--then I can sabotage snowbirds who are getting ready for their annual trek to Yuma--just a little bit of revenge for all the crap they put us through down here :thumbup::thumbup: during the only enjoyable time in the south of Arizona--winter.

Off subject a bit, but I need to get my bike, probably a Qlink motard in orange (I'll put KTM stickers on it) and ride up there...if the US distributor of Qingqi, gogo motorsports, has good deal on the enduro, then that one will be a good substitute for the Qlink, but I hate compromising, dammit!

We need photos, too...put down the back hoe, the bikes, the pistols and pick up your camera, and show us this work of art.

Oh Culcune,
your the greatest ! :thumbup:
If I was a millionaire I would buy you a dozen Qlinks man . :gun_bandana:
I will get some photos out soon , I seldome don't do what I say I am going too , but be patient , I actually work for a living too . You ought to be a pro at patience by now waiting on that bike ? ! ? ! :17: I told you before , you'll hate yourself in the morning if you buy anything other than what you really want this next bike you get man :thumbdown:
Put down the guns, the bikes, the back-hoe ? Are you nutts !!!!
My neighbors to the left of me are not real happy with our track so I have heard . Bummer , for them . :biggrin: I guess the guys constant wood chipper Saturday and Sundays extravaganza he does on a constant basis is going to bite him in his ass this time . :wink: Long time ago this same neighbor used to throw rocks at my landlords kids for riding thier bikes on the old track the owner had put in here for his kids . So now, the track is back , and the kid got older and now his name is Snortin Norton and he defies you to throw rocks at him :gun_bandana: I just hope he's not a closet Sniper ? I guess if you don't want a race track next to you you should have bought acreage out in the middle of the forest ????? Too bad so sad :biggrin: I am quite positive I will be riding several times a week now on it too and Sunday mornings :biggrin:. The Viva 250 is loud , but so is the wood chipper at 7:00 AM Sunday mornings . Tooshe' :wink:
Cheers Cuclune , and everyone else . Hope you all have a great work week if you work that is . Or great rides too .

Cheers, Snortin Norton out, time for work, so I can play :thumbup:

You just need some stadium lighting so you can keep at it all night ;)

You know Jim,
that is great idea !:thumbup:
I never even thought about that ?
That's the nice thing about forums , major amounts of different views on stuff .
Giant Sodium Crystals would be nice huh ? Hmmmmm ?
I really am POSITIVE my neighbor would start a war though over that . We all have little 2 too 5 acre parcels here where I live. It is out in the booneys though , non-incorporated too . Tonight it was 9:00-ish and still light out .
Maybe in the Winter though lights would be nice . We still have to shut stuff down here at 10:00 PM, its the law around here and people are call the cops happy on my road over disturbances . Although I have never been visited myself over anything like that , but I bet Sodium Crystals would draw in the wrong kinda crowd , armed and able to arrest , hee hee .
Great Idea though , even if your kidding ? Maybe your not kidding ? :biggrin:

Cheers, I got Thursday night planned for some photo's here of the track. Mind you, its still very rough , I have yet to build up my burms with the bikes , or work on my jumps . All I have done was cut it through with the Back-Hoe-Loader now and run the bikes on it to check it out and cut some lines with the Knobbies . It is NOT a stadium type Super-moto-track, but rather a European style outdoor motocross course . Much different than most of you are probably imagining unless your from Europe . Plus its nothing spectacular, it is just a little track to blast around on and race too .

Cheers, Snortin Norton out

The little tracks are where it all starts man! :thumbup:

Sounds like a fantastic place to have a C-Moto PNW meet! Could even make it a mini maintenance clinic. People could crash inside or outside in tents. Spin some wrenches, bring some beer, bbq up some stupid good food and take lots of pictures!

You had a chance to snap any pics of your track/facilities yet?

CC

Well here she is , it's a start . Needs lots of work and lots of ride time . Try to have an imagination like me okeedokeee :biggrin:

Here's the Master fo Disaster :biggrin:

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This is the start line towards the first corner , about 250 ft. into a burm left .

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This is looking at turn 1 and the small burm . The tree to the left has three step up jumps , 2 ft. 4 ft. to the right of the tree and an 8 ft. jump on the other side of the Maple tree to the left . If you jump the 8 footer you can eliminate the burm altogether through a split in the road you'll see in my next pic .

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This is looking at the end of turn 1 going into a 100 ft. sweeper turn to the left . Corner of burm is still in photo to the far right .
There is a small tree seperating the track here , inside lane, outside lane, one for the burm side if you want , one for the large jump side .

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This is the start of the sweeper turn .

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This is nearing the end of the sweeper turn , or turn 2 .

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This is looking back down the sweeper , opposite direction .

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This is looking at starting the long backstretch, about 300 ft. plus out to the road , you can really pick up some speed now . Hang left !!!!

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This is corner two looking to left for an alternative direction if you want . I am building up a burm to the right of the little tree to the left . You can switchback at this point and go three directions, backstetch to turn 3 , burm left back toward sweeper, or go straight in the photo back out to the middle of the frontstretch-starting line area .

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This is the alternate direction back out to the start-finish line . Many potential jumps-sites here to enter the track again from this side of my storage shed ????

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This is the backstretch to corner 3 , very flat , tons of speed here, 4th gear stuff . My friends front door is across the road in the pic . I have threatened him now to jump the road and sit in his lap one day if I miss the corner bad :biggrin: You end up in a small 3 ft. culvert for turn 3 and out of the culvert for turn 4 and onto the start finish line in the first pic, about 150 ft . You jump my driveway if you want out of the culvert slightly to the right towards the start-finish line area . Not much to see but lots of speed on both . I wanted some good spots to test out top-end carb work through the gears , although top gear I deam impossible to achieve on this track on any of my bikes except the SUNL 125 XT .

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This is the landing zone from jumps 1,2,3 if you ride the track backwards . No not the bike backwards, the track man ! :biggrin: This is looking at the starting line .

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I know its rough , and you have to have some vision to see what I see too . It is going to take lots of riding and lots of fine tuning . But both will be extremely satisfying doing them . It is kinda overcast when I took pics, but it is very beautifull back here in my woods reguardless . I will put whoop-di-doos in as I see fit later, and some smaller jumps here and there, but try to remember this track is going to be set up for ATV too so I am keeping it somewhat flatter than just bike motocross that jsut has a bunch of jumps and mogals . My gal loves her ATV , so , well, you know :biggrin:

Well there it is , its a start , and my Esspresso machine is never more than 30 seconds away !

Oh and hear is my new Beagle Dog " Baby " , ha ha ha . No I can't conform, I refuse to be normal . :biggrin:
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Cheers out, Snortin Norton aka Mad Maxx

and my Esspresso machine is never more than 30 seconds away ! So that explains it! Nice track...I just hope it doesn't bug your neighbor--oh, yeah, I do hope it bugs the "mad chipper."

Oh yeh, it will drive him nuts Cuclune, but that's ok , he drives me nuts too :biggrin:

Cheers, Snortin Norton out

A Mx track in the backyard, you're the Man!:thumbup:

Back in France If I had done that my neighbor (a nice guy) would have kill me, he hunts boars :gun_bandana:.

HAHAHA.. coffee and combustion engines...sounds like a day at the track all right! :clap:

Nice set up there man! Looks like plenty of nice soft ground for tents too!

CC

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Originally Posted by Brice

A Mx track in the backyard, you're the Man!:thumbup:

Back in France If I had done that my neighbor (a nice guy) would have kill me, he hunts boars :gun_bandana:.

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I don't think you bore anyone, LOL; or at least not enough to get shot over.

Yo Brice ,
I may just be the next Boar on my neighbors plate too , one never knows ?
He is a hostile old man and likes his quiet , as long as it is him making noise only that is of course . God forbid anyone else make any noise . :thumbdown: Unfortuantely I was too tired this week from Carpentry jobs to do any riding , but this weekend I made three days off Brice, so I plan on being mighty offensive to everyone on my road . Nobody cares but one guy, so its all good . :biggrin:
Our track was so crappy before I opened up the forest with the Back-Hoe-loader last weekend , I had to do all my fast test runs out on the gravel road that all of us use . He has stood out there in the yard of his house yelling at me to slow down and shakes his fist at me . I slow down by his house now out of respect for the elderly , but his world just got a little louder on a constant basis , so he better get used to it or kill me . I don't have to ride on the road anymore , but the start finish line borders his Bedroom !! :thumbup:
All is fair in Love and Wood Chippers the way I see it :biggrin:
I have wondered for along time just how loud my Viva 250 Preditor is without the packing in my Silencer ?? Heeee hee hee :gun_bandana:
If you know who the Hatfields and the Mckoys were, I would probably be the Poster Child for the clan of one of them :biggrin:

I sure hope it rains this weekend at some point too . I really need it to make some of the burms , naturally . I made some really deep mud-pits out there too, so it should be some fun soon. Well, its fun anyway the way it is, but the rain makes it way cooler :thumbup: Got Mudd !!!!

I have invited my neighbor Dan over with his new Husky 500 Enduro to ride around on it . That beasty bike throws a rooster tail let me tell ya . For $8,000 USA dollars it better throw a Golden Rooster Tail :biggrin: Cool bike .
White Brothers shocks and Brembo brakes, it better throw a rooster tail .

Anyway , thanks and cheers bro , Snorton Norton out .

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Originally Posted by culcune

I don't think you bore anyone, LOL; or at least not enough to get shot over.

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Few years ago, during the night, a herd of wild pigs came in his yard and ravage all the turf and flowers while looking for some roots.
His pretty garden looked like Snortin's backyard after the Caterpillar massacre! My own garden was intact.:laugh:
He was so upset that he spent all the following night hidden in his car with a 2 shots gun waiting for the boars but the clever animals never came back.:thumbup:

I know a little about the McCoy's and their best enemies. Not part of our folklore in Europe but we are so much "invaded" by USofA history that we can't ignore it.:laugh:

Show us some pics after your mud bath and before you'll get shot by the guy next door:blink:

Hi Crazy Carl ,
Man you two ( Signet ) are supplying a whole bunch of cool photos of China , thanks . Very cool for all of us . :thumbup: Your making my Kodak pics look like crap, thanks . :biggrin:

Coffee and Combustion Engines , yes , nice pairing in this colder than normal State of Washington , USA .............Indeed , and I make a nice Latte, trust me !!!
And we have tools up the cazoo for repairs here , so if anyone ever does actually show up for a visit , they don't need anything but a good attitude and PRAWNS :biggrin: , and maybe some nice tea leaves or Coffee beans from where they came from of course !!!! That would be nice . Just teazing about all the Prawns , anyone can come and bring nothing , its all good man .
We have about a half acre of pristine Washington field grass too to park tents on in the front yard or back yard , bikes , sleeping bags , whatever, so it is a great camping spot for sure . I keep it mowed nice too so its very soft year round with excellent drainage .
The track aint much really, but it does offer anyone a place to take a load off on a road trip , grab a shower, some food , some hot coffee , some good lies and be on thier way to thier next adventure . It is always nice to know people around the world so you have some cool spots to ride through and be welcome and park it for a day and let your ass recover from road wearyness .
Plus we have a pretty good stable of bikes now, so if you want to blast around the track a bit if you show up ona street bike , I am always game to make that happen too for anyone . This is very beautiful country out this way in North America , it always worth a look-see . Plus were only 40 miles from one of the biggest Volcanos on Earth , Mt. Rainier . Hell of a nice road trip up to it and on it , trust me !
We plan on getting married up there we hope in December of this year , so I hope to have some good pics of that and the road then too . It is Gods country here for sure . The Dalli Lamma was just here in the State recently and he commented on how beautiful it was here too, and that man has seen the world big time, he ought to know beauty when he sees it.
Or maybe that was Dolly Madison :biggrin: Hee hee hee .

2:15 AM. in the morning peoples in the great US of A , drinking Latte's , typing dribble ? Why am I up doing this ??????? Seams my time to write is late I guess , and Latte's are great before bed . I am often a reverse addict and this stuff puts me to sleep . Like warm milk , Hazel nut latte's , yum . Now that's insomniac food :thumbup:

Cheers, Enjoy your days tomorrow , or today is it would be most places I am thinking ? Ride good , safe and hard , and may God be on your tires and show you all a good ride to good places this weekend . I am riding my track this weekend , he has done his job well for me , greatfull I am .

Cheerios, Snortin Norton out

You know Brice,
I think the Folk lore is a good thing, its kinda a lesson or Fable if you will , even if you all feel invaded , especially with the Hatfields and Mckoys lore . It points out how people get over private property and their willingness to kill over the slightest disputes .
Its kinda like the European farmers getting pissed off that all these tourists are walking through their Hedgrows , legally, even if those hedgrows and laws were made 500 years ago when people had respect for landowners and nobody littered , tore down stuff, trampled fields , ruined crops , etc.
I don't think the landowners that are barking at people or in some instances shooting them or at them are really that far off the mark of being RIGHT , now ?
Now a little fact , I was invaded by your European folk lore on my USA news about that little peice of history, so its all good right ? :biggrin:

Boar sure are smart ! Good story there Brice............

Cheers , Snortin Norton

SNorton,

Washington State is beautiful and got some cool people too. I dropped a night in Aberdeen and stayed at the Thunderbird motel. Right across the street was this hokey bar and I decided to go in to see what the local scene was like.

There was one dude there who was Quinault (sp?) Indian. He said they were the only people in North America who were legally allowed to whale (up to five a year) and they still did it the old-school way in small boats! :blink:

He won a bunch of money that night on some pool games and insisted on getting my beer. We talked about music and pretty much everything under the sun. He's a really good guy and I wish I had gotten a picture or two. I'd like to meet him again and this time...I'll get the beer.

Rolled up to Olympic Nt'l Forest and checked out some mossy trees. That's a place I'd like to do some back country hiking to see the mtn. Amazing place!

Rolled into Seattle late afternoon and met a dude on a Ducati who was nice enough to show me around town is search for a new rear tire. He sure did a lot of wheelies! Anyway, he was a nice guy and pointed me in the right direction.

Good times in Washington for sure but I missed the Cascade Mountains and I need to go back and see that. If I'm though that way some time I'll look you up...I can ride and drink coffee too! :clap:

Where are you in Washington?

CC

Crazy Carl,
I live about 60 miles south of Seattle . 40 miles south of Mt. Rainier . Out in
the sticks in a "VERY" Red-Neck town of about 300 people . I don't live in town , just out of town .
Yeh, lots of Indians here , good folks . Lots of Ducati's too !!!! Ha ha ha . I guess we got good taste here in Washington ? We do like our Coffee that's for sure too .
Yes, the Cascade Mountains are worth a look-see , for sure. I climbed some, they are cool and very majestic . Especailly Mt. Baker and Mt. Shucksen . Those are near the Canadian border , intence mountains . I made friends with a Marmmot family up at Baker one Spring . They are furry little creatures , look like a small Beaver without the tail . Very inquisitive too, they came right up to me two feet away with no fear . And I was remote man , remote way out in nowhere land on the mountain . Was cool .
Yeh, nice place, too much pollitics though . Lots of Democrats if your into that , ha ha .
I wasn't born here but have been here most of 20 or so years . It is very expensive now too , thanks to the influx of California developers and people that will pay whatever for property too . It has changed drastically from when I arrived . I won't be here too many years longer either, maybe two or three ? It is time to go , I don't fit in anymore . It used to be quite funky and hippi in this state, now everyone is in a hurry to get nowhere , and most people are kinda rude now too . I will finish my Nursing Degree here and move on . I am halfway through now , it takes forever when your white and male and can't get a grant or financial aide becausue they say you make too much money ? So its a slow road to education for this guy .
Your welcome here anytime Crazy Carl , I will be around for awhile yet, certainly stop in if your in my hood .
I am sure I will end up in the SOUTH , Carolina , or Alabama ? My tribe is down there in Georgia and Alabama and Florida, so that is truelly home for me , and I need to get back to that someday . I like the laid backness of the South anyway , these folks are getting too uptight, even for me , LOL !!!

Cheers, Snortin Norton out . If I get some rain this weekend , will try to post some Mud shots .