| Author | Message | ||
     Moosestang |
It's been 7 years since i've owned a bike. I forgot how much it sucked having to drive the 100 or so yards to get to the pavement. I think I was doing 15mph max and it still felt like i'm riding on ice. I have the stock pirelli tires. Are there any other tire options that would make my life easier? It's a 05 xb9sx by the way. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
The tires work fine, the bike will handle it, power on. Its a 2006 City-X, stock suspension.  It even keeps up with the ULY & KLR   | ||
| Ustorque |
the cityX with syncs on it is way fun in the dirt.....i live on a dirt road and one of the best parts of a days ride is throwing it into the corners before i pull in.  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Embrace the slide. Tires only help so much. Developing the ability to control and be comfortable with wheel slip is the key to riding dirt. Dirt riding and street riding require different skill sets. Some of the things you would do on the street will get you killed off road and vice versa. | ||
| Moosestang |
I think i'll get used to it, but it's a bit scary hitting a soft spot. It might feel like your sitting on a dirt bike, but it don't weigh what a dirt bike weighs. | ||
| Treadmarks |
Ask Michael Hill what he uses:  | ||
| Ustorque |
 just kiddin pal......or am I?  | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
Practice, Practice, Practice. | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
Slicker needs to be in one of those Orbit Gum "Dirty Mouth" commercials. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Dirty bike?!? Fabulous. damn shame y'all couldnt have seen her catch air and land when I lost my kickstand! In all fairness, I didnt see it either, that is what you get when you run the trails at night, I totally missed that washout. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Look at it this way, if you get used to the controlled sliding off road, your tires will feel like they are welded to the road when you get to it.  | ||
| No_rice |
i can tell you a firebolt with pirelli's on it will do well over 100mph on a gravel road... | ||
| Naiguy |
when i was a little grom my dads friend raced bikes, from sport bikes at laguna seca to speed way to flat track. he said the most fun on two wheels was speedway...maybe it was the whole no brakes thing?  also flat trackers get up to some high speeds but i think they race on whats called blue dirt....when a little rubber gets layed down on the dirt. look close its not so much about the rubber on the tires as it is the shoes...lol   Chris Carr @ speed one handed on the dirt  | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
i can tell you a firebolt with pirelli's on it will do well over 100mph on a gravel road... Are you transporting moonshine or something???  | ||
| Od54 |
I was starting to get uneasy at 85 with the pilot powers on what passes for a gravel road around here (mostly fine dust with large gravel randomly strewn about). I can't imagine a hundred. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Theres an old airfield strip up by lake cushman, flat straight and about 3 miles long.... best speed there was 85, and I was white knuckle. Its not the going on dirt that gets you, its the stopping on dirt that does. probably why the flat trackers dont have a front brake at all . | ||
| No_rice |
Are you transporting moonshine or something??? not anymore... lmao i grew up racing friends on gravel in/on anything that had a motor. also did alot of racing dirt bikes and snowmobiles on the river during the winter. the 2 go hand in hand. like was said, its almost like running on ice. you just need to let it float around and somewhat do its own thing, it doesnt want to fall down anymore than you do. although when you try to force it to stay in an exact line or some such thing thats when you get in trouble we used to have cross county races at night with no lights on. bumper to bumper shoving people out of the way. my mustang did some amazing high speed power slides during those races. its a wonder im not dead. most of my friends said i'd never turn 21. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Are you sure you didn't mistake your Mustang for a Charger?  | ||
| Badlionsfan |
less brake, more throttle is the way to get through dirt. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm. Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day the was born Staightnin' the curves Flatnin the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em But the law never will Makin' their way The only way they know how That's just a little bit more Than the law will allow. Makin' their way The only way they know how That's just a little bit more Than the law will allow. Just them good lo' boys Wouldn't change if they could Fightin' the system Like a true modern day Robin Hood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX4mlFi06A Grew up on Hazzard  It was the name of the dead end county road that we used to race down at 90, just to turn around and do it again. | ||
| Moosestang |
there was a mustang in the dukes of hazzard. It's called the double zero and mine happens to be the same color. I'd love to see anyone do 100mph on my dirt road. Gravel is not dirt.   | ||
| Sokota |
Try gently riding the rear brake , kind of plants the bike and a another source of throttle control. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Gravel is not Dirt... Very true, alot of people refer to a dirt road as anything not PAVED. Most of what we have here is pea gravel over shale with a muddy/hard pack base. In some cases you will get some really thick mud, but there is no sand or fine dirt unless you get to the coast. (sounds like a time to run to the beach) Definitely a different tire and riding for that. It would be a grand time to get to run it at the salt flats too. Let the cafe racers have the pavement |
