Who here trail rides their EX?

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Originally Posted by chronicsmoke

If we had trails like that I'd be out trailing every day! That's awesome!

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chronic, when I was younger and still racing MX I thought trail riding was boring. But in reality I never really tried trail riding and just kinda pictured putting through the woods. When I retired from racing I didn't ride for several years and now that I have gotten back into riding and have been traveling around to visit some different riding places I wish I would have found these when I was younger! I have found other ways than racing to challenge myself because I still have the competitive side and doing some hill climbs or slamming some trails at full speed XC style while pushing my buddies has been a blast. And you are correct the trails in the above pics are a challenge for even the best riders, if you want search Wellsville in youtube and there are some sick climbs that Luke, preacher, and catfish, and others are doing on quads.

Ben, me and my dad were going to that but something came up and ive been moving concrete all morning. im goin ridin out back my house with some buddies in a few though, i got a lot of property

Trail riding has always been where it's at for me. I raced dirt bikes off and on in the past just for the heck of it, but my real kick was heading down the trails in the woods. i especially love it on my 400EX, it is an exceptional trail riding machine. Friend of mine has a 660 Raptor and kicks my ***** out on the gravel road, but in the woods is constantly spinning out and getting stuck because it has so much power. 400EX may not be that fast, in fact it is quite slow (my old CR230F was faster) but you really come to appriciate it in the woods, it just seems to belong there.

i live in upstate south carolina and all i ride is trails on my 04 400ex. there is track here and a lot of atv parks with tracks but i never get on them. i have grown up trail riding and its all i will do.

Took a few pics of today's ride with 2 other guys.
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My 400EX with a menacing storm cloud in the background. We got caught in it heading back out and soakd to the skin, driving torrential rain and hail, and I was the only one wearing a helmet! Sucks for those other guys haha.
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Heading back up the gravel road, we stopped at that guy's house to ask if we could ride on his land but nobody was home. I was in a hurry to get ahead of the storm but there's no such thing as going fast when you are riding with 2 slow atv riders!
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And lastly, the 3 machines all parked together. After we all went home and got dry clothes on we went out one more time to do some exploring. Not really any actual trail riding shots, most the places to ride around here are gravel roads so that is what I do a lot of. All the good trail riding areas are 60 miles or more away.

Rode to the top of the Moccosin mountains yesterday evening right from town. This was on private land with permission, very nice ride and not too hard on me. Threw my back out on Friday so have been too tender to do anything real technical. The 400EX is a rough ridin' machine.
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On the way back down, me and the fat kid trailing!

OZ-T you've got some beautiful countryside where you're at. I envy the mountain views you must get from some of the lookouts. Around here trail riding is the most popular thing to do. While we don't have big mountains we do have enough foothills and valleys to make for some great trails.

Trail riding is different things to different people. I remember taking a friend out who had never been to an ATV park. He was trail riding at home in his own woods, and while he called it trail riding, he was not aware of what trail riding was actually like until he hit some of the real trails and hills that we have around here. I've found that trail riding aggressively is probably the most physically and mentally demanding way to ride an ATV. Sure MX is tough and you've got to have some balls on the big jumps, but try shooting the woods for over an hour at a grueling pace....it's exhausting!

Some scenic trails and pretty views there OZ-T, very nice. But those stone trails look so smooth that it looks like it would almost be like riding on the road.

We love riding the trails. Hell I like riding anywhere but trails is the most fun for me. I even ride in the yard when we get flood tides, LMAO

John

So that's how you get it so clean...lol