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Head to the nearest bike park, rent a bike (you can use your MX gear) and see how you like it.
That's what I did, quit riding MX bikes and started with DH, I can say I will never go back.
It's fun and adrenaline (I would say more fun and adrenaline...), sure you still have to load your bike and head to the tracks, but nothing compared to your YZF.
I don't know what's around your place, but bike parks are usually nice places where you can bring your family and have fun.
One thing I feel burned out on is my 450 tho. Rode my buds 250f the other week and it was just so much more fun. Think Ima down grade. As I don't race anymore. Just ride for kicks.
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Told my wife that if she would ride MTBs with me a lot I'd sell the MX bike.
Last weekend @ Kicking Horse resort in Golden British Columbia, smoked in by the forest fires in Washington State.
The weekend before @ Buds Creek Maryland...
I called the bike shop right away and ordered a Giant Trance 2. It will be there this coming Friday. I need a large, all he had was mediums. I cant wait to take it on its first ride.
Hope you enjoy the new bike man
A lot of it depends on your friends as well. We used to shuttle our DH bikes everywhere but now no one seems up for that. And the bikes are so good today you don't really need a full on downhill rig unless you are racing DH events. Your average 6" all-mountain bike can pretty much go up or down anything.
I do wish sometimes that I hadn't stopped MX for all those years as I would probably be riding at a much higher level today. When you're off for 5 or more years it takes a while to get back to where you were.
I would sell your YZ250F, pick up a YZ250 ( it's not going to be dated anytime soon, unlike the YZF plus it costs nothing to maintain ) and just do one sport or the other ... or both ... whenever you feel like it.
I'll tell you one thing though, as you get older it's really tough to do both on a w/e. If I do MX on Sat then I've got to fight dead leg for MTB on Sun. And your friends usually have no mercy on you ! haha
Im gonna hold off on buying another mx bike until my son is old enough to ride so we can enjoy the sport together. He is 12 weeks old today. It will be a YZ250 though, I will probably never own another 4 stroke for myself.
I ride MX as often as I can get out to the track, and mountain bike all the time, usually 2-3 times per week. I add in some weight training and it keeps me in shape.
They're both great sports, and I've learned to enjoy climbing on mountain bikes as well. There's a sense of accomplishment when you conquer a new climb, plus the endurance it builds is great.
Plus both sports compliment each other. Mountain biking (especially the fast down hills) improves my line choice in MX, and riding either one, makes me better in both sports.
I know this isn't the answer you're looking for but that's what I'd do.
Just wanted to share a cool photo that my friend took of me riding a local bike park yesterday. It's not moto, but sure is fun.
Btw. Canyon Torque DH CLLCTV turned out to be a very good purchase.
Edit: My search found a 10 year old thread apparently. 😄
Yep. Doing laps on my 150SX is among the funnest things I have done in my life. MTB is not even close, but I like it anyway.
Maybe you need a 2stroke?
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I ride cross country (I push the limits on my 120mm Specialized Epic) to stay in shape for moto. I live a block from some awesome trails with a sweet 2 hour loop. I ride my MTB 1-2 times a week and my motocross bike 2-3 times a month. I stay away from Enduro stuff, risk reward just isn’t there for me. Moto will always just be more fun, but MTB, especially cross country and flow stuff, scratches the itch a bit and I’m much stronger in the motocross bike now.
I still consider myself a motocross racer and that I use MTB as a training tool. However, I've been really enjoying pedaling over the last several years, and I'm now a semi-serious MTBer. I'll probably never race an enduro, but I sure do like that style of riding.
Without MTB, I'd never have gotten to see any of this:
Not my picture, but I've been here:
Thought
someone said “JMB”. My bad y’all.
Been mtn biking for 35 years, moto even longer, can you enjoy both? Mtn biking is fun cardio ….most cardio work sux….
I don’t really ride my fantastic MX bikes anymore. Even my 450EXC rarely gets ridden.
1. It’s over an hour to pvte ride parks - I intend to go, but never seem to make it.
2. “Practice” at the local track, my favourite, is organised like race day - by class. So start at 06:00 (Arrive/set up), first ride at 09:00, second at 13:00 after lunch, last at 15:30. Each 15-20 min. (Same on race days). I get more track time road racing!
Almost everyday, I put my MTB in my Corolla Wagon, drive 15 min and ride fabulous tracks for an hour and go home.
I wish I had a MX track of my own, I’d ride every day I think. Or “Bush” within easy road riding distance. Modern world.
I did moto my whole life. I was really pretty good at it. Had a few bad concussions, kids, and my riding buddies slowly stopped riding. Got into MTB pretty heavy for the same reasons you listed. And sold my moto because I just wasn't using it enough, it was expensive and I didn't have time. That was mid thirties. I'm 43 and just bought my first moto in 8 years!! New, for less then a new MTB. Im looking forward to having fun twisting the throttle again. Going riding tomorrow to break it in. Sell it if you aren't feeling it. You can always go get another at some point in the future. I have gotten pretty damn good on a MTB also. But it's not the same.
Steep fast natural tech Park DH riding on a big rig is as good as Moto. Racing it is more fun i feel.
You get one race run, after all the practice runs. 3-4 minute run. The pressure on yourself in the gate is crazy. Frenetic but you gotta focus so much otherwise its a weekend all for nothing in a split. Then you check on the timing to see if youre up.
I certainly enjoy moto/moto trails more than MTB, but excellent MTB trails are 6mi from my house, closest Moto trails/track is 60mi.
So it is MTB (or EMTB ) 95% of the time these days. A good EMTB takes the drudgery out of MTB'ing.
I definitely ride my ebike a lot more than my dirt bike anymore. Tons of great trails in KC and bentonville is less than 3 hours away so I get down there several times a year too.
Not to hijack the thread but this story resonates with what some folks wrote here about what makes MTB attractive to them (grab the bike and ride around the neighborhood whenever you feel like it)
https://www.rideapart.com/features/767642/stark-varg-ex-hoa-dirt-bike-complaints-ev-electric/
Smaller e dirtbikes like surrons could do the trick as well for some, as some kind of intermediate between Moto and MTB maybe?
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