What do you Vital members ride?

MotoMan12345
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1/12/2015 10:00am Edited Date/Time 2/6/2015 9:14pm
Curious to see what people ride..Brand or year. Mx/Atv?
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1911
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1/12/2015 10:14am
Lazy-Boy recliner.
radialone
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Yorba Linda, CA US
1/12/2015 10:17am
2013 KTM 350 XCF-W

The Shop

nytsmaC
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Frig Off CA
1/12/2015 10:18am
1985 ATC 110
hvaughn88
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Conway, AR US
1/12/2015 10:18am
I own a 2003 RM144. I don't ever ride it though. Sad, but true.
MXD
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1/12/2015 10:20am Edited Date/Time 1/12/2015 10:21am
2011 RMZ450
2007 RM250
I split time between the 2 mostly depending on the track and conditions/weather.

I race every round of a 12 round series every summer. On the off weekends I will either go to a practice day or race as a day pass member at some other local series. 40 year old Vet B
Kryan5
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1/12/2015 10:21am
2013 KTM 250SX
Steve125
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1/12/2015 10:28am Edited Date/Time 1/12/2015 10:29am
2011 KX450F
1997 CR125R
Got a few vintage and evo bikes too, but I mostly just look at them.
mmain62
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1/12/2015 10:29am
Currently: 2007 YZ250 (Maybe the funnest bike Ive ridden)

My back up stable includes an 05 CRF450R and an 05 KX125

I have owned an 06 KX250F (bought new) 2003 kx250, 00 cr250, and an 09 KX450F
MudPup545
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1/12/2015 10:29am
2012 KTM 250 XCF-W
Titan1
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1/12/2015 10:30am
I ride an 09 YZ450

I have a 94 CR250 sitting the garage...
ACBraap
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1/12/2015 10:35am
2008 KTM 300 XC that's like new from lack of use, and a 2009 Gas Gas 280 econ trials bike. I probably get 50 hours of cycling in for every hour of moto.
KGAspeed
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1/12/2015 10:40am
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this year. The mountain bike has become my primary two-wheel obsession the past couple years though.
MarkF
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1/12/2015 10:40am
2014 RMZ450.

I race the CO series' and when there are no races here I travel to TX or CA or wherever. I just got back from racing the Freestone race in TX.
SlowMoFo
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1/12/2015 10:42am
2006 KX450f with a few modern updates
2012 Street Glide
visser62
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1/12/2015 10:43am
I primarily just ride mountain bikes now. I recently sold my 2004 RMZ-250, but if I ever want to ride I'll just hop on my dad's 2014 Factory-Edition 450.
Titan1
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1/12/2015 10:47am
KGAspeed wrote:
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this...
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this year. The mountain bike has become my primary two-wheel obsession the past couple years though.
Let me be the first to welcome you to the USRA desert series (assuming you are in SLC)...First race of the season in Feb 7th, in Mesquite...

There are GP's, Hare Scrambles, Hare and Hounds (including two NHHA's), and a couple Enduro's on the schedule this year. A little bit of everything.
BobPA
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2011 KTM 350 sx-f

Mostly Moto, but I tend to hop in the woods from time to time.
MotoMan12345
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BobPA wrote:
2011 KTM 350 sx-f

Mostly Moto, but I tend to hop in the woods from time to time.
350s are sick!!
KGAspeed
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1/12/2015 11:06am
KGAspeed wrote:
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this...
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this year. The mountain bike has become my primary two-wheel obsession the past couple years though.
Titan1 wrote:
Let me be the first to welcome you to the USRA desert series (assuming you are in SLC)...First race of the season in Feb 7th, in...
Let me be the first to welcome you to the USRA desert series (assuming you are in SLC)...First race of the season in Feb 7th, in Mesquite...

There are GP's, Hare Scrambles, Hare and Hounds (including two NHHA's), and a couple Enduro's on the schedule this year. A little bit of everything.
Thanks and thanks for the info.

I grew up racing in the Midwest (off road, GNCC-type events, National Hare Scrambles, etc.). After college I moved to Vegas and started doing the MRAN series and some WORCS. Didn't enjoy it; at all - insane dust, rocks, chaos. I was stuck behind slow goons, but couldn't pass because I couldn't see. I would take a break for a few months, get the itch and go do another one and felt the same way. Just got to where it was more fun to ride with my buddies (same turf, but with visibility, which was fun).

Last year I did a Hare Scramble in Montana. It was awesome (tighter, more technical riding - much more my style). But, the closest one is about 6.5 hours away; the rest of their series is WAY up in Montana.

I've kept my eye on the USRA series, but I'm assuming they're very similar to MRAN, so I haven't really had much interest. I've ridden Cherry Creek plenty of times (its ok, but my least favorite place to ride out of my staple of areas), and driven pas Knolls / Dell / Wendover and, again, it just looks like MRAN-esque territory. Wide-open fast rocky dusty desert.

Let me ask you this: there is so much great riding in the Spanish Fork / Diamond Fork / Hobble Creek area, they can't hold events out there?

The enduros might be fun - do you know which ones they are?

Thanks again.
1/12/2015 11:10am
Ride - 2008 SXF 450 (though I honestly haven't swung a leg over it in ages - my own fault).

Also have - 1987 YZ 125 (My first bike still laying in bits waiting for me to rebuild her one day...)

Want - 06 RM 250 (18 of yrs of MX and Iv'e never even touched a Suzuki. I want to experience an RM before I get too past it).
Titan1
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1/12/2015 11:15am
KGAspeed wrote:
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this...
2010 KTM 250 XC 2-stroke. Mostly ride high-elevation tech single track, but have a goal to try to get back into racing (desert, I guess) this year. The mountain bike has become my primary two-wheel obsession the past couple years though.
Titan1 wrote:
Let me be the first to welcome you to the USRA desert series (assuming you are in SLC)...First race of the season in Feb 7th, in...
Let me be the first to welcome you to the USRA desert series (assuming you are in SLC)...First race of the season in Feb 7th, in Mesquite...

There are GP's, Hare Scrambles, Hare and Hounds (including two NHHA's), and a couple Enduro's on the schedule this year. A little bit of everything.
KGAspeed wrote:
Thanks and thanks for the info. I grew up racing in the Midwest (off road, GNCC-type events, National Hare Scrambles, etc.). After college I moved to...
Thanks and thanks for the info.

I grew up racing in the Midwest (off road, GNCC-type events, National Hare Scrambles, etc.). After college I moved to Vegas and started doing the MRAN series and some WORCS. Didn't enjoy it; at all - insane dust, rocks, chaos. I was stuck behind slow goons, but couldn't pass because I couldn't see. I would take a break for a few months, get the itch and go do another one and felt the same way. Just got to where it was more fun to ride with my buddies (same turf, but with visibility, which was fun).

Last year I did a Hare Scramble in Montana. It was awesome (tighter, more technical riding - much more my style). But, the closest one is about 6.5 hours away; the rest of their series is WAY up in Montana.

I've kept my eye on the USRA series, but I'm assuming they're very similar to MRAN, so I haven't really had much interest. I've ridden Cherry Creek plenty of times (its ok, but my least favorite place to ride out of my staple of areas), and driven pas Knolls / Dell / Wendover and, again, it just looks like MRAN-esque territory. Wide-open fast rocky dusty desert.

Let me ask you this: there is so much great riding in the Spanish Fork / Diamond Fork / Hobble Creek area, they can't hold events out there?

The enduros might be fun - do you know which ones they are?

Thanks again.
The forest service won't let them race in AF/Diamond Fork/Spanish Fork/Hobble Creek...of course, I'm not sure if anyone has asked about holding an endure format there (like the Idaho City 100). For a traditional Hare and Hound or Hare scramble there would be no way of doing the start (no place for a bomb run)...but an endure format might work if one of the clubs wanted to jump through all the hoops to try and get approval (the enduro format is the only way they got a race in Chimney Rock down in the San Rafael Swell....the BLM said No to the bomb runs but approved the endure).

Lots of dust in the desert, no way around that (unless its raining, then its muddy). And so for the most part (whether its st George, Cherry Creek, Monticello, Knolls or Wendover)...you get a lot of dust, its the nature of the beast if you're racing in the desert.

You might try some of the spring and fall races...in the past few years, there have been great conditions at these events (so like Feb-April, and Sept-Nov) with little dust.

The enduro's that I know of, are Wendover and Chimney Rock. They ran an endure on private property up in Yost last year which was an absolute BLAST, but that race was replaced by a NHHA so its not happening this year. I've heard a rumor that St. George might be an endure, but I have no idea if that is true or not.

I love the enduro's...but I also love the hare and hound format as well (anything were you never ride the same trail twice). I'm not a fan of GP's and Hare Scrambles as the courses get hammered from a few hundred riders riding the same trails a bunch of times..
1/12/2015 11:15am
hvaughn88 wrote:
I own a 2003 RM144. I don't ever ride it though. Sad, but true.
That is sad. Kyle had one built by Varner in 2003, and I had that thing in 2004 when I moved up. By far the best 125 I ever rode. I'd jump back on that thing in a heart beat if I had the chance.
Damot
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1/12/2015 11:16am
I ride a 2015 crf450 that I treated myself too at Xmas
hvaughn88
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1/12/2015 11:22am
hvaughn88 wrote:
I own a 2003 RM144. I don't ever ride it though. Sad, but true.
That is sad. Kyle had one built by Varner in 2003, and I had that thing in 2004 when I moved up. By far the best...
That is sad. Kyle had one built by Varner in 2003, and I had that thing in 2004 when I moved up. By far the best 125 I ever rode. I'd jump back on that thing in a heart beat if I had the chance.
I hear ya man. I rode/raced until I was about 13 and then got out of the sport (riding wise) for about 10 years due to heavy involvement in other sports. Flash forward a few years ago and I got my son started on a PW50. I thought I should get a bike too so we could ride together so I found this one for what I consider to be a good deal. My son didn't really take to it like I thought he would. He likes riding, but he's definitely not the "go in the garage just to sit on it and look at and drool over it type." He's more into traditional sports so when I ask what he wants to do it's usually basketball, baseball, football or riding his bmx bike. I also have absolutely zero friends that ride. Most of my friends are the type that would ask if Travis Pastrana won this weekend if I brought up a race. But they don't even know the racers are going on, haha.

I've contemplated selling it since it's basically a heavy paper weight at the moment. But my youngest boy is ripping on his strider so I'm thinking he might take to it. And since I got it pretty cheap so I don't mind hanging on to it.

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