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I went on yet another Pachaug rock n' roll pile ride yesterday (Sunday), and was actually able to sneak it in before it started to rain, for the most part, anyway.
It did drizzle a bit for a few minutes at about the 3/4 mark, but that was doable.
The ride was surprisingly good, actually, and I put that down to feeling good, having the suspension balance set-up as well as I can make it, and just getting with the program, twisting the throttle, and not worrying so much about the front fork's shortcomings out on the trail.

As you have read with the WR-250FP, it's a great bike for the Pachaug loop, the only fly in the ointment is that the fork performance is not good over those sharp, square-edged bumps that litter the trails around here.
Now, with the thin, custom-blended 2.7 wt fork oil, it has zoomed all the way up to acceptable in that dept., so, for now, that's not a big issue for me.
Hence, that's why I can finally get on with enjoying the bike like I'm supposed to be able to.

There were some frozen-and-in-the-process-of-thawing-out sections that I was cautious over, and I suppose they got that way after some rain earlier last week and then froze over a couple of below-freezing nights.
Seems the rain resulted in a few runoff sections that froze and were still a nuisance out there.
No crashing, luckily, although the leaves covering the ground did camouflage them well.
My rear tire is growing more and more worn with each ride, so it's certainly not getting better.
Being on a budget sucks as far as that goes.

On another funny note, I just read a post on a message board where a guy is looking for some kind of advice or guidance over his recently-acquired new-to-him dirt bike.
The guy has little dirt bike experience, is 35 years old, is 6' 1", and 200 pounds.
His wife bought him (as a present) a 2006 KTM-250SXF, the KTM version of a Yamaha YZ-250F motocross bike.
The guy is complaining about how tall and big the bike seems for him, and that having to kickstart it is a tiring drag-and-a-half.
No kidding.

My feelings are that if this guy is being serious, he needs a shorter bike with electric start like a Yamaha TT-R230 or Honda CRF-230F.
They won't have the outright performance of his KTM-250SXF, but, at least he'll more than likely be able to ride it and start it.
I also feel that, if he really want to learn how to ride and give himself a much-needed wake-up call, he should go riding with a 16-year-old kid (a girl would be best) who knows what they're doing and see with his own eyes how much of a wimp he sounds like.
Goddammit, son, you're over 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, and you feel that bike of yours is too big?
Comical, really, as I wonder what he thinks a dirt bike should be built like.
I really wonder if the guy actually WANTS to learn how to ride and if he should even be on a dirt bike to start with.

-John