Tiger X-road 250- first encounter with "dirt" :-)

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I was doing a little 115 km x-road ride today ...part of this was also some light offroading . it was good fun and the x-road did pretty well...the only thing i would have wanted ...in the muddy forest knobbed tires would have been a lot better

this was the route i took ...obviously the offroad roads are not included but they were found along thise route: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Ro...,11,12,13&z=11

Total mileage i done so far on my new x-road 250 is 514km.

First around some roads in-between ricefields















Then some muddy forest road







In another forest but no road really....i couldn't even use the sidestand the soil was so soft - eventually near the tree the soil was firm enough to use the stand











In a ricefield-road again









the final pitstop



mileage:



got into rain on the last few km's as well - looks very dirty now





after some washing:






here is the full set of pics in hi-res: https://picasaweb.google.com/1104539...eat=directlink

hope you enjoy & happy trails,


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[Captain_Slash]

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Well done Reinhard, its nice to see you out putting the kms on the bike and also not afraid to get your shiny new bike dirty doing some dirt trails

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Thanks colin , i quite enjoyed doing some of the dirty roads yesterday ...although i am newbie on dirtroads it has something that i find interesting about ...when i was in the forest mudroad i went trough some of those water filled trackholes...can't really see how deep they are...by one water filled trackhole i was a bit surprised being deeper then anticipated...but i got through it . Also something i need to get used to , i shouldn't sit when doing the offroad but rather stand...oh well its a learning curve i enjoy

cheers, mbox

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Well done mbox!
As you say, maybe dual-purpose tyres would be useful.
How did the shocks on the trails you rode?

Cheese,
Gobs

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yep perhaps dual purpose tire in future maybe something like the pirelli scorpion MT 90 A/T
I find the suspension so far.... on road use , the shocks absorb pretty ok , but they don't absorb all of the bumps - i think it is pretty firm .
I have not much to compare with though ...i did test the d-tracker a few years ago and i think it was softer- i think more absorbing

Offroad the shocks did very well , but it was only light offroad ...and the only thing i can compare with was certain naked bikes and the Honda Baja ...sure it is much better on light offroad than a naked roadbike but the baja is also much better in its suspension being a real offroader.


I'd say it's suspension is there where it should be and the lesser absorbing on the x-road is made up with the comfy seat and seating-position.

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