This was the first camp n ride weekend since the new carb. The folks @ NATRA were having a bridge building party, so we loaded the bikes and headed up to lend a hand, and get some primo single track seat time :)
Even though I rejetted just about perfect, I still carried all my jets and a spare carb, just in case.
They were not needed. The pwk35 with 152 / 45 jets, stock needle/slide, 2nd clip from the bottom, and 7/8 turn from bottom on the mixture screw at 1000ft elevation was.... perfect. Snappy responsiveness, GREAT top end power, and pulled stumps as required. I checked early on to make sure there wasnt any indication of a lean condition on the plug (jetting by feel is much much easier!) , and then checked it again after 72 miles of single track. Perfect mocha with a dark ring at the base of the insulator, and copper/mocha on the face of the threads. well, here you go, pictures:
no bridge:
think think think
24' long poles x3
we shouldered them into place one at a time
dug in a footing, proper terms will not be used here ;-)
three poles down and decking going on
this one is just to give you an idea how deep the creekbed is
almost....
this is my third selfie, ever
tested with a sxs rzr rancher, whatever those slow ass, boring, four wheeled things are called
and finally a PROPER vehicle for woods travel, rm2fitty !!! :-)
AFter the bridge building fun, we enjoyed 72 miles of single track over the weekend. The kdx spat off it's exhaust pipe at one point on a hillclimb, i guess I need more exhaust hangers again. yay.
The point of this expedition was to keep the tree huggers happy, and the sxs's out of the creeks. There were four crews that built 6 bridges (i think) in one saturday morning. If you have never been to West Point, Tennessee, you should go. They have a very extensive set of single track trails, most of which is 7/10, very little of it is impossible (9/10 or 10/10) and a great deal of which is flowing, fun, fast. Membership required, but it's only $60 a YEAR.
The sxs guys have swelled the ranks with their big noisy machines, and a few of them showed up to work saturday. It's not easy to share the same trails, so there are designated sxs trails, to prevent encroaching on the real stuff: singletrack.
I had a great time camping, building, and riding with my buddies from birmingham, al.
Oh, my new pwk35 performed flawlessly, jetting is perfect, and the plug was beautiful after a short 65 mph run to test wot jetting:
gps stats:
fun :)
