Offroading the Ural

[elizilla]

Today I took the Ural offroad. There are snowmobile trails here where people take their ATVs in summer, on old railroad roadbeds. Jason G and Pelikan were on their dualsports behind me and Cpl Jason was in the sidecar. It was all good until the trail was blocked and we made a left and up a steep muddy slope with tree roots and rocks and overhanging branches. The Ural lost traction and we just stopped. Jason G came up and asked if I was gonna make it, and I said "I don't know. I guess we'll see!" I backed up a few feet and tried again, with Jason G pushing and Cpl Jason leaning head down over the passenger seat like a racing monkey, to lend more weight to the rear wheel. Up and over we went, getting whipped by the branches with inches to spare on either side. Pelikan, who had ridden the route the day before and said there was nothing difficult in there, said "Oh I forgot about that." LOL!

Doesn't seem to have hurt it.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

tell me that's not the trail Pelikan had to ride mine and Swomelys bikes up.

Converted RR track with a bridge out bypass.

Tommy

[elizilla]

It was that trail, but a different section. He talked about the bridge out bypass and swore he would not make me do that. The section we were on had a property owner who had barricaded the trail with a fence and a big rock and No Trespassing signs, and we had to go around his turf.

[a smith (from livejournal.com)]

awesome!