January 24, 200422 yr is there any tips for handleing deep mud about 90cm? What thats nearlly a meter deep are you sure!!!!! When there there is deep mud in frond of me get the bike up to speed in 4 and lift the front wheel just before it and then keep the revs going nice and smooth. Try and not spin the back wheel and that will lose you grip and then you get stuck. Gavin
January 24, 200422 yr yup 90cm for some reason evry 1 has bought new tyres for the trial and i dunno why oh and i cant lift the front wheel its all mud not just one bit
January 24, 200422 yr Sherco-dude just go for it 5 gear flat out (well thats what i would do). Gavin If you get stuck drag it out like i have done many times Edited January 24, 200422 yr by Wonder Boy
January 25, 200422 yr if you can see a way round a mud bath take it getting stuck in mud in a trial takes the energy out of you cos you gotta pul the bike out im not being a whimp just using common sence
January 27, 200422 yr I'm sorry but there is no way you will get your bike through 90cm mud unless it is a very short bit. Then just hit it fast with the front lifted. Are you sure it's 90cm? 9cm or 90mm would be difficult enough in a section. We have a few of those every now and then and then the approach depends very much on the section layout.
January 27, 200422 yr Every year about this time I have to ask myself - why do my local CofCs insist on putting me through the deepest mud that they can find ? Its a lottery to get through it if it's more than axle deep and most of the time someone ends up losing their chain in the section and you end up queuing for hours in the rain. I don't understand where this type of section fits in a modern trial.
January 27, 200422 yr Overthehill has no problem finding the od mile or two of 90cm mud, tends to suck the last breath of life out of man and machine, tha nos that brown peat stuff that turns thi undies into the color of beef curry and Guinness diarrhea. Why the forces don't use this stuff for carrier landing jets I don't know, all they would need is a big tub of the stuff on the deck of the carrier, speed and weight are of no concern it stops you dead! and also tests the ejection system as you disembark thru the front exit.
January 27, 200422 yr Ishy Have you really ridden through mud 90cm (3ft deep)? I've blasted through a lot of short bits like that but never seen a section laid out in it.
January 27, 200422 yr I have ridden thru the woods of Leanachen as a late number, some pretty deep holes, but I hear our lad talk about the mile or two of slop they rode near the woods in 2000, was it three foot deep probably not! but I don't think many had the will or desire to measure it. As you say the whole section being 3 ft deep, think you have to consider the source of the 90cm claim Edited January 27, 200422 yr by ishy
January 28, 200422 yr if there was mud that deep, i'd go around it, save the c+s, brake pads and bearings.
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