What up Jimmy! I was actually up there yesterday but I've slowed up a bit after a little time off the bike and less track riding this summer. Still a great track.

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Very cool, glad it helped someone! I see places I should have gone faster in every single one of my videos. The open and 250 classes are always so dang fast!

FWIW, I have had to learn to actively evaluate my line choices and technique as the race progresses. I made some really big improvements as the race progressed, especially in those sandy and silty sections. I'm actually surprised my lap times didn't improve more than they did. One thing I know I consistently do is let off the gas too soon and let the bike do too much engine braking. But I'm unsure my 52 year old body would hold up to braking much harder.

I like that track a lot, mainly because the soil and prep are so good. The scenery and climate are nicer than most tracks as well. I hope to get back up there one more time before they close for the season.

That's true, it's a very high pace race with very open ground. I'm skipping it this year myself.

Thanks Jimmy, I miss riding with you and the rest of the Arizona crew as well. We come down occasionally. I'll bring my bike some time and I'll look you up.

@@DerricTubbs0x00 Yea man, hit me up next time you come down. I've pretty much taken the last 3 years off. Just needed a break. Starting to get back into it.

@@DirtRacerX ugh, you gotta feel it coming back after that much time off

I got in only one ride the year I was in NY. I ride at least weekly here but rarely hit trails any more because the ones near Denver are mostly two track and over-used so weekends are a high head-on risk. Good trails are too far away. So I've become mostly a track person, starting in my fifties.

Yeah, I was surprised how dusty it got considering the rain we'd received over the previous few days.

Your comment confuses me. Are you stating that the supplements I suggest cured her or that Dr Madida's did? I do not see menieres listed as a disease Dr Madidas has a regiment for.

No, it doesn't claim to treat vertigo or Menieres at all. I have no idea how the guy that turned me onto it discovered it helped.

I lived in AZ when that video was made. I moved to New York since then but now live in Colorado.

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 I'm picking up this exact year bike today. Probably ride on similar trails this weekend. I love Colorado and will do a road trip there soon to ride in Ouray! I love that area

@@bryand2978 join Arizona Trail riders, awesome group and best way to learn all the best trails in az. Many of them also come to CO in summer

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 i will join the group thanks 👍

Yeah, the scenery can be pretty awesome up there. I prefer single track, which I hear there's a small amount in Rampart, but I've only been there once and we didn't do any singletrack that day. Might head back out there some day (I live pretty close) but I've been warned by many that it's a recipe for head-ons on weekends.

We moved to Denver at the end of 2021

Awesome! Welcome to the sickness! If you want to progress just ride with purpose, focusing on where you can improve. Chase people just a little faster than yourself every chance you get. But above all, have fun. Obsessing over non-paying competitive sports isn't for everyone and there are a thousand ways to enjoy this great sport!

Thanks Alice, glad I could help

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it

That's why you're not supposed to watch, lol

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 no no no

I have never been a motocross person and I do not enjoy the big jumps. Besides simple fear of crashing I have a very bad neck and my shoulders hurt. However, hitting them right is much easier on everything than coming up short, so I forced myself to go one week ahead and do all the jumps on the back course. By the time I was done I could do every jump on the back course and all but one or two on the front (mx) course. Also, shorting/rolling the jumps is much more dangerous imo, at least during a race, due to the risk of getting landed on ... which I learned the hard way at the season opener, on the first lap.

Thanks for your reply! Good luck at the races.

To answer one more of your questions, the step-up jumps over the gap and then rock face, those were new to me during the race.

What’s the time stamp(s) of the step ups? I rode out there at RAM 3 times on my FE350 and to break in my TX300i. Just couldn’t get the right feel to launch the jumps. Want to. That’s why I asked for your feedback. Appreciate it. Btw, I’m the guy that wrote you on one of your previous videos. It was about Rampart Range. I ended up camping at Group Site 86, a bit North of the Rainbow Falls access. And the idiots where out in droves on the F.S. Roads. Don’t know about the double track, but the search and rescue asked to borrow our over sized camp to stage while they extracted two idiots from a head on quad collision. I ended up staying on the 770 G,H Singletrack. On Sat I only saw 3 bikes over the 17 mile leg I did, and 5 on Sunday, mostly near that 679B cutoff. Those Singletrack sections are excellent. And I ride everything Between UT and CO.

@@FLYNXC I think KZbin blocks my replies that contain my email address. It's my name from the channel with my middle initial, L, between the first and last, at Gmail.

Hahaha

Thanks for letting me know about my abbot section, I updated it. Love to meet and join more riders but I've been advised by many people to avoid Rampart on weekends and especially holidays, that it becomes a head-on death trap.

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 Very true about Rampart. I have a titanium plate in my leg to prove it! Another incident I experienced three years ago was on a ride near Flat Rock parking. I came around a turn and there where two children on a turned over four wheeler. They couldn’t have been older than 8 or 9. No protective gear and no helmets! No parents with them. She was crying and he couldn’t turn it over. I had to flip it over for them. To avoid the traffic on weekends/holidays we stick mostly to the Singletrack. (Trails 770/679B). And, ride the Southern trails. Last year I noticed some of the weekend traffic and morons have decreased. I think last year was the first year they turned the free dispersed camping spots into $-fee camping with a 3 vehicle limit for regular sites, and a 5 vehicle limit for the five group sites available. When the sites were free, they would be packed with people. Though, the trails still require caution.

Hey buddy, good to hear from you. How's it going in AZ?

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 It's going good here in AZ🌵 I haven't done any racing since the wu-flu hit..but is ok I've been focusing on just enjoying trail riding..it's getting hot☀️now so reverted back to early morning ride then go home for a nap(getting old..haha!)🤠👍

I'm always telling myself the same thing just seem to forget in the moment

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 you ride well, we all can improve somewhere.

GasGas EC 300. It really was a fun test

Not sure what that means but I'll take it, lol

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 popcorn refers to the sound of a perfect idle of a two stroke engine

@@CoralReefkid ah, so I'm idling around the course. Gotcha, thanks

Derric🤣

@@derricandhopetubbs4275 nvm

I hope everyone got out ok. Just as I finished the conditions became rainy and hypothermic.

@@derricandhopetubbs4275Congrats on the win!

Sorry but I sold the tractor and house in NY and moved to Colorado. I don't have any of the paperwork any more.

Any luck on finding the part number for the 3rd function kit? Just searching the web comes back with nothing about it, but my dealer is familiar with it. I was hoping I could read up a bit more on it before purchasing.

Are you blathering with my daughter right now? LoL

i have the same question, on another video there is guy pulling out a thermostat on the right side under the airbox, is it possible they have 2? i dont think so

It's because Sienna has two engines. 2004-2006 3.3L (thermostat is on the right), 2007-2010 3.5L thermostat is on the left. But they don't bother explaining and calling videos something like "Sienna 2nd gen thermostat replacement" or "SIenna 2004-2010". Which doesn't make any sense. Thermostat is part of the engine. Which means that changing thermostat is relevant to engine 2GR-FE, not the car itself. Rav4, Avalon, Camry with 2GR-FE engine have exactly the same thermostat changing procedure.

Thanks Jim, glad I could help.