Sweet Lamb Baja Rally - 2023 Round 2 - Hill Climb Carnage (KTM 1190R)

Fastest Lap (20min 28s) - • Sweet Lamb Baja Rally ...
Starts a bit boring as we all adjust to the new conditions on the 2nd day (after a lot of rain) but it soon got interesting! After the race found out my clutch had managed to leak all it's fluid out. You certainly realise how important the clutch is when you have no idea what it's going to feel like!
A much more technical track than Sweet Lamb usually runs thanks to the dry weather we've been having.
Finished the weekend with 1st place in all 3 races (1000+ class and 1st overall)
Thumbnail photograph from @photovideoaerial

[@AutoMan84]

Keep posting this stuff and your channel will explode.

[@BikerEddd]

Haha too much effort to keep it up consistently 😅

[@victorkelley5097]

I was on the edge of my seat watching this. I grinned ear to ear for 25 straight minutes. PLEASE post more, can't wait to see what else you're up to!

[@Anath525]

That was just absolutely awesome to watch. Thank you for the awesome commentary!

[@Rupe]

Just thrilling to watch. Really impressive riding.

[@leberkas_adv]

your videos are such an inspiration! smashed the sub button till it got stuck.

[@BikerEddd]

Cheers dude really appreciate that!

[@kpengineer]

I really appreciate your skills, and the commentary is so useful.👍 I was the slow one on the 990 you passed on the grass just after the start, forks bottoming out so much and left peg hitting ground on the slope. I did 6 race laps on Saturday, and 3 on the Sunday, then my 65year old legs gave up. But I laugh in my helmet all the time😂😂 I appreciate your consideration to us slower riders, I try to get out of the way, but often it is the bike in control not me. Stronger springs fitted, way more preload added and now ready for keeping out of your way in August.😇

[@BikerEddd]

Thanks for the comment really appreciate it. There's no need for aggressive over taking especially with the race format SL use. Just wait for the lap to spread out and near the end of the race set your fast lap 👌 look forward to seeing you fly past me with your new springs at the next one!

[@edberger1377]

Wow that’s awesome, that’s a big bike to muscle around

[@Bu115y]

Very enjoyable Eddd, great riding with a big-twin soundtrack 🤙

[@richtroth1597]

Great video Ed, really enjoyed your skills on the beast

[@garyevans5335]

Great to see you back in action at Sweet Lamb. 👍. Maybe see you going past me there in August 🤣🤣

[@ericgustafsson9008]

Love the race + commenting! Very nice riding! Shame we didn't get to see the catching up though ❤

[@BikerEddd]

I'd actually caught I think all of my row up again by the end of the first lap! There is my fastest lap of the weekend linked in the description if you want to see a quicker lap 💪

[@ericgustafsson9008]

@@BikerEddd found it now. Didn't see it before. Thanks! :D

[@nicholasthomas5712]

Top video Ed!

[@BikerEddd]

Thanks!

[@supfly51]

Class 😁

[@tagrach69hope]

I love the red Indian type scream as you take another scalp 🤣

[@freddiedew7014]

God that’s quick! 😅

[@yetanothert7]

this looks soooo fast

[@HeavyEnduroAdventures]

Nice one buddy

[@Yangvar]

Looks like a great event! With clutch, my guess is that the locking nuts of the cable might rattled themself loose by the engine, and caused the issue, or at least that is what happened to me a few weeks ago, where I lost clutch on a motorway 🤣

[@BikerEddd]

Thanks for the tip! Although it's a hydraulic clutch so I think it's unlikely to be cable related 😅

[@Yangvar]

@@BikerEddd Thought as much, but then I never had one, so know nothing about them 😄

[@rodrigoalmendro3118]

Amazing video so entertaining. What camera and mic setup are you using for such crisp audio?

[@BikerEddd]

It's a hero 7 black locked to 'stereo' audio mode and with a wind muff over the top of it. No external mic required!

[@TheTTLegend]

I wanna do this!

[@infinityphotorob]

What rear shock are you running? The 1190 or the 1090 PDS? Getting ready to mess with the 1190 shock. I think it is a weird setup with the damn bottom out bumper being such in integral part of how it works.

[@BikerEddd]

I'm using the stock 1190 one which as you say does not have PDS. My bottom bumper has been completely ruined from the last year of racing alone so I have now swapped for an aftermarket shock at great expense...

[@kyleardito]

What's this Podcast you mentioned?

[@BikerEddd]

TAMP - The Trail and Adventure Motorcycle Podcast. Can listen on KZbin 👍

[@kyleardito]

@@BikerEddd ah yes already a listener. I thought for a moment you had your own podcast. 👍😀

[@BikerEddd]

@@kyleardito haha absolutely not! Far too much hard work 😅

[@ericgustafsson9008]

Do you know what blocked the hill climb?

[@BikerEddd]

We had a lot of rain the night before so I think some of the smaller big bikes struggled to get to the top in the new conditions!

[@rosonoftom1655]

Have you a trials background ?

[@BikerEddd]

Not trials but enduro

[@dustyweasel41]

What did you have done to the suspension?

[@BikerEddd]

Actually it's still completely stock! I don't find it too bad as I'm not particularly heavy.

[@tumolucky17]

Is this you Tom?

[@ZauxieMoto]

Stop making fun of 950's they have feelings too 😭*i just bought one hehe*

[@BikerEddd]

I will forever make fun of them 😅

[@ZauxieMoto]

@@BikerEddd they are just like any KTM they are amazing when they work 🤭KTM enjoyers love pain n suffering and big mechanic bills!