Seat time on my 2024 ktm 300 xcw

[@GasGas71]

The struggle is real, keep up the hard work!

[@ponydown418]

@@GasGas71 thanks Bud. I couldn't say it better myself. Lol

[@DmitriyAdv]

Awesome on signing up! It's going to be a learning experience, every race is! Main thing I suggest is making sure you go into it well rested, hydrated, and fed, so you have the energy to be out there and keep going for the entire 4 hours. Stay out there and don't quit until the time limit is up, or you'll kick yourself later! There will probably be spots where you will have to try a bunch of times to go up something, might take 10 minutes or 40 minutes... just keep going! Team up with people if you need to, especially if it's slick... which it probably will be. Some of the rock/root stuff can take forever by yourself or a few minutes if you have someone pulling. I don't know where you're located, but there are some techy sections at the Mounds ORV park that are the best public place to practice hard enduro stuff that I know of in Michigan. You can see them in some of my videos

[@ponydown418]

Thanks bud! I'm mentally preparing for the race and have been rewatching some videos. I ran across a guy that was doing the race on a husky 500 4t. Wow! I'm about 1.5 hours from the mounds. I have a hare scramble race this Sunday. After that I'll have 1.5 weeks to get some fitness and packing going. I really debvated between my 150 and my 300 for the race. But the 300 won out. I was considering the 150 for the ease of moving it around and not wearing you out. haha. Are you going to the Mad Moose?

[@DmitriyAdv]

@@ponydown418 300 will be the ticket for traction management in my opinion. Unfortunately Mad Moose is the only east coast hard enduro event that I won't be able to make it to this year! It was my first hard enduro back in 2020, and it was a huge struggle bus, so it would be interesting to try again.

[@ponydown418]

@@DmitriyAdv well you can't win them all. I'm curious how I will like it. And if I do I'll definitely hit some out of state hard Enduro races next year.

[@adamottenweller4759]

Whats the top lever on your clutch side? Rear break or something cool I haven't heard of yet lol

[@ponydown418]

@@adamottenweller4759 it's a left hand rear brake. If works good with an rekluse auto clutch if that's your thing.

[@John-p3v4l]

I know pple rave about the 300 but 400 exc is way better. If you haven't been on one u should

[@ponydown418]

@@John-p3v4l oh nice. Never been on one but I'm always open to trying one out. I'm going to assume that's a 4 stroke bike???

[@John-p3v4l]

@@ponydown418 yeah 4strk 2001 exc 400. not sure how long they produced them but better power too the ground with 4 stroke. The 350 was junk imo