Klanky
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It were a lovely morning this morn.....
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.....so i decided to go up to Dunnet Head and try out the new TKC80's on a track I know.
If you keep your eyes open on the left hand side of the road, about a mile before the Lighthouse...you'll find this:
It leads up to a WW11 radar installation, it's not a long run but there's 3 arms of dead-end tracks to trundle along. I've walked it a few times and tried it with Battlewings in shitty weather...not very good.
The views are nice:
I suppose I could have turned around when I got to here and retraced the track back down, but no...that would be far too sensible wouldn't it?
I sussed out that, at the end of this track at the top of the hill, it was only about 100m down the heather slope to get to the end of the lower track..........
Hmmm....lets walk it first and make sure it's OK.
It looked fine, I managed to pick up an old sheep track through the heather and sussed that I could follow this down...it was deeply rutted - so it would be feet off the pegs, otherwise they'd get trapped on the walls of the rut. Walked the full length - no problem.
So off I went, about half way down....oh bollox!
If you look carefully, there are the lines of two sheep tracks crossing just behind the bike, on the way down I didn't realise this and ended up on the wrong track...which obviously had sheep armed with shovels using it...as there was a big deep feckoff hole.
There's no way the bike could power out as the sides were too steep and no way of going backwards...and no-one else around for miles (although I'm sure I heard laughter...)
After about ten minutes of wheelspinning and lots of sweating and grunting I realised the only way out of this was to get the front wheel to climb out of the hole and pull the rest of the bike behind it.
So I hoiked the bike upright, held onto the bars with one hand and pulled on the spokes of the front wheel.
It worked, pull the spokes...grab the front brake, another grip on the spokes...pull again and grab the brakes. Eventually I got the front wheel out and let the bike go over with the front wheel out of the hole and the back wheel on the verge of falling in.
It doesn't look like it because of the heather, but that hole came up to my bloody knees when I stood in it.
Anyway, there's no way I could avoid the back wheel going into the hole, so I lowered it in, stuck it in first and walked alongside giving the bars a bloody good shove at the same time. Popped out a treat.
And off we went.
What a twat.
I enjoyed it though. Not bad for me first time offroad.
.....so i decided to go up to Dunnet Head and try out the new TKC80's on a track I know.
If you keep your eyes open on the left hand side of the road, about a mile before the Lighthouse...you'll find this:
It leads up to a WW11 radar installation, it's not a long run but there's 3 arms of dead-end tracks to trundle along. I've walked it a few times and tried it with Battlewings in shitty weather...not very good.
The views are nice:
I suppose I could have turned around when I got to here and retraced the track back down, but no...that would be far too sensible wouldn't it?
I sussed out that, at the end of this track at the top of the hill, it was only about 100m down the heather slope to get to the end of the lower track..........
Hmmm....lets walk it first and make sure it's OK.
It looked fine, I managed to pick up an old sheep track through the heather and sussed that I could follow this down...it was deeply rutted - so it would be feet off the pegs, otherwise they'd get trapped on the walls of the rut. Walked the full length - no problem.
So off I went, about half way down....oh bollox!
If you look carefully, there are the lines of two sheep tracks crossing just behind the bike, on the way down I didn't realise this and ended up on the wrong track...which obviously had sheep armed with shovels using it...as there was a big deep feckoff hole.
There's no way the bike could power out as the sides were too steep and no way of going backwards...and no-one else around for miles (although I'm sure I heard laughter...)
After about ten minutes of wheelspinning and lots of sweating and grunting I realised the only way out of this was to get the front wheel to climb out of the hole and pull the rest of the bike behind it.
So I hoiked the bike upright, held onto the bars with one hand and pulled on the spokes of the front wheel.
It worked, pull the spokes...grab the front brake, another grip on the spokes...pull again and grab the brakes. Eventually I got the front wheel out and let the bike go over with the front wheel out of the hole and the back wheel on the verge of falling in.
It doesn't look like it because of the heather, but that hole came up to my bloody knees when I stood in it.
Anyway, there's no way I could avoid the back wheel going into the hole, so I lowered it in, stuck it in first and walked alongside giving the bars a bloody good shove at the same time. Popped out a treat.
And off we went.
What a twat.
I enjoyed it though. Not bad for me first time offroad.
....just experimenting witht the position before I stick anything in them. I had to lay the bike down on a dirt track later in the day...I've found out that the TT's dont touch the ground in this position...so they may well stay there. 
I just died of shame when I got my HP stuck in a ditch with me under it and had to rescued by some old boy who nearly wet his pants laughing out loud when he found me.
onyack
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