Oh hey, HI!
-My buddy Chad just picked up a fun 1997 Kawasaki KLX300R, and wanted to take it out for some good ol’ dirt riding. I rode my Kawasaki KLR650 the 200 miles up highway 101 to his house in the Santa Cruz mountains and tagged along! We wound up at the Santa Clara County Motorcycle Park. What a fun day!
-My bike (Kawasaki KLR650) is no motocrosser, but I was actually impressed at how capable it was on the gnarly/steep/rocky dirt stuff. It wasn’t AMAZING, but it definitely handled itself like a champ for being such a huge heavy pig. Not bad at all, considering I’m ALSO able to cruise 75 mph on the highway for 250 miles at a time while loaded up with all my luggage… Try THAT on a nimble little 250cc two stroke dirt bike, sucka!
-I wrecked the KLX 300 on a crazy steep and rocky downhill. Whoops! Locked up the back wheel and slid right into a foot-deep runoff rut. Over and a tumblin’ I went! Haven’t had a road rash like the one currently on my arm since I was about eleven. Just provin’ I’m not an old man yet! Other than that, I’m fine. And the bike was no worse for the wear, no matter HOW awesome my buddy tells me the crash looked! =)
Love and fun scrapes,
=j.lynn
Wow. Audio is way outta sync. Thanks, YouTube “record from webcam!”
Hard drive crashes and other technical woes led me to explore what data I still DO have access to… I found a handful of old live clips from 2002 of my former band, Mad at Gravity. Funny trip down memory lane. Now I’m kinda inspired to dig for more footage…
Clip 1, South Carolina
Clip 2, South Carolina
Clip 3, South Carolina
Clip 4, Maine
Clip 5, Maine
Love and floppy mops,
=j.lynn
