A tough hill, at least for us muppets!
Not a lot of run-up, steep, tree roots.
Then the second half can't be done at speed.
It needs pivot turns, jumping up tree roots...
can we get up?
First is Jeff.
It looks good.
Standing and leaning forward, but backs off the throttle.
I thought I had good speed.
It takes ages to get back down when it's this steep.
Scott is next.
We all have to psych ourselves up.
It's very intimidating when you look up at this beast.
Listen to Scott feathering the clutch to keep the 200 in the powerband.
Amazing run, let's see that again.
Great clutch work, standing on the foot pegs, great body positioning.
Jeff again.
It's all about a great start, he knows he fluffed that one.
Second gear, not enough revs, and he's heading for the tree roots.
I ditch filming in case he falls down the hill.
Wrong line.
Right yeah yeah.
Just wasn't sure if you were gonna roll.
I just took the wrong line all together.
Much better run.
Leg paddling for balance but still standing.
Excellent.
Gulp! Now it's my turn.
I will sit due to my spine injury.
Right up the front of the seat to prevent wheelies, second gear.
Fairly high revs, and feed in the power.
Then it's time for the difficult pivot turns and jumping up little edges.
In loose soil it takes very little to dig big holes and ruin the track
fast so I push the bike when the traction isn't good.
I can see why you took your time, Scott.
Very loose.
i just don't want to dig the track up too much.
Big jump up a tree root here.
Is that a bit further, oh yeah cool.
I just can't get past here.
Seat bouncing just isn't good enough, time to push again.
We are jealous of how fast Scott got up this climb with a 200cc bike.
Ah couldn't get my leg through the gap.
He bought the smaller bike as it would force him to learn better clutch skills,
that seems to be working.
Hard work!
Oh I didn't want to dig too many holes.
Let's see how Jeff is going.
He has got up to the first pivot turn point.
Yeah that's where I got up to...
and then I just stopped because I didn't know what we're meant to do after that.
I would have run into this tree.
He's being very careful.
It's still quite steep here.
A chance the bike could go cartwheeling to the bottom if he messes it up.
Very loose soil.
Like me, instead of digging a hole jeff just gets off the bike when needed to push it across.
You should be right on the bike there, Jeff.
It didn't slide out for me.
Easy for a wheel to slide out on this off camber bit.
Yeah I almost did the same thing
I went to do the pivot turn.
A good seat bounce for traction.
That poor old clutch has had a good workout on this hill.
Is that your clutch complaining?
To get up this tree root, Jeff chooses the static zap.
I badly need to practice this after my nine months off the bike!
Oh you've got it, I couldn't get up there with the seat bounce.
You're just over the tree root.
Hopefully you can learn from our mistakes.
And the occasional bit we get right too.
I'm just checking, I filled up three SD cards filming that.
I don't know why I had so much trouble with that.
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