Dirt Bike Race in Michigan Woods | Valley Trail Riders Hare Scramble
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2023
- Dirt Bike Race in Michigan Woods: Valley Trail Riders has always been known to be the tightest and most difficult hare scramble in Michigan! Enjoy this AMA District 14 Hare Scramble in 4K, thanks for stopping by to check out the channel!
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One tuff race, what a memory! Leave a comment below if you were there and raced, how’d you do and how did you like the setup.
That is nuts that track is so tight
Sure is, always the tightest race of the year.
Man that’s a Brutal trail you guys pushed through it though good job to those kickin up dirt in there!!
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That first log that everyone was hung up, they cut out for the second lap.
I loved the course. The tighter the better.
I did 5 laps in 3:52min. I was exhausted.
Wow, I’d still be riding if I had to do 5 laps.
Wow man you did it your a soldier I thought you were done in that mud rut nice guy helped out salute to you fella💪🏾
Thank you!
Back in the late 60's, early 70's Valley Trail Riders put on a Mother's day enduro every year. It was 75 plus miles of pure springtime MUD! Oh what fun!!!
That was a tough first lap for you. Glad you hung in there and tuffed it out. You got grit man. Thanks for the vids.
Thanks! 🙏
Great video. I was helping with this race. Becker makes a killer track.
Thanks for your hard work! Very tough course, I’m sure everything else will be easy after this race?!
4 hours, wow! Way to hang in there. Tough race.
It was brutal. 4:14 minutes to be exact. This was tighter and harder than it looked, it took some souls for sure. A bunch of people quit.
@@Captain250FX That's what is going to make you a better rider.
4 hours and 14 mins! makes you the B class champ in my book! Madman!
Never again though, I’ll stop next time. I was dizzy and nauseous on my 3 hrs drive home. 😩
Got back into riding this year after 10 year hiatus... 1st ride back was a dual sport (Bob Reese Memorial in IL).. 2 miles in i thought i was done for, hands were numb.. pushed through and finished the 36 mile loop....looked a lot like this....good riding, thanks for posting...
Thank you and welcome back!
That was one brutal race. I started racing harescrambles this year. So far this is the toughest one. I see I finished my 3rd lap 2min and 30sec behind you, and I was so happy I don't need to do another lap. My time was 3:00:24 😅 I am impressed how you recovered after the rut, and still able to make a 4th lap.
Thanks man! Sheer determination got me through, that 4th lap I was cramping so bad I still don’t know how I managed to finish. This is only my second year racing and it was definitely the hardest race of them ALL!
I raced there, I actually seen you as well !! I’ve been to everyone of them this year and this one was the worst, as in most physically draining. I only made it a lap and a half and my shifter broke off, luckily I was still by the parking lot because I wouldn’t of had the energy to get it out of the woods myself😂
Wow, good thing you were close. It would be quite the maze to get out of.
Great Footage, Captain! I managed to get out front, so it didn't experience that level of carnage...
Nice!
That was brutal. I really wanted to quit when I got the white flag, but decided to tough it out. Congrats on finishing!
Thank you, congrats to you as well! That was a massive CHARACTER BUILDING RACE! 💪🏼👊🏽
Well done sir!
Thanks Mark! I almost threw in the towel. 😂
Valley is usually pretty tight, but this last race was by far the tightest yet. Had fun, but wish there would've been more flow to the trail.
I agree!
Crazy how fast those seat high ruts sneak up on you! I had a similar problem at polkadots last year
Yes they do
You're right, its hard to put into words... I fell like brutal is an understatement. I still had a manual clutch on my bike and even almost 2 weeks later I still have some numbness in my left hand.
Wow, it’s not just me then?! I also have a manual clutch and my hand was sore for a week. 😂
I've been day dreaming for years now. My goal is to get a bike start practicing and do a race for my 40th birthday. I just can't pull the trigger. Keeping my young kids on dirt bikes before I buy myself one.
There is always a way! I didn’t start riding till I was 38 and started racing at 45. This is my second year racing and I’m turning 46 in a month. You could always look for a good used one and ride with your kids!
Same thing here - I am 48 now, got on a motorcycle for the first time at 40, started racing at 46. This is my first year racing hare scrambles. All I can say is, I wish I've started earlier - I can't get enough of it. I have been riding every weekend since trails cleared the snow enough :-) My kids are teenagers now, but both ride. My advice- don't wait. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Get that bike you are dreaming for, and get riding. There is nothing better than a day of riding with your kids.
The course looks pretty brutal but fun! I live in michigan and just bought a 2008 ktm 300xc as my first bike as an adult to start racing enduros with my cousins! I am planning on going to Jack Pine in august to do Pine Cone as my first race!
That’s a good race, I plan on doing that one also!
I've never ridden their hare scrambles but I have ridden their enduros. They basically set up the course the same way they would an enduro, which I don't agree with. I guess my mentality is that hare scrambles should allow more active passing, so it should be wider in a lot of areas and not as long. Enduros should be mostly single track with some opens.
Correct ✅
I can only imagine what the Bark Buster Enduro will be like
Let me know how it is if you’re going, I’m good with that place for a minute. 😂
@@Captain250FX that's funny. I'm planning Bark buster and jack pine for sure
last year tests were of vtr property except the last one and that was pretty much like the tight stuff Sunday 😂👍
Mad respects, job well done! I'm 52 now, been riding MX my whole life, raced in my teen-age yrs & rode most my adult life with about 15yr break until last yr. I'm slowly getting back into it, I bought a 22 Suzuki RM-Z450 (my 1st Suzuki & 4 stroke, always rode YZ's & 1 CR250) which I love, it has all the power I'd ever need, it handles the trails like a gem, turns on a dime, getting the suspension correct is the toughest part. The kick start thing isn't an issue for me as I haven't been spoiled with electric start, so I don't know what I'm missing lol. They kick easy & start on 1 kick warm.
Anyway, my reason for giving all that info is, do you think I could ride that bike on these scrambles?
This race was the tightest race of the season and would have been a nightmare on a 450. There are a few guys racing 450’s. Most of what I see are 250, 350, and 300 two strokes.
@@Captain250FX That's what I thought, thanks! Keep up the great riding!!
@@ghpjerry thanks buddy! 🙏🏽
Nice race captain. I don't know how you did it. 👍
Me either? 😂
Wow u was really stuck that's crazy deep rut
That sucked bad. Luckily a guy stopped to help. We had to lift the bike out of the rut, pegs were stuck it was bad lol.
VALLEY riders ask if we would open up are land for the riders can jump off brown road and hit are land to turn around to head back to VALLEY.
Looks like a Louisiana mud bog
It was tough. That race still is haunting me, it took me 4hrs and 14 minutes to finish.
Great video, was just wondering what mount do you use to mount your GoPro around the chin.
Dango Designs Chin Mount, get them on Amazon or RMATV for $50
@@Captain250FX Me, my father and cousin did a hare scramble at fox valley for fathers day and i finished the race in 1 hr 45 mins and was exhausted, cant imagine racing for over 4 hrs, that's insane.
@@Mateusz250TE ya mine was so brutal! Fox Valley, is that Illinois then?
@@Captain250FX Yes correct Illinois, It was my first time ever doing a hare scramble. But I love Michigan trails, the ones I usually ride when I get the chance are Evarts and Long lake. Michigan trails are a blast as they are usually very technical with many hill climbs filled with roots and rocks.
I just got to the part with the crazy rut, i dont even understand how it could've got that deep lol
Is the the same trail riders group from the 70s. Saginaw Valley Trail Rider's???
I wasn't born until the 70’s so I don't know? 😁
Didn't make this rime but it Looks like it was 12.5 miles of hard enduro😂
Truth! The crazy thing is it was so much harder than it looks on video, thanks for watching!
Do a review on 250fx
I’m about to next week, just hit 100 hrs. Thanks for watching and great idea.
What mode are you running
Usually in the Keefer Free Feeling map if that’s what your asking. If I’m riding a faster trail I use the MX MAP
How was new tire ?
It’s not on yet, probably after July I’ll put it on.
@@Captain250FX what tire do you have front and rear and wich one(s) are you putting on?
@@SergeRobichaud-oq9wu right now I have a washougal 3 front and Mx 33 rear. I have a new Mx 34 for the front that I’m putting on soon.
Where else on earth 🌎 can you pay $40 and get that much ride time? LoL
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dude that trail is way too tight for a race format. Esp harescramble.
It was even tighter than it looks. It was brutal for sure, hardest race I’ve ever done. Now that it’s behind me I think it will make everything else a little easier.
@@Captain250FX I lost count how many trees were bar bangers.... shouldn't be that many in a harescramble race.... need places to pass.... otherwise the whole race bogs down behind slower riders.... and you end up running a 4 hr race!!!