Skips new bike - DRZ400S

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Matt, you are in too much of an urban area with Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Huddersfield all squashed together as they are. You are quite well placed for some brilliant off roading, but you need to ride up into the Dales, down into the Peaks, or over towards Scu nthorpe.

I've got the OS of the dales and there are 2 7km tracks which are very straight looking both are roman roads.
S****horpe I hadnt really considered over the moors that way may be interesting so I'll take a look at that OS too.
The peaks is a dead cert, the brother in laws pub where we got married is located pretty centrally some massive routes, I'll be over that way quite often I'd imagine.
Could be a great place for an Org dirty weekend if everyone gets thier bikes sorted as the garage is huge so all bikes would be safe (and can be worked on). There's 15mx15m area of grass which could be used for camping or if he was feeling really generous we could sleep in the function room. The major downside is that there are no wash facilities other than those which are essentially his own personal ones.

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An 'Org dirty weekend - liking the sound of that Provided I can get a pass out!

Originally Posted by Owenski

I've got the OS of the dales and there are 2 7km tracks which are very straight looking both are roman roads..

I assume this is roman road near Hawes is of the ones your talking about?

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X...8675&A=Y&Z=120

There's quite a bit of laning in the Yorkshire Dales, easily enough to keep you busy for a day anyway, but some of the longer ones are TRO'd. Did you see my reply in the other thread? A lot of them are 'route open to public access' shown as red dots on the OS map. Use Trailwise to find them. It's a bit of a ball ache I know, searching 6km circles at a time, but if one end of a lane is in that circle it'll show the whole lane, and you just have to sytematically break the area down into a grid in your mind and search once per square on that grid. I did it last year because I had a friend living in Hawes, and I'd seen a lot of green laners hanging around Hawes one lunchtime, but they've moved on now.

Originally Posted by Skip

Do all counties have this type of thing?

Routes in black are ok for bikes and cars...

http://www.countrysideaccessmap.norf.../indexPage.htm

All counties have it, but not all put it on the internet, that's great.

Throughout the off-road community though there's this thing about not publicly publishing routes and keeping the actual locations as a bit of a 'secret' (the TRF more than anyone else!), which I can understand I suppose, because the off-road community only want people who are serious about it as a hobby, and so are prepared to join a club or spend a lot of time doing the research. The thought is that if you make it too easy to find them they'll get swamped with pit bikes and unregistered bikes, going as fast as possible, terrorising walkers and horses, resulting in the tracks getting TRO'd.

Is a bit of an illusion, because the illegal riders don't care about finding legal routes, any farm track or field will do, and putting a TRO is not going to stop them, but we all know what this country is like for using legislation to try and stop people who are breaking legislation. Pointless, but they do it anyway.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

I assume this is roman road near Hawes is of the ones your talking about?

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X...8675&A=Y&Z=120

There's quite a bit of laning in the Yorkshire Dales, easily enough to keep you busy for a day anyway, but some of the longer ones are TRO'd. Did you see my reply in the other thread? A lot of them are 'route open to public access' shown as red dots on the OS map. Use Trailwise to find them. It's a bit of a ball ache I know, searching 6km circles at a time, but if one end of a lane is in that circle it'll show the whole lane, and you just have to sytematically break the area down into a grid in your mind and search once per square on that grid. I did it last year because I had a friend living in Hawes, and I'd seen a lot of green laners hanging around Hawes one lunchtime, but they've moved on now.

Yeah thats one of them, 2 clicks on your map south east, and anther click east and you'll see that start of another one which forks off. I did read your post but havn't had chance to get into it yet - course work adn a mad work schedule + new born are leaving me feck all time for anything (im even powertyping this reply). Once May is here and my coursework is done I think I'll sit and trawl the interweb for places I can go play.

Got me looking at CCM 404s has this thread. Not sure whether they are a good choice as it doesnt seem like there are quite the parts supply that the DRZ has but they're cheaper!

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Better suspension - same engine - variable build quality - I was tempted by one but this DRZ came up first.

I quite fancied this one...

Yup suposedly better in every way than the DRZ apart from Mod/Tweak oportunties are minimal.
If you're after one because its a 404 as opposed to a 400 then do some of the simple drz mods, 3x3 - pair valve and solidoid removal and it's on a par with the 404 anyway. Then you've always got the big bore 440 mod option or the lesser 39FCR carb replacement.

Doesn't the CCM come with the 39fcr carb as standard?
I thought it had the same engine as the DRZ 400E

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Originally Posted by Mitch

Doesn't the CCM come with the 39fcr carb as standard?
I thought it had the same engine as the DRZ 400E

It does come with the E engine - but for the most part its the same/similar...