Hmm. I've never thought of that technique. Will definitely have to practice it sometime.
There's not a snowball's chance in hell that I could do that on my XR400. LoL!
You are awesome! Thanks for all that!
Yes, of all the places I've ridden, Brushy is my favorite, too. The variety is phenomenal, from fairly wide open double track that you can blast down, to some of the gnarliest singletrack you can imagine.
I rode in their 2nd annual "Battle of the Goats" extreme enduro this past summer on my 230. Didn't fair as well as I had hoped, but had an absolute blast. There's no doubt that they've got world-class terrain there for that kind of riding.
Here's a video of it from this year. You can actually see me on the far right if you pause it at 1:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEOirTl_3nM
But as you pointed out, when that place gets wet, it gets WET! A bunch of the trails there are definitely impassable when it gets wet and slick.
Here's the video of Battle of the Goats 2016, which they actually ran DURING Hurricane Matthew! It had rained like 6 inches the night before the race, and then rained the entire race. Talk about a mess!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyl2EMLx4Xo
Good insight.
As mentioned earlier, a really nice EC250 is currently in the works! Pretty much just trying to figure out a time to make the drive to pick it up!
I figured that if I found the 250 to be lacking on the bottom end (not likely), it's fairly cheap and easy to swap out the cylinder for a 300cc one.