Jetting for Colorado

[svt2224]

Hudson,
We will likely be staying at either RC guest ranch 16mi, north of Creede or in Lake city. Our trip has come together kind of last minute so lodging is a little hard to come by. Even if we stay in Lake city I would still like to ride the trails near Creede and we will most likely trailer to the trail heads. As for the sticker, Oklahoma does not require any so will I need to register in advance? Thanks alot for your help.
Thanks
Jason

[hudson_hollow]

We usually buy our stickers at Rainbow Hardware in South Fork. That's a long way from Lake City. There is probably a place in Lake City to purchase them. Also, look into a Colorado search and rescue card. Very cheap and a ride out on a Chinook beats being bounced around in a 4X4 anyday if you have something broken.
The Forest Service in Creede has a neat travel map of the area. Our favorite trails are; West Alder, Middle Alder, West Bear (one fairly steep hill), Bear, Embargo Creek.
Closer to Lake City and Spring Creek Pass is West Lost Trail Creek and Pole Creek. Good stuff that makes a loop from Stony Pass road and back to it. Fern Creek trail is a little South of those and is near the big bend in 149 that takes it around Bristol Head mtn. The ride across Snow Mesa and then down Miners Creek into Creede is beautiful.
Pallisades and Cathedral Rock are similar to Bondo's Block and Tackle near Taylor Park.
We will probably do a little riding south of South Fork this year. Anyone ridden in that area?

[bondo]

Well guys, we did our Colorado trip and it was fantastic as usual. We missed some of the tougher trails in the Taylor area (Timberline, for instance) because we were close to Crested Butte and didn't want to ride roads any more than necessary. That notwithstanding we had good rides all week and only got rained and hailed on a couple of times.

Back on topic, the jetting we finally used came from the folks at SunSports in Gunnison. They always know exactly what jetting to use on any KTM, so I asked for their recommendation on the GG 300.

Their standard 2-stroke jetting is: Pilot Jet - + 1 size from stock.
Needle: Raise the clip to the top notch
(drop the needle).
Main Jet : minus 5 sizes from stock.

On the '08 DE 300 that meant we went from a # 45 pilot to a # 48 and on the main jet from a # 178 to a #165.

The pilot thing seemed counterintuitive, but an engineer friend on the trip hypothesized that because there is less air at that altitude, there is less air pressure to draw fuel at low throttle opening, hence the need for the larger pilot.

Regardless, the set-up worked like a dream. Easy starting hot or cold, good response from idle to wide open, plenty of power (it's already a strong motor), no plug fouling and about 100 miles on a three gallon tank.

I'll post this set-up in the database, but believe me, it works!