Flip Video

Anybody try'd one of those small camcorders , Brand : Flip Video, ?
really small camera that records straight to a flash card, then you can upload it to YouTube or a Disk..........

I was wanting one, all the reviews on the web site are good, just wondering if anyone on the forum had one ? ,,,,

Phillip, is that a KTM?

The one and only,,,,,,,,,

Pic below was from a 12hr iron man race in 06', Finished 5th out of 40 riders, my arms and knees where shot, and my butt was

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12 hours? My rear hurts just thinking about it!

I have not raced for a awhile (since I ruined my knees), but I ran the Rocky Mountain Enduro Circuit for a number of years and raced motocross for practice. There were very few weekends during the summer that we were not driving 6+ hours each way to a race.

I've been seriously looking at the 250XC-W and 250XCF-W. KTM's rule in Colorado. The KTM and cat would make a great combination (as opposed to my '85 chevy wagon and bike trailer). After I hurt myself, my wife could put me to bed and drive home.

They make a carrier that would work with my rear hitch. However, that would take a lot of faith; you could drag your bike for a long time before you knew there was a problem.

Just not sure this old body can handle it anymore.

I have lots of photos (and a few trophies) from my race days, but they are all pre-digital.

Sorry to side track your thread.

Did you ever get to georgia to ride the Cherokee enduro ? ....,

Nope, never made it out that way, but sounds fun.

I have a photo hanging on my wall similar to your avitar. Shows me and my trusty RMX (sold ) crossing a river near Buena Vista Colorado with water up to the bottom of the tank. There was always a professional photographer at the enduros that would snap your photo and send you a proof. They would set up somewhere like a river crossing, big log crossing, or nasty hill climb to get some good action. When you came around a corner and saw a banner that said "photo" ahead, it really got your attention. Just like when you come upon a whole bunch of spectators; they are there to watch guys eat it. And, now that I think about it, if you come to a water crossing and the spectators are pointing to a specific line, watch out, they might be honest or they might be pointing to the deepest, nastiest hole to watch you disappear.

Did you have to ride all 12 hours or was it a relay? I rode a couple of 120 mile enduros that would take about 6 hours, thought I was gonna die. And if it was a two day event, getting up that second morning was hard.

All 12hrs, from 6am-6pm, approx: 200 + miles, and there was a 40ft jump across a 20ft deep gully that cut off about 1 1/2 miles of trail, and of course I didn't have the nerve to jump it. One wrong jump could mangle you and make a Yard sale out of your bike,,, The A riders where sailing across it like it was nothing.

I was on a row with Mike Lafferty once at the Cherokee Enduro, KTM factory rider, He'd just disappear like a ninja through the woods, then you'd catch up with him , If your lucky at a check point. All I saw was his rear fender on the start line,,,,

I remember one year it rained so much one year that only 20 riders out of about 70/80 finished the race.
The cherokee is usually a 120 plus ground miles, I think the easiest one I ran was in Biluxi , Ms about 20 or more miles was set at like 5 mph.... to keep from tearing up a sandy creek bottom.... now that was weird but sweet.

I love the tight sections that you'd come out of and somebody would hang a paper plate up that said , " if you think that was tight " and the next one would say " you aint seen nothing yet " ,,,,,

I ran one that had a unusual reset right in the middle of it, came out into a palmetto bottom that looked exactly like the place we took off from, Totally freaked me out I thought I had missed a turn and came back to the start line ,,,, I swear I felt like something out of the Twighlight zone,,,, My wife had rode with someone to that check point. I was riding in circles trying to find the guys that was on my row, or the row ahead of me, when I finally spotted my wife she was on the ground laughing ,,,, and pointed at the guys on my row that had parked their bikes behind some bushes.....

http://durhamtown.com/

they've got a 6hr coming up , only about 5 riders in the iron man 40+ group so far,

Gotta go to WDW that wed, so I think i'll skip that one.

Good shot of the big gulley they were jumping link:


http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/OrderPage.aspx?pi=0ACW000C000014&po=14

Yeah, the older I get, the scarier the big jumps get. I quit motocross when the average triple got up to 60'; insane.
I feel much better with two big knobies hooked up.

I know , I'll turn 47 in Sept, I was thinking of trying out the Observed Trials riding. , Or just stick to some fun trail riding.