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16th Jul 202125th Jul 2021Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

It’s been far too long

Over the past 18 months or so we’ve kinda migrated from enduro riding to more dual-sport / adventure riding. Trials too, but mostly dual-sport. The 500EXC is an amazing machine, with instant response from that big 510cc motor.. and the new Tenere 700 is effortlessly […]

19th Jul 20206th Feb 2021Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Super Sunday

It was a beautiful Sunday morning for 3 of us to hit the trails. Summer part II might not last so we’ll take what we can. CRF250 Rally – FE250 – TE300

22nd Jun 202022nd Oct 2021KTM 500 EXC, Maintenance, Navigation

Adventurising the Five Hundy

Finally, after months of waiting.. after the departure date of our planned offroad tour of Spain had come, and gone, and still never happened. We should have it done by now, and be home a week already, but we’re still in lockdown. Phase 3 of […]

22nd May 20206th Feb 2021Husky TE300, KTM 500 EXC, Rides / Daytrips

Viral Trails

Pondering mortality? The never ending social distancing? The efforts to protect ourselves and our families from the terrible sickness, and at the same time thinking the queue for Lidl is possibly worse than the sickness could ever be, and we’d nearly rather try our luck […]

11th Aug 201924th Jan 2020Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Tipping Away

A couple of spins to Tipp over the weekend saw us explore some old, and some new trails, and make some new friends too. It’s great when you meet another group of riders that you kinda know to see from previous events, but don’t really […]

27th Jul 201920th Jan 2020Beta xTrainer, Rides / Daytrips

Single Track Training

A few of us decided to have an enduro training session, and yesterday was the arranged day for it. Five of us headed off from Ennis at around 2pm and, after stopping for coffee and chocolate eclairs, were on the bikes for around 4pm. 4 […]

11th Apr 201920th Jan 2020Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Evening Antics

An unexpected ‘who’s going for a spin later?’ message in our WhatsApp group led to the biggest (and most spontaneous) woods spin in ages as SEVEN of us arrived out to see how well our bike lights lit up the path under this magic canopy of trees. […]

5th Apr 201920th Jan 2020Beta xTrainer, Rides / Daytrips

Husky’s away. Beta for play ?

The TE300 has been away the past few weeks for an engine rebuild, so the xTrainer got a chance to take over as king of the garage for a while. There were two spins in the past two weeks. First up, a journey to the […]

7th Mar 201920th Jan 2020Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Exploring East Clare

Not been up around the Lough Atorick area ever, and had a day to spare. The TE300 is going in for an engine rebuild soon so took her out on one last spin before the maintenance. For a first day in a new area I […]

28th Feb 20198th May 2021Beta xTrainer, Rides / Daytrips

Thursday Trails

So, my mission to go out at least once a week in 2019 nearly had it’s first fail, after spending too much time laying skirting boards in a bedroom yesterday, and not enough time on fun things.. Never mind though. I took a notion and […]

18th Feb 201920th Jan 2020Beta xTrainer, Rides / Daytrips

New Trail?

Recce for a new Trail? Exploring and testing a new woods loop :o)   managed to eat a bug too   tasty

7th Feb 20198th May 2021Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Exploring Tinahely

An overlanders open day and a presentation on the Hellas rally and roadbook navigation tempted us to Wexford recently. The roadbook route looked to be mostly road based so we decided to have fun on some local trails instead. The roads seemed a bit slippy […]

10th Jan 201920th Jan 2020Beta xTrainer, Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

Recce Runs

It was a miserable Wednesday, and the only thing to brighten it up was to take a spin. Seeing as it was a solo spin I figured I’d take it easy and bring a couple of old cameras to record a short video from different […]

1st Jan 20198th May 2021Beta xTrainer, Rides / Daytrips

End of year LDNT run

Doon bound again for the 2018 end of year run with the Long Distance Navigation Trials guys. 78km of a loop. A bit of enduro, some grasstrack, some woods.. it had everything. A great day by all accounts!!

30th Oct 201820th Jan 2020Beta xTrainer, Husky TE300, Rides / Daytrips

October Bank Holiday

The run that very very nearly didn’t happen!! Between the solo recce on Friday, and the actual run on Monday, some bike issues were discovered. The rear of the airbox had separated from the left subframe rail. Rear wheel bearings on brake side were goosed. […]

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