Want your rear tyre ripped to shreds? No problem, just contact Steve Jose, he’ll do it for ya! (see pic)
So with the Wadebridge moto x track open for practice and just 2 minutes up the road, it was a day out for a blast around the place with Adam Blake and Steve Jose.
With me still having the old TM, I took that as well as the gasser, just to see how she went and to give her a quick blow out.
With 3 of us all there together and 4 bikes, TM 125, Gasser 125, KTM 125, Gasser 250, we all had a bloody good swap around to see how the others rode. Steve managed to kill Adam’s back tyre completely when he got on his bike and then decided it would be a good idea to rip it to pieces and ride around with the mouse hanging out!
Not to fear as luckily I’d bought a spare tyre with me, so10 mins later it was all hunky dory and a certain ‘Blakey’ was happy again.
I was nicely surprised after having a go on Adam’s ‘Katosh’ 125 xc. Quite smooth power for crosser and set up really nice as well. Not really that far away from my gasser, both very similar after trying out one after the other, and with it being a 125, I knew exactly where I was with it.
I’m trying to find words to explain Steve’s Gas Gas EC 250! Lets just say it’s got more ‘grunt’ than a german porn star. The thing pulls out of any corner in what seemed like any gear! I was stupidly going round some slow parts of the track in 4th, opening it up, and she just pulled right from the bottom all the way up and didn’t miss a beat before it took off. Bloody nora, surely that thing could climb a mountain couldn’t it? And this is a 2 stroke I’m talking about here!
I should be riding one of these at my age, but funnily enough, I still love the 125’s, you have to work much harder, keep on the revs and be commited most of time to get the best out of um, so for the time being and just like my old man used to say, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.
When Steve got on my little ‘gasser’ I had a job getting it back off him, He wanted one!
It got to stage where I thought he was going to run out of fuel he did so many laps on it.
A good day was had by all, and it made welcome change to try other bikes without the added pressure of racing.
