On The Pegs April 2020 - Volume 5 - Issue 4 | Page 95

On The Pegs
VOL. 5 ISSUE 4 - APRIL 2020
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down to it, it’s all about how good you can hit your mark and not necessarily how
fast you hit it. So, with this bike, I feel like I can really put it where I want it and
manage the trail and put it right on those two inches of trail that I want it.
I believe the wheel base is about an inch shorter, which definitely helps corner-
ing. It helps cornering, but everybody knows a longer wheel base is going to give
you a more stable feel. So for faster stuff it’s a little less stable, but it’s not unsta-
ble. You can just tell that it’s a lot more flickable when you’re in the air. The bike is
really easy to turn when you’re in the air, which it’s not a bad thing. It’s not going
to turn unless you do something to make it turn. So it’s good. I really like how it
handles. I’ve gotten used to it now, so I’m really enjoying it.
There is a little bit of bike setup we can do differently for GNCC if we want more
straight-line stability. We can push the wheel back a little further on the GNCC
bike to get it a little more stable. Triple clamps, just little things like that we can
swap over and get that feel with it we want for the GNCC’s. So, you still got plenty
of room to play with it. The bikes are still new, so some of these parts they’re just
now starting to make. So it’s a process, but it’s getting better and better. It’s a pro-
cess to build this program.
Right now we got the ODI bars. Running the RC4 bend. Not necessarily got a
different setup. This weekend we’ll drop the forks down flush, mainly for being in
the sand so you’re not going to get that knifey feel in the sand. So, the forks will
go down, which really raises the front end of the bike. You want a choppier bike
out in the sand definitely.
We’ll drop the side down from 106 to 110 and change a few clickers. We had
JDP down here testing with us the day before yesterday. So we got some testing
in and got the bikes dialed in. Honestly, I feel better in the sand on this bike right
now than I ever have. I’ve never really felt like I could really commit in the sand.
Steward has always been the better sand rider. The other day when we got the
suspension dialed in, I felt like I was the man. It’s a whole different story when we
get here to the GNCC and then have to do it for three hours. We’ll see how it goes
Sunday, but I’m feeling really good on it.
Right now, it’s basically just stock suspension, KYB. I believe the race model
Sherco comes with the KYB, and then the other one comes with the WP stuff.
We got the KYB models. It’s been really good. We’ve had JDP tuning it. He’s up in
Ohio and he does quite a bit of the pro guys here. He does the stuff really good.
He got us dialed in really well.
Another thing is we have lengthened the radiators. Me and Steward are bigger