Last Sunday I took Senna riding at a new riding park in the north Georgia mountains. Called Moto Mountain, it opened last August. They have approx 1200 acres and have purchased some more land they havent got trails on yet.. We met up with John, James, Greg and Jack, we were supposed to meet them at the park, but caught them while driving up there. So we all drove into together. While signing up and paying entrance fee we ran into another 7-8 people we knew from racing or social riding previously..
There was a good mix of 4 wheeler trails and single track bike only trails. They also had 4 motorcross tracks. It was 29F degrees when we arrived. We found the rain and snow we had recently made for some slick riding. Found some frozen mud sections which was pretty dicey, my trials tires did not like these sections.
After a short warm up on the wide trails we hit some single track. This terrain is quite steep and hilly, I was a bit worried about Senna keeping up on his 85. I ran tail man following Senna. He did really well mostly. He did have trouble on one uphill but so did 3 of the adults, including me. then later on he had trouble going uphill , he ran slightly off course and into a stump hole. He was just spinnig.. I helped him out of that and got him going again then the next uphill he struggled again. He was getting frustrated, the trails were fairly wet and slick so I was expecting him to struggle.. Once we got off that trail and back onto the next wide trail I told the others to go on and we would stick to the wide trails. So Senna and I stayed on the wide trails. We made our way back to the parking lot.
Senna wanted to ride the motorcross tracks (dont all kids) so I went out with him and rode laps with him. the motorcross tracks were slick too, nothing hard on them, no massive jumps or anything..
We had some lucnh then rode some more wide trails which were fun, they were slick and had some very steep uphills and downhills. I was leading so I could control the trails we took. Went up one uphill probably 300metres with a 45 deg turn half way up, I come around the turn and infront of me is a YZ250 layed sideways across the trail, with the rider trying to pick it up. I didnt want to slow up and lose my momentum, so I move to the right side up on the shoulder of the trail. Still hard on the throttle miss his front wheel by inches and cntinue onto the top of the hill. I stop and think, Senna is going to get stuck with that bloke across the trail. I could still hear Senna hard on the throttle, as I walk back to look down, here comes Senna using the clutch to keep the revs up, he didnt even hesitate past the downed adult rider.
All in all we had a great day out riding. Cold and muddy but fun.
