a question concerning our passion

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hannesd

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has anyone of you ever moved out of your country to be able to ride (more) then where you lived before?
the thing is, i have no deacent (legal) spot to ride and riding is a necessity to me (and many of us) to feel good, to charge the personal batteries again to cope with the struggles of life (big or small) :rolleyes:

i was just curious if anyone ever made such an drastic decision?

thanks, Hannes.
Belgium.
 
Not moved only for a better place to ride, but i moved from Scotland to the Isle of Man. ( google isle of man TT ) Met my wife and offerd a job when over here racing .
We have a lot of good , legal, tracks and trails, but are getting more pressure from the tree huggers.
Having a great time on my 03 EC300 . Best bike ever


Ride safe, have fun
 
I have heard reports of people leaving the UK for France, with the availability of trail riding being high on the list of priorities. Also know of people leaving the UK so that they could hunt with dogs ( was made largely illegal here a few years ago). You would have to look at the big picture though - no point moving to a country with lots of places to ride if you didn't enjoy the other aspects of living there.

Considered leaving the UK myself - trail riding is very restricted and the future of enduro looks bleak because of planning laws. It is also too overcrowded and the culture of our nation appears to be headed for a bad place. However, I couldn't come up with an alternative country with a work / practical / play balance with strong enough appeal.
 
I have considered it and am trying to make it happen, I love sand riding, and have very little of it here in the uk one or two sand lanes in the whole of the uk.

So my plan is to move to a country where the prominent surface is sand, it just has to be the right job to enable me to support my wife and I'm leaving this country!
 
hannesd said:
has anyone of you ever moved out of your country to be able to ride (more) then where you lived before?
the thing is, i have no deacent (legal) spot to ride and riding is a necessity to me (and many of us) to feel good, to charge the personal batteries again to cope with the struggles of life (big or small) :rolleyes:

i was just curious if anyone ever made such an drastic decision?

thanks, Hannes.
Belgium.
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I feel for you Hannes. You are right - to be able to "charge the batteries" is a very important thing, especially if you don't exactly love the job you are doing all day.
I have a slightly different problem... across the road from me is a beach, behind me is a large farm that I can ride on. At this time year, after work, I can't decide if I should go for a ride or a windsurf...sigh.:o
 
I never moved out of the country or even the state for that matter, but I did move an extra 30 miles from work so I could have my own trails. I bought 80 acres just to have a place to ride when I want to.
 
Hannes,
Move to Texas, bring plenty of that great Belgium beer, and we will ride every weekend--- some weekdays too.

bchatt...i hate you, but i would like to come and visit, sounds awesome.:)
 
If you're not getting what you want out of work, why work at all? I would absolutely change locations or jobs to get what I want out of life.
 
I moved 2500 miles to be close to good white water kayaking. Problem is, I never dreamed that with all this mountainous terrain that there would be so little enduro riding available nearby.

I can paddle a 15' waterfall a half mile from my house and ride world class mountain bike trails 7 minutes from my doorstep, but have to go 45 minutes away to ride a crappy little overused rutted out ORV park that is losing trails every month it seems.

They treat us like criminals here. I feel like a skateboarder with a bigger budget.
 
T.Low said:
I moved 2500 miles to be close to good white water kayaking. Problem is, I never dreamed that with all this mountainous terrain that there would be so little enduro riding available nearby.

I can paddle a 15' waterfall a half mile from my house and ride world class mountain bike trails 7 minutes from my doorstep, but have to go 45 minutes away to ride a crappy little overused rutted out ORV park that is losing trails every month it seems.

They treat us like criminals here. I feel like a skateboarder with a bigger budget.
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Used to be tons of riding around, its a sad state for sure. But there is epic riding right over the boarder, probably the same distance as walker...
 
Todd5774 said:
I have considered it and am trying to make it happen, I love sand riding, and have very little of it here in the uk one or two sand lanes in the whole of the uk.

So my plan is to move to a country where the prominent surface is sand, it just has to be the right job to enable me to support my wife and I'm leaving this country!
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Love sand riding?! I don't think I've met ANYONE who loves sand riding. But I've heard that Belgium, where I believe this thread originated, has LOTS of sand tracks.

I'm here in CT and am awaiting my first dirt bike in 15 yrs, an '06 EC300. I was fortunate to grow up racing motocross in Michigan, home of some of the best track in the US. I Googled my old farmhouse home a while back, and was FLOORED to see a groomed private motocross track 1/4-mi from my old home, in a farmer's field. I used to be able to leave my driveway and have access to ENDLESS trails and practice tracks.

But now in CT, I'm sure I'll be towing the bike up to my sister's in Maine to ride.
 
bider,

Ping some of the NETRA guys here, like fury, Ed Ventura, or Brian VT. There are lots of events, and I'm sure these guys could get you in the woods somewhere to ride. You could also come down my way, not that far at all. Learn to embrace rocks.:eek:
 
boyscout said:
Hannes,
Move to Texas, bring plenty of that great Belgium beer, and we will ride every weekend--- some weekdays too.

bchatt...i hate you, but i would like to come and visit, sounds awesome.:)
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it's true, we do have some good beer :D but that drains my batteries aswell as my pocket and the next day i'm not satisfied (hangover) :rolleyes:
i do have a massive feeling of satisfaction when i had that great ride!
 
brider said:
Love sand riding?! I don't think I've met ANYONE who loves sand riding. But I've heard that Belgium, where I believe this thread originated, has LOTS of sand tracks.
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lots of sand tracks, here in Belgium?? not to my knowledge...
i'm shure there must be a few but i'm not the track kinda rider.
i cross the french border to Dunckerque (2hr drive to get there) to find da fairly big sand track.
http://www.mxcircuit.fr/terrain-circuit-moto-cross-de-dunkerque-loon-plage-270.html
 
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bider,

Ping some of the NETRA guys here, like fury, Ed Ventura, or Brian VT. There are lots of events, and I'm sure these guys could get you in the woods somewhere to ride. You could also come down my way, not that far at all. Learn to embrace rocks.:eek:
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Thank you very much for the offer and contacts, I'll probably take the winter to get it dialed in and do some bootleg rides near home here in CT, then in the spring venture forth...
 
Just looking at that Dunckerque track gives me arm pump. I can barely type this.

I could've SWORN I read in Motocross Action that Roger D. and some of his old cronies from Belgium were sand specialists because of the sand tracks there...could be wrong.
 
brider said:
Just looking at that Dunckerque track gives me arm pump. I can barely type this.

I could've SWORN I read in Motocross Action that Roger D. and some of his old cronies from Belgium were sand specialists because of the sand tracks there...could be wrong.
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There are some very good sand motocross tracks in belgium, but not alot of legal riding that can be done outside of motocross.

Used to go over there for the weekend and ride different tracks when i was into motocross.
 
cascade_crawler said:
Used to be tons of riding around, its a sad state for sure. But there is epic riding right over the boarder, probably the same distance as walker...
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Vedder Mtn? Taken my 4x4 there to test some things out, and I paddle the Chiliwack a lot, but never had my GG up there.

My main riding partner is my Brother in Law and he lives in Shoreline/Edmonds so we usually meet at Walker.
 
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