Taking that turn from tar to sand

[Boatguy]

Yesterday I took a turn off the road to check out a trail.

I took the turn at a modest speed in 2nd gear and nearly dumped the bike.

The trail looked like nice hard pack dirt like most of the trails around here but as I hit it, mid turn, I found out it was deep, baby powder like beach sand. 8in to a foot deep.

Wow!!! 2 wheels in that texture stuff is tricky!! Bike went right out from under me. Had to put a foot down for the first time in my life.

To be fair, most of my off road riding was on 3 wheels, so I never had to deal with a 2 wheeler sliding out from under me in deep beach sand type stuff. So never had to put a foot down.

So... moral of the story is... watch out for this. It looked like hard pack but wasn’t.

[JerryHawk250]

Yeah, that sand is some tricky stuff for two wheels.

[Skyd]

Ya we have to be super vigilant until we've gotten a couple of hard rains in the spring because of sand ON the road, that'll make you slide out in a hurry. I'm not a fan of sand....most of my worst dirt bike crashes were in sand pits. HAHA

[tknj99]

As a kid on my KX80 would hit up a place called The Moon, tons of sand trails.. the trick to sand is you have to keep your momentum and be light on the front end so as not to dump it.. go too slow though and you get stuck in a hurry

[Megadan]

Riding rule of thumb for any surface. Treat any unfamiliar corner as if it will be the worst case scenario. Especially surface transitions.