Well, hill was super slick and muddy, then dried to a heavy goop in the second round. Sunday was a mixture of soft sand-like wet powder on the breakers, and the inclines were hard and tacky, and was fairly dry by the second round. 14-47 stayed on thru all conditions and actually did better on slick and nasty on saturday. Pulled out a fifth, i think, and sixth on Sunday. Not my ususal, but my rear tire is toast. I've rounded all the nobbs that I have left. The rest are either torn or broken. I'm sure that played havoc on consistent traction, as well as previous gearing choices. A worn tire is supposed to help on a stock length swing arm, but it didn't at all. I did ride around a freshly groomed motocross track and really liked the way it rides and pulls the gears. 14-47 is a good choice. Any more tweaking will be a 45 or 49 on back.
My 250 is sporting a new Kenda Washougal and threw down a 5.102 good enough for second. And I ran another good time in the 250 stretched class (5.2something) and got a 7th in a very tough class of twenty. The important thing that I did was beating the guys I needed to for the season points. I'll be ordering new rubber and probably ditchin the spacer for the state championships.
I appreciate your input BDI, and I hear you that you have ridden on more than sand. I also agree that the little guys over in Japan figured out alot of things correctly. Thats a good reason to tweak changes and not make leaps and bounds. You just have to hear half of the strategy and plans that I hear, to appreciate my positive headway. Last year was my first season at hillclimbing, where most everyone else has been at it for years.
I see first hand the difference in gearing. One of my buddies rides a 750 triple and a 800 triple in 250 chasis. He has to gear down to get traction or it spins too much. Same thing on slick mud or extremely steep or rough conditions. Gear up for easy hills, good traction, big hills or sand. too tall will be hard to keep the front end down, where under gear is way too slow. No matter what though, I need fresh rubber to gauge where I stand, in my opinion of course. Thanks for the help and info for future tweaking!!!!!!!!!