Change of plans

Despite of the extreme weather conditions the other parts of Spain (lots of snow in north, storms in south) are experiencing, the spring has arrived in Murcia. We have been having truly amazing days and as the weather forecast is currently showing figures above +20 degrees for the next 10 days we are having second thoughts about our travelling schedule. Somehow +10 in Italy doesn't sound so appealing after all... The original plan was to change the country in the end of February, but maybe we'll have to at least postpone the departure with few days.

Have to admit that we also had our share of the strong winds that tortured southern parts of the country. On Thursday we had to end the training in Totana sooner than planned as it was impossible to do any jumps in cross-wind. During the night we started to worry that the wind will actually turn our styrox box (called caravan) upside down as it felt that the other side was indeed rising every now and then. Luckily that didn't happen and we woke up next morning with the perfectly blue sky. Also the night lightning has been odd lately. The full moon has been luminating the whole neighbourhood so that it's almost like someone forgot the turn the lights off.

Kawa was in very intensive use while KTM was lying on the garage, but since the orange devil is back the rider has spent this week with 2-stroke. Some new tricks have now been planted deep enough so that they start to show while riding. The most visible one is probably the use of rear brake while jumping. As 2-stroke motors don't have such a powerfull motor brake as 4-strokes do, the front of the bike doesn't fall as easily during the jumps. With 2-stroke bikes the desired effect is achieved by using rear brake "manually" and with brake light shining jump curves nicely. Video from Totana is attached below.

http://vimeo.com/20093699