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Where to ride?

PiPi has the best camping of anywhere I've camped with a dirtbike, by a large margin. It is right on the Yuba and there are plenty of shade trees.

Drawback is you can't ride in and out, so you have to have a DS or trailer or push your bikes in and out. Once you are at the entrance you hit a trail across the street.

We would camp at PiPi, then trailer the bikes to 5 corners, about 2 miles up from the campground. Ride a few hours in the am, then come back and play in the water with the kids and pan for gold.
 
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Thanks , I' newbing here but I goggled PiPi and couldn't find it :rolleyes
PiPi has the best camping of anywhere I've camped with a dirtbike, by a large margin. It is right on the Yuba and there are plenty of shade trees.

Drawback is you can't ride in and out, so you have to have a DS or trailer or push your bikes in and out. Once you are at the entrance you hit a trail across the street.

We would camp at PiPi, then trailer the bikes to 5 corners, about 2 miles up from the campground. Ride a few hours in the am, then come back and play in the water with the kids and pan for gold.
 
Just google "pipi campground".

If you are a newb rider then ride over at Goldnote, if not hit Elkins Flat.

Mark
 
Garrahan Off-Road Training will be holding an open practice at Metcalf OHV Park.
Saturday Sept 14th!!!
9:00am-2:00pm
25$ per rider
The track will be watered and prepped.
All the jump faces and landings will be shaped. Wood chips, and added soil will be put in the corners. We will be watering during practice to keep the moisture in the ground. We will be working to make Metcalf as enjoyable as possible.
All bikes are welcome for track, NO SPARK ARRESTER, RED STICKER BIKES OKAY for track use only.
We will be breaking practice up by skill levels. Pro/Int Beg/Nov Women/Kids 20 min motos.
Come enjoy a natural terrain track 10 minutes out of San Jose. These will only be going on during red sticker season once a month so come out and enjoy are local MX tracks!!!
INFO:
www.garrahanoffroadtraining.com
brian@garrahanoffroad.com
 
Are you offering anything other than open practice in the 2nd half of October? Looking to to take a class sometime after the 15th of October.
 
What kind of bike is the black one at the beginning with the rotopax on the tail? DR something or other maybe?
 
Its been raining for the last week over here. Thunder, lighting and such.
Johnson lane will be epic come saturday.
 
Argyll MX (near dixon) has been epic lately. If you have a real dirt bike and the balls for it, Argyll is super fun. Not too crowded like 408MX; they don't break practice up into 3 groups like Club Moto often does; they don't water while it's still muddy like Hangtown; it's not unrideable until 11 am like the main track at MMX. And for you newer riders out there, you can double all the triples and still have a lot of fun. My favorite place to ride these days.

Here's a 1 lap video. The track has changed since then and is even better if you ask me.

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Sandhill is open again (now called Diablo MX). Info at diablomxranch.com

Went there a few weeks ago, had a lot of fun. They do break practice into 3 groups, which sucks, but I still managed to get a fair amount of track time. The prep was good, the dirt was good, the track was challenging while still very safe. Really a class act. If I lived closer it would be in my regular rotation for sure.

Argyll is still great, Hangtown is still muddy, MMX is still good but could be better (the main track needs to be ripped a little deeper?), E street is still sand, and motocross is still the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
 
Any easy dirt roads around sac/amador county?

If you know of any routes that have some relatively easy roads that I can practice some skills on, please post or PM me.

Thanks!
 
If you know of any routes that have some relatively easy roads that I can practice some skills on, please post or PM me.

Thanks!

Prairie City there in Sac has a fair amount of level/open routes to have fun on.
 
Reference

Second to the telephone, this might be the best way to see what is open at Carnegie
https://m.facebook.com/Carnegie-SVRA-203533419677830/

This is the criteria:
The hills at Carnegie SVRA will be closed for a minimum of 12 hours when we reach the following rain thresholds, as measured by the gauge at the park entrance.
• More than 0.30" in 12 hours
• More than 0.50" in 24 hours
• More than 0.65" in 48 hours

tel:(925) 447-9027

This too
http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1172
 
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Carnegie map with actual trails. I think these are GPS traces. Maybe someone cna make a usable map...
 

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Stony Willows office
Mendocino
National Forest
825 N. Humboldt Ave.
Willows, CA 95988
(530) 934-3316

Not the work center in Stonyford proper. I need to start a new thread...
 
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