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A Tale of Two (Partial) BDRs

Back Country Discovery Routes
ridebdr.com

Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR) Maps & Information

This website provides you with GPS tracks, information, and planning tools for each Backcountry Discovery Route (BDR).
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This is the Adventure Riding forum and so it's a pretty common acronym in this riding community. BTW - The link above was the first hit when I searched BDR in the Googles.

Edit: If you Gizoogle it you get a much different take though.

What tha fuck iz a BDR, biatch? (Definition, responsibilitizzles n' game) - Indeed​

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ST Guy said:
What is a BDR?

I wish people would stop using acronyms because a large majority don’t know what people are talking about. WTF, LOL and some others are OK, but BDR I’m clueless about.

At least spell it out in your first post before using the acronym. That way a reader can figure it out.
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It's like BDSM...but different :ROFLMAO:
 
Backcountry Discovery Routes. You can check out all of the routes here: https://ridebdr.com/

They have paper maps of each one, plus GPX files to stick in your GPS to help you navigate. (Do I need to spell out GPX and GPS too? :rolleyes:)

Glad that the original poster enjoyed the bits of the IDBDR that were covered. I've done everything from Jarbidge to Yellow Pine, but that's all. Was just up on a section last week above Lowman in my Bronco going through an "impassible" closed section that wasn't actually impossible to get through like the sign claimed:
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The BDR routes get you to some beautiful mountain areas in the Western US.
 
Thanks for the clarification. And no, I don’t need to know what GPS and GPX means.

We have gotten so used to acronyms that they are now causing harm to clear communicating. We should resist using acronyms.
 
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ST Guy said:
We have gotten so used to acronyms that they are now causing harm to clear communicating.
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I absolutely agree with you and have always been annoyed when people use acronyms assuming that everybody knows what they mean. Sometimes the person using them doesn't even have a clue.

But I've always disliked abbreviations and nicknames. That made it hard being in the computer industry for the four decades that I did that sort of work.
 
ScottRNelson said:
I absolutely agree with you and have always been annoyed when people use acronyms assuming that everybody knows what they mean. Sometimes the person using them doesn't even have a clue.

But I've always disliked abbreviations and nicknames. That made it hard being in the computer industry for the four decades that I did that sort of work.
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The only case where an acronym is harmful is in the case where one doesn't know what the acronym means. It's not difficult to ask, as someone eventually did here. But there are a lot of situations in which people might not know the meaning of an acronym.

In a work environment, not all company cultures are safe to reveal you don't know something, so people might not ask. People might feel that way on BARF, for that matter. This time it turned out OK.
 
I think it’s annoying to wonder what an acronym means. And it takes time out of one’s day to figure it out, whether you do a search or ask. A few, such as LOL and WTF are OK, but that’s it.

I’ll bet no one here knows what this means: DUAA.
 
tzrider said:
Not that I refer to THC much, but if I did, I’d prefer the acronym to the words. YMMV.
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lol. Funny. Ditto for LSD. But FWIW, LSD, KFC, THC and BDR are not acronyms - they’re initialisms. Acronyms are things like SCUBA, LASER. Or RADAR.

ST Guy:
I think it’s annoying to wonder what an acronym means. And it takes time out of one’s day to figure it out, whether you do a search or ask. A few, such as LOL and WTF are OK, but that’s it.
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And yes, this is the ADV forum (ADV is an abbreviation), so if you don’t know what BDR is, well, if you hang out here long enough you’ll figure it out…and ideally even go do one - they’re awesome.
 
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ThinkFast said:
lol. Funny. Ditto for LSD. But FWIW, LSD, KFC, THC and BDR are not acronyms - they’re initialisms. Acronyms are things like SCUBA, LASER. Or RADAR.


And yes, this is the ADV forum (ADV is an abbreviation), so if you don’t know what BDR is, well, if you hang out here long enough you’ll figure it out…and ideally even go do one - they’re awesome.
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I’m sure they are. Unfortunately I can no longer ride because of my stroke. Such is life.
 
stratslingr77 said:
...Monte's clutch was on its last legs and he was concerned about his bike's ability to make it back to California...
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What was going on with Monte's clutch? I think I've read in a few places that it's fairly easy to consume clutches on the 701/690s. Mix that with someone like me that likes to eat clutches, and lookout! New clutch at 10k; putting another in tomorrow at 28k. :ninja:
 
I replaced my clutch over the winter...not sure what the prognosis was with Monte's clutch...but he was having problems getting the bike into gear, and Northern Idaho is a LONG way from home with a lot of wide open space between here and there. Plus a heatwave and wildfires; we played it safe.
 
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