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Adventure riding short rides and BS thread

Cabrito said:
Parker Mountain Lookout near Klamath Falls OR
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anytwowilldo said:
Beautiful pictures John. Blue Ridge looks like a painting and should be framed!
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yes, I should get that one framed ... anyway, I think of Blue Ridge as Mr anytwowilldo's watchtower, every time I'm up there. :angel

aren't you getting back from a 1000 mile grand ADV tour, too?

here's a map of Mr Cabrito's Parker Mountain, I think:

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google map link.

looking forward to trying to find the second watchtower Mr Cabrito posted, with the anti-wind guy wires. :cool
 
did a StonyBARF/RydTher Rally ride this weekend, and on Saturday morning did this Reese River Canyon loop from Hawthorne, NV, and back:

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google maps link.

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the moon, sunrise and bike from the memorial on Lucky Boy Pass Road.

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the Flying M Ranch ...

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the stone cabin on E Walker Road ...

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and the plunge down from the saddle on Reese River Canyon Road/State Rt 2C. it was fairly gnarly KLR riding, and probably more of an adventure than I'd imagined. :laughing

in the last pic you can sort of tell that some epic thunderstorms where heading in ... I managed to make it back to the motel around 1pm, before the skys opened up.

I have my next two or three Saturday Hawthorne rides planned, should take me through 2026. :laughing
just off-pavement riding for days in the RydTher Rally area ... :ride
 
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That looks like fun stuff. I may have to bring the DRZ next year to go explore some of that dirt.
 
SFMCjohn said:
did a StonyBARF/RydTher Rally ride this weekend, and on Saturday morning did this Reese River Canyon loop from Hawthorne, NV, and back:



the moon, sunrise and bike from the memorial on Lucky Boy Pass Road.


and the plunge down from the saddle on Reese River Canyon Road/State Rt 2C. it was fairly gnarly KLR riding, and probably more of an adventure than I'd imagined. :laughing

in the last pic you can sort of tell that some epic thunderstorms where heading in ... I managed to make it back to the motel around 1pm, before the skys opened up.

I have my next two or three Saturday Hawthorne rides planned, should take me through 2026. :laughing
just off-pavement riding for days in the RydTher Rally area ... :ride
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N4teTheGreat said:
That looks like fun stuff. I may have to bring the DRZ next year to go explore some of that dirt.
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I posted this map and offered to tow out bikes for the next Hawthorne Rally. There is so much to see and do.

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ThumperX said:
I posted this map and offered to tow out bikes for the next Hawthorne Rally. There is so much to see and do.
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that's an awesome map ... what I imagined when I first heard about the BARF Hawthorne rally, was all like, I gotta go try that. :laughing:thumbup
 
these two vids are pretty enjoyable, from a riding-unsuitable-bikes standpoint:

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and the self-extraction:

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lesson for fearful ADV riders like me, is any motorcycle is pretty capable, if yer fearless. :laughing

plus, I'm sure that young man can ride circles around the likes of me. which probably helps. :gsxrgrl
 
That poor goldwing has seen some things, pretty impressive though. And you can walk off a crash easier when you're young.
 
SFMCjohn said:
these two vids are pretty enjoyable, from a riding-unsuitable-bikes standpoint:

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and the self-extraction:

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lesson for fearful ADV riders like me, is any motorcycle is pretty capable, if yer fearless. :laughing

plus, I'm sure that young man can ride circles around the likes of me. which probably helps. :gsxrgrl
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I'm pretty impressed with the resourcefulness shown in that second video to get that Goldwing running again. He's got another video where he converts a Hayabusa into a dirt bike. Him and his buddies in the garage, fabricating crash bars, a skid plate, and getting knobbies mounted on those rims. Pretty cool!
 
Hmm, yeah, looks a little wintery there. Guess It's coastal rides or southern desert season now.
 
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yes, Mr bananachunks is sending me updates on Panoche and Tumey Hills BLM—they were still not out of fire-season closure as of yesterday.

hopefully they will unlock the gates after today’s rain? :dunno

here’s Mr Spears’s Hayabusa dirt-bike vid:

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when I’m tempted to start sniveling about my pos pre-gen KLR next time the going get tough, I’ll remember the stuff he can ride on massive street bikes. :facepalm:laughing
 
more inappropriate motorcycle brilliance from Mr Spears:

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tl/dr: fun self-rescue stuff on slick-rock, because of course there is. :laughing
 
yet another pita pre-gen KLR top end ... :rolleyes

last couple I did myself only went way under 10K miles. this one recently started to burn a quart of oil in a couple tanks of gas. :facepalm

so a pro is doing this top end. my slap-it-together-and-hope-for-the-best style is getting old, and isn't getting me very far down the road.

we'll send some Mr kalle supplied parts up to EDCo. we had three cylinders to chose from--two would have required to be bored out to a piston size above 685cc, and one may work with a hone and an OEM stock-size piston, which may be the way we'll go, cuz ima big believer in stock engines for what I use them for ...

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valves were cupped, compression test was 80%, cam chain out of spec.

I just sent my $170 off for the n00bs Rally in Death Valley on 03/20/24, and we have plans to go see the whales in Baja this winter at some point, and the four BARF rallies and two StonyBARFs, and the End of Pavement rally in Cedarville and Mr catfish's rally up at the Sierra Buttes, and Bungie Brent's Backwoods Bash. oh yeah, the Sheetiron 300, maybe. so that's how my '24 riding season is shaping up. see if I have a running KLR at some point, to accomplish all that.

never a dull moment ... :ride
 
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I love your commitment to the KLR platform. Will it be ready in time for noobs?
 
Cabrito said:
I love your commitment to the KLR platform. Will it be ready in time for noobs?
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yes, some point soon I'll probably throw in the pre-gen KLR towel, and get my 300 Verseys X. probably think that I've died and gone to heaven. :laughing

the theory is it'll be together for n00bs.

I have another KLR project in the garage that needs a ton of work, so I could be trying to get that together as a n00bs plan B, while Ms Lucytriple is corralling the machine work and OEM parts needed for the plan A bike in the pic. be a good excuse for me to spend time in the garage with the other KLR project. got basically zero motivation to do that, though. :facepalm

and plan C is just to make the scene at n00bs on the '88 K75s.
 
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BARFer Mr kalle, bs-ing adventure riding with proper props, at BARF’s favorite coffee shop in the Lower Haight:

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think we decided these two cylinders have both been over-bored for a 685cc piston at some point in the murky past, and are now mostly suitable for boat anchors, since Kawasaki made a million of them.

:party
 
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