Photos of your bike on location

[norcalkid]

PXL_20230817_091310225.MP by Norcalkid, on Flickr

 

[Gary856]

The crappy brakes of the DR650 require major recalibration for street riding - I almost blew two turns without going that fast; it almost felt like there was no brake! Also, how does it make sense that the fairly slow DR650 averages only 37 mpg over the last 350 miles, while my much bigger/heavier/more powerful '08 R1200GS averages over 44 mpg forever?

Farms around Santa Teresa / Hale in Coyote.

 

[GMAK]

Found graffiti alley in downtown Petaluma

 

[ichabodnt650]

...how does it make sense that the fairly slow DR650 averages only 37 mpg...

Carburetor may be set way too rich for your usage where you're pissing unburned fuel out your exhaust.

9.5:1 compression ratio isn't as efficient at converting gas to propulsion than 12.6:1

Air cooled motors have sloppy tolerances (for heat expansion) and you leak more pressure leaving less for propulsion

 

[ScottRNelson]

Also, how does it make sense that the fairly slow DR650 averages only 37 mpg over the last 350 miles, while my much bigger/heavier/more powerful '08 R1200GS averages over 44 mpg forever?

My XR650L went from averaging about 35 to averaging about 45 after I put a higher compression piston in it. It's back closer to 40 mpg now for some reason.

My fuel injected KTM with 12.7:1 pistons has averaged over 57 mpg in the 14,000 miles that I've owned it. Fuel injection and higher compression equals better mileage.


Photos coming later today. Finally getting out into the hills again.

 

[ScottRNelson]

Silver City, Oreana

Headed up the road to Silver City.

It's all uphill from here to the summit. You can keep a pretty good pace if you don't run into any road graders (there was one).

We stopped at the summit for a break.

There were a few puddles from the recent rain on the road out, headed toward Oregon. This one was big enough to maybe be a pond.

This is the group - three old guys.

Some cool rock formations as we got closer to Oregon.

 

[N4teTheGreat]

Had to run over to storage on Treasure Island today to get a sleeping bag for a friend to borrow. Figured it was worth a quick stop for a photo. Only thing clean on the bike is the chain.

 

[norcalkid]

PXL_20230824_045750079 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_052327771.MP by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_044051015 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_044059448 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_061831340.MP~2 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_061840857.PORTRAIT by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_061925623 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

PXL_20230824_062254635 by Norcalkid, on Flickr

 

[WoodsChick]

Headed up the road to Silver City.

There were a few puddles from the recent rain on the road out, headed toward Oregon. This one was big enough to maybe be a pond.

Ugh...we just rode through the Oreana area on Tuesday towards Jordan Valley. I really wanted to go up and over through Silver City but we'd been battling the rain for 4 days and didn't want to get halfway through and have to struggle through any more quagmires. It looks like it was perfect for you guys yesterday!

 

[WoodsChick]

This is not the Feather River in CA. It's the Featherville Motel on the South Fork of the Boise River in Idaho. That's our wet tent hanging over the railing in the background...

IdahoLovin'Chick

 

[ScottRNelson]

Ugh...we just rode through the Oreana area on Tuesday towards Jordan Valley. I really wanted to go up and over through Silver City but we'd been battling the rain for 4 days and didn't want to get halfway through and have to struggle through any more quagmires. It looks like it was perfect for you guys yesterday!

You missed out. The road to Silver City is much more scenic. Based on what I saw at the creek crossings headed toward Oreana, it probably would have been a better road too. The puddles were only in the flat part.

 

[WoodsChick]

You missed out. The road to Silver City is much more scenic. Based on what I saw at the creek crossings headed toward Oreana, it probably would have been a better road too. The puddles were only in the flat part.

Gee, thanks. I feel better now





Sorry>Safe

 

[budman]

Gee, thanks. I feel better now

IdahoMissedItChick?

Nice pic btw.

 

[CDONA]

A couple of religious sites,

Left over rain, little telltails out there about how hard the water flows.
Monsoon a bit spotty this year, all about scattered showers, small dumps mostly, but the big ones do show. A few new washouts along the top rim.
New concrete work on 89A, in the switchbacks, almost to the rim.

 

[CDONA]

Schenebly Hill Rd. This will take you to I 17 from Sedona. Mostly rocky, but a county road, up to and past the rim, dirt starts around the corner, poaching Pink Jeep stuff.

Got me a little bit of slick rock, legal.

Trail head above uptown,

The old Art Barn RV park, was in use when I first moved to Az.
I had hopes of moving there, but no.
Tour buses use this area for parking now.

No pix, but I did look in the HD of Sedona shop, a T- shirt and treasures store to see if they stock a bike or two there.
I did find the shop keeper working on something as I walked in.
"You put a spell on me" from CC&R, blasting, and some physical thing in the air.
Something was way different, I asked her about it, music about black magic in Sedona.
Way more going on with my feels, she 'fessed up to it.
Casting a spell on some guy she knows, with something I can't see, this had an off white aura. She was wound up and very present time, type power.

So yes, another soaring heart experience with the magic of Sedona, , ,

Vortex tuned heart dude

 

[N4teTheGreat]

Got this bad boy back yesterday, it's sweet.

 

[Cabrito]

Got this bad boy back yesterday, it's sweet.

The graffiti is constantly changing along that wall. The ground Graffiti is exploding!

That bike looks like a bad mutha..

 

[N4teTheGreat]

Like all of my bikes, it's cooler than me.

 

[Cabrito]

At the columbarium to visit my mom at her final resting place while out scrubbing in some new tires.

 

[ThumperX]

Whoa, I missed a lot!!
Woodschick riding and posting arty
Cdona always delivers
NFukn8 (just kidding but that'd be an awesome barf handle) always somewhere on 2

and Cabrito paying a vist to mom

Thanks all of you for posting.