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Photos of your bike on location

Feck it, heres mine as well, Thanks Ken. :p


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Johndicezx9 said:
Very cool! :thumbup

Met up with my vintage friends yesterday and a woman showed up with this. Apparently she has owned it since it was new! :wow

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wow, some wonderful survivor pics in my favorite BARF thread, recently. :gsxrgrl

check out the stock exhaust system on the GPz … did you notice how many miles it has on the odo? original owner, sooo cool! :ride
 
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SFMCjohn said:
wow, some wonderful survivor pics in my favorite BARF thread, recently. :gsxrgrl

check out the stock exhaust system on the GPz … did you notice how many miles it has on the odo? original owner, sooo cool! :ride
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I did not... I was mesmerized by the stock exhaust as well. I worked in a dealership when those were new and I don't remember them being that clean then. :laughing
 
Your friends are vintage John. :laughing
 
Took the Redshift SM to Metcalf Motorcycle Park on Friday. Already really dry and loose it becomes even worse with street tires.

I met this dude with a Sur Ron Ultra Bee. Unfortunately the ranger kicked him out because he didn't have a green sticker or plate.
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Did some Trail 1 mode testing, Mode 3 seems to be best for offroad, 4 has too much power and regen the tires just spin/slide
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H20 Hill Climb Conquered
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For that authentic supermoto experience I rode down and up Metcalf Road then straight to the MX track
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Best view from Trail 3
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Rode up the hillclimb that killed my Sur Ron Light Bee last year Redshift made it up ez
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First crash on the Redshift SM even after a bunch of races. Hillside track was all beat up and overgrown. Front washed out going around the corner.
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I said I wasn't going to do any singletrack but I had some juice left so I tried Horseshoe Singletrack and that was a bad idea because going around one steep and loose switchback I had no traction to get up it. Had to push it up it a bit.
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Time to pack up and go home
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First crash on the Redshift SM even after a bunch of races. Hillside track was all beat up and overgrown. Front washed out going around the corner.
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Did you actually crash, or just dump the bike. If the bike goes down and I don't, it isn't crash. I'm pretty good at stepping away from a bike that I can't save from going down.
 
HadesOmega said:
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Awesome - on street tires, no less! :thumbup I need to ride Metcalf more to work up the nerve to do hill climbs.


ScottRNelson said:
Did you actually crash, or just dump the bike. If the bike goes down and I don't, it isn't crash. I'm pretty good at stepping away from a bike that I can't save from going down.
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Hair splitting. :laughing I always thought I could manage/recover from slides because they're usually pretty progressive, but recently I lost the front of my mountain bike on dry, matted down grass (i.e., straw) without much lean at fairly low speed. I was down on my right elbow in an instant; didn't realize dry grass could be that slick and that was a lesson to always tread carefully.


Mt Hamilton Rd (shortly after turning left from Quimby). The down tree was light enough for me to drag it out of the way if I had to, but I wasn't that motivated to get thru.

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Murillo Ave. It felt a little odd to see these cars with windows down and no one around; they felt like baits for a trap or something so I didn't want to get too close to them. :loco

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Clayton Rd. They upgraded the barriers from water-filled plastic to concrete and blocked the road better. A motived rider could still get around them but, again, I wasn't too motivated.

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Sierra Rd

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ScottRNelson said:
Did you actually crash, or just dump the bike. If the bike goes down and I don't, it isn't crash. I'm pretty good at stepping away from a bike that I can't save from going down.
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Yes I went down with the bike slide under the bike for about a foot landed on my knee also. Tucked the front, not much you can do other than really get on the throttle. First time it's been down since I've owned it and I've raced it about 4 times.
 
A friend's '82 Honda MB5 and my '97 Dream 50 out behind my shop, after returning from our tiddler ride down Pleasants Valley Road to Winters for Mexican food. Size does matter, small is lots of fun!

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Prairie, Pine, Featherville, Sun Valley, Stanley, Lowman, Banks (part 1)

Did a big loop, somewhere around 400 miles. More than 100 of that was on dirt roads and twice we were above 8700 feet in altitude.

First rest stop, on the way to Prairie.
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A look back toward Boise, after crossing the river.
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This trip involved a few more animals on the road than normal. Since it's so steep here, there was no waiting for the cows to go off to the side of the road, we just had to ride through them.
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The view back to Anderson Ranch Dam. We rode up the valley on the other side of the river and crossed the dam.
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South fork of the Boise River, headed toward Ketchum.
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Prairie, Pine, Featherville, Sun Valley, Stanley, Lowman, Banks (part 2)

Climbing up to one of the highest points of this trip, looking to the west. This is above 8600 feet, but we don't have this view at the very top.
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Above 8700 feet at the pass of Forest Service Rd 277 (a.k.a. Little Smoky Rd) looking to the east.
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You know you're on a steep mountainside when there are few straight sections on the map and the road keeps looping back on itself.
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The mountains are SO beautiful up on the way from Sun Valley to Stanley.
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The Sawtooth Mountains headed toward Stanley.
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On the way out of Stanley, late in the day through forests and meadows, I was saying to myself "watch for deer, watch for pronghorn (a.k.a., antelope)". What animal did we see on the road? Mountain goats. Four of them. Sorry I didn't have time to get a photo of them.

What do they say in Hawaii? No rain, no rainbows?

I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you don't get rained on once in a while you're not trying enough. This was the second time this year for me.
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@ Scott :applause

@ Bill - love the small bikes. We had a MB50 save us in a 24 hour race by donating its handlebars for our RZ after a crash. Closest I ever came to riding a honda in my adult life. :teeth
 
Scott, you're making me really miss Idaho backroads! I've been wanting to do the ID BDR for a few years now. Next summer might be the time...
 
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