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I have one in my tool box....and that's where it stays. I can see how it might be helpful for some, but I've changed 100's of tubes at this point and it just slows me down.

Happy New Year from the Moto Clan. I look forward to more riding with my friends and family in 2023. Ride or Die.

Not only is it jeepable, it might even be fun in a Jeep. Although it will obviously take much longer.

Thanks for sharing that.

We past each other on the 78 as I was going east and you were going west, right near the entrance for the Santa Ysabel Preserve hiking trail....small world.

I've done it on an adventure bike and on my 500. I ride faster than most and probably longer hours per day. I start in Ramona and am in Yuma by noon (and that's with about 50/50 dirt / street ) for lunch. Gas up, grab some beer, and finish the ride out to Pichaco Campground for the first night. From Pichaco it's on trail to Blythe for gas and lunch. Continue on all the way to the Mojave National Preserve, where there are some great camp spots. Up in the morning, hit Primm for gas, and continue on to DV for a stop in Furnace creek, so on and so forth. I only camp. And I've had some amazing nights camping and some very horrible nights camping. One of the worst was on CABDR in March 2019 with Rigger Dan when we got caught in this....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2019_North_American_blizzard#:~:text=Rapid snowmelt following the storm,over a 24-hour period. Even though we were on the far west outskirts of this system, it was pretty gnarly.

It was a bust. About five days before we left, the weather took a significant turn for the worst. Much of the NVBDR is at altitude and it looked like the lows would be in the low 20's, maybe even into the teens, at night for more than half of the ride. So at the last minute, I put together a five to six day ride in Arizona, half of which included the AZ BDR tracks and half was new tracks. The weather looked to be ideal for Arizona. We were all set to pull out on a Tuesday morning, and everything was lined up. I finished prepping my bike on Sunday, including installing new tires. I got my bike all loaded up and decided to take it for a quick shake down around the block (which for me includes Highland Valley Road) to make sure everything was secure. My bike washed out in the first corner on HVR and I went down hard. Got scraped up a bit and broke my thumb. So bottom line, I was out. The rest of the group continued on to the Arizona ride, but ended up turning around after a couple days and heading south as a result of the weather getting too cold there too.

Thanks. Looks amazing. I'd love to make it but have a two dayers lined up for this weekend. I'll keep track for next year. LB

Robert, you posted a Jpeg (picture), I'm guessing you indented to post a link? I've searched on-line for more info on this and found info on this event that shows it was scheduled for September 24th. I'm guessing it was rescheduled for some reason? Do you have a link to the current info? Thanks, O

Mileage, time, the difficulty of terrain, and distance vary by how hard you want to work. There are teams that want to win, so they might spend 13 hours on the bike each day, hitting as many checkpoints as fast as possible. Some of the fastest teams will bring two bikes for each person, an adventure bike and a small bike. They'll hit the technical stuff one day on small bikes and the long road section on their adventure bikes the next. But of course most teams just want to cruise, hit as much as possible, and enjoy the weekend. There will be section where only advanced ADV bike riders should be doing on ADV bikes. If you just want to have fun, do some riding, not take things too seriously, and not worry about getting in a jam, I'd go with the 500.

Wow, a 2017 with 708 miles. What a score.

I'll be somewhere between Ramona and Idaho on that date. Y'all have fun.

Holy moly...Keep it coming

Worst comes to worst...there are companies that can repair some CDI's.

Guess I never did a ride report. Oh well...I'm off to Nevada in a couple weeks. Maybe do an RR after I get home from there...or maybe not...🤣

You guys are nuts....left at 10pm and rode through the night...😵

Absolutely. I'll chime in where needed.

Following. I'll be riding Nevada BDR 10/19 to 10/26ish...so I'll be gone that 1st-weekend option. Possible for the 29th/30th....but since I'll just be getting home from a week trip camping off the bike, I'm probably unlikely, so don't arrange anything around me.

I led a club overnight ride for noobs a few years ago to Santa Rosa (Tom, weren't you on it?). Everyone had a blast. And quite a few learned some valuable lessons on setup, gear, luggage, etc. One guy had a yard sale of gear, sorry can't remember who it was, for about a mile down a trail because he tied everything down with bungee cords. Bungee cords don't work for what we do. We fixed him up and got back on the road and everyone had a laugh over it. God, who was it??? Anyway, these types of rides are an excellent resource for noobs to learn. I've ridden thousand and thousand of miles off road in remote areas camping off my bike and am constantly learning and changing things up. I think I have three full sets of bags, tents, gear, etc, that I went through before I got a pretty good grasp on the way I wanted to do it. Here's a pic from the top of Santa Rosa

Zubb, you must be thinking of something else, because the gates Goofy inquired about are almost always open, only occasionally close for inclement weather. Goofy, if I get a chance, I'll cruise over tomorrow and check them out. My guess is that they are open.

I've done CABDR X2, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and will be setting out with the BDR crew to take on 1000 miles of dirt on the NVBDR in a couple weeks. Each has been a lot of fun, each had some challenges (usually weather related), and each is well worth doing. As far as my favorites, I'd probably go with CO at this point. But Utah was awesome....oh heck, they were all awesome in their own way. Zubb, hit me up if you want to do CABDR. I'd might be game depending on what life is throwing at me.

I can do this on the Trail 89

Member Kato originally built this route many years ago. He shared it with me, I made a couple of minor improvements to it, and believe I shared it with Pokey a couple of years ago. I've ridden it quite a few times now, both as a 2 dayer to BB and back and as the first leg of several longer multi-day trips to places like the Sierras or DV. It's a fun route and I consider it easy. If anyone has questions about it, I'd be happy to answer if I can. It's a 6-hour ride at a fast pace. 8 hours+ with a group.

I had similar parameters when I bought my truck three years ago. I purchased a used 2012 Ford F150 (previously owned only GM trucks my entire life) with the 3.5 EcoBoost twin turbo. The reason I went this route was for better gas mileage around town than the v8, the high tow rating for a 1/2 ton truck (something like 11,000 pounds), and more HP and torque than the V8. Plus it's a twin turbo and fun as heck to drive. The torque is impressive. I tow a 20' box trailer loaded with bikes. I need a crew cab for my family of 5 so ended up with the 6.5' bed. I've gotten four bikes in it, granted two of them were kids bikes. The F150 was updated in 2015 with some nice upgrades, mechanically and cosmetically, so I'd start there.

The "somewhere" shot is Colorado BDR, taken by yours truly. The "Again I have no idea, but I'll go wherever Chris is pointing" shot is at the top of Black Mountain in Ramona.