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All hilarious! Seriously though it's the layout. I have a 650 and it makes it easy to sit up straight.

You doing this ride on the this coming weekend, I am looking for a nice easy ride to take the wife and her friend on. We might do the noob ride but looks like that is getting pretty full and not sure about the trail and speed they will want to go. My wife is nursing a hand injury and just want to get her back out for a slow paced fun ride. Not going again until later this month-booked a spot at Serrano Campground.This is a fun mellow area for the wifey/newb. Wide open fire roads (3N16 -3N14 mainly) Some fun technical off shoots and some trails have skill level markers. I highly recommend buying the Franco Map for this area-google Franco Maps and buy it for the Big Bear & Lake Arrownhead trail map-very accurate and easy to navigate. I came up the 18 and turn left at Fawnskin on the 38-i parked my truck on Van Dusen Canyon Road in front of some homes and headed up that road-you can take it a few miles up to Holcomb Campground and just tool around all back in that area-again the Franco Map is great and it didnt take long to orient myself. Watch out for Jeep dudes-they fly around so look ahead for dust clouds-stick to your side and just be aware. Saw about 10 motos the whole day. Its not Canandian Forest lush but its a nice change from the deserts im used to riding and nice and cool! Enjoy! If you two are planning more rides with your wives I'm sure my husband would love to have some options besides waiting for me to chicken out of, for example, Mother Grundy... And I'd like to have some other women to test the water er dirt with:). I guess I should clarify - chickened out on my 650gs I'm sure I would have given it a shot on a small dirt bike.

I think I'm probably beyond a total noob not having ever ridden in the dirt before - and not even a very good mountain biker - but I'd love to try getting some dirt on my new (to me) 650gs... Too big?? Too noob?