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Hello all, It is with great pleasure that I'm announcing that starting today, Sedlak Offroad School, our homebrew off-road school for Adventure, Enduro, and especially kids off-road school, is under new ownership. I have acquired SOS and as of today, the new business name is SoCal Off-Road School (www.socaloffroadschool.com). While I'm the new owner behind the scenes, legendary Edgar Cota, the Mexican Tornado and the most recent Baja 1000 Iron Man Champion (which was really 1300 miles, 6 hours ahead of second place), is leading the company. We are 100% committed to the ADV community. While short term it's business as usual, we are fully committed to become the #1 ADV school not only in California, but in the entire US, if not the world. I don't have words to describe how excited I am to embark on this new journey. Let's make San Diego a center of ADV (Big Trail, Maxi Enduro, etc) for the world to see! I have some exciting plans for the future and I'm counting with your support. Stay tuned for exciting new events and opportunities in the months to come. Cheers!

I haven't been riding motorcycles much lately Got out for a ride in March, but haven't had much time for doing everything that I'd like to do since I had to go back to work. Admittedly, I have been doing a lot of fishing on my days off....but last Saturday, I decided that I needed to either ride one of my dirt bikes, or start putting them up for sale So ride it was. A day in the Uinta mountains.

I use it in different weights in different bikes. I've found it's cheaper to buy it in the 4L jug. The seller Partscontainer on ebay usually has the best price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/154494116510?epid=2299376275&itmmeta=01J2PW28MDVTQQHDW59G5D7FY3&hash=item23f891229e:g:1NIAAOSw3elkDGIE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4KaYxgF6dWdZBYpLrqDhLg%2Fol5B1kkBjvADzQumLprcDkmA3QQnC9gWunbq%2FkGQm6Be%2BIql8S%2FQGomznL6sSd%2FAxfeqSiStLYZ1JQJDtdBuNqZNl1g9aEVWHFu63ESsHvcQzGwhDNyGtU5II7La%2Fgv3I2b4nFhouy6l2PSxubaPsCqq1l%2FB%2Fcc9VHCqRYeiGmQN7grhZxo%2B7FzM%2FNVDXFdTREbt6YRA5kND5MczaAZ7AlXKsrRYLKDbgrX8LEyZfK2rX9nXArZ198lSZr5HlXMyzJ%2BJZ5sMofQo3zhzSNgc7|tkp%3ABFBMpIqJ3JVk

I love to comment on the hot weather riding discussion. We ride enduro all year round. Wear light colors (helmet as well), use vented/mesh type gear, add a wetted cooler neck collar to your kit, carry lots of water or electrolytic drink with you (I use the 3L USWE pack). Sometimes I wear my KLIM cooler undergear jersey wetted. Normally I go bare under my Fly Racing chest guard with all the attachments. Lightest protective gear as well, minimize weight and even for cooler weather allow for easy movement, don't be dressed for a jousting tournament. enjoy the heat! I have depended on Moose Sahara gear for years but lately due to a special deal and the quality of their product, I am super happy with FXR super lite well vented gear. It's like racing silk!

I did all this before it even was the AZ BDR.

Yeah, but that's 10W50, which is even cheaper on ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/363595078702?epid=4026687730&itmmeta=01J2WXVWRDB1MAWMBBQ2HDY2JW&hash=item54a7f49c2e:g:qEsAAOSwPBpkDGBL

Couple bucks less on Amazon https://a.co/d/ez33QRi

It is up there with stuff like AmsOil and such. I have run it in the past, but use AmsOil exclusively after having two cases of water pump failures in KTM 950's dumping coolant into the oil and it not turning into a milkshake. Happened to me in the bay area, rode back to LA, adding nearly 4 liters of water to the coolant on the trip home, the oil was able to burn off the water instead of turning into a milk shake. That's why I became a dealer to get it at cost for myself and members of this forum.

For what it’s worth, that’s what I run in the Multistrada 950’s if I’m the one putting oil in. I’ve trusted Motul for a long time, ran this stuff in my 800GSA, and used to run 300v in my GSX-R 750 and it was always running well.

Looks really nice there. Glad to see you were able to get out and ride the X in a nice green area. We don’t have much of that down here right now. Everything is turning brown with the hot weather we’ve been having lately. Been to hot to ride also.

wow! Looks like the ride we all lament about not taking

Glad to see some pics of you riding the high country. Another year is going by that I have to pass on riding WY, dang it. Looks like you’ve found the good stuff there.

Ohhh, that is beautiful country !

Looks like a nice peaceful ride 🤙🏻

Some of you attended the last class we had, put on by my friend Colin. He covered a lot of general first aid in that one. I talked to him and he agreed to do another maybe in August or September. This time he'll do a more "hands on" approach and be more specific to injuries you might encounter on the trail. Would anyone like to offer their garage or whatever to host this class? I'm guessing we'd probably have 25 - 30 people again.

Thanks! We have several expansion plans that I believe the entire ADV community will love - not only students, but establish riders as well

Well, she messed up. The competition-only status applies to 2024 bikes or newer. This means it doesn't apply to your bike because of the model year. I highly recommend registration services. They take the hassle out of this BS.

I’d love to get an evening otay ride in soon but might be tough with the holiday. Then I’m taking the 1150gs on a 2 week trip to Northern California.

Well shite. I like Black mtn. yeh, I like Tom’s suggestion of Otay. Watching the sunset into the ocean from the Otay Towers is very cool. And watching the lights of TJ come up as it gets darker. If Pokey has a plan for Tuesday, I’m in for it if it’s not north of Ramona/ Black. If not I may figure a fun route to top of Otay. So many options. But yes Randy, I’m just itching to ride the little bike (450) more. Come July I’ll be on the 1250 for 3 weeks.

***Update: Looks like I was wrong and they fixed it and the gates are open, awesome 🤙🏻 They will never fix it, I mean I hope they do, but it's been closed a long time already. I've been up and down that thing a hundred times (when gates open) and have never seen one ranger.

I'd guess because he just got the 450, and it's likely a lot of fun to ride?

Yeh, I’m in. Need to run that KTM a bit.

Thankfully I was relieved of my duties of employment and am going to do a two week trip to Northern California to visit a sorely missed relative on the Feather River and also do some moto camping and exploration with my new (used) trailer. Did I mention the NorCal BDR just had the inaugural opening as seen on YouTube? I looked around for a small towable teardrop or similar and they were really expensive and didn't have enough space that I needed to get a bike inside. I've done my own self-contained toy hauler with a $3,000 trailer that I found it on Craigslist. Here's where my adventure begins! If it doesn't go well, it's been nice knowing you all! 😉

When you gonna bring that by to show it? also got new toy in shop 🤷‍♂️

I just called the ranger and it IS closed. The last big rain damaged the road, they don't know when it will reopen So I will cancel the trip. until I can figure out a new spot Thanks for the tip @KTMrad