Covered in Dust
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There are a couple guys that are planning on going in 2024. If anyone is interested I can put you in touch
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The ride cost was about $3500. This covered bikes, gas, lodging, meals while on the ride. There are a few other expenses. Tips for the ride crew, and a flight back to the starting point at the end of the ride plus you can buy insurance that covers the bike for about $250, I didn’t get the insurance because a new bike is only about 2.5k in India. So about 4K for ride, plus you’ll need hotel rooms before and after your ride and airfare. Also just about everyone takes a tour to the Taj Mahal either before or after the ride (before the ride is best. You’ll probably be ready to go home after the ride). I think all in I was around 8K but I like to fly business class so you could shave 1K off that if you want.
Chris
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About a year ago I got a wild Idea to go for a ride in the Himalayas after seeing a few pics of someone riding there. I put some feelers out to a few of the guys I've done rides with in the past and to my surprise a few guys jumped on board. So I did some research and found a tour operator with a very reasonable price for 3 week ride with everything included. So the 1st of June we were off on an Incredible adventure. All of us are or were active on SDAR. Ted G and his son, Chris C, Van L, JohnnyBags, Brian B and I met up with our tour leader and a few other riders mostly from Australia and picked up our bikes and were off. We quickly became friends with the Aussie boys and are now planning rides in Tasmania and Vietnam for 2024. Here are a few pics. Not sure how many I can post these days. Random order
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I have a stock 06 seat off an exc 525 in my garage. I’d part with for a 6 pack of IPA.
i might even have an enduro engineering’s cover and foam.
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I think the Flying Monkeys still host a ride every Wednesday in Temecula.
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What might be nice would maybe combine a tech day with a swap meet. I know most of us have a garage full of stuff to sell or swap.
CiD
I see by reading some of the other post that this has been mentioned before.
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On all the BDR’s I’ve done 4X4’s are fine. There was just one section in Idaho that had a motorcycle only section. Pretty sure there was an easy go around. I’ll probably take my wife on a few sections of some BDR’s in the near future in my new off-road rig.
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We got froze out in either late September or early October. Can’t remember exactly, but it was a freak cold front that moved in so we had to bail about a third of the way through. They suggest doing it in 2 different rides, half in the summer and half in the winter or something like that. It would be luck to get the whole ride in at once without either it being really hot or too cold during part of it. Both times we were going to do it we missed a Goldilocks window by about a week. I may try again next fall.
This was the 1st attempt. Loren tells about the 2nd attempt below.
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KJ6NUH
expired and didn’t bother renewing it because I only use it on the bike.
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I have it’s big brother in my garage. 97 360 EXC
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PMB, he gets up a little earlier than the rest of the world. Photo by PMB
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We need a Kug Mystery Ride. If you know you know.
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I would have liked to join in on this ride but I’ll be in the middle of the NVBDR. Tried to do it last year but temps in the teens and wind in excess of 50mph had us changing direction mid ride.
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19 hours ago, Zubb said:It seemed the weather was all behind us now and that improves ones mood to putting down miles. We tagged the passes on the BDR track through the Alpine Loop,
And enjoyed Animas Forks Ghost Town.
After about 45 minutes of just looking around through the buildings and reading the plackards, we realized the parking area was filling up with bikes, side by sides and jeeps were rolling in.
So we skeedadled down a road like this.
Ophir Pass was great and we enjoyed skating around on those loose shale plates on the off camber road.It was enough to make you want to pay attention to just what the heck you were doing for awhile. We were more in the mood to ride today so I barely got off a snapshot of this before Adam was already rolling again. Not much to look at up at that sign anyway.
Before too long we rolled up on this view and I just had to holler over the intercom "STOP!" Just stay there and DON"T MOVE! He accommodated me but was grumbling about it. I grabbed the phone off the handlebars and took about 5 seconds to adjust the light, focus and snap the shot. And instantly we were rolling again.
So this ...
became this ....
Which finally over a year later, became this.
Do I wish I'd had a real camera with real lenses? Of course. It was an all time bucket list shot for me. Good weather, good sunlight and good composition. Just good enough that Butler liked it. And once my son knew he'd make the map cover.... he promised to never gripe about stopping for pics again.
That’s awesome, it’s so nice when the planets align and you get a great shot. I know professionals work for hours or days to get a perfect shot, and sometimes plan for months to get a shot like that.
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Great write up. Makes me want to go back and do it a 3rd time.
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Going to knock out NV soon. Tried last year and froze. Probably hit CA this winter also. I’ve ridden about 80% of the California route but never all at once.
The BDR crew asked me if I was planning on doing any of the east coast routes. I told them probably not, I still want to knock out Wyoming and maybe Washington next year.
CiD
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From what I remember the temps were fine the whole ride. We did hit a storm at the Colorado border that was interesting for a few hours. We trailered to some city and stayed overnight in a hotel where we left the truck until our return. I don’t remember what city but maybe someone else will chime in.
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Dude! How long are you in town? Long enough to grab a few beers?
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20 minutes ago, paulmbowers said:We could do the up/back ride as outlined elsewhere, stay over (no camping).
Let’s get Ted to host us overnight. He makes a mean Manhattan
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I’ve got a meme for you and you won’t mistake it for passive aggressive 😂 It’s 1/2 of a peace sign. I really don’t give a hoot about memes, I just don’t care for arbitrary rules.
Do you want to ride Big Bear if we get a little cooling up there?
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Here is a link to the Jeep forum. 20k plus pages in 4 1/2 years. No squabbles just good conversations and funny stuff and only a few people banned for not behaving. Plus a whole bunch of great info and a few new friends for me.
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/jeep-humor-waiting-room-no-politics.4525/page-20532
Hope I don’t get banned for having a link to another site, I forget if that is against some silly rule.
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On my Jeep site and the Landcruiser site I follow the meme funny pages are by far the most watched and used forums. I think this is very shortsighted. If someone doesn’t like them they really don’t have to read them. Not wanting to be like sites that are very successful seems odd.
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I might have one or two DS bikes in the garage.
CiB
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Anza Borrego Meetup/Camp/Ride - Dec. 27 - 30, 2023
in Informal Local Rides & Who's Going Riding!
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That’s the reason this site died.