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  6. Posted

    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. 

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    14 hours ago, Goofy Footer said:

    @Oracle + @Covered in Dust how did the NVBDR turn out?  How was the route?  Was Late Sept / Early Oct a good weather window for the route?  Did you ride it door to door from SD? 

     

    Any intel is Great for my personal planning purposes.

    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. 

  10. Posted

    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.

     

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    The biggest rule of Oriflame is the ride DOWN it before you try to ride UP it...especially on an adventure bike. I've been riding it for 13 years and I can tell you it is getting worse and worse. I think mostly because the "overlanders" have exploded and their rigs cause havoc to the trails.

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    Yes, if you go right at the Y, you'll be on Rodriguez. It is quite a bit easier than going up Oriflame. It connects with the main dirt road coming off Banner. There is two gates on Rodriguez, and just like the road off of Banner, they are always chained but never locked. These are all public roads. The locals like to wrap the chains around the gate to make it look locked, hoping that some people turn around....and they do. I've talk to a couple of the locals in that area who own ranches (primarily off of Rodriguez) and they were all nice, they just get sick of the traffic. But again, they are public roads and the locals are not allowed to lock them. You can make a fun loop out of the two trails, albeit short. 

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    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

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  23. Posted

    On 9/10/2022 at 9:43 AM, Goofy Footer said:

    @tntmo we need pics of the ice cream!  Which BDR are you interested in?

     

    @Covered in Dust has to be the SDAR leader of BDRs he has done NMBDR, AZBDR, IDBDR, COBDR and the UTBDR.

     

    @paulmbowers, @kkug , @Oracle, @Riggerdan, @Dan Diego what BDR was your favorite and what do you recommend?

     

     

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    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.

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  25. Posted

    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.

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