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And wait till you hear the rest beleive it or not it gets even better!

Nice, you're here. Good meeting you the other day (im on that old klr), always great to ride with experienced people..i ll never forget the "pack some bush to replace a tube" tip. See you at Lark in the morning!

woa nice loop! thanks for the writeup

1h less of drooling btw tonight.. time change.

If BS's truck can not fit another bike I don't mind riding out with you man... or, it might make more sense if I ride the klr out and you truck the 400

This will be my first time trucking the klr.. I don't know how I feel about that but my knobbies will love it ahah After trying to chase BS around Lark in the morning I plan on exploring around Jacumba (I'm bringing a sandwich) then ride back on hwy 94 sometime in the afternoon. I don't know the area but anyone is welcome to join of course.

Never!! thanks Carl, good meeting you, see you on the trails soon I hope

A friend sent me this today, craaazy looking. sorry if its a re-post

pretty sure I could use need a spot!!

style= 10/10 no clutch?

Nice setup, im sure effective and I digg the look!

Riding out (hwy94), see you Sunday morning

you gonna be in white?

Yea seems the 244 is a great 50/50 rear tire on the klr, and the price is right. If i didnt ride on sand that's what i would use. I felt the 606 melted fast but now my klr sports a kenda 760 reartire and it seems to be wearing just as fast, i like the 760 on anything but pavement.. i think 606 is also more dirt than 50/50. knobbies or not that is the question. btw afry if nobody wants that tire I'll be needing one pretty soon..

Cool thanks for the map might go there tomorrow morning if no other ride pops out since i have off

Nice pics! Are those bunkers in otay?

...YELLOW?!?!.... Fine Forgot if his name was scott but that might be the person who lurked on your last corral ride BS, wasn't he on a yellow drz (motard model)? he's a good rider

I am IN!!! when is this ride? seriously tho, someone make this happen plz

Wifey, 2 days ago: "we're both free Thur Morning, why not have grandma handle the kids and we go for a little ride on your motorcycle." "Now we're talking!" Decided on Otay because I'll be missing Bikeslut's ride sunday, plus it's close to where we live and a fairly easy ride (didn't feel like repeating my sunday exploit with my wife on the back seat..) Saw a big coyote on the side of the 94 (staring at cars like a cow would do), got on the trail at pio pico and rode it to the top, then decided to go right "for the views". On our way down towards the prison/power-plant I noticed the gate was opened on the left.. well hey, let's give it a go and see how far we can take this. not that far apparently, about 1/2mile down a border patrol stops us and asks us to turn around. I nicely explained that i was only trying to show my wife around, and nice enough he let us go on saying that someone else will probably stop us down the road before we get to the border fence. "it's not safe down there, someone could shoot you and take your bike!" he said. "thanks officer, way to make my wife feel comfy on her first ride.." Well nobody stopped us nor shot at us. We made it to monument 250 without issue although the terrain was a bit rougher than what I had in mind for this ride.. (rocky and quite steep, some ruts too). After monument 250 the trail heading east became much smoother, all the way down to Marron where we hooked a left, through the open gate (yay!), and back on the 94. But not before stopping for a sandwich by the water! attempt to beat the 2 sec timer on my phone: great day in Otay!! the sunday BS ride out there should be a blast as everything seems to be open.

hehehe yes!

note to Tntmo: you probably recognize this helmet, it fits my wife too! thanks again.

I was debating but why not, i feel like sharing this one. sorry if it's a bit long and boring. maybe I m just writing this to make sure I don't repeat my mistakes (mainly to know where I am at all times from now on) OK so I only had sunday off last weekend and that meant no DD for me this year (no way I was going on my first Dash and miss the first ride + BBQ sat night), it's gonna have to be next year), but did manage to be in OW early enough sunday and thought I'd spend the whole day "taking it easy" linking the 78 and s-2 then slab home back to sd. I had done extensive reading on the area and knew I had to stay away from any major drop offs since I was riding solo. But somehow I missed the part about the diablo drop off being the only way to connect.. Was very windy in OW around 7am, sand storm windy: So I decided to take a nap and let the wind die down while readjusting my twisted forks. plus I needed to test my new thor rig, works great. and that front right blinker i didn't need anyway: After warming up and picking up 3 liters of water I was ready for this easy ride through the park: Taking my time and taking it all in, probably one of the most beautiful place i've visited in my life: What does this sign say? sandstone canyon. Cool, it's not showing on my super hightech android phone gps, let's go find out where it leads: (and about 30 minutes later) ok cool it leads nowhere. It was definitely worth the ride though: Found out (too late) that my GPS is basically useless in ABDSP, probably because it's not an actual GPS, all it shows is a red dot in the middle of a big green thing. most trails are not on it.. no problem, I know I'm on fish creek and there's gonna be some sign for 'arroyo seco del diablo'. there's gotta be. I'm pretty sure. fast forward a while (and a couple more naps in some DEEP sand), more pretty sights: .. and then came up on this pretty scary drop to me, and especially to my klr (it's the part that you don't actually see in this pic, if you haven't been there). My thoughts at this point are that I can't really turn around because it's a long way back, I m getting low on water (1 liter left) and getting exhausted from manhandling the water-cooled 650 in the deep sand. Plus it's 1pm already, the red dot is pretty close to the edge of the green area, gotta go forward and get out of here. There I'm thinking "make it down this without major damage to the bike and everything will be fine": managed to make it down no problem, "I love this bike!". Wonder what that drop was.. anyway whatever, let's keep focusing on surfing out of this new deep sand part, felt like it was water, and get out of here for a cold beer. Keep in mind I was still riding looking for arroyo seco del diablo at this point.. then came the blow. In my case a heart attack. ok that's why i haven't seen a soul for a while in this part on the park (seemed kind of odd). I had seen pics of this hill before. I realized then that I was in the very place I did not want to visit alone, and way out of my way. Trying to keep cool and still thinking the way ahead was my best option I spent much energy hiking up and down (with boots) to try to find a way up and get me and the klr to safety. I weighted my options again and my priority was to not end up on foot with so little water. A klr tumbling down this hill might very well sustain major damage and force me to abandon it, not good. At this point not knowing how much longer i would have to be in the dez i decided to recharge my phone. Got the usb cable out of my pocket only to discover that it got ripped to pieces during one of my bails. no way to charge the phone with 10% battery left. Now both me and the phone are in orange, water level in the red. The only thing in the green was the gas tank, at least something is going right. After scooping around (maybe just unconsciously waiting for some 4x4 to pop up at the top with a hook..) I decide to find a side line (i know im supposed to light thread and not really do that but i considered it survival, not accumplishment..). the idea is that if the bike falls to its side in that dirt it wont tumble all the way down. let's go. I start bombing up the hill and made it about 15 feet up on the side before getting my rear wheel stuck and falling in the cactuses. Way too steep. now I m cursing in my helmet as i know i wont make it up this obstacle. Was no fun and very energy consuming to get the bike back down backwards (no way to turn it around) from the side of heart attack, but managed without dropping it somehow. Sweating bullets at this point, lips chapped, you know.. and here i am heading back where I came from, couldn't believe i would be going through all this deep sand again (for some reason the sand was much deeper around Fairchild Hill) and still I had no idea how to reach arroyo seco del diablo. Did I mention I'm low on water? So there I am, up and down making my way back and thinking about Fairchild Hill, bracing myself. When it appeared in front of me i didn't even stop. Instead of dropping my 15 pound backpack I dropped to first gear got on the pegs and revved hard without even touching the clutch. Do or die style. 1/2 second later i was on top. Without even looking back or feeling happy accomplishing any of that I simply kept going, focused on getting out of there. About 30 minutes later i met a small group traveling in a 4x4, someone knew the area and explained that to reach arroyo del blah blah i had to go up the diablo drop off first. That's great news because I feel pretty much invincible right now just point me in the right direction. Oh, and I'll leave without asking any water too. HOW did THAT happen I have no idea. "next major intersection" he said, "if you ride at a good pace you can be back on pavement in about an hour..". So there I am back tracking for another while and almost missingthe "major" intersection, but went for what i thought could be it and when i finally saw something looking like a hard climb i knew I had made it to diablo drop off. Bombed up the first parts fairly easily, but the long sandy hill almost got me. I refused to lay the bike half way up that uphill sand box so i just kept revving hard, almost red lining, going 1mph, hoping to get some traction, and somehow it happened, i made it to the top. Feeling "saved" I sat down up there and finally let myself relax a bit contemplating the dez. I even used a precious 1% of my phone battery (now the phone is in the red and I'm back in the greenish) to snap a pic. Didn't see anyone at all during this whole ordeal, from that 4x4 deep in fish creek up until reaching S-2 at the end of canyon sin nombre, which i did about an hour later I guess. With one big sip of water left to get me to ocotillo. For someone who tries to stay of pavement as much as possible, I've never been so happy to see a road

Cool! I stopped there to fix my twisted forks and force a liter of water into my body before heading south. I remember nodding at someone parked in a rv facing the bathhrooms, was that you guys?

this guy!

This is 5mn from where I live, if I can get my schedule to line up I might join.