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Wait… without me?

It's right there where your pic is. Baja first week of Nov, God willing.

Pavement only this month. Dirt should be early Oct.

Would love to. Unlikely I can commit to it though. I suppose you're riding the hot new Desert X I heard rumor of?

ain't no question about that! Some folks plan for months and months to work out routes and stops and POI's and make a pretty big deal out of "epic" rides. Which is a LOT of fun of course. Tom's the kind of guy that might just grab a jacket, turn the key and end up in Minnesota. On a scooter even. 🤩

Open through September...... more Hmmmmm ...🍦🍨

Be advised... https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/8/31/border-32/ Went out for some Physical/Mental therapy yesterday and coming back in on the 94, was met by an endless parade of high speed CalFire, Highway Patrol and Sherrifs vehicles all lit up and burning rubber. Even the big bulldozer on a trailer was railing the curves. Highway closed both directions last evening. Still 0% contained this morning.

It's 200 miles. Could ride up, eat a banana split and ride home easily in a day. Hmmmm....

Yeh that's a pretty depressing development.

@Bagstr, so yer sayin' there's a chance ... Thank you for your kind offer. PM inbound in 3 ... 2 ...

Thanks for letting us know Randy. A true loss for our community.

It's not uncommon to see locked gates, that aren't locked. That's why I always get off and go physically try to slide the bolt back to open the gate. It was actually a border patrol agent that taught me to do that. Shhhhh! don't tell anyone. Most of us would just ride around the gate and through the wide opening/pathway and carry on up Thing Valley. Those were the days! What's pissy is that it is still a public road, blocked only by one landowner.

It's hard. Usually means, just do your chores around the house instead of riding.

As of last Fall, ... yes. A more recent on the ground report would be appreciated.

Bags; Help a brother out here. The value of these radios for bike to bike comm is beyond me. I've suffered now through 3 separate days of group riding with these radio's (all purchased within the last 12 months). From your posts above you seem to enjoy them as an effective tool. I however do not! Conversations go something like this.... Them: ...shhhhhhh..........grrr.........pop-crackle... sheeeeeeeeeeee........ motorcy.........sheeeeeeee... up the......insert blaring train horn sounds here ...... rolling? Me: ............................................................................................................................................. what? As I'm always assuming everyone knows more than me, I presumed I was doing it wrong. But the fourth time someone said "here, straps this radio on" my response was REALLY? Why? I give you full permission to publicly ridicule me with statements like, "any 6 year old can do this Kelly" or "Were your parents first cuzin's or somethin'?" As long as you also tell me how to use these paperweights for any practical purpose. Over?

Ugh! Sounds like a good days ride lost forever to sit and play the school game. Thanks for the link. I've bought the audible and will make myself eat it.

Dude . . . . . that is a gorgeous specimen. It reeks of testosterone and anger management issues. Congratulations!

Thing has been blocked by a private parcel near the bottom for well over a year now. If you go in from the bottom (Fred) and you turn of to ride-around the bottom Thing gate, you can only go a couple hundred yards up thing before you hit the private landowners gate. He also has it gated further up the road in order to block peoples access from the top (Sunrise Hy). This is a GREAT loss to our local riders, and has been covered in other threads. I would hope and assume that you can still ride from the 8 up through the campground to Fred Canyon and just continue past the Thing valley turnoff to end back on on La Posta TT. Which is still an awesome loop but is very different than being able to climb Thing Valley up to Sunrise Hywy.

Dam! Pokey, that is a great hookup. Thanks brother, wifey will think I'm brilliant when I take here there this weekend.

We should text each other every morning a reminder saying "don't be stupid today".

Alright Pokey, you just cost me a half hour of googling to figure out where that Hot Pot restaurant was. The picture looks like a FANTASTIC lunch! I've done that road close to 100 times and I knew the pic and the location didn't line up at all. There is no restaurant on that heavily washboarded road, in a dirt farm field. 8-) So I'm guessing you cut the Relive route at that point and added the pic later. Care to share the restaurant name if you would as I'm always looking for a good spot?

aint that the truth.

That's the goal. I kinda boogered up the shoulder worse than thought and have to do some extra credit for awhile. Still thinking October will be ok for off roading as long as I keep the 13 year old in my head gagged and bound. Rule #1 every morning is to look in the mirror and say "don't f*$% this up Kelly"

.... DANG that looks tasty!

Awesome loop! Double shout out to #rubymoto lights as well. I've done considerable miles with the 3 amigos. Being Tom T, Adam (son) and myself. I run Ruby R7's, Adam runs R4's and Tom run clearwaters top light (Ericas?). As we've all swapped the lead a hundred times, it's almost impossible to not remark on the visibility of the 2 riders behind you. There's no practical difference between the 3 lights, at day, or at night. In fact, while my R7's have suffered Thors hammer on many occasions. . . they remain practically unscratched. In hindsight I wouldn't pay the extra to go from R4's to R7's. R4's are smaller, mount more "inside" the lines of the bike, and are quite a bit lower cost. And they definitely are a clearwater killer on value with equal or greater performance in my opinion. NIck, thanks for posting up this RR. It makes me smile (a lot actually) to see pics of the trails I've been away from for 10 weeks now.