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Thanks for all the recommendations guys ! I've called around to quite a few shops and their all charging pretty similar prices, so I'm just going to stick to the shop where my friend works. He used to work on my previous truck for many years at another shop, so I trust him and the new place he works now.

My 2020 F150 with 3.5 Ecoboost needs some stuff done for 60K service. Anyone know a good, honest, reliable mechanic ? I know one, but they charge around the same rates as the dealer so I'd like to shop around. Thanks.

Thanks Dog, first he says he knows a lot of Marcos. Second, he won't do a tranny fluid change on my truck. I appreciate the recommendation.

20 years ago I bought my KTM 950 Adventure used with 800 miles on her from Irv Seaver BMW Motorcycles. The rest is history. Shortly afterwards there were 6 people in our riding group (Sunday Social Club) who were all riding 950's. I'm the only one who still rides a 950.

Challenging rocky dead end trail to get to over 11,000 feet just to have a beer at the top.

From our High Sierra exploration ride, July 2006. Just What can you do with an Adventure Bike ?? Mad Mike on his R1200GS, up in the High Sierra at about 10,000 feet. My friend Dale helping Mike get through the rocks.... Gotta love single track on an Adventure Bike !! I'm on the 950 here....... Mad Mike continuing on the loooong downhill section

On the way to Coyote Flats above Bishop. It

Time to resurrect this thread. Anyone have any shots to share from gnarly trails ?

He is not on the SDAR front page. His photo was used once for one of the Desert Dash t-shirts.

My boy !

Merry Christmas. Some pix from a few years ago in the Sierra Nevada mountains. At one point I just had to ride this rocky dead end trail to have a beer at over 11,000 feet.

Not even close.

Hi All, I've never liked asking for monetary help from people to keep our forums and website alive. In the past years ago, we put on the Desert Dash dualsport event yearly and we usually brought in enough money to cover the costs of the website. But we haven't done the Desert Dash in a few years and this winter it probably won't work out because I won't be able to ride for awhile due to eye surgery. I will be posting a poll to see how many people find our forums valuable and helpful and if they'd want to donate to keep the forums alive for another year. Hopefully next year in the fall and/or winter we can put on a dualsport ride or 2 as fund raisers. Here is a breakdown of costs: Linode / Linux server hosting costs about $75/month = $900/year. Go Daddy domain hosting, SSL certificates, etc. cost about $100/year. Invision Power Board license and other fees cost about $80/year. We haven't had anyone maintain our site for a couple of years and it was running fine, but we recently had issues that shut the site down. Uncle Cameron who built the site about 24 years ago came to our rescue once again and got the site back online but there are still issues remaining and we need to do monthly maintenance. He originally asked if I could pay $100/month and I said no, so he offered to maintain the site for $50/month. That will cost $600/year. Total approximate costs to keep the forums going is $1680/year. If people are willing to donate enough to keep the site up for another year then I'll do that. 56 people at $30/each would be about enough, but I don't even know if we have 56 active people who would donate. If you'd like to donate using paypal, please click on "sending to a friend" otherwise I don't get the full amount. If we won't get enough committed donations, I will leave the site up for about 3 months and then take it down and it will be gone for good. Please let me know what you think, any input you may have and please answer the poll questions. The link to donations is on the front page of our site at https://dualsport-sd.com/ or you can PM me. If I don't get enough donations within about a month and I decide to shut the site down, then I will refund your donations. Thanks for listening.

Damn, can't make it. My eye is still healing from surgery and I can't go up in elevation otherwise the bubble behind my eyeball will expand and cause permanent damage.

I have yet to find out if I'll be able to do any riding by then after my eye surgery.

Kato, your girls must be fully grown now. Maybe someday Doc can come say hi !

Check this out ! Our friend Vaudois Handley or Don Eddie is having an event at his hotel property down in San Quintin, Baja. He's giving great discounts on room tab, bar tab, etc. We're having a special event here primarily for Motorcycle people, but you don't have to own one to come: New Years at Don Eddie's Landing in San Quintin (Vaudois's) One of this groups OG's has invited us down for New Years, Tue Dec. 30th - Sun Jan 4th (join for some or all days). RV full hookups, normally 540 pesos is half price. Motel rooms with 2 beds, normally 1400 pesos is half price. A house with 4 beds, normally 3000 pesos is half price. A house with 8 beds is normally 4500pesos, is half price. This house has a television and a washer and dryer. They both are up on the second story with a amazing view of the bay. Dry camping free for this event. Food and drink at the restaurant/bar at a 25% discount. Riding opportunities from the motel, consist of a variety of single track, sand dunes, and mountains. https://doneddieslanding.com/ https://maps.app.goo.gl/bTeHXzphNDo3cA3N9?g_st=ipc Insurance for both your primary vehicle and dirt bike/SxS require Mexican insurance. https://ridebaja.com/

Will anybody have a sweetie along with them or somebody who will be staying at the campground while the boys go riding ?I'd like to come out but would need someone to watch my dog Doc Holliday (if that's at all possible) while we're out riding.He's 12 years of age and a great dog, a sidecar traveler, many of you know him.

From the thread on ADVrider.... Camping at Stagecoach Trails starting Dec. 27th (Friday) and many of us will stay until the 30th, camping for three nights.https://www.stagecoachtrails.com/https://goo.gl/maps/gs6Agw9UMMkamYs59Reserve your own site and/or share it with another person to save yourselves $. Most sites can accomodate 2 big trucks.

You can join solo, hook up with other riders. This ride is for all types of bikes focused more on adventure and dualsport bikes. You get the waypoints ahead of time and build your own routes to get there.

I'm thinking about doing this, I've heard it's great. You can open up the links and use Google to translate to English. Mexico's largest adventure motorcycle rally is back! Cruise the Baja, collect the most points and win incredible prizes at the Rally Baja ADV 2025. 🏆🏍️ SIGN UP AND EXPERIENCE THIS 100% RECREATE AND TOURISM RALLY! 🔥 👉🏻 Sign up at: https://f.mtr.cool/chmlkocewn #RallyBajaADV @rally_adv_mx Rally ADV MX | Baja ADV Garage | BAJA GS Service Garage | ADV MX con Joaquin Lam | @touratechbaja | The RIDER Spot | LADV MOTO

Hey Ken, don't you know how to see new posts/threads by just hitting the "View Activity" and "Unread Content" buttons ?

We are working on getting a SSL for that domain.

Dammit, I will miss this again. I am having eye surgery next week and will be sitting face down with no activity for the next 2 - 3 weeks and no riding for a couple of months.

I sent you a PM.