http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/-t1.htm Ride reports & scenic photos. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:42:48 GMT 10 http://i74.servimg.com/u/f74/13/24/01/47/xr_log14.jpg http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/-t1.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/rampart-range-rd-t1012.htm modette I went out for a ride today...man I probably should have waited Until Thursday, as Monday we had 50-60mph winds with Pikes Peak getting 110mph gust. So in other words a lot of trees are down. It really stinks when you come to a downed tree and you have no where to go, the hill is too steep to push the bike up and get it turned around, and the bike is slightly too tall to just walk it under the downed tree. In the end I got it by...but more or less by accident as I was messing around with ... Epic Adventures Wed, 26 May 2010 15:37:08 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/rampart-range-rd-t1012.htm#5843 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/rampart-range-rd-t1012.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/two-pigs-are-better-than-one-t1025.htm Hew Last weekend a group of 30 that I ride with had arranged a weekend of trail riding during the day and beer and barbacue at the campsite at night I arrived at the site Friday afternoon and set up and tucked in to the beer and food I was leading a group on the Saturday and Sunday . Saturdays ride saw 3 of the riders drop out early on as a wheel bearing collapsed on a CRF leaving just me and my mate Andy on a BMW X challange to complete the days riding. We are used to riding together so we ... Epic Adventures Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:42:48 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/two-pigs-are-better-than-one-t1025.htm#5920 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/two-pigs-are-better-than-one-t1025.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/entiat-ride-2008-t335.htm bakeray Heres some pics from last year. Going back in June or July. First time I been back there since my Dad took me. When I was 15. Every mile of that week was worth the Monkey Butt all of us had. Average miles per day was 40. Coming down Middle Tommy Creek Trail. The climb up wasnt fun since my bike had some jetting issues. Hooked up to Mad River trail Rode up to Klone Peak. Its an old fire lookout. Next day thru the burn out The next day was the Lake Creek ... Epic Adventures Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:02:41 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/entiat-ride-2008-t335.htm#1865 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/entiat-ride-2008-t335.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/africa-the-snail-the-tortoise-and-the-big-red-pig-t967.htm Beserker The Snail, the Tortoise and the Big Red Pig Big Red Pig, that is me, or rather my bike, an XR650R. My trip to Namibia started two years ago when I went for a spin on a mate’s just purchased KTM 950. So impressed I was with the bike that I started looking around for a second hand one. Speaking to a guy in PE, he incidentally asked me where I saw the add for his bike, in the Autotrader or on the Wild Dogs site….Wild dogs WHAT?? I browsed on over, and like they say, the rest was history. ... Epic Adventures Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:09:19 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/africa-the-snail-the-tortoise-and-the-big-red-pig-t967.htm#5532 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/africa-the-snail-the-tortoise-and-the-big-red-pig-t967.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/march-moon-uk-t938.htm Hew Hope you don't mind me copying a couple of ride reports over. The weekend was arranged in the Europe section of the ADV site. Plan was to meet at a pub in North Wales and camp friday and saturday night. With trail riding Saturday and Sunday here are my reports of the two days and the rides that I led on the BRP. Saturday The Briefing Corwen Car wash was the 3rd lane up of the morning Drog and Ian are OK but Kustlo is heading for trouble And over he went Andy C aka The ... Epic Adventures Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:17:24 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/march-moon-uk-t938.htm#5411 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/march-moon-uk-t938.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/obcdr-trip-in-a-series-of-videos-t964.htm Hodakaguy Well it's been a year since our OBCDR trip but I finally made some videos of the trip. I picked up some new editing software and figured I would go through some of the helmet cam footage and put something together. There are 7 videos in all, starting at Tollgate OR and following us all the way to the end of the trip, 1100 miles of fun! You can double click the vids to watch them full sceen and click HD to see the best picture. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part ... Epic Adventures Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:22:27 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/obcdr-trip-in-a-series-of-videos-t964.htm#5512 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/obcdr-trip-in-a-series-of-videos-t964.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/my-kind-of-ol-farts-t941.htm Bump The Dumb Way Round]]> Epic Adventures Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:06:35 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/my-kind-of-ol-farts-t941.htm#5418 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/my-kind-of-ol-farts-t941.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/china-hat-road-t926.htm Backwoods Boogie I woke up early, geared up and headed out. I decided to bomb down China Hat Road to see how far I could get before the snow stoped me. Stop-off at Horse Butte. Nice views from up here. Back to bombing the gravel road. Hmmm, no snow at 4500'. But, at 5000' it comes on quick. I only made it about another 5 miles further before heading back. Too icy and sketchy today. A snack treat and some water. One the way home, sneaking up on the crazy dust lady's house..............braaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppp!!!!! Ford ... Epic Adventures Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:37 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/china-hat-road-t926.htm#5363 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/china-hat-road-t926.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/pigging-snow-t893.htm Hew I really enjoy this section seeing the rides in other parts of the world so I am copying a ride report I have done on a local forum for a ride last Sunday. We have had far more snow and ice this winter than is normal for the UK. It was my first ride out with a Mikuni carb and a rebuilt rear shock. I changed the settings of the shock a few times during the ride and am having longer throttle cables made to refit higher handle bars For sometime I had been trying to set up a ride for Andy and ... Epic Adventures Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:20:31 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/pigging-snow-t893.htm#5257 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/pigging-snow-t893.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/wet-wet-wet-in-aus-go-the-xr-s-t898.htm TB650 So Crash turned up about 10ish the night before, I had picked up some barkbuster mounts for his new bars / map reader / Condo750 setup and these needed to be fitted for today. It was then into the house for a few rumskies oh and it rained the whole time matter a fact it rained here all day The alarm went of at 4.10am, went up and woke Crash, we shuffled cars etc in the driveway and left, and yes it was raining at a steady pace still We had a slower then planned trip out the meet Boulder ... Epic Adventures Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:02:31 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/wet-wet-wet-in-aus-go-the-xr-s-t898.htm#5268 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/wet-wet-wet-in-aus-go-the-xr-s-t898.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-short-local-ride60-miles-of-fun-t891.htm Hodakaguy 5 of us did a 65 mile loop today, had a great time. Weather held out...no rain and great traction in most places. Here's a few pics from the ride. Well about 3 miles in at the start of the ride we had a casualty. Alan (mamacone) was turning around doing all of 2 mph and slipped. He landed on his finger and SNAP. Bummmer! Closeup of the finger...Busted the mirror also Heading towards the hills. Looks like a few low clouds still hanging around. Looking over Badger ... Epic Adventures Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:33:57 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-short-local-ride60-miles-of-fun-t891.htm#5239 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-short-local-ride60-miles-of-fun-t891.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/ne-nsw-coastal-run-t834.htm Micknmeld A day out with Moose, exploring the coastal swamps in Northern NSW. The Limeburners National Park is Coastal heath/swamp,so you are basically riding in rutile sand which is awesome fun. Here are some of the pics I took. Some of the bog holes are deeper than they look. WE saw some wildlife and frightened a dingo bitch and a litter of cubs,This owl wasn’t keen to be friends. Back at the ferry and civilization A great morning ride with ... Epic Adventures Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:13:33 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/ne-nsw-coastal-run-t834.htm#4936 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/ne-nsw-coastal-run-t834.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/what-was-i-thinking-t820.htm Micknmeld Moose and I decided we would do a pony express race together, as neither of us have raced for over 20 years and we have been living out our racing aspirations through our kids racing. We planned to ride our XR's in the masters class (Over 40's). What sounded like a great idea at the time whilst drinking beers, turned out to be hours of torture as we experienced the hottest day,I have ever ridden on. The temperature hovered around 40 degrees C for the duration of the race which contributed ... Epic Adventures Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:09:28 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/what-was-i-thinking-t820.htm#4872 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/what-was-i-thinking-t820.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/monticello-box-and-palomas-gap-ride-nm-t815.htm AtomicXRer Here are some happier times on our first day in Magdalena lined for an AARP special brunch: Cruising up Mt Withington selaznog: buggs: Jason: On top of Mt. Withington: Going where no man dare go. On the way to Monticello Box. This was the worst of the weather we got (just clouds on Sat.): Big KLR (heavy son of a bitch) from Tejas: That's more like it (an XRR). mtech1950 Entrance to wet n' ... Epic Adventures Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:47:36 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/monticello-box-and-palomas-gap-ride-nm-t815.htm#4840 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/monticello-box-and-palomas-gap-ride-nm-t815.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/abiqui-to-ojo-exploration-ride-t681.htm AtomicXRer Here's a ride report from yesterday's epic ride. Also posted in ADVRider Rockies Regional Forum. Enjoy. Yesterday I went on a solo ride to explore some of the riding areas north of where I live (North NM - weather was awesome too)....seems to me since I've been on here not too many reports from the area, so I decide to do some scouting for a group ride in the future. I call this ride the Abiqui to Ojo (short for Ojo Caliente). I planned this all out by maps, not knowing what I would ... Epic Adventures Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:20:51 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/abiqui-to-ojo-exploration-ride-t681.htm#3943 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/abiqui-to-ojo-exploration-ride-t681.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-huge-48hrs-in-australia-840kms-in-two-days-t763.htm TB650 Wow what a 48hrs, we rode every terrain you can imagine the tracks that I didn’t know real well were a lot rougher than I thought and took longer than I thought so we had even less time to stop than we already planned and that wasn’t much We assembled at Chicken’s very early Saturday morning and got ready for a 5.30am start, yes 5.30am!! The night before Chicken, Boulder and I had done some work on the trailer so everything was ready Here’s the crew ready to go very early From left ... Epic Adventures Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:13:42 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-huge-48hrs-in-australia-840kms-in-two-days-t763.htm#4533 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/a-huge-48hrs-in-australia-840kms-in-two-days-t763.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/zig-zag-hillend-and-back-two-day-t781.htm TB650 This was to be one of the biggest rides I ever lead Mick and Moose fronted at around 3pm, and Chicken arrived soon after, Chicken said his bike was ready, how good is that I thought, them he says we just need to regrease the rear mousse, take a link out of the chain and change the front tyre (lucky it was ready eh?) Then the crowd rolled in, soon we had a good crowd there was Tiny and Tiny’s biatch, Moose, Mick, Chicken, Moto, Champo, Racey Tracy, Eagle and Chris. Again Moto’s ... Epic Adventures Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:44:49 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/zig-zag-hillend-and-back-two-day-t781.htm#4641 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/zig-zag-hillend-and-back-two-day-t781.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/aussie-ride-orange-2-day-adventure-t776.htm TB650 Well what a great two days with a great crew, thanks again to all that made the effort to travel for the trails and fun The ride started with Kylie Dan and Novice at home on Friday evening, I had fitted a new tyre to the 650 that arvo and it was all go or so I thought When Kylie and Dan arrived we loaded their bikes onto my trailer and had a few quiet bundies. We discussed who drank Bundy when someone said Beagle drinks dark and stormy bindies, Kylie quickly added probably only half a Bundy ... Epic Adventures Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:36:11 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/aussie-ride-orange-2-day-adventure-t776.htm#4627 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/aussie-ride-orange-2-day-adventure-t776.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/azsouth-rim-grand-canyon-t747.htm KTM265 Rode roughly 350 miles over 3 days...I could talk all about it but I figure a pictures worth a 1,000 words. I'll post the pictures and answer any questions...had a blast. Epic Adventures Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:56:35 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/azsouth-rim-grand-canyon-t747.htm#4411 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/azsouth-rim-grand-canyon-t747.htm http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/2-650-s-and-a-wr300-smoker-rydal-nsw-t764.htm TB650 We arrived up at the arranged meeting place and unloaded the bikes, as we started suiting up Mal arrived with the smoker, like a thorn in the roses :laugh: We left and got straight into it, very quickly noticed how slippery it was, but was super impressed by my IRC rear which has done some work now and it still hooked up as well as good be expected in the conditions. We did heaps of sweet single. Here Mal leads off, Crash was slow to start his bike so I chased Mal down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUn8rjNYsM ... Epic Adventures Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:17:46 GMT http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/2-650-s-and-a-wr300-smoker-rydal-nsw-t764.htm#4534 http://www.xr650rforum.com/epic-adventures-f6/2-650-s-and-a-wr300-smoker-rydal-nsw-t764.htm