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..or any big or mid-size trailie (all brands), on the road or off doesn't matter. And maybe a short why and where? I'll start with a few.

 

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yep I'm on the back seat, seems my WR250 sputtered to a halt on hwy 50 a few miles from the campground because it sat all Winter and luckily two young Brits and their dad (traversing the U.S.on BMW's) gave me a lift.

 

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I'd been trying to get the central Fla tag-o-rama fellas to extend the boundaries north and south to generate some interest and offered one of these spots as the NE corner. The Vilano Beach approach or the castle a few miles up A1A from there.

 

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Had to stop and get a pic of this F650 in Salida, it's the only other "train tracks" paint scheme I've seen.

 

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This is me heading over Waunita, Cumberland, and Cottonwood Passes a few years ago.

 

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looks like it's raining (or snowing) in Aspen : )

 

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So let's see'em, whadya got?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not quite a GS but one heck of an adventure!

 

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05 GS on Success Pond Rd heading to Maine for an overnight camp out.

 

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My T/B (two bellies yuk yuk) out in Glacier.

 

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A demo of the new at the time 13 GS/LC.

 

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Pat

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:clap: Good stuff guys, I kinda figured there was some history in there somewhere : ) Doug I had a blue/grey '05 just like that for awhile, miss it. Pat, a Funduro is a bona fide GS anyday in my book, but for the nomenclature.

 

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I don't get to throw a leg over it nearly as often as I want anymore, but its still my favorite do everything bike.

 

Parked at the top of Alpine Tunnel

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That is way too "Manly" for me to take up Alpine Tunnel. :thumbsup:

 

Me too Doug, I was on a 650 and even crashed it a little.

 

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There were some manly men along tho, and one adventurous woman.

 

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It was a heck of a day, wish you'd have been there.

 

 

 

 

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Its only a problem if it falls over :)

 

I much rather would have been on something smaller, but I probably wouldn't have been able to ride a WR250 the 1900 miles home in 2 days. Next time out there....I'm either going to fly and borrow something, or trailer out. I'd really like to add a WR450 to the garage, but that might still be a few years out as I don't have time to ride the current 3 bikes I have.

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as I don't have time to ride the current 3 bikes I have.

Baby Girls will do that to ya! ;) DAMHIK.

 

Edit...ok I know I said don't ask, but let me tell you anyway. Do you see any wheels under that beast? No, no you don't! Hooves...GD...Hooves! :mad: Kidding...a little. ;):D

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This one can't even stand up on her own yet, but hell if thats going to keep her from getting the toys her sister hid from her in the sink.

 

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This one can't even stand up on her own yet, but hell if thats going to keep her from getting the toys her sister hid from her in the sink.

 

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Way too cute guys, that's a couple of Special Edition GirlS. And they both appear to be the Adventure version. :grin:

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C'mon let's see some big trailie pics! On or off road..

 

Here's a little photo essay of my Wee Strom before it left Colorado last Fall and got sold. A great bike to leave somewhere (thanks guys), inexpensive and dependable as a rock but unfortunately for me a little too utilitarian. I took it exploring one afternoon on some forest roads up toward the Continental Divide.

 

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Lots of smoke that day, the forest service was doing a controlled burn.

 

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Dead end, which nearly all roads leading to the CD are..

 

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Let's try a different one.

 

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Me again, in NH.

 

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Marty and his European friend who I can't remember his name! :dopeslap:

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Roger & Keith driving some cattle out west! ;)

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Hey Pat, his name is Bart. Lives in Belgium. I've visited he and his wife 3 times. Great people. Enjoyed my first Belgium beer with them. Hope they can visit me here one day.

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Good one Tim, taken a few RS's and RT's offroad back in the day but big K is a whole other animal!

 

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2nd pic in that post I thought I was gonna have a bath....

 

Well just so you know, it was a bit nippy : )

 

 

Here's a ride I did a few years ago on the old KLR. KLR's are like Rodney Dangerfield, they don't get much respect but are a great bike to explore on because they have a lot of fuel, are reliable as an anvil, and pretty decent offroad considering the weight. I started in Buena Vista and rode north up the east side of the Arkansas.

 

See the RR trestle in the background, the tracks have been taken up now and a road has replaced them, and it is purty.

 

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The Arkansas is one of America'a great rivers, it runs into the Mississippi south of Memphis and begins about 25 miles north of here.

 

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Had to cross over on the last bridge to keep heading north on the hwy. At the stop sign I glanced left, saw this coming and made a quick decision to go for it.

 

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Then I remembered, it's a KLR you dummy! :grin:

 

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Then I took the turn off to head up Weston Pass.

 

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Looking good

 

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At the summit I ran into (I think) John from Cincinnati.

 

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He was going the other way riding the Colorado BDR, had gotten separated from his buddies and was a little concerned.

 

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He said if I ran into them let em know he'd wait at the top awhile then go on to Leadville.

 

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about 2/3 of the way down I saw some bikes

 

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it was his guys

 

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they were glad to know where he was

 

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Near the bottom I took a couple side roads that looked like a fun shortcut back south

 

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but decided against it being solo.

 

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"nice earrings honey, don't do anything hasty" : )

 

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then it got a little weird looking and eventually ended at a closed gate

 

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so I turned around and headed back to the highway.

 

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Beats my afternoon of mowing grass and diagnosing a burned out air conditioning clutch coil on a 300k mile Corolla :)

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Awesome Pics guys! :thumbsup:

 

You may have seen this before. Reminds me that I gotta get my arse in gear and make some new stuff! :D

 

Lime Rock.

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You can skip through the bull and take a lap if you haven't already! :Cool: BTW, they warned us not to exceed sixty MPH or they'd flag us off the track. I think Ray took his chances with that though. :grin:

 

 

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Reaching way back. 1977 TS 400, I believe this was 78.

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Mine is long gone but here is a nice one.

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I have a friend that bought one for $600 last year out of NV. Almost looked new and all he had to do was recover the seat.

 

Now, the TM400 was a different story. I had one. It hurt a lot of riders.

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Wow, I would of paid six for the nostalgia part of it alone. Even after all these years I still remember the bike being a bit of a load. :grin:

 

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Some random backroad. Not sure if its MD or WV......but it was still a nice surprise of a decent view

 

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You guys might know a few of these jokers

 

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Nice bike Don, so is the 800, who's riding that? Some great roads getting to Burke's Garden, haven't ridden there but I've been close a few times.

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Nice pics and vids guys, Jim that glacier is really cool. :thumbsup:

 

Somewhere in Ocala Nat Forest a few years ago from a scouting ride to New Smyrna Beach and back.

 

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