Adventure Reports

Some Delaware & SE Pa. Riding

motokid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:23:48 GMT

This is some video shot on a group SUMO ride in early November.

These are northern Delaware and south eastern Pennsylvania roads.

http://www.vimeo.com/7550735 <--- clicky

There were 2 wr250x's on the ride. Mine, and another guy.

Barber Motorsports Park and Museum, Leeds, AL

1moreroad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:39:50 GMT

If you haven't gone, you really should go. I made a quick trip over last week. A friend was doing a track day Saturday. I rode over Friday morning, and we saw the museum Friday afternoon. I had two docents come out and ask me about the WR. Plenty of folks ride to the museum on touring bikes, not so many on 250 cc thumpers. They always have a few bikes sitting outside in the parking area. Here is an HD thumper. I'd see this HD thumper a little later in the tour. A mid-90s ...

Just a ride in the woods in PA

Tammy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:32:18 GMT

I got Jeff covered in mud as he helped me out on a hole .. Fun day but way too much mud, front tire really sucks in the deep stuff....

Az & Ut ride, 9/28-10/1

rydnseek — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:50:21 GMT

Too short notice for anyone to join us, but i thought i'd post it here to break in this thread.. 4 riders going up into the Navajo & Hopi reservation, through monument valley, & spending the night in Mexican Hat, Ut. 1st day, ~270 miles, 80% dirt. 2nd day. goosenecks, valley of the gods, then across lake powell at hall's crossing. take the burr trail to boulder, ut, hells backbone trail to escalante. ~ 250 miles. day 3. hole in the rock, smokey mountain trail, antelope canyon, ...

not another day ride report from rydnseek.. hart prairie, 11

rydnseek — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:20:11 GMT

I'm just posting the link..

http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11376768#post11376768

Cal City to Husky Memorial and Randsburg

oldirt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:00:15 GMT

Went for a ride with a few others:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11296094&postcount=767

Johnson Valley 11/09

oldirt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:37:10 GMT

Spent a day in the desert with some new friends

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=499986&page=5

The bike ran great, and every time I challenge the bike I am more impressed !!!

How I spent my summer vacation, or 6000 miles on a WR250R

skierd — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:24:04 GMT

Might as well toss this here as well. Its been a long time since I had a voluntary vacation from work and school, 10 years this summer to be exact. I had been planning a long road trip off and on for the last few years, but always ended up having to cancel due to lack of job, lack of money, or lack of suitable vehicle. This year, no such excuses. So grab some popcorn, pour yourself a drink, and settle in. My last summer class ended at 10:30am on August 6th and my first fall class starts ...

Best GPS?

Swarty — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:28:15 GMT

Looking for GPS recomendations

Swarty

grueling mountain climb.. Casner Mt. in Az, 11/5/09

rydnseek — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:08:57 GMT

11/5/09 Casner Mountain trail. Clarkdale to Williams, Az Tom, Kim & i met in Clarkdale at 9am. We followed the verde river for a while, then took sycamore pass up to the powerline road at the base of Casner mountain. The powerline road is Casner Mtn trail. It goes between 2 wilderness areas. It is open to hikers, bicycles, horses & motorcycles! No 4x4 jeeps, etc. The riders.. Scotty, Kim, Tom. If you watch the video clips, you might as well mute the sound. All you'll ...

not much of an adventure.. but a day ride in central Az..

rydnseek — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:11:29 GMT

cedar flats 10/30/09 2 klx250's & 1 wr250x The weather changed & got cold this week, but it warmed slightly toward the end of the week. Tom had to go to Boise, so Kim, Brian & i decided to take a short ride while the high country was open. We were planning on going up cedar flats, which runs between the west clear creek & beaver creek wilderness areas, but they were paving some of the road that crossed the creek by the beaver creek campground, so we changed our route ...

mild day ride.. central az ride with 2 wr's!

rydnseek — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:16:25 GMT

Tom & i met in clarkdale for an exploratory ride. We were checking on a powerline road up to the rim from the verde valley. The only other way up on the west side is off the perkinsville road toward williams. I had seen this road a couple of years ago, & we thought we'd take a closer look... plus Tom needed to take his new wr out on it's maiden voyage. We crossed the verde river at tuzugoot, went down sycamore pass road & started climbing. We had a short staredown ...

Sylamore Ozark National Forest overnight ride

1moreroad — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20:32 GMT

Cross posted on Sport-Touring.net. The WR-X makes a decent mini-touring bike. I carried a gas can on the right side of that large tail bag, but I never filled it. It might have been easier to fill it -- at one point I took a 15 mile detour to get gas. Tuesday I hit the road for an overnight trip. It turns out that this was about the best time to go for a ride. In September we had almost 12” of rain. In the first two weeks of October we’ve already had 7” of rain. This ...

Riding at "Glass house mountains" QLD Australia

Notsolegit — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:26:26 GMT

Went for a run today. No pics of where I went but have 2 pics of the damage after a down hill run crash.

Oregon Back Country Discovery Route

YamWOW! — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:42:24 GMT

Did a week long trip Forest to Desert and up to 10,000 feet on the WRR. The bike performed great. Rode with big bore bikes and kept up fine. Hodakaguy started a report here. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=503392 BTW the Giant Loop luggage was on five of the bikes and performed beautifully even on bike lay downs. Yes I did lay it down.

Talimena State Park

boogn1sh — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:45:18 GMT

Did a little riding over in OK over the holiday. beautiful mountains and trails. Four WR250Rs went on a 120 mile dual sport ride from the western edge of the National Forest to the Arkansas State line and back. We had Larry riding the injured Krabill's bike, Bob, GKasper and me. Krabill planned the route and sent his bike and GPS along with us while he stayed back at camp and practiced his beer drinking skills. http://vimeo.com/6478847 After the dual sport ride, 2 of the bikes were still ...

Here's a real adventure

lotsofwheels — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:51:37 GMT

Not RR related, but quite a trip - I have a friend that is riding from Chicago to Los Angeles on his 27 year old XL125. This is the same bike that he used some 20 years ago to cross the entire US. It has been in his mother's storage shed for the last 12 years. He flew into town, cleaned the carbs, changed the oil and was fortunate enough to have the local Honda dealer donate two tires. Then he started off for LA, bad steering head bearing, muffler made from a Coke can stuffed with a Brillo pad ...

Naches Washington

YamWOW! — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:12:42 GMT

We did a two day trip to the Naches area in Washington State. A couple of riding buddies called and I said let's go! 95% of the trail was single track. Most of the first trail was off camber single track that was a little nerve racking but the path was not to hard. So we hit the next trail. The next trail was a lot harder. The trails became steeper and rockier. We did several log crossings that just drains the energy out of you. We worked ourselves back to base ...

Lake Wynoochee, WA

pg212 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:35:15 GMT

Went up above Lake Wynoochee and did some camping and riding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As8A1l1Quhs

Az: short ride by prescott & jerome

rydnseek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:44:40 GMT

09/09/09 Tom & I met at the top of Mingus mountain & headed west toward prescott. My new knobbies did fine on the twisties on both sides. Before we reached prescott, we turned north through some housing editions to look for a throughway over to the powerline road that heads north toward perkinsville. We made a lot of dead ends, but finally found a wire gate we could cross. The road followed the fence row, then cut over to the powerlines, where we could get on that road & ...

Olympic Mountains, Washington State

pg212 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:10:32 GMT

Here's some pics from a ride I did with a buddy about a week ago. We left Olympia, Wa and rode up to Lake Cushman. From there we circled the Olympic Mountains counter clockwise. We followed dirt roads for most of it from www.griptwister.com . Man, it was awesome. The route was incredible as well. Miles and miles of dirt roads into the back country. It was 751 miles from Oly roundtrip. The bike held up awesome. The only thing I plan to do is get some panniers. Oh yeah, and a new ass. ...

az: First off road ride.. oak creek canyon, williams, mud

rydnseek — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:39:23 GMT

I finally got tires & a skid plate for the new bike, so i wanted to take it out & get dirty. This is my first off road ride on the yamaha wr250x. Tom, Kim & I were going to ride up to jerome, then over to sycamore canyon, williams, then across to the top of oak creek canyon. It's a ride we do every year, & is usually a lot of fun. Well, Kim went out & bought a new bike, too. He got an '07 klx250 with 170 miles on it. So naturally he had to take it all apart to see ...

Loaded up to play

oldirt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:45:13 GMT

Put the scoot in the PU, grabbed a tent and......... Lone Pine This place is called Stone House, every door in this house leads to a hiking trail. Then to Bridgeport, Twin Lakes and Bodie

Last Sunday in Aug.

boogn1sh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:13:18 GMT

Here is a small taste of what Pete and I got into yesterday on our R2s http://vimeo.com/6354055 This is how I get clean after a long day getting dirty

2 days of riding.

inspector — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:34:08 GMT

Man I had a blast. 1st day was by myself. Here is the link to that. http://pnwdualsport.forumotion.net/adventures-f7/tried-to-make-it-to-galena-t311.htm 2nd day went with a buddy. Just stuck to the dirt/gravel roads. Pretty cool that the guy on an X was schooling the guy on the R. Guy took a dirt course and threw a couple of tips my way. Damn they made a difference. We really slacked on the picture taking. Hard when your on the move so much. More fun that way anyway. Here ...

Pic of YamWOW! in his natural habitat

Hodakaguy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:34:11 GMT

Taken yesterday 8-9-09 at Harris Park......Sweet day of riding.

Hodakaguy

Nice weekend in the Adirondacks

wildmotha — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:02:05 GMT

Here she is all fixed up (thanks Levity) and with minor mods. These are photos from the Aldrich Wilderness Trail in Oswegatchie, NY. Years ago you could ride everywhere, but now due to ATV clubs treading UNlightly anything off the main road is closed during the summer in order to preserve the snowmobile trails for the winter time. This is the first time my brother and I have ever really ridden together. It's absolutley awesome, we're HOOKED! Two weeks ago my brother took ...

Motarding in the Kootenays

ZED — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:39:25 GMT

Just got back about 2am this morning after a very intense week of motarding in the Kootenays. We didn't get a chance to contact people in the area since it turned out to be very busy and we were out of cell coverage most of the time. The trip report is posted at the following link on our web site. It's going to be cross posted on a few boards, so it's an external link. Sorry about that, but here's a few teasers. http://www.volkswagenhaven.net/KBB-2009.html Quote ...

312 miles 11 1/2hours to Moses Lake

inspector — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:25:30 GMT

Ok, I have posted this on a few other forums, so don't get mad if you've seen this. Usually I would just post a link to it....but it was such a blast I need to do more then just a link. This has got to be one of my worst planned trips. I like to thank my wife for that one. Less then a weeks notice and even up till the day before we left, still wasn't sure if I was riding or taking the car. Got my bike up and running with all my gear ready the morning I was to leave. Printed up a ...

navarre florida,eglin reservation

warriordad — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:38:04 GMT

if anyone has a chance to travel to nw fla. you have to ride on the eglin a.f. base reservation . over 5000 acres of land .beware lots of sand and single track. there's alot to see here including some areas still used by special forces to train their men, i should mention that you would be required to buy a permit and be tagged for the street, but for $10.00 it's a great place to ride. also not far away there's the black water river area that is loaded with some nice trails as well. come on ...