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I left a ride report over on ADV.com about my recent offroad trip if anyone is interested.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...9#post17026939
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...9#post17026939
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'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
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Whoah! Nice ride, Tod!
It's been a few months since the Durango run but you rode some of the trails and passes I could just stare at, briefly, from the highway on my XS or heard about later from Motoman and Jerry.
The pictures of Corkscrew Pass are totally intense; look like something by Steppenwolf!
-- Scott
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2004 ST1300A: No name... yet
1982 XJ1100J: "Baby" SS Brakes, '850 FD, ACCT
1980 XS1100G: "Columbo" SS Brakes, '850 FD, ACCT
1979 XS1100SF: "Bush" W.I.P.
1979 XS1100F: parts
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Some good shots there Tod! See that you hit alot of the areas that rally ride took us this year. If you'd went the SouthFork of the San Juan you would of got into some serious single-trac. Lots of shots there I know exactly where your at. Had to be a hoot..........how was "sucking wind" at altitude? Not aclimated sucks.81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.Comment
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After about the third day.. the last day of the ride, I didn't even notice the altitude any more. The first couple days though, I felt like those guys climbing Mt. Everest where they take a step every 3-4 seconds when going uphill.
Also.. something I couldn't understand... was @ here, I get maybe 40 mpg on the Suzuki. The morning I rode to Norman to load it on the trailer, riding at 75 or so a lot of the way. I got mid-low 30's. Riding around in that altitude, and especially on the 107 mile ride back to Pagosa Springs doing up to 95-100 at times, and usually 75 most of the time, I got 54 mpg! Should have been the opposite. Obviously not jetted right for around here.. but it would seem to be lean and get OK gas mileage. Up there, it would have been (Should have been) running a lot richer. Who knows... but thanks for reading.Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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One of those pictures looked like Wyoming............around a place called ......Brokeback Mountain.
Saw pictures of it once.
Greg
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
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You saw pictures of it once because you were taking them...
Jay got a video made of the trip. It's about 20 minutes long. It's got some of the same pics, but video also if you're interested.
http://gallery.me.com/jthomas82/100343Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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Nice photos and narrative. I've ben on many of those roads 4-wheeling. The San Juans are my favorite part of the state.Jerry Fields
'82 XJ 'Sojourn'
'06 Concours
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Nice trip Tod...sorry Cody messed up..hope he's ok...prolly is knowing him. Sure do love the western states for ridin.
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