Adventure riding short rides and BS thread

[Cabrito]

Nice work John!

 

[SFMCjohn]

Nice work John!

Thanks, Cabrito ... proud of myself for not dropping any bolts into this particular engine this time.

came across this today:

New 1st edition arrives in early May 2021!

Benchmark Maps has been driving and mapping the American West, publishing award-winning recreation maps and atlases. The first edition Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas showcases the diverse recreation opportunities found along the full length of the Baja California Peninsula.

see if I can get one ordered ...

over on ADV.com Butler Maps is threatening a Baja Backcountry Discovery Route, coming "soon" ...

 

[Cabrito]

Yeah, I've been waiting for the official arrival on their site. I'll be buying it.

 

[SFMCjohn]

Yeah, I've been waiting for the official arrival on their site. I'll be buying it.

me, too ...

meanwhile, today’s progress:

forgot to install one of the rubber cam-chain guides, so after three hours of backtracking and removing the exhaust cam to properly install the overlooked cam chain guide I was back to where I thought I was. at least I didn’t have to pull the head again.

and, voila:

started right up, idled well, and felt pretty peppy riding it around the block.

will ride it back and forth to work for a couple of weeks and then get ready for StonyBARF by changing the oil, maybe re-torquing what’s easy to reach, adding the anti-freeze I didn’t have to the distilled water I did have.

mostly see if I can break it, or reveal any huge assembly fails. piston ring installation or cam timing screw ups. forgotten parts, etc.

maybe break it in carefully. I’m generally from the old club-racer school of thought, where we’d just do a few pulls through each gear to red line, and call it good. kind of anti-social to try to do that in Lower Haight.

anyway. there’s progress for me ...

 

[Eric B]

Great stuff John! See you at Stonybarf.

 

[Cabrito]

Little/Big Bike ADV short overnight to Carrizo

Eric B and I had a Little/Big Bike ADV ride for a quick overnight to Carrizo Plain.

Eric has the nose for routes and got us all the way from San Jose to Carrizo on secondary roads that were awesome. Because of the miles we had to do we didn't take a lot of pics, but we got some.

My Spotwalla for the trip -




It's the Little-Big bike ride because I was on my 1090 and Eric was on his KLX250 as seen in front of "old 67" after a killer run down 25 and Coalinga/Los Gatos Rd.



We were the Wolfman Luggage Pinup krew

Eric's KLX is sweet.


We snagged one of the last sites at Selby CG

Photo Credit - Eric B he calls it "1090 at sunrise"



Out on Soda Lake Rd, and look closely to see the remnants of a tumble weed Eric hit.


The brown Carrizo




After running Soda Lake Rd to Maricopa for gas we hit Elkhorn Rd for the way back.

Eric is a great tour guide and knows a lot about the area, stopping frequently to point out interesting things along the way.



The massiveness of Carrizo


The top of Parkfield Grade. Eric coasted down the paved section for six miles.



Two days, 696 miles, 14hrs saddle time, with the big KTM averaging 47mpg

 

[1962siia]

F yeah! Looks like an epic ride. I've never been there before. Definitely on my bike bike list of places to go. Any wild flowers or has it been too dry?

 

[Cabrito]

F yeah! Looks like an epic ride. I've never been there before. Definitely on my bike bike list of places to go. Any wild flowers or has it been too dry?

There were very few flowers. They were there but you had to look closely. I want to go back and trailer the XR4 and camp/ride for a few days. Endless exploring options there.

 

[Eric B]

Great pics Mike. That was fun. Old #67 has to be the mot photographed oil rig in CA.
The maintenance notes scribbled on the belt housing said 11.5 RPM for the drive unit.

Here are a few more pictures -
Cholame road


Davis road

 

[Eric B]

Sunrise is always nice there -

 

[matty]

Good stuff! Hardly a lick of green out there in early April! I was actually supposed to be out there this week, but circumstances killed that.

 

[SFMCjohn]

Eric B and I had a Little/Big Bike ADV ride for a quick overnight to Carrizo Plain.



After running Soda Lake Rd to Maricopa for gas we hit Elkhorn Rd for the way back.

Two days, 696 miles, 14hrs saddle time, with the big KTM averaging 47mpg

love this pic ... 47 mpg is awesome for a big KTM. god bless fuel injection.

“Wolfman Luggage Pinup krew ...”

 

[seldredg]

Any chance there's a gps file of the ride?

 

[Eric B]

Any chance there's a gps file of the ride?

I did not track it. If you are handy with Garmin Basecamp or similar, Mike’s Spotwalla link shows the roads we did.
I could recite the roads as well, if you’d like.

 

[seldredg]

I'm as handy with basecamp as it allows. Some days are better than others. Basecamp sometimes goes three sides of a square instead of A to B. I can check the Spotwalla link. Thanks for response. Scott

 

[Cabrito]

Any chance there's a gps file of the ride?

I did track on my GPS, and I'll try to extract them for you. I'll PM if I can get them off cleanly.

 

[seldredg]

Thanks for trying.

 

[SFMCjohn]

StonyBARF, April, 2021 ...

In the absence of the Sheetiron the last few years due to fires and Covid, I’ve been substituting StonyBARF events, which have been proving a worthy campfire/adventure riding/socializing substitute.

got to see some sunrise/sunsets with bananachunks and Guoseph, and do some old Sheetiron routes with bananachunks, Cabrito, stratslinger77 and Cincinnatus.

Guoseph racing up Saint John Mountain on his KTM 250 EXC-F to catch the sunrise on Saturday morning.

and heading back down to the Grey Pine group campsite for a cup of coffee.

bananachunks’ sweetly set-up CB500x ... he had shamed me into finally dragging the KLR to the tippy-top of Mt St John the evening before by scooting up the final ledges on his street bike, so I was ready when Guoseph lead the charge on Saturday morning.

pic is the saddle below the Goat Mountain gate, near the big Lettts Lake Recreation Area sign. The KLR performed well for me this weekend, with its fresh top-end. arty

and the sunset, near Goat Mountain.

Cabrito, stratslinger77 and Cincinnatus on Black Diamond Road, a gnarly old Sheetiron route that plunges down from M3 and Low Gap/Windy Point to Stonyford.

StonyBARF turns out to be a great ADV event, can’t wait for the next one!

some pics from bananachunks:

M10, M3, Black Diamond, North Fork loop, with Goat Mt, Summit Spring and Mt St. John spurs ...

near Goat Mountain ...

 

[1962siia]

Awesome pics as per usual! How did I not see you this weekend?

 

[elemetal]

Excellent sunrise pic, John. That gravel up at the top was deep and so much snow in the Snow Mountain wilderness. Wanted to wait until actual sunset to go down but my head was getting really cold, was probably 30 at night up there, was 36 down in camp.