KX Riders
General => Riding Stories => Topic started by: 81cr450 on April 13, 2012, 02:04:47 PM
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I've been threatening for awhile to post some pics of the riding around here. This is part of the paiute atv trail system, one big ass riding area. From hill climbing, 2 motocross tracks no fee not groomed though, back country atv only stuff for 48" wheelbase & less, high alpine pine & aspen forest. You can even ride in town on designated city streets.
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Great pics 81cr450. When I drive south to Vegas I scope that area, have seen lots of atv tv shows about riding the Piute. i'm trying to plan an early fall ride this year and get it done. The land of Butch Cassidy :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Seriously I'd be happy to show anyone around who want a guided tour. As long as my bikes not puked :-D . The atvers show up on their quads & miss so much of the bike stuff, hardly anyone but us locals even ride alot of the trails, purely cause its bike only type stuff.
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I'm your "Huckleberry"! Maybe we should put a ride together in your area? Looks a little like some places around Vegas.
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Tell me when Pete. My guess , there'd be more luck getting you guys out of Vegas when it's hot.
The riding is anything from hill climbing clay hills to red rock boulders to alpine pine forest right up to mountain goat terrain where trees dont grow anymore. Just tell me what kind of trail you want to ride. My wife actually just suggested we could probably throw together a dutch oven dinner to work our way to on the ride.
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Tell me when Pete. My guess , there'd be more luck getting you guys out of Vegas when it's hot.
The riding is anything from hill climbing clay hills to red rock boulders to alpine pine forest right up to mountain goat terrain where trees dont grow anymore. Just tell me what kind of trail you want to ride. My wife actually just suggested we could probably throw together a dutch oven dinner to work our way to on the ride.
I'm pretty much good with any type of terrain and I'm fairly fast until I crash! :-D I'm liking your idea of summer and escaping the heat around here in Vegas! I think we should do this! I could probably get a couple of more riders together if that would be OK? I'll definately keep this in mind and will contact you as we get closer to summer!
Pete
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The more the merrier. I'm not particularly fast but I'm up for most anything as well. PM'ed you my # give a holler when youre ready
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the area I live in, (nottinghamshire) the biggest hills we have are grass planted former coal slag tips. your end looks ace......
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I live just north from there, but have only been once in my entire time living here. I need to go down and check it out again. Those pictures are awesome though!
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Thanks for the pics and story....
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The pics dont even do it justice , my picture taking ability is :cry:. Just doesnt give you a clear view of the size. There is nothing like really loading a 500 up a hill. This is all from the rocky side of the valley. I'll try to get some more of some of the other areas.
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Does the rear tire, in the first pic, work well in that terrain? What kind/ size is it?
-Rhyno
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140 80 18 Best price is Mandhtires. My all time favorite tire. Some whine about the weight but I aint doing motoX. Its like a big ol scoop shovel. Looks like they are finally making it in a 19" too but its skinnier. The trails around here get pretty chewed up , loose powdery stuff & you gotta be able to dig to the bottom or float over it. They were made in china for a few but they're back in the USA being made by TSL, the super swamper guys, I believe. I'd like to try a skat track custom paddle but I ride on pavement going to the trails & work and dont think that'd be very doable
http://www.mandhtires.com/store.php?crn=68&rn=285&action=show_detail
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Thanks for the reply and link.
I run the same size(140/80/18) but in a Pirelli Scorpion. I think that it is alright, but I ride in a similar terrain and it is going fast. Maybe the next one will be the same as your's.
-Rhyno
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Went for what I thought was a nice mellow 70 mile ride last night. Feeling a little tenderized today though. Wanted to post a little more of what the terrain in the area's like. This is a really sweet spot, you cross though stream half a dozen times on the way up. Higher there's a couple snow melt / spring fed ponds, that usually have some ducks floating around. Quite scenic.
I do have a question though, how do you ride with slower, non 2 stroke riders? I'd get a good rhythm going & then spend 10 minutes or better waiting OVER & OVER again. Any pointer's
We found this sign after we came back down, I thought we were on a nice beginner type ride. I really was trying to take it easy cause the other guys havent ridden an awful lot.
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Looked like a fun ride. You do better to get a dual sport four stroke to plunck around on to keep up with those guys.
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I do have a xr650l to plunk around on it's a bit occupied by a friend in the second photo. Trying to get him hooked.
Riding a 2 stroke is either gas or break, not really made to idle. I guess photography is an option for killing time. Just hard when your adrenaline's pumping & you gotta stop & wait.
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Went out for more flogging of the new first gear today. Damp ground ultimate traction just point & go , makes me feel like alot better rider than I actually am. These are about 100 yard or so runs , when you come back down its all the brake you can give & you still pick up speed.
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Just some other shots
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those are awesome pics!!....that's a hill climbers heaven right there
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Some pretty good riding this weekend, rode from richfield over the sevier plateau up into the Escalante mountains. 89 miles out, back was a little shorter.
Note the snow capped mountains on the right
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You can see the same snow capped mountains clear in the back of the shot to get a small idea of the distance covered
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Look Mom no hands, or kick stand
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We crossed so much water, just one pic though
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Overlooking otter creek reservoir & the direction we're heading
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We got really close to Bryce Canyon you could see bits of it popping out here & there
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Even witnessed a couple orgies
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We used to Camp and ride at Pine Lake and would have a blast!! It's got to be close because when we ran out of the beer we brought we would go to Bryce to get that Utah near beer. Finding old snow drifts in the shade in June was always fun as was ripping across meadows with the Mustangs. The trout fishing was killer too!!! Really been wanting.to take the wife n kids riding there and hit the pink coral dunes too
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Went on really great ride over the 24th weekend, state holiday. My son in law & a co-worker have been thinking on this for a month.
The last ride shown left out the headgasket blowing near the end of the ride on the kx250. It was bought for like $350 & superglued back together to nurse along till cash was available for the rebuild. The guy who owned it before stripped near everything he touched & I knew the head stud thread was loose but Cody , no hands co-worker , said "I wanna ride". Needless to say a full rebuild is underway. Problem though, the cylinder wouldn't be back from the plater till the day we wanted to leave.
Enter Black Betty. I've had an AF cr500 , 2003 cr250r chassis, I've been puttering with for the last 2 years with the intention of selling when finished to help fund other projects. Didnt really want to sell , hence the 2 years. So Cody needs a ride "here take the rmx250, I can finish the AF in a weekend" :roll:
Weekend comes , goes, not running yet.
Wednesday
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12 hour days wear on a guy ,but ,I got it Thursday night before we plan to leave Friday. 30 minute test ride , were good to go :wink:.
Friday morning, pre-leave bike inspection. Oh yeah I did put the RMX away with a flat front tire. No problem got a new front tube laying around. Get it changed, just as I finish tightening the axle nut , thud, off the stand up shoots the front brake lever. No spare... Do have a couple different master cylinders though. Ok now that's fixed
In the mean time my son in law , Indi, goes to tighten loose voltage regulator bolts on his klr 650. Pop, broken bolt in the frame. Not my day already as I'm in charge of repairs. One more fix done 2 1/2 hrs behind schedule on a 200+ mile day , with newb rider son in law. We will get there.
Back story on the son in laws bike. His Dad's buddy gave it to him, a klr650 with less than 6000 miles. It was a mess, the air box was removed & a metal battery box was welded in eliminating the place for the factory air filter. Not a problem though cause they put a 2-stroke mikuni in there so they couldn't run it. While the welder was attaching the airbox , you'd think they had the welder handy , they could have fixed the cracked sub-frame. Any we got the bike to a running state a little over a month ago. I "volunteered" to test run it & see that it was okay for him to ride. Between the test run & the previous run I was building our loop, richfield to bullfrog lake powell, bullfrog back up over hells back bone through antimony back to richfield. The pics I have are from the previous ride & test ride of the klr650, with the AF build & the morning repairs I spaced the camera.
Friday morning during repairs, gotta get my grandson hooked young.
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The plan is just head east, all of it previously scouted with ease for distance travel in mind. Last look back toward home, up near lost creek reservoir.
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It always amazes me the diversity of flowers, if you tried to grow all these in one grouping...
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This shot here I have in duplicate from other trips, just a really breath taking spot in person
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We part the the two mountains above & drop down into this which way do we go quagmire
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Beavers apparently like to d**n up the pond & flood trails around here too. 100 yards of wet bowling balls :-D
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The beaver ponds are quite nice, in the early fall there is a bunch of pink lily type flowers in bloom all across it. This be the lunch spot
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Lunch over quickly, no time to dink around as we're behind schedule. On to more water crossing. This is 2 crossings on one stream the first one is 6-8 inches ,cake, the second not so much.
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On the recognizance run, I sucked water , the klr650 with no fender throws water into the airbox. Stalled here, least it wasn't midstream.
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I had to push the fat pig up this to roll start it & get it running again.
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Pic from the last of the fishlake range looking over cathedral valley out to the Henry mountains
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Dropping from the 10,500 ft forest into 4000 ft desert just really feels like home for me.
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I waste so much time pulling the map for crap like this that isn't on my delorme map. Right left no right wait left yeah left
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Cathedral is sweet
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On the way out you take the now entering pic right? Drove really nice through the park & was chomping at the bit. From here I left the guys the behind for bit. The sandy fire roads on the 500 were awesome, that section made it for me. Nearing the highway I wait & wait for them to catch up. At this point it's time for fuel check on the 250. 2 & 1/2 gallons . The 500 7 & 1/2, not to mention tires. About 10 total to bullfrog for the 500, thanks for carrying my fuel guys. Could have burnt more though. The klr 3.5 to bullfrog, surprised me the 250 driven nice could stay close in mpg.
I didn't give my cohorts this pleasure, but coming out of the mountains into the desert it was HOT
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Hit a down grade on the notem road, hiccup 4 cycling 2-stroke. Wringgggnnnch. Down shift, okay still running. What was that. Get on it a mile or 2 later after my sphincter unknots, wringggch. Ok I got a problem. I jetted it rich for the new motor & first real ride. It didn't even start to run till cathedral , piston still moving check. My guess is the rod that seemed tight & good wasn't. Don't know , ain't gonna tear it down & fix it yet as It prevents me from selling it. Did manage to nurse it to bullfrog on an idle all the way though. The wife was there waiting to camp for a 2 nights with all our camping gear, looks like she'll haul me home.
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Proof I made it right?
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Indi & Cody did turn around after the previous day's ride of 10 1/2 hours, for a return trip up the burr trail, over hells backbone across the Escalante range & the rest of the previous scouting trip. So back up the notom rd
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Up this sweet piece of twisty
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Through a winding canyon that reminds me of Zions without all the tourists then into Boulder
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Out of Boulder up over hells backbone, huge , pics don't even touch it. I was sketchy riding after seeing it with my fear of heights & all. Really though the highway from Boulder to Escalante is a funner ride, twisty ridge lines & elevation changes... Not for dirt bikes though
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