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I took my sleigh out for a 5 hour ride and felt lucky the whole time to be able to get out for a long ride. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
After a couple weeks of snow/ice/freezing rain the weather finally decided to cooperate so I could get out for a nice long ride.
Typical eastern Oregon shot.
I was in the same position a little over a year ago, Azimuth. Fast forward a little...I just hit the end of my first year of ownership of my first motorcycle, a 2013 NC. I've put on about 10k miles riding throughout the spring, summer, fall, and winter (In eastern Oregon where it gets cold in...
I picked up a KLR650 to keep my NC company yesterday and drove the NC today to pick up maintenance supplies for the KLR. Between the two I've put on over 500 miles and the weekend's not over yet!
Here's a video that was put together from Steve one of the Vstrom riders of our WABDR trip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ptwgm5Vs6w
More to come when I have a chance to edit my video.
I've been following the fires, it's crazy how the Carlton Complex fires are now over 200,000 acres in size. I wonder how the cows are doing, the area that they were in burned. Numerous houses have burned as well, it's very sad. If we were delayed by a day we would've been turned back.
It looks like I made it through just in time, Hwy 97 is shut down and the town of Pateros was evacuated as the Carlton Complex fire burned through. I rode through the town of Pateros yesterday morning on my way home. I also noticed that the fire burned up by Loup Loup Pass and that Hwy 20 was...
Made it home this afternoon, what an amazing trip! Dodged rocks, ruts, and wildfires and yes had to pick the NC up a couple times as well. Even after all that the only thing that seems to need a little work is my skid plate which took a few hits along the way and a few small dents in the...
I bought a cool wrap to soak and put around my neck to help with the heat. I've been watching the fires up around Lake Chelan, it'll be interesting to see what's left by the time we get there. I've also been doing the rain dance for OCR!
It looks like I'll be leaving to meet up on Sunday morning, it's only a little over 2 hours from my place to Stevenson. I think we'll just head to the Roadway Inn where everyone else is staying, we should be there by 8am. Changing the oil and filter tomorrow and will start packing. Looking...
Yeah, I was hoping to get out of the heat by being up in the mountains, but it's not looking good for a cool ride. Between sweating from the heat and the dusty roads, we're going to be caked in dirt.
The Mills Canyon Fire is approx. 4 miles away from the route at this point. I pulled up the roads in the area and it looks like we should be able to get around it without too much of an issue. I'll print out maps of the area roads so that we have options once we get there. We could ride over...