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gprogers said:

You are definitely on my hate you list great pictures great ride you are so lucky

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Yup. All "those guys" over there have made my list. We have great roads, but their great roads have history.

Gorgeous Day yesterday, so I got out an enjoyed all of it that I could!

Sierra1 said:

Yup. All "those guys" over there have made my list. We have great roads, but their great roads have history.

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Yes specially you guys in Texas least in South Texas the world is flat as a pancake

gprogers said:

Yes specially you guys in Texas least in South Texas the world is flat as a pancake

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The "WE" I was speaking of was the US in general, it has some great roads now. But the history over there . . . . they had roads before we even were the US.

And Texas is hit & miss on being flat. US 277 goes from border to border; 6+ hours and 400+ mi. Everything West of it is definitely flat. But the hill country in South Texas is anything but. East Texas is relative flat but has the piney woods that make it a much better drive/ride than Central Texas. Central isn't all that flat, but it's not all that pretty either.

Sierra1 said:

The "WE" I was speaking of was the US in general, it has some great roads now. But the history over there . . . . they had roads before we even were the US.

And Texas is hit & miss on being flat. US 277 goes from border to border; 6+ hours and 400+ mi. Everything West of it is definitely flat. But the hill country in South Texas is anything but. East Texas is relative flat but has the piney woods that make it a much better drive/ride than Central Texas. Central isn't all that flat, but it's not all that pretty either.

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I spent January and February in Texas driving from Ontario when I got in Texas driving to Brownsville a lot of flat roads but I was on the interstate very boring in a car but I do love the weather inTexas and the people are so friendly we'll be going back

gprogers said:

I spent January and February in Texas driving from Ontario when I got in Texas driving to Brownsville a lot of flat roads but I was on the interstate very boring in a car but I do love the weather inTexas and the people are so friendly we'll be going back

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Yeah, far South Texas is flat. Very flat. Those two months aren't bad weatherwise in Brownsville. You probably don't want to return between May and October though.

Just completed the Idaho BDR.......



The map of what we rode.... We crossed the border into Canada to spend the night. The next day we continued north about 100 miles to the ferry. Along the twisty road next to the lake. Fantastic ride if you get the chance. Make sure you visit the lady bug coffee hours at the ferry, excellent food and service !




The infamous blue cabin........ A few people ruined the opportunity for the ADV community to stay there any longer. The owner was present when we arrived and told us stories about these "ADV folks" and why no one is allowed to stay there.... The road up to the cabin and the road that continues past the cabin is some of the hardest to ride on the IDBDR.........
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This is on the BDR and is a long beautiful road in an absolute awesome area that twist down along a river. I believe it used to be a rail way, this is a hole the carved out for the train many years ago..... .





Here is an example of the surface of most of this BDR..... Some of the BDR is covered in 1-2-3" of loose gravel, so it might not be covered in boulders (like the AZBDR) but it can be very loose and sketchy for many miles & miles..... You add mountains and 4 million switch back turns and it can get a bit harry over a 8-10 hour day.........






A water fall out in the BACK woods.... This had a little sign out near the BDR road that just said "water fall"..... You needed to turn off the road and for about 2-3 blocks it was super rough and technical... You then came to a turn around pad and then a walking path. We walked a few hundred feet to this water fall..... This photo and maybe a few more I post does not do this justice at all.... This was SO worth this little trip and effort... It was really awesome...... If anyone is interested I can tell you where this is................





This photo was taken about 100 yards from the Canadian border....

(I will add, there are some long sections of pretty straight gravel roads heading up to the boarder. I was doing about 75 MPH on the gravel roads heading north. The bike is floating all around and there are sweepers and turns in there too. But you can get cooking and 'floating' on the gravel rocks. This ends about 5 miles from the border. At the time we rode this section it was very dusty, I was in front and was able to ride 75. The guys behind me were probably doing about 50 because of the tremendous dust on the final roads......)






This camp location is the "pie lady" place in North Idaho, I told the story in the "BDR post"..... This place is AWESOME !

Nice write up

For the folks that have not looked at the BDR post that I started and have been adding to....... This was the first day damage.....

I really like and enjoy GPS, but I was a little excited about the start of the trip and did not check (our) progress.... Dumb on me... Garmin wanted us to head from Slat Lake City straight west and come into Jarbidge from the south.... I knew we needed to head north so we could swing in from the north. We headed north out of SLC for about 100-125 miles and then turned on the GPS again and fallowed it (idiot)..... Well, after 6-8 hours we knew something was NOT right.... It basically re directed us all the way back south across Utah and tried to bring us in from the south. At the time I was super PO just because all of the wasted time lost. What I didnt know, is heading into Jarbidge from the south is basically impossible from what we encountered. We then turn north for 60-70 miles and then GPS says we have about 40-50 miles of off-road to get to Jarbidge. the first 15-20 were wide and smooth, easy. Then it has us turn up this hill that is rocky, two paths, goat trails.... We trudge this dumb thing for about 20+ miles and is getting dark. Just before dark we come across this "hill" / mountain that is a road for a super UTV or a major off road truck... this is what GPS says we have to climb over to get to Jarbidge. Holy Shit, I really dont think we can make that.... I go walk 1/2 way up and take a look......... After 12 hours on the bike, I guess I was tired and not thinking 100%....... I told my buddy, I will go first.... I rip up and make it 3/4 of the way before my bike get stuck in a rain rut and is stuck and standing upright on its own.......... And at this time my buddy is ripping up behind me and has to stop in this steep as F mountain road.... The off road guys can empathize with the situation. Im now off my bike and its stuck, im going down to help him now.... After 30-45 min we get his bike turned around on this steep ass mountain and he rides down. It takes another hour to get my bike out and turned around... By this time it's about 11 PM, we are out in the SUPER DUPER sticks.... Mega dark out... ( I will use this situation once again to promote excellent lighting if you go do these type trips like all my Baja Designs lights)
We call it... we have to go around... We turn around and we have to back track all the dirt back out to the "high way road".... We do this, on the way out there are several mud puddles and I make them through all of them. At one point on the way out my buddy dumps his bike and I have to walk back about 1/2 mile to help him lift it up and out of the mud. This was special mud, we called it glue. We both got this mud on our jacket and trousers and this mud stayed on our cloths and equipment the whole trip.... It's still stuck all over my jacket.... Shit is like super glue......
So we get him going and I walk back to my bike... On the way out of the goat trails Im trying not to bust my ass. We have now been on the bikes for approximately 15+ hours and Im beat. We are almost to the end of the goat trail and I hear what I thought was a scrape on one of my bags. That is all I heard, didn't feel anything, no jerking, Etc...... I brushed a rock wall just right. About 100 yards down the road we came to the 'Y' in the road..... I waited there for my friend. I could not see my bag in the pitch black night... He rolled up and I indicated to him to shine is lights on my bag.... this is what we saw with all my food dropping and falling out on the ground.... We had to use straps to hold it up....
We got ourselves off the dirt and headed north to a "motel" about 17 miles north. (HOTEL: this is a whole other story I will post) The next morning I got a trash bag for "water proofing" the inside and he had a little duct-tape.... We moved on in the morning heading to Jarbidge and we came across a hardware store out on an Indian reservation... I then added about 200' of duct-tape to hold the bag together....
It held up over the whole trip............ Now im going to try and fix it.... The bag is crushed in like a tin can on the back side, the whole case its totally 'twizzled' . If I cant fix it, I have to find another........

The IDBDR is incredible, I HIGHLY recommend it to the ADV community...... Totally awesome ride my friends !

















EDIT: got it fixed up

These are from Colmar in France. First time there, very nice town centre..

Took the bike to Halifax, N. S. Great fide but what a pig on gas while cruising 75. Gauge starts flashing after 2 hours.

~TABASCO~ said:

For the folks that have not looked at the BDR post that I started and have been adding to....... This was the first day damage.....

I really like and enjoy GPS, but I was a little excited about the start of the trip and did not check (our) progress.... Dumb on me... Garmin wanted us to head from Slat Lake City straight west and come into Jarbidge from the south.... I knew we needed to head north so we could swing in from the north. We headed north out of SLC for about 100-125 miles and then turned on the GPS again and fallowed it (idiot)..... Well, after 6-8 hours we knew something was NOT right.... It basically re directed us all the way back south across Utah and tried to bring us in from the south. At the time I was super PO just because all of the wasted time lost. What I didnt know, is heading into Jarbidge from the south is basically impossible from what we encountered. We then turn north for 60-70 miles and then GPS says we have about 40-50 miles of off-road to get to Jarbidge. the first 15-20 were wide and smooth, easy. Then it has us turn up this hill that is rocky, two paths, goat trails.... We trudge this dumb thing for about 20+ miles and is getting dark. Just before dark we come across this "hill" / mountain that is a road for a super UTV or a major off road truck... this is what GPS says we have to climb over to get to Jarbidge. Holy Shit, I really dont think we can make that.... I go walk 1/2 way up and take a look......... After 12 hours on the bike, I guess I was tired and not thinking 100%....... I told my buddy, I will go first.... I rip up and make it 3/4 of the way before my bike get stuck in a rain rut and is stuck and standing upright on its own.......... And at this time my buddy is ripping up behind me and has to stop in this steep as F mountain road.... The off road guys can empathize with the situation. Im now off my bike and its stuck, im going down to help him now.... After 30-45 min we get his bike turned around on this steep ass mountain and he rides down. It takes another hour to get my bike out and turned around... By this time it's about 11 PM, we are out in the SUPER DUPER sticks.... Mega dark out... ( I will use this situation once again to promote excellent lighting if you go do these type trips like all my Baja Designs lights)
We call it... we have to go around... We turn around and we have to back track all the dirt back out to the "high way road".... We do this, on the way out there are several mud puddles and I make them through all of them. At one point on the way out my buddy dumps his bike and I have to walk back about 1/2 mile to help him lift it up and out of the mud. This was special mud, we called it glue. We both got this mud on our jacket and trousers and this mud stayed on our cloths and equipment the whole trip.... It's still stuck all over my jacket.... Shit is like super glue......
So we get him going and I walk back to my bike... On the way out of the goat trails Im trying not to bust my ass. We have now been on the bikes for approximately 15+ hours and Im beat. We are almost to the end of the goat trail and I hear what I thought was a scrape on one of my bags. That is all I heard, didn't feel anything, no jerking, Etc...... I brushed a rock wall just right. About 100 yards down the road we came to the 'Y' in the road..... I waited there for my friend. I could not see my bag in the pitch black night... He rolled up and I indicated to him to shine is lights on my bag.... this is what we saw with all my food dropping and falling out on the ground.... We had to use straps to hold it up....
We got ourselves off the dirt and headed north to a "motel" about 17 miles north. (HOTEL: this is a whole other story I will post) The next morning I got a trash bag for "water proofing" the inside and he had a little duct-tape.... We moved on in the morning heading to Jarbidge and we came across a hardware store out on an Indian reservation... I then added about 200' of duct-tape to hold the bag together....
It held up over the whole trip............ Now im going to try and fix it.... The bag is crushed in like a tin can on the back side, the whole case its totally 'twizzled' . If I cant fix it, I have to find another........

The IDBDR is incredible, I HIGHLY recommend it to the ADV community...... Totally awesome ride my friends !


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The motel at duck valley res is really plush! Not!!! Ah yes Glue is a decent description for the crap that forms in Northern Nevada/Southern ID when it rains just a little.. Its the same "crap" that stranded 70K on the playa at Burning Man. Its so slippery you can barely walk on it. Your boots collect mud/vegitation and it sticks to them so bad your feet look like "big foot". It only takes about 30 minutes of light rain to strand you in mud that cannot be escaped. The good thing is that its so dry here that when the rain stops it only takes an hour or two to turn to cakey dust again. I always tell people dont even think about going "off road" on the clay if its been raining unless there is rock on the road!

SpudBob said:

Ah yes Glue is a decent description for the crap that forms in Northern Nevada/Southern ID when it rains just a little.. Its the same "crap" that stranded 70K on the playa at Burning Man. Its so slippery you can barely walk on it. Your boots collect mud/vegitation and it sticks to them so bad your feet look like "big foot". It only takes about 30 minutes of light rain to strand you in mud that cannot be escaped. The good thing is that its so dry here that when the rain stops it only takes an hour or two to turn to cakey dust again. I always tell people dont even think about going "off road" on the clay if its been raining unless there is rock on the road!

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Got stuck in that stuff once, pay attention to the front fender, enough of it packed might crack it, had to take off mine because front wheel didn’t want to spin

I want to do this loop SOON ! ! ! ! !

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~TABASCO~ said:

I want to do this loop SOON ! ! ! ! !

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Come on up!
Perfect temps right now.
Trees will be changing very soon......... Gorgeous!
There's a few Campgrounds along this loop, as well as plenty of dispersed-camping in some of the forest areas.

SkunkWorks said:

Come on up!
Perfect temps right now.
Trees will be changing very soon......... Gorgeous!
There's a few Campgrounds along this loop, as well as plenty of dispersed-camping in some of the forest areas.

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I just rolled in from the IDBDR. I might have to run up in the spring !!!! Let’s plan it !

I like to do a little ride (about three hours) on the weekend to get out of the house and scout some camp sites. Here's a view I came across!

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I like to do a little ride (about three hours) on the weekend to get out of the house and scout some camp sites. Here's a view I came across!View attachment 105260

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That ain't Kansas. Whereabouts you call home?