where did you TAKE your Tenere today?

ValST

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alright, not today but last month:


that would be the second time in the last three years that I've been out there only to find too much water on the salt to do a run, damn it. Still, fun place to visit and well worth the half hour diversion off 80. If there is any grease under your fingernails at all you can feel the history of speed about the place, 'sacred ground.
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SkunkWorks

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One of my favourite rides is a loop from Superior AZ to Globe to Winkelman back to Superior, mountains and curves with little traffic. I’ve done it numerous times but today stopped and looked at few things along the way. Here’s an air powered engine, built in 1925 and used to haul miners and ore from the underground Ray copper mine. Compressed air was supplied along the mine shafts to power the engine. Decommissioned in 1955.
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I've ridden that loop a bunch of times when I lived in AZ.
Lots of cool stuff to see along that route.
 

holligl

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Apache Lake, the long way through Globe, AZ. A major fire last summer burned 125,000+ acres of the Superstition Wilderness. Subsequent flash flooding caused significant damage to the Apache Trail, a rugged historic route following the Salt River. The road is closed indefinately (rumors up to 5 years) from Tortilla Flats to this point by Apache Lake.

Here is some of the residual damage.

Here is the fire scarred desert.

It is showing new growth, and poppies are starting to bloom already.

These are washes filled with gravel runoff.

Today I only saw two other vehicles along the current dead end trail from the east. A year ago there were vehicles every few minutes.

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Sierra1

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Have you been up north? (in Arizona) Page, Glen Canyon, Marble Canyon, North Rim? I love it there. But, don't go through the Navajo Reservation after dark without A LOT of light.
 

holligl

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Have you been up north? (in Arizona) Page, Glen Canyon, Marble Canyon, North Rim? I love it there. But, don't go through the Navajo Reservation after dark without A LOT of light.
Only day rides from where I live, east of Phoenix. Young and Payson... Would love to go further, but my wife usually has other plans.

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WJBertrand

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Mulholland, for a quick 80 mile loop. The snake is still closed. Per one of the workers it will reopen in February. I also heard that it might turn into a single lane. View attachment 63011
I wonder why they’d make it single lane? I snuck past the barrier and rode the whole length from PCH to the Rock Store shortly after the fire (before they dropped the Joisy barriers across) and other than being dirty with debris, sand and a few burned out cars, the road was passable.


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moto.monk

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I wonder why they’d make it single lane? I snuck past the barrier and rode the whole length from PCH to the Rock Store shortly after the fire (before they dropped the Joisy barriers across) and other than being dirty with debris, sand and a few burned out cars, the road was passable.


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To stop riders from doing the same loop like before. They will probably add a few signs and place barriers on one of the lanes.
 
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