where did you TAKE your Tenere today?

Quique

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Rode 380 miles mostly gravel and 2 lane to Bastrop State Park on my Super and Harold on his T7. Sorry no pictures.Park is recovering from BIG fire in 2011. Good day.
Interesting. This weekend if possible I will ride to a place where a big fire took place years ago. Will take pics to go on talking about forest fires.
 

holligl

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This ride has been on my list for 3 years and knocked it out today. White Mountains of eastern Arizona, via Coronado Trail National Scenic Byway, Rt 191, AKA AZ Rt 666 (Devil's Hiway)


Lunch stop popular with bikers. Started to get on the wrong ST when I went to leave. I quickly realized it was too clean.

Lots of fire damage

Morenci Copper mine is the largest in North America. The road runs right through it.

Dump truck bed


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Sierra1

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I can't remember who here posted a pic of that dump bed. It's been a couple of years, I think. Impressive.
 

Cycledude

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This ride has been on my list for 3 years and knocked it out today. White Mountains of eastern Arizona, via Coronado Trail National Scenic Byway, Rt 191, AKA AZ Rt 666 (Devil's Hiway)


Lunch stop popular with bikers. Started to get on the wrong ST when I went to leave. I quickly realized it was too clean.

Lots of fire damage

Morenci Copper mine is the largest in North America. The road runs right through it.

Dump truck bed




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We attempted that road three different times, the first time it was simply to hot for one of the riders so we had to turn around, the second time we had to turn around because of to much smoke from wild fires, the third time was a few years ago and it was great, one of the best rides I’ve ever been on ! Highly recommend it for anyone that enjoys hilly curvey rides with lots of great scenery ! But watch out for wildlife on the road.
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they were blasting and loading trucks while we were there and it was very interesting to see
 

TenereJourneyMan

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paradise valley Montana early spring, just riding between snowstorms. The ride home was 35 mph sidewinds and wet snow…fun on A bun!
I know that exact condition! I drove thru that way in 2019 and even on my fully loaded T12, I was leaning like a weak blade of grass! If I remember correctly, that wind is blowing there nearly 100% of the time. It’s good to get out early in the season.
 

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This ride has been on my list for 3 years and knocked it out today. White Mountains of eastern Arizona, via Coronado Trail National Scenic Byway, Rt 191, AKA AZ Rt 666 (Devil's Hiway)


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I have a pic of me in front of one of these mammoth dump trucks that was active at the time from a mine somewhere in AZ when I was there on location for a photo shoot for AT&T
in the mid '90s. I now have to go in my basement at some point and find said pic....
 

Bmwdumptruck

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Brought our wee motorhome with the S10 on the trailer to Anglesey for the week. F514DFF8-3952-4FAE-A4C2-F2F6E63E6FD0.jpeg
Wife bought me an off-road day for my birthday. So Tuesday I set off early to get over the other side of Snowdon to the MickExtance school where I spent the day playing on these bad boys
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All good fun, although my Arse is now so sore, plus a few muscle groups not normally used as much. But I’ll be looking to go again, slightly better prepared though.
 

MFP

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This ride has been on my list for 3 years and knocked it out today. White Mountains of eastern Arizona, via Coronado Trail National Scenic Byway, Rt 191, AKA AZ Rt 666 (Devil's Hiway)


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Found the pic!!
I wish I could remember the name of the mine and its location in Arizona. I thought there would be some notes in my travel journal about this job assignment for AT&T that I was on but I
could not find them. I want to say the mine may have been within a few hours drive from Scottsdale? I was permitted to go inside the Dresser cab but not while it was running/moving.
I was amazed how normal sized the cab/cockpit was.
As for my posing in this pic from around '96 kindly give me a pass.... Talk about having a clear head and not a care in world!
I was a young, single guy living in New York City that spent a lot of my downtime in the gym and traveling both nationally and internationally ridiculous amounts of time for free-lance work
for commercial / corporate photography studios and photo production companies. :cool:
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holligl

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Found the pic!!
I wish I could remember the name of the mine and its location in Arizona. I thought there would be some notes in my travel journal about this job assignment for AT&T that I was on but I
could not find them. I want to say the mine may have been within a few hours drive from Scottsdale? I was permitted to go inside the Dresser cab but not while it was running/moving.
I was amazed how normal sized the cab/cockpit was.
As for my posing in this pic from around '96 kindly give me a pass.... Talk about having a clear head and not a care in world!
I was a young, single guy living in New York City that spent a lot of my downtime in the gym and traveling both nationally and internationally ridiculous amounts of time for free-lance work
for commercial / corporate photography studios and photo production companies. :cool:
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I'm guessing that close to Scottsdale would be the Ray Mine south of Superior, or the Miami mine by Globe.

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I'm guessing that close to Scottsdale would be the Ray Mine south of Superior, or the Miami mine by Globe.

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I wish that I could remember for sure but Scottsdale as the starting point does sound right.
That particular 2 week trip was a whirlwind with multiple locations starting in Georgia than heading West, then to Pacific Northwest and ending in Idaho.
Unfortunately I cannot recall specific details about the states and cities but I did get crazy air mile rewards.
 
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