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General Banter / Re: Phoenix
« on: November 06, 2010, 11:19:26 PM »
Jon, my preferred route is over to the blackhills then down through the bighorns then CO to AZ but I was looking to go south right away and avoid higher elevations since it was late in the year. I'm hoping to do some more riding out west next year. I took my 1st trip west to go watch the GP at Laguna the 1st year it came back, and I can't get enough of AZ, CO, UT, CA. This trip was just to drop a bike off for my sister and was a good excuse to get one more trip in before the end of the season.

George

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General Banter / Re: Phoenix
« on: November 06, 2010, 10:42:31 PM »
Tony there's a short day ride called South Mtn. that allot of Sportbike guys do in the area. I rode some stuff to the east from Show low to Globe which was pretty good. Actually I'm told most of the roads to the east of Phoenix are pretty good. 87 to Payson, 188, 191 etc. There's chance I might go down there for work on a rare occasion and I've got bikes I can borrow, so with any luck I'll get to try them all.
The one thing I really like about ridding out west is the length of the roads, through the Mtn's It always seems like your ridding 30 to 100 miles of pretty good twistes before it will straighten out a little. No gravel in the corners. And very few crossroads. I even had people warn me twice of speed traps. Flashing headlights, this is something I almost never see in MN or WI.

Good trip, great weather the entire way.

George

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General Banter / Re: Committed to a 4th Bike
« on: October 27, 2010, 12:10:17 AM »
Dualsport trips are like backpacking. The 1st trip your thinking is, it would be nice to have that, oh I could use one of those. You start to realize really quick that your just carrying a bunch of dead weight. Weight is your enemy and can make what would have been a fun day allot of work. Only take what you really need. Travel with someone. If your going to have any extra weight, make it water.

George

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General Banter / Re: Phoenix
« on: October 24, 2010, 12:04:40 PM »
I'll be on a SV so no dualsporting this trip. I'm doing a day ride out of Phoenix one day to Mt. something but was looking for something along the way. Trying to avoid higher elevations because of the chance of snow.

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General Banter / Phoenix
« on: October 11, 2010, 09:24:58 PM »
I'm heading south to Phoenix in two weeks and looking for some suggestions. Guessing it's a little late in the year to do the Mtn. passes in CO. Probably going to head to Topeka then down and over to Albuquerque. Not expecting there to be tons of twisty stuff or any really. But if anyone has any suggestions or at least something cool to stop and look at to break up the ride, it would be appreciated.

George

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General Banter / Re: cell service and coverage
« on: August 18, 2010, 08:41:52 PM »
My brother and I have Garmin Rino 520's. GPS with two way radio's. FRS and GMRS up to 14 mile range. Plus they have position locating feature. You can see anyone else with a rino unless they hide themselves. It's come in very handy on the trail when someone takes a wrong turn, stuck etc. Not perfect in every situation but I find them very handy for what I do. We've used ours in the black hills, moab, all over WI and MN. Waterproof, durable, I love em. The position reporting feature works with any model in the Rino line. Small screen but all hand held designs are small.

George

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Routes / Re: White Rim Trail .gdb
« on: June 24, 2010, 11:07:21 PM »
Did the ride and it is everything I expected. The route is accurate. The dirt section before Cayonlands is Dead Horse Point Rd. and the dirt section after canyonlands is Gemini Bridges. Scenery was amazing definitely an all day ride. Talking with the jeep guys it takes two days to do the White rim in high clearance 4wd. Mtn bikes can do it in 3-4 days.
The 1st third is rocky then it smooths out a little after that. There are 3 pretty serious hills, hogback, hardscrable and I can't remember the last. Don't recommend doing it on a big ADV bike unless you have a fair amount of offroad experience and have ridden/climbed hills before.

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Routes / Re: Spider Lake Mixed Surface .gdb
« on: May 14, 2010, 03:56:27 PM »
I want to do allot more exploring up there this year and come up with another route that is around 150 to 200 miles. Then make it a two day ride.

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Routes / Spider Lake Mixed Surface .gdb
« on: May 12, 2010, 04:36:26 PM »
Start: Pine River, MN
End: Pine River, MN
Length: 100-150 ~110 miles

It actually starts at the access road for the Spider Lake Trail System. The nearest town is Pine River. The only straight section is from the access road to the town of Pine River. The rest of the route is twisty pavement, County dirt roads and State Forest Roads. Any street legal bike can do this route. Suitable for any offroad capable bike but best for big ADV bikes and big thumpers. Small enduros are just not as fun on the twisty pavement sections.

There is free primitive camping at Spider Lake. They maintain the trails now so they are much better than years past and it is very hard to get lost in there because they have blocked off all the rogue trails etc. You can ride anything that is an actual road with a regular plate but, you will need a DNR sticker for the trails. The .gdb file is all on public roads and does not use any of the off road trails in Spider Lake. I usually do this loop and then spend the rest of the day riding the trails.
Here's a link for the trail system: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ohv/trail_detail.html?id=27

George

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General Banter / Re: Headed West-July 9-Aug.1
« on: May 12, 2010, 12:59:44 AM »
I've uploaded the my WRT route.
http://mn-msta.com/index.php/topic,138.0.html
I'll let you know how it goes. I should be back around 6/7. We can get together after that and can use the books until you get back from your trip.

George

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Routes / White Rim Trail .gdb
« on: May 12, 2010, 12:46:56 AM »
Start: Moab, UT
End: Moab, UT
Length: 100-150  ~133 miles

All day ride almost entirely dirt roads on the famous White Rim Trail. Hits the Schafer Switchbacks etc. Sever drop offs and spectacular views. Opportunities to take spur roads/trails along the way to overlooks etc. if you are making good time. Remember to bring a camera.  I made this route in Map Source and am going to ride it at the end of the month. I've been told that it can easily be done in a day with an early start.


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General Banter / Re: Headed West-July 9-Aug.1
« on: May 10, 2010, 03:24:24 PM »
I'm doing the White Rim and a bunch of other stuff around Moab in the 1st week of June. I can send you the tracks of the stuff suitable for big bikes. I've made one for the WRT and Loop in the La Sal Mtn's already you'd probably want to wait for the tracks from the Mtn loop after I've ridden it. I've just got waypoints and it's routing off road in straight lines, so it would be hard to know if your still on the right trail. I'll clean it up after so it's more accurate.

I've got a couple of books from Charles Wells for Utah and Colorado that has Jeep trails, allot of these would work for Big bikes. They're pretty decent with pics and descriptions of the terrain, as well as mileage and waypoints. I need them for the trip at the end of May beginning of June but you're welcome to look at them before or after.

George

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Routes / Re: Standard Slimey Crud Route
« on: May 07, 2010, 02:56:47 PM »
Google GPSBabel it's a free utility that is very easy to use and can convert most formats to any other format. Browse to file select the format that it is. Give a place where you want it to write to and select the format type.

George

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Introductions / Re: George O'Neill
« on: March 29, 2010, 11:33:53 AM »
I'm sure she will, just hasn't gotten around to it yet.

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General Banter / Re: Welcome!
« on: March 21, 2010, 11:49:00 PM »
Just thought I'd check since this forum actually has MSTA on the Banner. Do you want to keep this forum focused on Sport Riding and Sport touring? Or are posts for any type of riding welcome - Trackdays, Dirtbikes etc. Or would you rather those posts stay on the forums that focus on that type of riding?

George

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