As much as I respect those who ride thousands of miles on their motorcycles in “Iron Butt” competitions and commuters that ride 52 weeks per year, philosophically, I just can no longer subscribe to such practices. I fundamentally disagree that shear miles logged is any measure of what riding is about and is missing...
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Sometimes when you know you just need to get away, you should just follow your gut and go your own way. I modified my plans and chose to do a group ride of — unbeknownst to me — completely incompatible riders. Their destination was also to be Yosemite, so I thought I’d take a...
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As much as I love burning up the pavement with my fellow street riding friends, this weekend I’m headed off on a solo, “mental health” ride. Sometimes, after a rough week, a ride to explore the mountains is just what the doctor ordered. The route will probably put me near the northern border of...
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Or why riding a KLX400 600 miles is too far! Somewhat spontaneously, on a beautiful Saturday morning, I decided to test my “Adventure riding” capabilities. This test would include my Kawasaki KLX400, my backpack loaded with 30 LBS of, ummm, crap (to emulate camping gear,) my dirt riding apparel and no destination whatsoever —...
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Took a quickie trip to the Sierras for the spring’s first fly fishing trip. Much to our chagrin, waters everywhere were VERY high and fast! Good for California’s water supply, but rough on fly fishing. We should have known… The above image shows the high water at Don Pedro Reservoir
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