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Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« on: October 05, 2014, 10:53:45 pm »

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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2014, 08:25:49 am »
Those look a whole lot more like roads than what we tried to take our bikes down!!!!   :o
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2014, 09:20:44 am »
The pictures do not capture the level of difficulty!

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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2014, 11:10:05 am »
It looked difficult enough to me!! :-)

How did you shoot these photos? I'm gonna guess Go Pro with a remote?

Did the hunters want to join you or shoot you?  ;-)



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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2014, 12:02:43 pm »
It looked difficult enough to me!! :-)

How did you shoot these photos? I'm gonna guess Go Pro with a remote?

Did the hunters want to join you or shoot you?  ;-)



The pictures do not capture the level of difficulty!

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Yeah, some our route was very challenging!

I use a Drift Camera-similar to Go-Pro in function-and set the camera to take a picture every 60 seconds, then just go and ride!  The result is varied pictures, and I delete pictures which are uninteresting. 

The hunters were deer hunting with bows.  They were very nice and we had a pleasant conversation! 
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2017, 12:06:33 pm »
Amazing scenery. That looked like a ton of fun. Always nice to capture experiences like those.

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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2017, 01:29:52 pm »
Looks like fun, but I get a 404 when clicking on the photos.

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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2017, 04:06:34 pm »
Looks like fun, but I get a 404 when clicking on the photos.
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2017, 08:49:40 pm »
Campbell and I found a very challenging unmaintained road that climbed from near Thurmond to the top of the mountain and came out on 41.  It was barely 2 track and seemed like 10 miles but was probably more like 5!  All told we rode maybe 70-80 miles of gravel plus maybe 100 of twisty pavement.  We will be back for more of the same but of course neither of us were taking pictures. 
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2017, 10:10:10 am »
I like those 4 pictures. The first looks like a pleasant gravel road. The second a somewhat rutted road requiring careful positioning choices. The 3rd is a muddy morass. The 4th doesn't look much like a road at all to me.


But that's the way it works. You start out on a decent road and it degrades a little. The next thing you know you're somewhere you might not have gone had it looked that way at the start.
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2017, 08:50:58 pm »
Campbell and I found a very challenging unmaintained road that climbed from near Thurmond to the top of the mountain and came out on 41.  It was barely 2 track and seemed like 10 miles but was probably more like 5!  All told we rode maybe 70-80 miles of gravel plus maybe 100 of twisty pavement.  We will be back for more of the same but of course neither of us were taking pictures. 
Was it the same road he and I were on last year on our Z125's?
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2017, 10:03:42 pm »
Yes it was. Lucky we turned back on the Z125's, they would of never made it. The road was not easy on a dirt bike.
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Re: Fall Colors Ride-Dual Sport Photos
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2017, 10:15:42 pm »
I like those 4 pictures. The first looks like a pleasant gravel road. The second a somewhat rutted road requiring careful positioning choices. The 3rd is a muddy morass. The 4th doesn't look much like a road at all to me.


But that's the way it works. You start out on a decent road and it degrades a little. The next thing you know you're somewhere you might not have gone had it looked that way at the start.

Yeah, the dual sport/adventure fun is that the terrain changes quickly!  Lots of fun! Or lots of pain! 

Heading out Sunday to ride some of these same trails on my new Husqvarna Enduro 701!
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