One of our BMW club members offers to change out tires for $20. That is a great deal!! We took my new tires over and it took him and hubbs almost 4 hours because the tires on the bike were sooooo hard! I felt really bad and offered to pay him more but he wouldn’t take it. He said it would be $30 next time. HA What a nice guy. So my bike now has new off road tires. I went with the TKC 80’s on both front and back. So far I’ve taken it on the local gravel roads a couple of times and they seem to be working great. On the road they also feel very good, a little squirrelly feeling for the first 10 miles but I got use to them quickly and now they feel fine. Jay is going with Metzler Karoo 3’s.
I’m really looking forward to getting some good training. Right now I’m good with riding on the forest service roads but when I hit loose or smooshy road bed I get a little tense and I know the more relaxed one is the better things go.
Here are some photos from our recent off pavement rides.
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| Baker Lake |
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| This is where I turn around. |
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| Beauty in the Woods |
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| Jay and Kelly's bikes taking a break. |
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| Stopped by a big orange gate. |
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| On our way to find some dirt roads. |
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| Claudette and her TW |
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| My bike - BMW F800GS |
PLANS…
In May a couple of girlfriends and I will be taking the off road training offered by PSSOR here in Washington state. After that Jay and I will ride down to Klamath Falls, Oregon where he will be taking the same training. Then we have the rest of the summer to play until we head south to our new job with Amazon.com in Nevada. We have the Touratech rally in June on the east side of the mountains and then once we get settled in down in Nevada we can find some roads around that area to play on until our job starts. After the job ends in December we will head to the Yuma area where we plan to leave MARV while we do a Baja Mexico ride. Although most of the roads in Mexico are paved there will be some areas of sand and gravel while we make our way to the beaches where we plan to lay around and drink Cervesa’s while we enjoy the sunsets.
I have to say, I have met so many wonderful people in the world of motorcycling. I would have missed out on so much if I had never started riding my own bike. Sometimes fear keeps us from doing the very thing that will open new doors and allow adventures to begin.
My next post will be all about Adventure Camp so stay tuned...
