dual sport travel pics...

Late May/early June on Cinnamon Pass in Colorado. I'm the guy creeping up in the rear.




Middle of the "White Rim Trail" in Moab, UT.




Petrified Sand Dunes in "Arches National Park" Moab, UT.




Somewhere in Moab, UT.




1/8 mi down the road from the pic above...




Moab, UT




Colorado




Switchback going up Cinnamon Pass. Turned into a stream from snow run off...




Heading out of Lake City, CO towards Cinnamon Pass.




Great Sand Dunes Natl. Park, CO.

Cool! Just got back from Lake City, CO a couple weeks ago.... wish I had a bike while I was there, but we had a blast on the 4-wheelers.

Sweet pics.

Awesome.

absolutely beautiful shots there.

Nice pics would love to go there

This is my dream ride.. I could die afterword and be good with my life. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the compliments guys!

Here are some more...

La Sal Mountains... Moab, UT.


Somwhere in a neighborhood in Mississippi...


Cheaha Mt. in the Talledega NF, AL... I'm on the left.


Same...


Abandoned RR tracks just North of here...


Bethel, MS...


Tellico Plains, TN...


Tail of the Dragon...

weirdbeard wrote: This is my dream ride.. I could die afterword and be good with my life. Thanks for sharing.

That is what that trip was for me too. I hope to get to do something like it again some day. Half of the expense was new tires, chain, and sprockets. I camped almost the whole way and only spent maybe $200 on fuel to do the 5k miles. The rest was food and camp sites.

Occational short trips up to the smokies are wonderful too. Either escaping the heat down here or taking a peek at the leaves in the Fall.

great08 wrote:

weirdbeard wrote: This is my dream ride.. I could die afterword and be good with my life. Thanks for sharing.

That is what that trip was for me too. I hope to get to do something like it again some day. Half of the expense was new tires, chain, and sprockets. I camped almost the whole way and only spent maybe $200 on fuel to do the 5k miles. The rest was food and camp sites.

Occational short trips up to the smokies are wonderful too. Either escaping the heat down here or taking a peek at the leaves in the Fall.

In your opinion.. What kind of money would a fella need to allocate to do the Utah ride? I want to do it so bad. That is amazing you only spent $200 on fuel!

Lets see....the VTX is a gas sucking HAWG! 200$ on fuel would get me about, ummm.....about HALF way! lol.

Awesome pictures though, again! I would LOVE to have a trip like this one day too.

I swear.....I need 3 or 4 bikes instead of 1.

I Believe it ended up costing just a little over $230 for me in fuel.

It would be almost impossible to guess how much it would cost due to different variables.

What type of bike?
Do you already have it or need to buy one?
Are you going to find a place to camp... or pay for a camp site... or hotel?
Are you going to live off of Rameon Noodles... or McDonalds... or $20 a meal resturaunts?
What will the fuel prices be when you leave?
What type of gear will you be buying/needing for camping/etc.?

If you aready own a bike and gear then the cost is just food, gas, and parts. I had to work up and slowly accumulate my things for a few years. I started off barely having what I needed for a short trip in the summer. Then got things for different climates/seasons. Then GPS etc. Then I had what I needed to do that in comfort.

This is the first bike I have ever owned so I don't have as much experience as most guys on the subject. I did find myself only needing a small portion of what I packed. lol

I kinda figured there would be no easy answer to cost.. I guess the first thing I need to do is get a DS. Or turn my sporty into one..

Very nice pictures, some really beautiful country. Quite impressive.

I have seen someone turn a Ninja into a long travel suspension dual sport!

Back in the day all motorcycles were kind of dual sports since the Hwy system was not like it is today... me thinks.

great08 wrote:I have seen someone turn a Ninja into a long travel suspension dual sport!

Back in the day all motorcycles were kind of dual sports since the Hwy system was not like it is today... me thinks.

Yes.. I love the look of those old bikes too. You should have seen the fellas bike at the bike show last weekend.. He made a Suzy Maraider? into a crazy cool dual sport... V twin DS. It looked like it came from the factory like that.

Yeah, it was a very nice bike.

Hey Marty, I'm still waiting on that ride report. When I rode the TAT with 2 guys, I waited for them to share there pics. They never did put there pics on the net, & I never wrote a ride report. Just sayin....

DirtFreak wrote:Hey Marty, I'm still waiting on that ride report. When I rode the TAT with 2 guys, I waited for them to share there pics. They never did put there pics on the net, & I never wrote a ride report. Just sayin....

It's good you brought that up. I finally got to meet up with Aaron(the local guy I did the trip with) this Wensday. He downloaded something like 8 GB worth of pics onto my computer. I told him that I am going to Organize the pics... blend them with mine... and start doing a RR. He said for me to shoot him a link as soon as I start it so he could add comments here and there. So I need to get that RR done before the story slips my mind. Which does not take long these days. lol

That's a really neat looking dual sport up there. I always like seeing custom jobs. I could never get tired of seeing those.

Is that you Craig? USCG stationed in Mobile at ATC?

Another Coastie??? Hell yeah.

all ewe guys cant be coasties , none of ya look ta be six feet tall to me

weirdbeard wrote: I kinda figured there would be no easy answer to cost.. I guess the first thing I need to do is get a DS. Or turn my sporty into one..

the sporty wud be very easy to turn into a DP bike ..

I've done a bunch a road trips in my day on bikes , and while it is hard to put a figure on the costs , as everyone is different , if ya stay in decent motels on the road and eat one decent meal a day , at todays prices on everything , I figger $100 a day to cover all expenses , short of a breakdown ... And I usually have money left over .. Especially if you split a motel with someone or camp at COE campgrounds which are dirt cheep ..

somebody donate me 20 grand so I can go get that Ducati MultiStrada I been lusting over

ZombieNNN wrote: Another Coastie??? Hell yeah.

Yeah and you and craig both know me, Anyone that rides a motorcycle at ATC probally knows me.