eMTB Options For 2024

[Browneye]

Ooh aahhh…..
I'll have to dig up some pics that look like these. I could swear one of yours was in Death Valley, another in the Sierra mountains. I like to ride for the beauty just around the next corner. It has been like that since I was a little kid. Like born to explore. The wonders of nature are so enticing.

Very nice. Two thumbs up!


PS. Doc says no broken ribs. And I can ride again.

 

[Browneye]

I was digging around...this one is pretty fun...Panamint Valley - it's the next one over from Death Valley, and is just as scenic.
This is the TE. It could put big miles on at high speed.



A different trip. There are 8 million acres to ride on out there - you can't even see it over a few year's trips. It was best to have at least a two hundred mile fuel range.




Kopper King mining cabin, Panamint Valley



Osborne Cabin

 

[FlatSix911]

I was digging around...this one is pretty fun...Panamint Valley - it's the next one over from Death Valley, and is just as scenic.
This is the TE. It could put big miles on at high speed.



A different trip. There are 8 million acres to ride on out there - you can't even see it over a few year's trips. It was best to have at least a two hundred mile fuel range.




Kopper King mining cabin, Panamint Valley



Osborne Cabin

Great photos... gotta love riding year-round in California.

I'm now thinking about getting some body-armor... better safe than sorry.

 

[Browneye]

Great photos... gotta love riding year-round in California.

I'm now thinking about getting some body-armor... better safe than sorry.

Hey, is that Limekiln Creek Bridge in your profile pic? Hwy 1 Big Sur?

 

[PDoz]

In true Aussie ( dundee ) spirit...you call 200 miles a decent fuel range?

 

[Browneye]

That's just for a day ride!
I'm finally going to get some comfortable sleep tonight. My PT doc is phenom.

 

[PDoz]

That's just for a day ride!
I'm finally going to get some comfortable sleep tonight. My PT doc is phenom.

Yeah, Pete in that pic would put in 900 k day rides on his 660 rallye but some of that would be in the dark. all on 4x4 tracks. There were a group of 3 locals with 660's and they were seriously hard core crazy nutters. I remember one jumping over me when I was riding up a greasy hill.....another would wander up on hus rear wheel and tap my shoulder encouragingly as I was struggling for traction. Bztrds.

 

[FlatSix911]

Hey, is that Limekiln Creek Bridge in your profile pic? Hwy 1 Big Sur?

Very close! It's Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, just south of Monterey, CA.

Bixby Bridge

Pull over at numerous turnouts for a photos from this must-see road trip stop along California’s Highway 1.

www.visitcalifornia.com

 

[Browneye]

Oh ya, remember that one too.

We camped under one of them a few years ago...

 

[Browneye]

I picked up a can of Krylon Fusion - spray for plastic in high gloss blue. It turned out really nice. I love it. I stopped first at Home Depot to get a can and they don't even sell it. I told them to tell their store manager they don't know what they're doing. If you sell spray paint you have to sell krylon fusion. LOL







And what we do when shut-in...bikes and home-brewed craft beers!
Hope your Friday is as good as mine!! This whole pandemic thing just completely sucks. But we'll deal...

 

[Browneye]

Yeah, Pete in that pic would put in 900 k day rides on his 660 rallye but some of that would be in the dark. all on 4x4 tracks. There were a group of 3 locals with 660's and they were seriously hard core crazy nutters. I remember one jumping over me when I was riding up a greasy hill.....another would wander up on hus rear wheel and tap my shoulder encouragingly as I was struggling for traction. Bztrds.

They do that kind of stuff in Baja. My dream ride was to Cabo San Lucas. I had several different bikes that would do it, in fact my Triumph Tiger sold to a guy who's family has a compound on the pacific side, just up from CSL. They were setting up a motel for surfers and bikers and he was riding down there a lot. He had a DRZ400 and graduated to a Tiger 800XC. LOL

The 990's are really popular up here. I nearly bought one myself - I think KTM singles are the best bikes in the world, but their multi's leave some to be desired. The offroad scene has been my entire life, we just love it.

Circa 1998, one of my vintage restorations - a 1978 KTM 400mc5. The previous year this bike was a Penton Mint 400.

 

[Browneye]

Okay guys...post some more fun cycle pics for this shut-in BS.

 

[TMH]

ADVRider Salute!

And no, its not a hernia. I had my camera under my jersey.

 

[Browneye]

actually a good reminder for all of us, riding in an area nobody is around I have been ignoring my helmet and gloves - what could go wrong? oh soft shoulders, gravel pile and on and on, thinking about the walker - often they will move to right so we can pass on left - I also think about walking with the better half - every time we need to move over she will always go in the opposite direction from me - and after 40 years I give up on trying to 2nd guess those situations, experienced the cracked rib thing recently as well, I thought if a soft roller works well rolling out the kinks well not try a pvc pipe - not a good idea - later went to Home Depot, sneezed and dropped like I got shot, poor employee gal thought I was having a heart attack I pretended I needed to see something on the bottom row very closely until pain subsided, take care, I envy your kegs of beer situation, we are in day 9 of isolation from travelling out of country and the booze cupboard seems to be drying up - even all that stuff that's hung around for ever not really liking seems fine now,

I sneezed earlier today - a big one, first one since the crash.
I nearly cried. The girl in the office next door came over all aghast, thought I was having a heart attack. Dear lord, the pain.
So I'm a lot better, and moving about well, but wow a sneeze shouldn't hurt THAT bad.

 

[Browneye]

ADVRider Salute!

And no, its not a hernia. I had my camera under my jersey.

And now you know where my username comes from. Was completely apropos for advrider. FYYFF
I signed up there in 2009. 55K adventure miles.

 

[PDoz]

Ok, so big pig pic time?
Semi emtb relevance...this guy works out of the factory next door to stealth and helps with some of their engineering

 

[PDoz]

As much as I love ktm twins, I'll always be loyal to honda v's. Fifteen years on a transalp ( over 100 k) and another 3/4 on an rd04 africa twin

 

[PDoz]

Before I went full euro...

 

[PDoz]

Oh, and about that shinny paint on your giant...

Nah, cheap black tape is good enough for me

 

[TMH]

Baja used to be so much fun. Still don't know whether I would ever go back. This was back in 2008 going through the last little crick heading into Mike's Sky Ranch:

Sure did miss that 950 after I sold it. So much so that I now have both a 990 ADV and an 1190 ADV R. But after popping my hamstring on a CRF250 at Hollister some years back, I've decided to ride smaller, lighter adventure bikes. The 1190 I bought from a buddy after he crashed and totaled it. Now it is my 2-up road bike. Off road adventures have gone down to 800cc: