Long ride on the slab led to this: Chiricahua National Monument. It will take days to check out this place, today was just a slab run to see how the bike would do on longer trip. 250 miles, didn't miss a tic.
Very nice mag00, I'm going to have to visit that park next February when I'm down your way. I've rode the Apache Trail loop. Now I have another ride to look forward to.
It's been 10 years since I was there last --- makes me want to go again soon. I'm heading south after the 1st week in December -- depending on the weather. The Apache Trail is in my back yard when I'm in AZ during the winter.
I got in a nice 200 mile dual sport ride last weekend, mostly along the ridgetop of the mountains that are behind Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez valley. Here's a few pix from the ride. and a nice late day shot of the ocean at Refugio State Beach.
OHHHH YESSSSS Man, you've got an eye for a sweet shot! Main point...most of the pics have a foreground object to to give it depth and "soul". Like the palm leaves top right hand corner in the last shot. THANKS...this is a pleasure to look at! Clap Clap !!
At the Domino Rally in the Mitchell River National Park, Victoria Australia. The Terra on the right is owned by ADVrider inmate Davorallyfan. Two of the first registered Terras in Australia, both just after Xmas 2012 and about to celebrate their 2nd birthdays. Combined travel about 46,000km in that time. http://goo.gl/maps/eEOBg
Pics from the PB500... Ride to the ride: During the ride: Tough parts of the ride: What ended the ride: (it was a tree, if you were wondering) Edit - oops, wrong thread. This was supposed to be in the "where are you gonna go" thread.
Since I'm running with the strada wheels, I'm interested in the details. I'm taking it that the bent up part in the pic is the aluminum rim? How fast were you going? I'm taking it you hit a log at a fast speed?
Wha...... More details please! I've felt priced out of a new wheel set for my Strada, but I have no interest in ending up in the same situation.
I was cruising along a sandy road, and you know how riding in sand can send you abruptly in different directions? Well, I hit a tree, square. Didn't even touch my brakes (didn't have time)... I was in third, so I'm guessing 30-40mph. A spoked wheel would have been bent to hell, too. Here's some different angles:
Ouch!! I'm pretty sure this is the right one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/BMW-G-650-GS...791597?pt=Kraftrad_Felgen&hash=item4188034bad They DO post worldwide, no harm to make an offer (which is the 2.blue bar under the asking price). Another one here, but could be slightly different as 2 being the twin-disc wheel of the F-series. Email for enquiry http://www.ebay.de/itm/Vorderradfel...03584?pt=DE_Motorradteile&hash=item54140dd4a0
Hello, greetings from Finland. Finland is located in the north of Europe This is my first post to this forum. We have here in the north winter coming, and Terra is already equipped for winter driving, as shown in picture. My language skills is not very good, so please try to understand me
Hi welcome to the Forum. Your English is fine, waaaaay better than my Finnish for sure. I love that these forums are international, it's great to read stories from riding in other places and see the photos. Yikes, you ride in snow like that on a regular basis? I tried some snow riding before and it was miserable. Maybe with the right tires/studs/spikes/??? it's better.
Ya, I'm finding the stock spoke rims are not the best. My front wheel is out of true already and I've barely ridden the bike. I trued it back up side to side but it's a tad out of round so it's not the smoothest ride at certain speeds. The rear seems better. I "suspect" there might be a set of Excel rims with some nice SS spokes in my future later on. I wish there was a nice tubless spoked rim (Alpina or ???) solution for our bikes.
Woody's can probably make a tubeless set... the problem is the rear hub- Woody doesn't have access to one. But, he turns normal rims into tubeless rims, if that's what you want. I'm most likely buying a RAD front hub with an Excel rim and heavy duty spokes, but not tubeless.
I was planning to reuse the stock hubs, I don't see any issues with them. I'm pretty sure both Woody's and Buchanan can do a basic lace up of some Excel rims with SS spokes for me. It's just a matter of $$$.
