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05 Aug

Posted at 07:31h in Adventures, Groms, Ride Reports, TAT2018

Deer +2, Bear -1, fender bag -1, off +1 Today was a good test. It started off with us congratulating ourselves on how quickly we were able to have breakfast and broke camp and deteriorated from there. A few km outside of Warm Springs, we saw a bear. Unfortunately it was dead and lying in the middle of the road :( More back roads and then some gravel, where Sim had his first little off somewhere on the trail near Potts jeep track....

04 Aug

Posted at 15:54h in Adventures, Groms, Ride Reports, TAT2018

Deer +9, TAT riders +2, river crossings +3 We got off to a reasonably early start this morning at about 6:30 ish. We had a short bit of gravel,then mostly sealed roads for the rest of the morning, with a little more gravel in the afternoon. Just outside Hancock we came across our first and only traffic jam. Some sort of biker rally, but we didn't see many bikes, it was mostly cars and trucks trying to get in. We found the...

03 Aug

Posted at 15:49h in Adventures, Groms, Ride Reports, TAT2018

Deer +6, big black snake +1, charging cable -1 After being well fed and looked after by Paebr332 and totaly not murdered, we headed out to get some fuel and do some Amish spotting. Sadly no Amish, so it was back onto the MABDR. A mix of forest roads, backcountry roads and some quite busy main roads. About an hour or two in, we came to an intersection where the gps track said go straight, but the only road ahead of us...

02 Aug

Posted at 15:46h in Adventures, Groms, Ride Reports, TAT2018

Deer +4, tank bag cover -1, bear dog +1 We got off to a more respectable start this morning from our motel in Nazareth. I swear my helmet smelt like cigarette smoke but Sim says its probably just my imagination. Lots of lovely little back roads and our first taste of dirt relatively early on in the ride. As we were pootling along this little dirt road in some forest, Sim spotted a seemingly random parking lot and then a big...

01 Aug

Posted at 15:42h in Adventures, Groms, Ride Reports, TAT2018

Not much in the way of mileage, but a great start to the trip. We got off to a very late start, after putting the barkbusters back on (they had to stay off until we could get them through the doorway) and packing everything on the bike we realized we hadn't checked the chain tension and the tire pressure after the visit to the bike shop. Of course we needed more air and the chains were way too tight. Doh! All...