[Pterodactyl]

Use this thread to post one (1) picture, along with a short description, to tell us about a recent ride.
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Went for a ride today after our first winter storm of the year. It was very early but much needed. We were in the midst of a severe drought and the state was on fire. Three days of rain, snow at 5,000 ft and higher (we live at 4,200 ft) and highs in the 30s. This was taken a few miles from my place and at an elevation of about 5,200 ft. I was just below Marysville. In the 1890s it was the most populous town in Montana due to the gold and silver mining in the area. These days there are less than 100 people in the town, but it has a good bar and a popular ski hill.

 

[rsmith]

Had this pic from a ride I took in May. Rode thru the forest fire area north of Ruidoso NM. The rock pile in the picture is the old Mon Jeau fire lookout tower.

 

[Darbinco]

I took my new to me 09 GSA up to Big Creek Reservoir last week. I don't know the elevation but if I had to guess it would be somewhere around 9000 feet. It's pretty clean in the picture due to the 2 foot deep creek I had to ride through to get up to the reservoir!

 

[Darbinco]

Went across the highway from my house yesterday. Checked out some trails I haven't been on in a few years, they were rough when I was there last time... I'll tell you they haven't got any better. In some places, nature is taking back the two track. It's near gone only to be replaced by rock fields, washes cut deep by heavy rains with bowling ball sized rocks everywhere. It was a first gear, feather the clutch ride for about 3 miles.. I won't be back up there again!

This picture was taken when my bike decided it needed a nap:grin2: This was actually the easiest of the washes I went thru but being throughly exhausted was probably the reason it didn't work out so well. I felt like laying down next to it for a nap myself! I discovered these bikes aren't to heavy till your hot, sweaty and exhausted. Then they are work to get righted and up the other side of a wash.

This was lower in elevation and on the way out. Those black rocks on the little hill behind the wash is the crap I rode thru for several miles before getting to this point. They pretty much form the trail surface (if you call it that) with a little dirt sprinkled in between. It was slow and rough going, I'm surprised I still have straight wheels to be honest. I think I'm going to stick to the more developed trails from now on!

 

[Weatherbie]

This was my first off road ride along a powerline in central Maine. This was a little beyond my capabilities as the knee high grass prevented me from seeing exactly what I was riding over. Learned quit a bit, such as let the bike go where it wants to!

 

[rsmith]

East of Ruidoso NM. Sierra Blanca in the background.

 

[Clay]

Most tour the Black Hills and/or the Bad Lands loop during the Sturgis Rally..but few venture onto Indian reservations..

For some who don?t recognize this location..it?s the Wounded Knee Massacre grave site on the Pineridge rez..

 

[marcimark]

Mad Max

G'day,
the first of all the Mad Max movies was a low budget production and filmed in and around Melbourne (Australia).
Today a group of us rode to all of the film locations, which was something different and enjoyed by all.
The picture was taken in a location near Bulla and was in one of the final scenes of the movie.

 

[GrayBeard]

I took my new to me 09 GSA up to Big Creek Reservoir last week. I don't know the elevation but if I had to guess it would be somewhere around 9000 feet. It's pretty clean in the picture due to the 2 foot deep creek I had to ride through to get up to the reservoir!

I like the way you wash your bike

 

[GrayBeard]

I had just led my buddies over Hogback Mountain in the Jefferson National Forest on the ridge road when we stopped for this photo. My buddies in the background on their KLRs had been calling my GS the bikeapotomus and after this bit of trail, they started calling it my bigass dirt bike. Deep mud, steep hilly rock gardens, and roughly 2 hours to get through 11 miles of two track.

 

[BMW]

In the forests near Samobor, Croatia

 

[BMW]

The first one was probably too big and did not load.

 

[rickrv8]

Austria

A wet ride to the Großglockner Pass in the Austrian Alps.

 

[jnor]

Ohio River

Park off 536.............

 

[Pterodactyl]

Spousal Unit, Central Montana.....

 

[Pterodactyl]

Near Garrison, MT

 

[Mr. Adventure]

We have a lot of trails believe it or not in SoCal also. This is not far from my house in Murrieta it's darn near the Northern end of Camp Pendleton also. This was also my very first ride off road so I turned around after like 30 minutes because I had no water with me.

 

[Ryno23]

Lotto ticket run today. Lots of motorcycles out. I imagine most are heading home after Street Vibrations.
Took a run on 89 South to Monitor Pass before it closes soon.

 

[saughblade]

Motor Mill near Elkader, Iowa. I'm a sucker for spindly one-lane truss bridges with wood decks...

 

[Ryno23]

Motor Mill near Elkader, Iowa. I'm a sucker for spindly one-lane truss bridges with wood decks...

I was born and raised south of there, in Clinton, Iowa.
Is that the Turkey River under the bridge?