nklr snowbikes

[marknavy13]

Anyone know of a good organized Dual Sport ride near Ohio that is do able on a 650?

[revmaaatin]

Mark-- I don't know anything about Ohio, but it I lived there, this is what I would do: Invent your own! Start here: http://www.amazon.com/Ohio-Atlas-Gazetteer-Delorme/dp/0899332811/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323753985&sr=1-14 $13.57 if you are part of Amazon Prime. if this link does not work, google Delorme gazetteer, Select Ohio. While you are at it, get the surrounding states as well. Do a map study, copy the panels (make 2) near your home and start with every gravel road. THE HOW: Make a 'strip-map' of one copy that is only ~4 to 6 inches wide along where you want to ride (keep the second copy so you can find your way home if you ride off the map). I suggest you leave the original at home as they will quickly fall apart while dual sporting...Aerostitch makes a ziplock bag the size of an entire DeLorme map set. etc anyway-- after your map study, Do and expanding line from near your home or start point; explore every secondary or teriary road. There may not be much gravel roads, but there will be plent of farm to market roads once you get away from the city. Using this technnique, I now have a 2/3 or an E-W trek what I call, [the Central Trans S. Dakota Ride; = Huron,SD to the Wyoming border] across the state of SD that is completly gravel more or less; some short paved sections becuase you have to cross a couple of rivers. Some parts are inpassable when wet. shrug. Some parts nearly impassable when dry! Some roads that were gravel 7 years ago are now under water due to the high snow fall...3 years ago! Still under water! Some of it is prairie trail; read: grass Some of completly dirt; read dirt with glacial rocks of various sizes. Its all fun. No, I don't have the tacks ready to publish just yet. Two posters, Jud Jones and AJ Clifford have ridden chuncks of it with me; others who remain nameless have been invited as well! Additional map sources are county maps. They can ususally be found at the specific county court house if you are there when they are open. Some states publish the public hunting area guide which is also a free source for gravel roads; albeit, [some] not in very good detail. revmaaatin.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "marknavy13" wrote: > > Anyone know of a good organized Dual Sport ride near Ohio that is do able on a 650? >

[David Nichols]

Mech, Have you seen that Christini now makes a 450 street legal Dual Sport? It's not a kit, it's a turn key bike for $7,700. They sell direct, ship to your door. I was interested in this and contacted them for more information, they sent me a PDF for the owners manual. I'm not sure who makes the engine but someone over on ADVrider.com said it was a Chinese made Honda, whatever that is... Link: http://www.christini.com/christiniawd450ds.php ________________________________ From: mechanizeinc To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:16 AM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: NKLR SnowBikes I could live north of Dallas if I had a Timbersled or 2Moto conversion. Probably still couldn't hold a job, but I'd be willing to get out of bed on sunny days and romp through the powder on a KTM. For now, I'll stay in the south where I don't have to dig my car out of a snow bank in order to get to work. Hopefully it gets wet down here and I can day dream about a Christini AWD conversion for a Honda CR450F Mech snow chains BWAAAaaHAhahahaha

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Saline wrote: > > Listers, > > If the snow bike link in an earlier post was of interest to you this link > might also be of interest. > > www.timbersled.com > > I looked at one on Saturday at a local shop. It was on a KTM. It took > about 3 hours to install and looked well made and the design made good > sense. > > Timbersleds makes other snow machine parts and this is a natural > progression for them. > > Best, > > Jeff Saline > ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal > Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org > The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota > 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650 > > . > . > __________________________________________________________ > Mortgage Rates Hit 2.50% > White House Program Cuts Up To $1000 Off Monthly Mortgage Payments! (3.1% APR) > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ee62401f1e620aea26st01vuc > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]