September 14, 2023
Last year’s write up: Link There seems to be a trend with our friend John, this year he made it to the starting line only to have his fuel pump fail a few hours later. Blerg. Whelp, guess it will just be me and Mike again this year. A revised plan to meet in Cowdry (Colorado) and then take pavement…
September 17, 2022
Our planned route of the WY BDR was Sections 1 to 6 (backwards from north to south). We skipped Sections 7 and 8 because we have spent a lot of time riding in the Big Horn mountains (they are fantastic) and instead would tack on part of the CO BDR. For this tour I rode my KTM 790 Adventure R…
September 16, 2022
Time for Mike to head home to Rapid City, blerg. It rained hard early in the morning and there was talk of skipping the ride over Buffalo pass in favor of taking the highway. But after breakfast it seemed manageable so we geared up and hit the trail. The conditions were better than expected and soon we were over the…
September 15, 2022
After missing the last part of Section 1 of the WYBDR, we hit the top section of the COBDR the next day. This had always been our plan, however instead of making it to Leadville for the night we would turn around in Gypsum due to heavy rain. I ride most of this trail a number of times each summer…
September 14, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested. With rain coming we crossed our fingers and hit the trails at 7:00am. First goal to get to Centennial, WY a hundred miles away. Once there we questioning if we could cross the Snowy Mountain range before getting wet. After a weather check we gave it a…
September 13, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
September 12, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
September 11, 2022
I give a detailed route description on this page if you are interested.
July 18, 2021
Our tour moved up a few months due to my friend Steve’s son starting a job soon and as luck would have it the weather turned out better than expected. There was a seven day window there with lower than normal temperatures and let me tell you that was greatly appreciated. With my delay in getting to Steamboat I met…
June 30, 2019
Strikhedonia resting down in Puerto Penasco meant it was time for a bit of fun on two wheels. My buddy Mike’s birthday was coming up and it didn’t take much convincing to put together a weekend of dirt bike riding and boating. I loaded up my toy and after work made way for the Black Hills of South Dakota. It…
August 18, 2018
The plan was to head out on our KTM Adventure bikes from Rapid City, SD and work our way as far south on the Colorado BDR until we needed to turn around and work our way back north. All told we put 1,853 miles on the odometer, with well more than half being on dirt. Day 1, four of us…
July 21, 2018
**Note the 1290 has new circuity that requires a pulse to be transmitted and the bypass instructions below will not work** It is a known issue that the stock KTM side stand switch/sensor frequently fails and when it does leaves you stranded. Well just such a situation came up on a short tuneup tour my friends and I took to…