Welcome to the Two Wheeled Texans community! 
Feel free to hang out and lurk as long as you like. However, we would like to encourage you to Evening TWT'ers and TWT'ets, Robert here. 2 stroke dirt riding was my first home at 8yo. Years have gone by with kids and a couple of divorces. Enjoying life now with the kids and bikes. We're running a '08 Suzuki M109R, '21 Indian Challenger, '17 DRZ400S, '03 Yamaha TTR225 (daughter), and a '23 Xmoto 125 (son). I've been through all but 4 south eastern US states on the street bikes and grew tired of leaving the sights at the shoulder of the road to be see from a distance. Hence, the DRZ. Looking for more dirt than street adventures now. It's been great to get back on the dirt on a thumper to go explore. While I still enjoy my street bikes, the DRZ is where I'm focused at the moment. If you are in the DFW area and have room for another dirt rider, please let me know. This has been a truly different world so far. I like to ride, a lot. Comfort has little effect on my will to start/finish a ride. (The 109 has been through every state west of the Mississippi pulling a trailer.)
The adventure bike scene seems to be larger bikes for the most part from what I've seen the most. Don't get me wrong, the big KTM's and BMW's are beautiful bikes, and I've crossed paths with many people across the country riding them crazy distances at a time but, they aren't necessarily in the shape to have to pick it up by themselves so it stays a 80S/20D bike. I intend to ride most times by myself. The lighter the bike, the better. I'm aiming for more of a 20S/80D ratio. Hoping to find some leads here. Granted its been 15 years since I was on a forum site.
The adventure bike scene seems to be larger bikes for the most part from what I've seen the most. Don't get me wrong, the big KTM's and BMW's are beautiful bikes, and I've crossed paths with many people across the country riding them crazy distances at a time but, they aren't necessarily in the shape to have to pick it up by themselves so it stays a 80S/20D bike. I intend to ride most times by myself. The lighter the bike, the better. I'm aiming for more of a 20S/80D ratio. Hoping to find some leads here. Granted its been 15 years since I was on a forum site.
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). There are several "park lands" in Texas (names escape me at the moment) that have been donated years/even decades ago that STILL aren't open to the public yet there are dozens of TPWD uniformed people "living" there. Ok, what exactly is needed to open a park these days? Not much more than a gate "hut" and seriously how many years does it take to build a restroom? (probably 20,000 rules/regulations now to be fair with handicapped access etc). One of these I was told about was already running as a guest park so had cabin/lodges, RV pads, various maintenance buildings, lake with a nice dock, etc. it was about as turnkey as anything to be a state park but nope...not open yet.