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- Chris
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- Jennings
You know how when you fall in love it's hard to think. You find it difficult to even talk. How about when your writing you newly enamored a love letter? You sit for hours trying to think what to write, but you can't because your in love. Well that's happened to me.
A few weeks ago I posted on www.twtex.com and www.klr650.net about going to Clayton, OK. After hours of searching I found a GPS track on www.advrider.com of a ride that was 65 miles and would supposedly take all day to do. Sounds like fun huh?
Let me give you a little history on my riding. Basically there is none. I bought my first motorcycle, a KLR 650, a year ago. My experience up until now has just been gravel roads in Texas.
Needless to say I was a little nervous. Well we had a good group talking about going, I think about sixteen people. Well early the week before people started dropping out because of a bogus weather forecast. Come on people, did you really think you could trust a ten day forecast? Needless to say the weather for the thirteen riders that showed up was perfect.
Backspinn and Greengoose both agreed to lead us around since they had been there before. Remember the part about me being nervous? Well when Backspinn decides to ride the first loop on his KLX 300 I was just downright scared!
Don't worry that didn't last long. We did a fairly technical loop out of the state park on Friday afternoon. My bike stayed together, if you've seen my bike that is a valid concern.
We rode some fast fire road, four wheeler track, creek crossings, and a good single track downhill. Holy rocky trail Batman this is FUN!
This is where that whole loss for words comes into play. Saturday was just a plain blast. Steep rocky, rutted, climbs and descents. 70 mph fire roads, trail that you would hardly recognize as trail, and a river crossing that made this a true adventure.
I did manage to take some picture mostly when others reminded me to. So enjoy and the next time anybody wants to go to Clayton let me know, I'm going with you.
The last time I did a trip report it was questioned as a fake because there was no bathroom shot. Well this should confirm this as an oldbmw report.
A few weeks ago I posted on www.twtex.com and www.klr650.net about going to Clayton, OK. After hours of searching I found a GPS track on www.advrider.com of a ride that was 65 miles and would supposedly take all day to do. Sounds like fun huh?
Let me give you a little history on my riding. Basically there is none. I bought my first motorcycle, a KLR 650, a year ago. My experience up until now has just been gravel roads in Texas.
Needless to say I was a little nervous. Well we had a good group talking about going, I think about sixteen people. Well early the week before people started dropping out because of a bogus weather forecast. Come on people, did you really think you could trust a ten day forecast? Needless to say the weather for the thirteen riders that showed up was perfect.
Backspinn and Greengoose both agreed to lead us around since they had been there before. Remember the part about me being nervous? Well when Backspinn decides to ride the first loop on his KLX 300 I was just downright scared!
Don't worry that didn't last long. We did a fairly technical loop out of the state park on Friday afternoon. My bike stayed together, if you've seen my bike that is a valid concern.
We rode some fast fire road, four wheeler track, creek crossings, and a good single track downhill. Holy rocky trail Batman this is FUN!
This is where that whole loss for words comes into play. Saturday was just a plain blast. Steep rocky, rutted, climbs and descents. 70 mph fire roads, trail that you would hardly recognize as trail, and a river crossing that made this a true adventure.
I did manage to take some picture mostly when others reminded me to. So enjoy and the next time anybody wants to go to Clayton let me know, I'm going with you.
The last time I did a trip report it was questioned as a fake because there was no bathroom shot. Well this should confirm this as an oldbmw report.
How did that tent work out for you? Did you have any get off's? looks like your bike made it okay. How long did it take to do that 65 mile course? Also how was the camping at the park?
