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- Location
- Terlingua Tx
- First Name
- Ed
- Last Name
- Hegarty
My neighbor Brian got a new to him DRZ a couple of months ago and thus far it has only seen gravel and paved roads in and near DFW plus one small weekend trip to the forest of east TX. He was itching to do a challenging ride, so we slapped on some knobbies and headed for Arkansas.
I am prepping the WR for a multi-week ride in Oregon, so I am sorting out mods. Been eyeing the front rack from Turbo City, but have not wanted to drop seventy bucks on it. Here is my compromise solution using fifteen bucks worth of steel from Lowes.
It holds tubes and a tool pack with room to spare.
Camp setup at Shady Lake was nice. Right along the creek, more on that later.
First stop Thursday afternoon was Tall Peak fire tower. A nice warmup ride.
With a view!
You never know what to expect up there.
We rode by Albert Pike, where those people died in the floods last month. the place is still closed, and still a mess. The forest service is building new camp sites along the road. They have not yet cleaned up the old sites.
Last stop for the first day was Blue Hole. Look at that still unscratched clean white DRZ...
The climb claimed the DRZ.....
The mirror did not fare well...
As usual the pics cannot convey the steepness of the hill. Finding a place to park the WR to lend a hand uprighting the DRZ was as challenging as getting started out moving uphill in the rocks was.
The reward for the effort!
Brian backing in for a photo... not too far man, I don't want a picture of you and your bike falling off into the hole!
It was hot already too.
Day 2 will follow in a bit.
I am prepping the WR for a multi-week ride in Oregon, so I am sorting out mods. Been eyeing the front rack from Turbo City, but have not wanted to drop seventy bucks on it. Here is my compromise solution using fifteen bucks worth of steel from Lowes.
It holds tubes and a tool pack with room to spare.
Camp setup at Shady Lake was nice. Right along the creek, more on that later.
First stop Thursday afternoon was Tall Peak fire tower. A nice warmup ride.
With a view!
You never know what to expect up there.
We rode by Albert Pike, where those people died in the floods last month. the place is still closed, and still a mess. The forest service is building new camp sites along the road. They have not yet cleaned up the old sites.
Last stop for the first day was Blue Hole. Look at that still unscratched clean white DRZ...
The climb claimed the DRZ.....
The mirror did not fare well...
As usual the pics cannot convey the steepness of the hill. Finding a place to park the WR to lend a hand uprighting the DRZ was as challenging as getting started out moving uphill in the rocks was.
The reward for the effort!
Brian backing in for a photo... not too far man, I don't want a picture of you and your bike falling off into the hole!
It was hot already too.
Day 2 will follow in a bit.
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