Idaho Trail Riding Photos
Photos never do the subject any justice. I stopped more time to take photos than I can count and rarely does the photo capture the sense of being “there” . . . nothing matches...
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South Dakota Riding Photos (2014)
Below are some photos that I took this year while riding in South Dakota. The Black Hills offer some good single track trail riding in the closest western mountain setting to Kentucky. By the...
Red Bird Crest Trail Ride Report (05-25-14)
Well for the first time, Philip tagged along with us to do the Red Bird Crest Trail. He’d ridden a couple portions of it back in 2007 but that was over by the Begley...
WR250 Race Report
I’ve come to the conclusion that my newly built Yamaha WR250 is a single-track trail weapon. I raced the Sandlapper Eating the right food and indulging in physical activities daily will deeprootsmag.org tadalafil buy...
The Row 4 (and 62) Report
A group of us made the commitment to race the Sandlapper National Enduro down near Columbia, South Carolina three months ago. We’d been to that race back in 2011 and made the (nearly fatal)...
Building a modern day Yamaha WR250
This is somewhat of a rehash of an older post on the subject of converting a 2006+ YZ250 to Wide-Ratio or “WR”250. The vast majority of the items needed to make this happen come...
Stuff . . .
Well the Halstead Fire is slowing down a bit thanks to some showers and the fact that it reached a large burnout area from 2006. It’s daily growth has been minimal for the last...
Ride Report: Yamaha WR250
The new WR250 has approximately 230 miles on it now. I had no issues at all during my rides in Idaho. Cruising on the forest service roads no longer concerns me as the bike...
Yamaha WR250: Why doesn’t Yamaha sell one of these?
Yamaha has not marketed a WR250 since the late 90’s. At that time they made a WR200, WR250, and WR500. The WR500 was their 490 air-cooled engine whereas the others were water-cooled. Each of...