Welcome to POTW no. 36. This week, we have a Featured Image taken by@drumdogon a six-week “meandering” tour from Pennsylvania to Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and back to Pennsylvania. “It was an epic adventure,” he says, and the photo illustrates one of the best campsites, Hartman’s Rocks BLM near Gunnison, Colorado, as it was in September.
The descent out of this area in the morning got my heart racing! I had to ride down “Kill Hill” — a very heavily pitted, rocky, loose-gravel twisty on the fully loaded KTM. Fortunately it was 30 degrees in the a.m. so my tire pressure was already low.
I just picked a line, looked way ahead and didn’t touch the front brake and tried to relax my breathing and grip. I’m not sure if that’s all the right technique but it worked for me that morning!
We like these photos because they make use of magic-hour light, and they invite us to relax and spend a little time with the images. That’s a 2017 KTM 1290 Super Adventure R enjoying the campsite, too.
Meanwhile, in Sweden
In late September@AtmoBenzin, his dad, and a friend “hopped on a ferry across the Baltic Sea and did five days of Swedish TET. Hundreds of kilometers of nothing but winding forest gravel roads, beautiful scenery, perfect riding weather. Ideal setting for a brief escape from madness.” Our correspondent’s bike was a 2007 KTM SuperMoto 690.
Southern Arizona
Below, we have an M1030M1 Hayes Diesel KLR relaxing in southern Arizona. It’s “a monster torque machine and pulls like a tractor,” says @SPKR, “even going down to a 54 tooth rear sprocket from the stock military 58 tooth. Ninety-five-plus mpg, 600-mile range on the bike with a full tank. Maybe we can thank the iPhone 12 for the fill lighting.
And below, SPKR’s V85TT Moto Guzzi, also in Arizona, “a capable offroad ride but would benefit from a set of 21/18″ wheels in the sand and silt.” Photos taken this fall.
Take that, KLR!
According to@Siki, this 2001 Gilera Runner 180 SP FXR stroker can “run around KLRs or BMWs in circles while screaming at 8k rpm with joy.”
And while knobbies “would be better in November sleet, the racing slickers work just fine. And sporting only 100 kg you can always swap the roles, who carries whom when pavement disappears on Czech/German border fire roads.” That topcase carries all the camping gear needed, “and sixpack fits snugly in helmet compartment under the seat — what ADV bike has that feature?”
Frostastaðavatn
A solo trip around Iceland, 2020. Looking over the small Frostastaðavatn, which means “Frosty-Place-Lake” in Icelandic, in the highlands, not far from the famous mountains of Landmannalaugar and Mt. Hekla, according to Einar, who was riding a 2017 KTM 1090R.
That’s a big hour
According to@Kiwiscott, “Terry said it was just an hour up and back,” but four hours later, here we are at Loch Katrine in Canterbury, New Zealand. Not a bad spot to be, though, with your 790R in the merry month of November.
Bear with us
It was his last ride of the season when@Schmittenhymerwandered to Providence Bay in Ontario, Canada. “This bear is part of a larger mural on the side of a building just up the road from the beach.” He thought this part of the mural would make a good background pic for the bike, a 2010 Suzuki V-Strom 650. Mmm, tastes like suzushi.
Sunward
The 2011 KTM 990 Dakar below is on Going to the Sun road in northern Montana’s Glacier National Park and was photographed by@Bomosea few months ago with an Olympus TG-6.
And more recently, Bomose was in Arizona on Rte 80 east of Tucson when he found a monument marking the site where Geronimo surrendered and, according to the monument’s author, “forever ended Indian warfare in the United States.”
寺庙狩猎
@Tjilpiwas on a remote jungle track out from Chiang Mai in search of a “special temple” when he photographed the CRF250 below a few weeks ago. He describes the search in ADVrider.com’s “A Gem in the Jungle.”
The old trading post
@alpinaphotographed his 2021 DR650 a few months ago on a ride through Nevadaville, which is located near Central City and Blackhawk, Colorado.
Yellow!
It was almost exactly a year ago when Vid rode some “endless gravel roads just south of Georgian Bay in Ontario” and “hit the peak of leaf intensity” while dodging rain on his backroads exploration with a 2013 BMW F700
All’s well that ends . . .
Three mates decided to do an Outback ride a few decades ago, according to@Revolutions. Rossco was on a TT500, Gerard was riding a Honda XR400, and he was on the Yamaha XT550 you see below.
我们都通过添加修改我们的自行车架carry our camping equip, etc. Part way through our 2-week ride and basically in the middle of nowhere, we ran into rain! I was an accomplished dirt bike rider (well, I thought I was) and I had managed to get the bike up to about 80 kph on a VERY slippery clay section when I lost the front wheel, and down I went! This photo was taken around 1988 using a terrible instamatic camera, hence the very ordinary quality of the photo. Plenty more stories related to that trip including several (repeated) trips to hospital.
A long and winding road
Here is a 2019 BMW G 310 GS on a winding road in Kentucky, according to @Liberty4Ever, who captured the image in November.
This image is not up to par with the gorgeous POTW entries, but I was too busy riding for quality photography, so this is just a GoPro image from a 187 mile ride two friends and I took last Tuesday, November 9th, 2021. We rode from Lexington, Kentucky to ride the 80-mile Hillbilly Triangle, Kentucky’s version of the Tail Of The Dragon, and back, all on secondary roads. We caught the foliage at its peak and it was a very enjoyable ride. Daron rode an F850GS and Craig rode a 1987 BMW K75.
October sunrise
@Mcyeatmansays it was a “beautiful sunrise” photographed from the top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, when he caught the image below in October with an iPhone 11. That’s a 2021 Royal Enfield Himalayan, and “we were headed north on the NEBDR and missed getting into the park the day before because we got there too late. Lucky for us the weather and view were better the following morning.”
That’s some bridge
That Royal Enfield (below) was photographed “during some downtime” after a wedding in Cochi, India, a few months ago. According to@JT, “the region boasts amazing roads that wind up through isolated villages and green tea plantations that reach the heavens.
And the foot bridge below, photographed at sunset in Myanmar, is the U Bein, spanning the Taungthaman Lake near Amarapura. It’s 1.2 kilometers long and was constructed in 1850, the world longest wooden (teak) bridge. “I traveled first to Myanmar and then to India for a wedding just prior to the COVID lockdown.”
It was a very good month
The 2018 Suzuki V-Strom 650 XT in the pic below was photographed by@Kahoonain June on Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts. He says it’s the highest peak in Mass, “always good for several photo ops.”
And also in June, the Suzuki was photographed in Cambridge, New York, while Kahoona was heading east towards Vermont. “What isn’t in the pic is the golden eagle that was sitting in the roadway just moments before. It flew off when I came upon it.”
Next from Kahoona, we have the V-Strom in Bolton Landing, New York, also photographed in June. “A short back road but I low how curvy it is for this short stretch.”
And finally, still in June, a scenic spot on a day ride into the Adirondack mountains, here at Warrensburg, New York. “Sometimes it’s not just the mountaintop vistas that catch my eye.”
In Chiangmai
It’s not Tjilpi, but @Mick who offers the shots below of Chiangmai in Thailand.
Doi Pui half-day ride Chiangmai Thailand on what must have been the coolest day I’ve ridden in my 12 years here 14.11.21. Beautiful Thai winter’s day 18C summit (as they say here) in riding season with little or no tourists. Normally unheard of it’s usually a mad ride up this time of year battling the Songteaws and many Thai Schumacher’s in high season after their record time ascents. A little bit of burning I expect late morning there was a fog earlier so perhaps a bit of that left over also. The landscape is the view of Chiangmai city from the midway viewpoint up Doi Sutep.
Laughing at the gods
Below, we have@Wandermeisteron a solo ride in October to Moab. “Riding Hells Revent — best time ever!” That’s a 2014 Yamaha WR450F.
In California
The pavement ends on the road to Death Valley National Park near Big Pine, California, according to@Napster, who shot this photo of his 2018 DR650 a few months ago.
And this one on a power line road north of Benton Station in California with a view of the north end of the White Mountains of Mono County.
In Marlboro country
For our final image of the week, we have a gorgeous shot by@AdvRonski,他骑着他的2019 R KTM此次将冒险新利18苹果into Canyonlands National Park in Wonderful Utah! and found a viewpoint called Marlboro Point, near Deadhorse Point, where it is said some early Marlboro ads were shot. Or maybe it was horses.
所以我们得出另一个结论,但是我们会back next week with plenty more photos. Remember to submit, and enjoy the coming holidays!
