Dual. Sport.

One of my motorcycles is what is now called a 'dual sport'. Basically a motorcycle you can ride in the dirt and on the pavement, legally. Some try to do both just OK while others are much better at one side of the equation than the other. My Honda seems to be set up fairly close to the middle. Pretty good at either dirt or street but not superb at one to the detriment of the other.

So I spent 8 hours getting car sick in the back seat of a truck, sleeping in my sleeping bag and eating not one regular, cooked, normal meal for three days so that I could do an epic dual sport ride, originally planned from St George Utah to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

Monday morning found us under some bad weather none of us packed appropriate clothing for, so with a quick consultation of maps and forcasts we picked a new route that would hopefully take us out of most of the bad weather and yet still be a fun ride. We only got lost a few times but we had 140 miles of super fast dirt roads, rock gardens, technical climbs, ruts, high desert, creek crosings, mountain passes, rain, wind, dust and almost everything else other than jumps. (boo, i like small jumps)

Varied would be the best word to sum up all aspects of the ride, from the bikes ridden to skill levels to the people on the ride. Heck we even had some jeeps following us carrying some extra gas and food. Which 4 of us ended up needing!! The only thing the support vehicles were missing was a hitch hauler, left it at the house, to bring out a bike if it stopped running.

A great time even without seeing the Grand Canyon. And now for some mediocre pictures.