For All You Dirty DS Minded FJR Riders On This Forum!

[ShinyPartsUp]

Joe and Shiny, I really do not think that you are going to need to be packing any MSR fuel bottles. According to Skip, the fuel stops will only be 150 miles apart; having owned a 2006 Kawasaki KLR 650, I know their range is at least 250 miles!
BB has 4.5 gal tank on his KTM 525. Chris has the capacity on his KTM. Only fjrrider needs to address 530 KTM fuel range!

I am not worried about picking up mi Salma Hayek the first time; it is the sixth drop in a ten hour riding day that will kill me!

Don, I wasn't really thinking of the Coppr Canyon trip for the MSR bottles. I should have been clearer. I was thinking of some upcoming trips this summer I hope to be able to do on La Poderosa Diabla. I was just passing along tidbits about the fuel bottle fitting in the tube. I thought Joe or others may be interested in knowing it. I'm still not convinced I will be taking the KLR. If I had to guess I'd say there is about a 25% chance.

 

[beemerdons]

https://www.thunderpress.net/MONTH_ARTICLE-...tlanBikeW.shtml Guys: I am trying to talk Brian into going to Mazatlan Bike Week in April; I went 10 years ago and this party is an absolute riot. Even got caught in the crossfire of shoot out between Narcotraficantes right outside of the Mazatlan La Playa Inn and Resort. Muy Peligro and I kept newspaper story clippings!

If Brian goes with me, he'll have Melanie fly down/back. May run in 50 miles to CC from El Fuerte and Alamos to check it out!

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

That is infamous Rio Urique, all of us will be crossing it many times. You, Joe and I will "spot" each other for the passages!!!

The roads west of Urique and Batopilas are "No Man's Land" to Papa Chuy; but I hear they can be as rough as these videos!!

Yep..., water crossings -- in very rural parts of the world (Sierra Madre Occidental) roads aften follow water courses, rivers, creeks, etc., mainly because there wasn't/isn't big equipment to make cuts and fills to put the road elsewhere. And, just because it was passable last-time -- doesn't mean it will be next-time (snow melts, heavy rains, and flash floods all have a way of changing things...).

Once a DS group I was riding with followed a road of less-than 50 miles that had 42 river crossings (one of the guys mentally counted them)! One of the guys waded in at the very first crossing after first removing his boots and socks and rolling up his pants legs -- needless to say, nobody bothered with that soon after. In fact, one rider said that his old, beat-up, boots were best because the water ran-out of them fast...!

But, judging and navigating (pun intended) water-crossings are a very real necessity and opportunity for problems. Standing on the pegs with good, aggressive, throttle control can help.

Of course that big, round, slippery rock (hidden from view) can be a problem...

 

[fjrrider]

A long ride report with dozens of pictures and video clips of Arizona. El Jefe, you have some beautiful country your way. Arizona riders are insane though... I definitely need to get more experience before I can do Copper Canyon and beyond. I got tired seeing some of the obstacles ridden. But beautiful! Oh, guess I already wrote that.https://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=535122

That looks like fun, I sure hope thats the kind of stuff we get to ride in Mexico! :yahoo:

I talked with Skip about the fuel situation, he felt like I should be fine with at least a 3.5 gal tank. I havent really figured out the exsisting fuel range yet, but I'm gonna find out before I buy a bigger tank.

 

[beemerdons]

Don, thanks for the post and link. Great photos. I've never been to Mexico. Maybe this year.

https://www.azbeemers.org/forum/index.php?topic=2094.0 Jim, there are still two openings left for the 2010 November 7-18 Expedition through Copper Canyon to the Sea on Southern Leg and back on the Northern Leg.

We'd love to see you join us! 6 of my dual sport friends are already signed up for this. We're trailering 3 dual sports with knobbies from Chandler to El Paso, TX. Jim: We'd have room for your DS and you in my Jeep Liberty.

 

[fjrrider]

Talked with Skip and found a video of one of the river crossings we will have to make, this is going west and we may have to cross it coming back as well. maybe they'll have more boards on it by then!

 

[Joe]

That doesn't look like to much fun to me.

Maybe the river will not be swollen and we will be able to cross

it on the ground. HA HA HA

Joe

 

[CHRIS_D]

Wow, I'm surprised the bridge was able to hold the weight.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

The link to the video says a river crossing in Columbia.

Are we going there? I hope not because my fat ass will end up in the drink -- I'd go through those boards I'm thinking.

 

[beemerdons]

That doesn't look like to much fun to me.Maybe the river will not be swollen and we will be able to cross

it on the ground. HA HA HA

Joe

In the immortal words of the infamous Don Carver here on our FJR Forum: "Twist it and rip it, hombre!"

 

[fjrrider]

Columbia!!!!...........what!!! Thats a miss print, it should say Mexico, I'll get to the bottom of this!..........(pun intended)

Holy gonads Batman, talk about not being able to drive a pin up my ass with a jackhammer!

 

[beemerdons]

Columbia!!!!...........what!!! Thats a miss print, it should say Mexico, I'll get to the bottom of this!..........(pun intended)









Holy gonads Batman, talk about not being able to drive a pin up my ass with a jackhammer!

Guys, just went over all my Mexico maps with a fine tooth comb and even called Brian "El Jefe" Boles. We know of NO Tierradentro or La Plata en "El Cobre", ese!

 

[CHRIS_D]

Columbia!!!!...........what!!! Thats a miss print, it should say Mexico, I'll get to the bottom of this!..........(pun intended)









Holy gonads Batman, talk about not being able to drive a pin up my ass with a jackhammer!

Guys, just went over all my Mexico maps with a fine tooth comb and even called Brian "El Jefe" Boles. We know of NO Tierradentro or La Plata en "El Cobre", ese!

Thanks Don for straighten that out. Now what should we do with FJRrider for scaring us like that, hmmmm?

 

[dcarver]

That doesn't look like to much fun to me.Maybe the river will not be swollen and we will be able to cross

it on the ground. HA HA HA

Joe

In the immortal words of the infamous Don Carver here on our FJR Forum: "Twist it and rip it, hombre!"

Honestly, I could get your Harley Davidson UltraClassic over that bridge, no problem. Seriously.

Unless the bridge was much more loose than in the video..

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

That doesn't look like to much fun to me.Maybe the river will not be swollen and we will be able to cross

it on the ground. HA HA HA

Joe

In the immortal words of the infamous Don Carver here on our FJR Forum: "Twist it and rip it, hombre!"

Honestly, I could get your Harley Davidson UltraClassic over that bridge, no problem. Seriously.

Unless the bridge was much more loose than in the video..

******* showoff.

Hugs and kisses from the less skilled.

:finger:

:scooter:

 

[fjrrider]

Honestly, I could get your Harley Davidson UltraClassic over that bridge, no problem. Seriously. Unless the bridge was much more loose than in the video..

If you could just get a HD Ultraclassic down to that part of the world, I would be impressed.

Looks doable sittin behind your computer though!

 

[beemerdons]

Honestly, I could get your Harley Davidson UltraClassic over that bridge, no problem. Seriously. Unless the bridge was much more loose than in the video..

If you could just get a HD Ultraclassic down to that part of the world, I would be impressed.

Looks doable sittin behind your computer though!

Wowser, I just went back and looked at that river crossing for the 3rd time; muy peligro. However, I'd let Don Carver take my H-D FXD across that bridge!

 

[wheatonFJR]

Maybe it's just me, but my heart just seized up watching that river crossing video. I gots a thing with underdesigned swaying bridges over a wide fookin swollen river...

...especially in the rain..now THAT'S scary. :lol:

 

[beemerdons]

Maybe it's just me, but my heart just seized up watching that river crossing video. I gots a thing with underdesigned swaying bridges over a wide fookin swollen river...
...especially in the rain..now THAT'S scary. :lol:

Wheatie, You're in the bridge design business. How many cubic feet of water do you think that river was flowing? I mean, Rio del Muerte was really moving!

 

[wheatonFJR]

Maybe it's just me, but my heart just seized up watching that river crossing video. I gots a thing with underdesigned swaying bridges over a wide fookin swollen river...
...especially in the rain..now THAT'S scary. :lol:

Wheatie, You're in the bridge design business. How many cubic feet of water do you think that river was flowing? I mean, Rio del Muerte was really moving!

I don't know. You'd have to get the FJR certified hydrologist to comment on that. I just design what goes over dat der wasser.

Seriously, that was one scary video.

I'll ride in a thunderstorm in the middle of the desert before going over that bridge. Holy CRAP!! :dribble: :dribble: