Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Pullman Run

MotoBum and Ghostface KLR took an intrastate run to Pullman on a three-night road ride, Saturday April 16 - Tuesday, April 19. Technically, it was an ADVenture ride as eight miles of the trip was on a hard pack dirt road. MotoBum's F4i hooked up so well on it, it was able to pull power wheelies!

The trek was about seeing Pullman, a historic site for MotoBum and Ghostface KLR for various reasons. Shortly before MotoBum was MotoBum, he'd spend two grand years living in Pullman attending Washington State University. And long before Ghostface KLR was Ghostface KLR, he'd spent nearly a decade there growing up. It'd been a decade since MotoBum was there and almost three decades since Ghostface KLR was there. What had changed? Did it still feel the same?

F4i is ready to achieve high speeds with dual-sport luggage affixed.
The Starbuck, WA, KOA is lush and green; best ever KOA.
Ghostface, coffee, bikes, "Tonia" -- wonderful
The Dunes
The River
The Damn Dam
Ghostface KLR -- House 1
Ghostface KLR -- House 2
Ghostface KLR -- House 3
Ghostface KLR -- House 4
Ghostface KLR -- Where to wreck a $160 car in the snow
Ghostface KLR -- Where to learn to swim
MotoBum -- The Pullman skatepark still calls to this day
The MotoBum Alma Matter
Ghostface KLR -- House 5
MotoBum -- The one and only Pullman home
this
Palouse Cows
This 2
Tasty camp food
Palouse Falls Campground
Palouse Falls and MotoBum
Issiah -- A KLR God
Roslyn

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Long And (not so) Winding Road

The ride from Salt Lake City west on I-80 to the Bonneville Salt Flats was a long one on the KLR. It seemed even longer heading east. I have a 16 tooth sprocket on the front of the KLR, but I was wishing they made a 20 tooth... 

I-80 between SLC and Nevada is a long, straight stretch of road. 
The videos don't quite capture the ride. The mountains reflecting off the smooth water pools, the salt sparkling in the sun like Edwards skin...

Four videos, about a minute each. 
(I think I'm running out of iMovie background jingles...)


I-80 East: 1 of 4

I-80 East: 2 of 4

I-80 East: 3 of 4

I-80 East: 4 of 4

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Salty Dog

I took a ride in August, a round trip; Seattle to Moab. It was me and the KLR for a week on the road. 
I stopped at the Bonneville Salt Flats to see the legendary place. 

No, the KLR will not break any land speed records, still, it was fun to see others speed down the salt at top speeds. 

 I did have some fun on the KLR just racing my own race along the flats. 

 -Riding the Salt Flats
   

-Salt Flats on a KLR  

-Leaving the Slat Flats