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Almost ran down a flock of thankgiving dinners too

I wanted to see how my chain with 20 thousand miles is doing while moving so i made this vid today, fridays are my weekends.

Wife announced she wants to go to the shops tomorrow!

Today I'm off to get my fuel for the week-end as we do. I also have a spot in mind I want to stop at to see about getting some fun pics. Going to try and defend my BOTM win.... ? Then tomorrow RAIN or SHINE ? we want to explore a forest service road we have not been down. I also really want to get to some video editing as well, last week-end got too busy.

Supposed to rain itself out today, and weekend looks clear with manageable temperatures at last. Not sure if the wife is going to drag me to the shops tomorrow (I'm not mentioning it just in case) but Sunday I'll be out. Hopefully to that remote abandoned village in the Sierra de Segura that's been on hold for the last couple of months due to the heat! What are you guys up to?

If you dint notice i finally learned how to trim parts of a vid from a vid, what decade is this again? This is cutting edge chit for me you tellum @XTreme Maybe if i got off my ass id learn how to make one vid out of these three...

Well it’s stopped raining here and the sun is out but haven’t got enough time to get out today so tomorrow it is then! No specific plans but having just cleaned the Himalayan after it’s last foray into the dusty countryside I think it deserves a relatively clean ride around the local twisty roads. I’ll meet up with the rest of the old farts and see where the mood takes us!

North end of the canyon opens up a bit to wider views...

Red rock for miles....

This road is so much fun that I rode it 3 times today. Once at speed as curves are so much fun and then back down and back for pictures. Love this place!

And now off to the canyons...

And on to Gateway - the real reason I wanted to head over to this part of the state in the first place. Desert road with bends, drop offs and walls. There are a few cars at the bottom of the cliff, just below the turn of the road - hard to see the bends at night...

Check out the handrails on the steps of the post office - old narrow gauge train rails! Use what ya have on hand, I guess...

100 miles down the road, I came across this monster. I had heard of these things but never actually saw one before....

Downtown Durango...

Up and outta Durango early, but stopped by the train yard located in the city center. This train does the 50 miles loop to Silverton and back. Clsoed, but took some pics over the fence...

Like @XTreme, I like ot keep my bike clean at all times. maybe wash it when I get home....

Up and outta the house at 0630 today to start the ride as today was gonna be along one. Shame it was 37F / 2-1/2C at 6;30. Freakin' freezin' when you're doing 85 mph on the highway for the first 3 hours. I didn';t take a single pic as it was too cold to stop. But once I got near Sapinero, CO, it warmed up a bit. This part of Colorado looks a bit different from my area...

I came across this on YouTube and it's given me quite a few pointers on how to make my vids more interesting. I don't think any of us have the sort of pro equipment this guy has.......but there's a whole lot more to it than just the video quality. Take a look and see what you think!

What a fantastic ride report and the photos of the scenery is spectacular. This shot is a bit spooky for me......... I don't know if we had some sort of telepathic thing going on but yesterday I took this photo ?

Pics and/or Vid or it never happened Ray!

They were used to haul the mail and supplies to remote mining towns that had few roads to them, but had tracks from mining operations. Most of these places still don't have paved roads - just dirt / rock roads. But they're mostly empty and no one goes there anyway.

Made it to the Marriott in Grand Junction for the night. Currently waiting on the Sun to come up so I can head to Moab and then home today. Gonna be a long ride today -500+ miles - but some good pics to come.

Hope ya like rock pics....

The canyon is about 50 miles long with a river and road at the bottom and several hundred foot tall walls at the sides....

Im still trying to take in a deep breath for the first time....

The wooden structure you can see on the side of the canyon is a hanging flume - a waterway to transport water to a mine. Probably from the 1880's......

Rode through Telluride, but it was beyond crowded with tourists, didn't take a single picture. Did stop outside of town at the abandoned gold mine there - place was huge! Looks to be from the 1920's or so...

Courthouse and the surrounding area....

Headed back north, rode through the small town of Rico - yet another gold mining town that has fallen on hard times. Cool architecture though!

well, next session is 4th october and then not again till march next year as the off road bits will get very slippy with the winter weather but more to the point the "chasseurs" will be out in the woods, pissed as usual and shooting rifles at anything that moves, (deer, boar, dogs, dog walkers, joggers, motorcyc;lists or each other, they ain't picky...) I am wondering if I should try and swap to an "on road" riding and handling course a sbeing possibly less pysically demanding.

One even had an indoor shitter - no plumbing, but at least you didn't have to go outside. Bet that smelled nice...

Great views from home in the Summer. Not so much in the winter. The mine was very close to home....

Down to the old mining town of Animas Forks - pretty much nothing there but some old buildings at this point....

I got in about 40 miles of dirt today, some of it very rough...

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Pretty empty today - no caravans, etc clogging up the roads....

Turned south at Montrose and was through Ouray and onto the Million Dollar Highway...

There used to be three towns located where the water is now. The dam that was built in the 1920's submerged the towns....

...and its not a pretty picture! Pics from an upcoming classic vid for Pedro to see how the poorest people in New London County CT live. This is not a safe place after darkness btw. Most structures you see are multi family, and very few are occupied by owners.

Oi @Pedro here is the vid i pulled the pics from.