Moab Rocks

[Rushy]

Moab - Utah

I looked at doing some trails on my GS when I spent a few days there but bottled it big time and hired a Jeep instead with a girl I met.

Moab is probably THE adventure capital of the US and if you like off roading ( by bike, Jeep, or MTB ) its a place you MUST visit at least once in your life.

Check this cool, but fairly extreme, thread out on ADV for some inspiration

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=385475

I would LOVE to go back

edit : heres a much shorter thread with some nice pics of the area too;

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=390869

 

[earthmover]

Rushy, you absolute bas***d!
You've no right to put such temptation on here!


















Let me know when you're thinking of going.
Mark

 

[Rushy]

Rushy, you absolute bas***d!
You've no right to put such temptation on here!



Let me know when you're thinking of going.
Mark

Thats what i was talking about at the pub..............good aint it

 

[Schtum]

Agreed - SWMBO and I have been to Moab a couple of times now. It's also not that far from Monument Valley. While you're there, you can drive or ride the Valley of the Kings and access the Burr Trail via the Mokee Dugway.

Look...we're going to start investigating the East Coast next year.....

 

[Rushy]

Look...we're going to start investigating the East Coast next year.....

East coast, what for?

North to south;

Rhode Island, Conecticut & Boston nice but Expensive real estate, Philadelphia ,-noisy dirty overcrowded city; New York City - noisy humid overcrowded abortion capital of the US; Washington DC -noisy crowded, bit of history couple of great museums murder capital of the US; North & south Carolina full of hicks and Florida is a swamp land full of old fogeys and amusement parks

The West is the BEST and you know it

 

[Schtum]

East coast, what for?

Well so far I have the offer of a moored, 40 ft, Mainship Trawler in Portland, Maine harbour, as accommodation and the use of a '60 Corvette with a 300 hp 350 in it.

SWMBO wants to visit the locations in Stephen King novels. We'll probably look up this guy who stayed with us for a week in August while he researched putting on his show in next year's Edinburgh Festival.....

http://www.lonewolftribe.com/

We've done the West Coast from Portland, Oregon in the North, down to Tijuana and most of Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and some of Colorado over the past 4 years' summer holidays and a couple of weeks in October back in '99, so we thought we'd have a wee change.....

I would like to go back to Bonneville for Speed Week again or perhaps for the Labor Day Weekend Motorcycle Speed trials, though and I was scheming how I could go back to California to do a bit more riding again this year before the rains start.

 

[Rushy]

I've done BC , Vancover Island, Washington, San Juan Islands, Oregon , full west coast from Astoria down to San Luis Obispo, California obviously, Arizona , Nevada, Utah , Colorado , bit of New Mexico, Texas a couple of times , Nebraska, bits of Nrth and Sth Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. I love biking in the West US.

The East doesn't interest me although I did quite a bit of the East Coast over 3 weeks as a teenager with the folks....I liked the Cape Cod area and also Washington DC which is the only place i've been which I felt had a real sense of history to it, except for maybe some of the early indian settlements in Mesa Verde or Canyon de Chelly.

Enjoy the boat and the car

 

[Howard Millichap]

Moab - Utah

I looked at doing some trails on my GS when I spent a few days there but bottled it big time and hired a Jeep instead with a girl I met.

Moab is probably THE adventure capital of the US and if you like off roading ( by bike, Jeep, or MTB ) its a place you MUST visit at least once in your life.

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Did the White Rim Trail this year on rented F650GS and it found the bike's limits. Good fun but hard work in places. Other trails in the area are easier and the scenery is out of this world fantastic.