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Slideshow from Lakeside Daytrip

moto — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:53:41 +0000

Below is a link to recent daytrip around part of the Great Salt Lake. The IAATB crew consisted of Moto, Darth, Bartman, Han Solo, and @ScottSLC. We need to think of a good road name for Scott.

Here’s the link, if the embedded slideshow doesn’t work properly, as in, if you can’t view Flash.

Follow Bart’s Death Valley Trip

moto — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:00:30 +0000

Bartman took off from St. George, Utah, this morning on a Death Valley dualsport moto trip. Although I haven’t seen any photos yet, he forwarded me this link from his SPOT GPS Tracking System. Pretty cool that you can follow up-to-the-minute progress of the route in realtime. Hopefully Bart will send some photos from the trails. I was hoping to be on this trip, but couldn’t break away from work. Man, the moto is calling in a big way. This is what happens during ski season when the sun is out and the snow is getting thin. At least until the next big dump of fresh powder, I will have moto brain.

Wrinkle Cam, and More Updates Coming

moto — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:10:34 +0000

Last weekend’s Colorado Rockies Dualsport Moto Trip came and went, and after a week of digging out at work, I realize I am long overdue for some new posts. Lots of stories to tell, and I really need to go back through the notes and dredge up the memories of an amazing trip. We welcomed a new rider into the posse, Jake Rippstein, the Cache County Ripper, who deftly floated his big KTM 950 Adventure S over everything with speed and grace, and homie wasn’t even running knobbies. Jake ejected a day early, leaving via road from Telluride, and missed most of the epic passes, but we thank him for his wet wipes, Folgers coffee tea bags, and of course, footage below from the Wrinkle Cam. The clip below was from the Friday morning leg from Red Cliffs Lodge in Moab, past some amazing Red Rock scenery, on the way to Gateway, Colorado.

Gary Huck’s Mount Defiance Ride

moto — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:40:59 +0000

It’s great when I haven’t been on a ride in awhile since my last post, then one of our friends sends in pics and a brief recap of an epic ride, keeping the IAATB flame burning. While I was frolicking around the sandy shores of Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho with Welikesmall colleagues and families, I was introduced to an epic singletrack mountain bike trail called Fisher Creek. After a somewhat generic and slightly rocky doubletrack climb, we were treated to some of the smoothest extended sections of twisty descent I have ever been on. That, and chasing after my daughter on her 16″ bike around the lodge was about as much two-wheeling as I have done this month. But thanks to Gary Huck and Tom Lehman who hail from Hood River, Oregon, we have a few snippets and photos to share of a ride they did recently:

“Yo Captain – here’s a few recent pics just to let you know it’s still going on up here in the PCNW….
Been having so much fun this summer on the motos. These are pics from a VERY gnarly fire road ride to the highest point in the Columbia River Gorge – Mt Defiance. iPhone quality of course. Had another good weekend ride down to Bend a few weeks ago. Setting up for another weekend camping trip in two weeks. Hope your summer’s been good!”

Tom Lehman's F800 GS atop Mt. Defiance.

Gary Huck behind the mask, Mt. Defiance.

Mongolian Sand Dunes

Darth Nater — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:06:16 +0000

Here is a quick video update from Nato and Ben in Mongolia. Can’t wait for the boys to return and share their photos and videos of this epic moto adventure:

SMS Update From Mongolia

Darth Nater — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:25:45 +0000

Yesterday’s update from Mongolia from Nato and Ben:

“…Day 2 in Mongolia a success. Riding across grassy plains is totally weird but very cool. Saw a large temple complex and also rode to the top of a mountain where we saw trees for the first time since we have been here. Riding sand dunes and camels on the agenda today!”

Moto Update From Mongolia

moto — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:03:35 +0000

Received this brief update from Nato and Ben in Mongolia:

“First day on the bikes was a success. Long day, but really fun riding. Ben and I slept in a ger (yurt) on the shores of Lake Oggli that is warmed by a toasty pile of cow dung.”

That’s all we get for now. Hoping to hear more from the boys soon.

Obi Ben Recons Guardsman Pass

moto — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:07:15 +0000

The last day of May 2009 is here, and it will still be awhile before the IAATB crew will be riding our favorite rides in the Wasatch Mountains. Obi Ben rode to the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon to see if it’s possible to connect to Park City via Guardsman Pass, and the photo below tells the tale. It will take a few weeks of summer weather before we are riding any of the high mountains.

Obi Ben gave it a college try, but there is still a lot of snow above 9000 feet.

White Rim Report

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:09:33 +0000

On Mother’s Day weekend, a few of the IAATB crew trailered bikes down to Moab for a quick spin around the White Rim. As I wait for a report from Dave Fields, who had previously committed to putting his journalism cap back on for a day, here is a photo from Darth Nater, with iconic imagery of the new BMW F800 GS juxtaposed against a classic Utah redrock vista. Makes me wish I had gone on this trip! Come on Dave, this is your chance to enter the world of blogging. Write us a story.

Capital of U.S. Cycling is Bend, Oregon

moto — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:46:01 +0000

At least for the next two years, Bend, Oregon will host the U.S. cyclocross championships, and the Junior, under-23, and Elite road cycling championships. Read the article on OregonLive.com. Add these events to the annual running of the Cascade Classic, and Bend has a pretty robust cycling schedule going. It would be a great place for the U.S. Masters road championships, but those are locked and loaded in Louisville, KY for 2009. Maybe our good friend Doug LaPlaca from Visit Bend can wrangle Masters away from Louisville, and bring them to Bend in 2010? I might actually have to start racing again if that happens. Bend is a great place to ride.