I ride my street legal dirt bike to work and back every day, and often times take "the long way home", which includes several miles of dirt single track in the foothills. And I typically ride either the ATV or the side by side both days on weekends, except for every fourth weekend when I am on call at work. With the price of diesel fuel lately I have been riding mostly from our home. I can ride from my home to where this picture was taken without loading my ATV on a trailer.
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I can get to that spot by taking old Jeep roads, or I can take an ATV trail that has been built by a few friends and the person that owns the land. The ATV trail has taken five years worth of work with a pick, shovel, chainsaw, and even a rented mini track hoe, to make it semi-rideable. It has finally been connected through just this spring. Yesterday and today we did that trail, and it is the most difficult ATV trail that I have ever done in the 10 years I've been riding ATVs. The trail is 11 miles long and takes six hours to complete, and every foot of the trail is in low range 4 wheel drive. There are some insane steep climbs with big rock ledges mid-way up the climb, and there are several long stretches where you have to walk your quad through because the sidehill is so steep it would roll with the rider on board. Even if you got off the seat and stood with both feet on the uphill side footboard and leaned back as far as you could it wouldn't be enough, the ATV would still roll. You have to walk below the quad on the side of the hill and lean your shoulder into the ATV to keep it from rolling. And every ATV on the ride has to do that, because that particular section of trail is just plain impossible otherwise. The fellow that led the trail yesterday rolled his Rincon (ouch). I showed another friend the trail today, and even though we didn't do the most extreme part of the trail today he still rolled his Foreman 450. Needless to say the trail still needs some work to make it more rideable, but the effort has been worth it. Once I get on top of the mountain where the picture was taken I can ride for hundreds of miles.
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I can get to that spot by taking old Jeep roads, or I can take an ATV trail that has been built by a few friends and the person that owns the land. The ATV trail has taken five years worth of work with a pick, shovel, chainsaw, and even a rented mini track hoe, to make it semi-rideable. It has finally been connected through just this spring. Yesterday and today we did that trail, and it is the most difficult ATV trail that I have ever done in the 10 years I've been riding ATVs. The trail is 11 miles long and takes six hours to complete, and every foot of the trail is in low range 4 wheel drive. There are some insane steep climbs with big rock ledges mid-way up the climb, and there are several long stretches where you have to walk your quad through because the sidehill is so steep it would roll with the rider on board. Even if you got off the seat and stood with both feet on the uphill side footboard and leaned back as far as you could it wouldn't be enough, the ATV would still roll. You have to walk below the quad on the side of the hill and lean your shoulder into the ATV to keep it from rolling. And every ATV on the ride has to do that, because that particular section of trail is just plain impossible otherwise. The fellow that led the trail yesterday rolled his Rincon (ouch). I showed another friend the trail today, and even though we didn't do the most extreme part of the trail today he still rolled his Foreman 450. Needless to say the trail still needs some work to make it more rideable, but the effort has been worth it. Once I get on top of the mountain where the picture was taken I can ride for hundreds of miles.
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