Photo Tour of Dual Sport Events & MC Rallies

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Here's what we were dealing with. 2.5 inches of rain in a couple of days, on top of already wet ground. This is the rain gauge in Crowbait's front yard.

Madwrench took this photo of me on the ride
on the KLX250
kinda answers why I had a harder time with the slimey hills than the other KLX250s

What is the old saying . . .
don't weigh the same as the CC of the motor. . .
at least for slimey hill climbing

Supposedly the slipperiest substance known to man is
wet ice on wet ice......I beg to differ.

I have never been on anything as greasy as those hills.
Hell, oil on a road race track has better traction!!

. . .not that muddy, but really damn slippery!

But dang I had fun! This ride will be a blast with drier weather.

Great properties to ride on, thanks to all the land owners!

The road route was perfect

I was busy trying to do the hills and I didn't have much time to use the camera.

This part of the state,
the flat areas were farmed
the hills were the woods

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To me it seemed the route before lunch the hill were less slimey than after lunch

BTW great lunch,
wish I could of stayed for the supper, but I wanted to get home before the cold set in.

Lot of elevation changes in one ride

I liked the grass cycle track that we ran on

Lot of nice single track

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There are three Fall season dual-sport venues in Wisconsin:
Kettle Moraine (southeastern),
Bucky(Cross Plains, WI southwest)
& with Wabeno (northern Wisconsin) also having a spring DS ride.

Wisconsin Fall rides are popular as the corn fields make good connector routes between dirt sections

Always good to see the ladies out roosting it, too
(Editor note: These two photos of the gals were taken
by my fellow Madison Motorcyle Club member "Madwrench".

BTW, the MMC is one of the very oldest AMA Clubs in the USA

"the ladies roosting it too" I think the ratio of me getting roosted as opposed to roosting was about 20 to 1

This was only my seventh organized dual sport event, but by far my favorite.

Hey- many thanks to the boys who helped push my butt up the sweet quarter mile mud slide. I wanted to thank you again in person at dinner, but because I did a little too much pre-Bucky celebrating on Friday night, I never made it back to the VFW after the ride for the post-Bucky celebration. Thanks again though!

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Barns, cow paths
and a water crossing or two

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Early 50's Chevy pickup truck, restored worth about 5 G

Cost to restore this early Chevy pickum up truck - about 5 G

Seeing an early 50's Chevy pickup truck on the trail . . . Priceless

I only really pulled out my camera when I got stuck, which was a shame. Glad Klasjm got a shot of the '54 Chevy (only made that grille for a year, but could be an early '55). Beautiful colors in that old thing.

Lots of fun on the greasy hills. I was going to give Matt's bike a shot up this hill that I was at the top of, ready for pictures, and promptly crashed it with the gobbed-up mud on the tire. Anyways, nice finish to the hill with a stander:


Spin to win!


Lots of this on the hill. Actually watched about 8 bikes take the hill. 2 made it all the way up. The difference between the other 6 (and me) was how far they made it up before having to do The Walk.

BTW, re: the pics on of the old Chevy pickup. That truck belongs to Speedy Pete (who did the MC duties after dinner). Someone asked me about the truck, and I told them it was Speedy's, and his wife Rachel, who happened to be standing nearby said, "WHAT?!"
Oops.

I figured the truck was WAY to nice to be junked!!!

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I chatted with the farmer who owned this barn
The farm was in the same family for one Century
He was also one of the farmers who let use cross his land
Thanks

Below, one of Wisconsin's famed round barns

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MUD
Rode hard, put away muddy

These mud photos were taken by my buddy Dan888
my KLX250s was near as dirty

started out Kaw Green,
ended up Cow brown

It rained and rained the week before the Bucky, one of the club members that put it on told me that if he could have called it off on Friday he would have. Too many things had already been put in motion though, so on it went. I think some of the club members were dissapointed because they had to cut some of the off road sections out, and the rest of the off road sections were really muddy in spots. They knew what a great trail they had before all the rain , and I think it was disappointing to present a trail that was only a part of what they had put together. To me it was awesome the way it was ! I can only imagine what it must have been like before it was shortened, and before some of it got so muddy. BTW the shortened version was still 90 miles long, and I thought some of the mud was fun. The route consisted of woods sections linked together by twisty Wisconsin backroads. Gotta say, some of those twisty backroads were almost as fun as riding in the woods. A big thank you goes out to the land owners who graciously allowed us to ride their land, and the folks at the Madison Motorcycle Club who worked so hard to put the ride on. All the money made from the Bucky was donated to the American Legion In Cross Plains Wi, (where the event was held Chilly wet morning.
Sound check station. Muddy.

Dan888 photo

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We rode past a few churches . . .
and one Jail

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Thank's Madison Motorcycle Club

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Norway Michigan
Norway Truck Trail

A 35 mile ATV trail also open to motorcycles.
A $16 yearly Michigan ORV sticker is required.

the water crossings can be deep with rocks embedded in the bottoms.

My buddy Mark, a fellow Wisconsin BMW member
and Mud Rider rode his KTM 450 on the Norway Trail with me

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26th Annual Wild Goose Run
Great weather - 200 attendees

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(May 7- 8)
Wisconsin Dual Sport Club cut some trail

How do you cut trail?
First determine the route
then mark with directional place cards
remove large trees with a chain saw

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Above: Brushing small saplings with a power weed cutter (Brushsaw)
equipped with a circle saw type blade

Machetes and Woodsman's Pals
Hand Pruners, Loppers and pruning shears
Bow saws and axes
used to clear weeds, brush, and small trees along the trail.

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On the work day
8 workers built 4 miles of virgin trail

The fun part -
was burning in thee path with the dirt bike