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Start riding at 9am. If it takes you 45 min. To unload your bike and get ready meet at 8:15am Middle Waddell staging area. This ride isn’t for beginners. Dualsport bikes 500cc or less, must be street legal. There won’t be any gas stop, so you must be able to ride at least 60 miles. DOT knobby tires recommended 80% dirt. Bring food and water we will stop at Porter Creek for lunch. This will be mostly a trail ride starting at Middle Waddell counter clockwise, Rock Candy, Porter Creek and back to the start. You should have the tools to fix a flat tire just in case. You’ll need a Discover Pass for your truck .
I had the CRF450 loaded the night before, so I just got up and left at 6:40am. I rode with the cruise control set at 60 mph the whole way and got there maybe 5 minutes later than I needed to upload and get suited up in time, but nobody was annoyed.
My GPS recorder turned off I think the first time we stopped for a break and I didn't catch it until putting the bike back in the truck at the end, so I lost 4 hours of ride recording. Thus, the map of the ride itself isn't annotated correctly. Somehow I need to find a reliable GPS track recording solution that doesn't involve using Garmin. I hate Garmin.
The whole day, from Vancouver to Middle Waddell, the ride, then back home
| Time | Minutes | km | kph avg | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:48am | 0.1 | Home heading out | ||
| 6:48am | 98.4 | 156 km | 95 | |
| 8:26am | 4.3 | rest area bathroom break | ||
| 8:30am | 19.1 | 20 km | 62 | |
| 8:49am | 21.2 | arrived -- unloading bike and suiting up | ||
| 9:11am | 25.6 | 5 km | 13 | ride out onto the trails |
| 9:36am | 1.3 | map | ||
| 9:37am | 7.5 | 2 km | 13 | |
| 9:45am | 0.8 | map | ||
| 9:46am | 12.2 | 6 km | 30 | |
| 9:58am | 13.4 | map | ||
| 10:11am | 6.3 | 3 km | 24 | |
| 10:18am | 3.9 | map | ||
| 10:22am | 3.0 | 1 km | 12 | |
| 10:25am | 21.2 | map | ||
| 10:46am | 2.6 | 0 km | 10 | |
| 10:48am | 8.8 | map | ||
| 10:57am | 225.6 | 6 km | 1 | lost tracking data |
| 2:43pm | 27.4 | back at the staging area | ||
| 3:10pm | 105.0 | 160 km | 92 | |
| 4:55pm | 4.6 | Home 10h7m later | ||
| Moto totals | 5h32m | (41.5 miles) 67 km | , | |
| 10h29m | 8h26m moving | 377 km | 44.8 kph | 80% moving, 124 minutes of breaks |
The Dual Sport Adventure Riders' Club Ride (41.5 miles of dirt trails)
We spent some time trying to figure a way around the gate, but I felt getting around required more riding skill than I have today.
The alternate route up to Capitol Peak has been thoroughly closed off with a dozer. Too difficult to get a bike through here.
Bashed my right knee pretty good, but fortunately it was in soft dirt and not on something like one of those bricks in the trail. I think I was getting tired. I need to learn when to back off and avoid losing control due to exhaustion.
What a day! The weather was perfect. John had a tough day with a lot of falls. I'm amazed he wasn't hurt.
I also had a fall that bashed my right knee pretty good. I got lucky that the fall was in soft dirt!
The entire ride was just pushing my abilities. I felt the challenge was perfect. But the CRF450 is too much bike
for forest single track trails. I was in first gear feathering the clutch a LOT of the time, and second gear again
feathering the clutch the rest of the time. The only time to ride in 3rd was on gravel roads which was maybe 10% of our day.
Next time I ride stuff like this, I should take the KLX230.