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Earlier this year I discovered a couple of broken spokes on the rear wheel of my '06 Scrambler. I had the wheel relaced with a set of heavy duty spokes from Buchanon's and figured that I was done with that. Yesterday I went to put my winter tires on and found 4 more broken spokes :baldy Trying...

I restacked the poles so they were all facing the same direction, butt first. it reduced the overhang by about 7 feet overall and put most of that out back. The tips are a little higher than the butts and should be a little less likely to snap if they ground. I took about a...

The rack set the poles up so high that the rig was almost unmanageable in the corners even at very slow speeds. I sold that tipi and bought a 12 footer and I replaced the KLR with a Triumph Scrambler. The shortest poles for the new tipi are 16' long and several of...

I had set up one of my KLRs with a rack to carry my 9 foot tipi I took it on several campouts and it was fun but there were a couple of problems: The 9 footer was really too small to manage a fire properly. If the wood was wet or the wind backed (frequently...

We wrapped up with an awards ceremony with trophies and prizes. Another Black Dog drew to a close * I stole the best photos posted here from my brother Andy and my wife Amy. Thanx guys! I had a great time spending the weekend with you!

The final check point included a ring toss for points a slow race and dart throw Andy flew his sidecar through the slow race, but I was laughing too hard to get a photograph Final checkout to deposit the trash we collected along the course and...

We stopped in Klickitat for the lunch break of hotdogs Then we climbed out of the canyon and went over to Appleton we wound our way down to the Columbia. I stopped to collect some trash for rally points before we turned west to pick up Courtney Road And ascended the...

then it was north down the back side of the ridge and onto the flats behind Goldendale over a series of primitive dirt farmroads Miles of washboard road fractured a fender mount. I stopped and cobbled up a repair

From the zoo we went east up Dalles Mountain Road

Tawm routed us through Schreiner Farms, a private zoo in the hills just off SR 14

We crossed the Columbia into Washington at The Dalles

We ran up the river to Mosier and our first reset From there we continued east on the old highway to Rowena overlook Looking north across the Columbia River we could see our destination: the hills and canyons behind Lyle, Washington. We were to spend...

The staff was sporting spiffy orange t-shirts for the event After repeating after Tawm "This is not a race." we headed back to the bikes for the start Before leaving we each had to spank the monkey

We pulled into the fairgrounds bright and early Sunday morning, parking in line behind my brother Andy's rig Lee was looking fresh and raring to go as he headed with the rest of us towards the sign up tables where we picked up our score cards and roll charts we...

Mr.Cob let me ride his 2014 Ural. I picked up Tracy as a passenger (she shot this photo) We flew it around the fairgrounds for a couple of laps to get it warmed up, then headed for the hills. I did a thirty mile loop over Gihouley Mountain, down Highway 35 up Pinemont, across Booth Hill...