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My Dusty Butt Experience
I left Birmingham for Goodland, Kansas on June 11 with a plan to ride my motorcycle 1005 miles of dirt roads through western Kansas and Nebraska, through Colorado and back to Goodland. Technically is just a Saddle Sore – but more affectionately called a Dusty Butt. Only a handful of people have completed this ride. This area of the planet is a special place where wide open spaces and lots of dirt roads come together. There are very few places where such a ride could take place.
2008 Colorado 500, part 2
We're up early on Tuesday for our first long day in the dirt. After a great breakfast buffet at the convention center next door, we head back to the room to gear up. We haul our gear bag downstairs and hand it to the crew who will be hauling it to Ouray in a big Penske truck. Back through the hotel and out to the bikes. One of the great things about riding Yamaha is there are only about 10 blue bikes in the parking lot, as opposed to 250 orange KTMs. I wonder how many guys rode someone else's bike by mistake.
We rolled out about 8:30 AM. The weather is nice and cool. We turn off the main drag and putt through some neighborhoods before reaching dirt roads.
Colorado 500, 2008, part 1
Several years ago, I read an account of the annual Colorado 500 off road event ( http://colorado500.org/ ), and I have wanted to ride it ever since. The CO 500 is a multi-day off road charity event organized by Wally Dallenbach, a former Indy racer. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Dallenbach,_Sr. ) You ride your dual sport dirt bike from town to town for 5 days, and they haul your luggage. You stay in nice hotels, eat well, and have a great, relaxing vacation. They raise money to be distributed in small communities in the area. They spread the money around to volunteer fire departments, schools, libraries and other similar groups, making the 500 a welcome event in the area.
Intro to kayaking course--cheap!
This is an old journal entry from my 2001 trip that I decided to post here in honor of the upcoming FBR River/Ride Adventure.
-John "Ice" T
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[Written 24 June 2001
Turrialba, Costa Rica]
Today I helped save someone on the water, but I almost drowned myself in the process. I had originally planned to go rafting today, but I met a guy on the street last night who said he was giving an introductory kayak course, and I was welcome to join. The cost was only $45, and I decided right away to sign up.
Tabasco Run 2... Hot and Wet
Wellllll..... Inner ear was the main thing, so I just over medicated and said, "screw it", I am jonesin' to ride. When the Rooster calls, "kwackifoofoo" it's time to put rubber side down.
When new users sign up
Site members who are in the "site editor" role can enable or disable accounts for users. When a new user registers on the site, the account goes into a "blocked" state by default. The site sends an e-mail to the Webmaster and Treasurer, who can both enable the account to allow our new member access to special site features, like posting blog content.
Site editors can determine who has signed up but has not had their account enabled yet by visiting the Users page. (You might want to bookmark this in your web browser favorites.) Also, I made a change to the right menu navigation on FloribamaRiders.com to make this more obvious. If you're logged in with site editor permissions, you should see a "Users" link like the attached screen shot.
Once you're on the Users page, you can see who is still blocked by following these steps:
- Click the Status radio button
- Select "blocked" from the pulldown
- Click the Filter button
Then you can decide who should be unblocked.
El Camino, meet Jersey barrier
[This is a work in progress. I need to add more details and tighten this up.]
I had a pretty horrible Thursday the 12th and a great Friday the 13th that almost made up for it. I left work at 10 PM, feeling pretty pleased with myself for finishing a project but a little tired and relieved to be heading home. I was traveling on I-20, in the second lane from the right, with a string of cars in the right lane. One car started to merge into the right lane from the entrance ramp, and another car decided he wanted to be in my lane, even though I was directly next to him.
Pasting blog content from Word
Some people write their blog posts in Microsoft Word and then post them to this site. You'll get the best results if you use this web site's "paste from Word" feature. The attached image shows the steps to take, which are:
- Click the "Paste from Word" button.
- Make sure both check boxes are checked. The "Remove Styles definition" is not checked by default for some reason.
- Paste your Word content into the big box and click the "Ok" button.
A couple of notes. First, the "Clean Up Box" button doesn't do anything but delete anything you've pasted into the big box. Don't use it. Sorry, it's a little confusing. Second, you might see images in Word, but pasting them into this box won't get them onto the site.
Good luck, and click my username to contact me if you encounter any problems.
-John "Ice" T
Upcoming events
- Suches Dual Sport Weekend(26 days)
- Loretta Lynn Spring Dirt Ride(32 days)
- The Ride to End All Rides (TRTEAR) 2010(67 days)
- Hooch Dual Sport Ride (111 days)
- Southern Woods Rider 5th Annual Tennessee 2-Day Off-Road Bike Ride(111 days)
- FBR Track Day at TGPR (Little Talladega)(117 days)
