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FJR on gravel and fire roads
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<blockquote data-quote="gulag" data-source="post: 112435" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>For what it's worth, I've ridden ST1100s,Beemer RTs and a ST1300 on lots of dirt,gravel & mountain backroads. Love it. Worst I've seen are some dirt roads in Louisiana & S W Mississippi. Lots of loose sand. Pockets of it camoflaged like duck hunters. You hit'm before you know it. I've found weighting the downhill peg helps a bunch("downhill" can mean no more angle than normal camber on a flat road). It really helps when sidehilling on dirt bikes here in Idaho. Sometimes the dirt road will narrow to the point you can barely turn around. Just gun the front tire up the hill on the side of the road(if there IS a hill there),then let momentum do the work while you back the bike around. Clement Salvadore at "Rider" magazine once wrote about the HUGE number of miles of unpaved versus paved roades. Limit yourself to paved roads,you're leaving all the others to me. THANKS!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gulag, post: 112435, member: 818"] For what it's worth, I've ridden ST1100s,Beemer RTs and a ST1300 on lots of dirt,gravel & mountain backroads. Love it. Worst I've seen are some dirt roads in Louisiana & S W Mississippi. Lots of loose sand. Pockets of it camoflaged like duck hunters. You hit'm before you know it. I've found weighting the downhill peg helps a bunch("downhill" can mean no more angle than normal camber on a flat road). It really helps when sidehilling on dirt bikes here in Idaho. Sometimes the dirt road will narrow to the point you can barely turn around. Just gun the front tire up the hill on the side of the road(if there IS a hill there),then let momentum do the work while you back the bike around. Clement Salvadore at "Rider" magazine once wrote about the HUGE number of miles of unpaved versus paved roades. Limit yourself to paved roads,you're leaving all the others to me. THANKS! [/QUOTE]
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