The COBDR Adventure is coming up quick, preparations
have taken a back seat to many of life’s other distractions, with that said,
it’s time to get ready, we have planed a pre-ride/trip this weekend.
Much like the Alaska Adventure of last year a pre-ride will work
out many of the preparation details; If we forget anything on this trip it will
have little impact on a fun ride and a one night stay. Any Short falls of the
trip can be quickly overcome by the next few weeks of final preparation.
The Pre run: about 5 hours ride, with about 45 min of dirt/gravel
roads, this will give the group some exposure to the types of roads we will see
on the big trip, and let us all try out any new gear camping, I am quite
interested to try out communications between the larger group for the first
time.
GPS: Oh yes I’m am catching hell for this, my normal
cavalier attitude and no GPS and just go with a basic outline of a rout, has
now given way to a detailed GPS course with so many way points I had to upgrade
my GPS unit!.... my reasoning for the detailed rout is that, 1) we have a larger
group and it would be good to all be headed the same direction! and 2) to follow
the COBDR rout you need a great amount of information to follow the rout and
not miss out on some great dirt roads! We will have a test run of the GPS rout
planning on this pre run as well! I’m interested to see how it all comes
together.
The actual COBDR trip I will have the live feed and I plan
to post the GPS rout on this site as the trip gets closer, so you can load it
to your own GPS if you’re interested in taking the trip for yourself.
up next look for photos from this weekend and any lessons learned. we are sure to run in to some interesting new things.
(home made skid plates!, Sport Tires on gravel Roads!)
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