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Rio Puerco Yacht club

Took a little ride to check out the exclusive Rio Puerco Yacht Club. No one was there to accept my membership application. The brine water desalinization place is in the background.

From there I rode past a hoo doo area, the

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Added by ditch on March 6, 2010 at 6:43pm — 2 Comments

The Encounter with the Drunk Sicarios

The Encounter with the Drunk Sicarios December 25, 2009, Batopilas Chihuahua.

The motel Mary is in the heart of Batopilas, right across from the main church. The sound… Continue

Added by buggs on January 25, 2010 at 11:00pm — 6 Comments

I saw that Everest was starting to move around and moan. I got closer to him and told him not to move. He didn’t listen to me, he tried to stand up and fell back down. I was also concerned about coming traffic, especially the ones coming from the south around the bend. Vehicles travel fast on this road and there were two people laying in the middle of the street. I helped Everest move to the side of the road. I asked him if he was ok and if anything hurt. He looked at me and asked what happened.… Continue

Added by buggs on December 30, 2009 at 9:35pm — 9 Comments

The Curse of Casarare

The Chihuahua state highway from Creel is a well maintained paved road that winds through beautiful Ponderosa and pine trees. It had snowed yesterday but today was all blue sky. The nice asphalt was already dry from the melting snow and as I accelerated, I realized that this road was made to be ridden in motorcycles. As I leaned my bike to the right on another twisty curve I could hear the knobby tires of my DR650 dual sport bike squeak a bit in protest as the rubber met the pavement. I was car… Continue

Added by buggs on December 28, 2009 at 10:30pm — 7 Comments

Glimpses of ride to top of Mt. Taylor along FR 50 in the Cibola NF

No shot from top as the batteries died. Glad to be riding again after getting the clutch fixed.

It's a fast and fun big bike ride for sure- getting to the top is a tiny bit challenging on FR 453 but completely doable. Continue

Added by Buddy_Holly on November 8, 2009 at 10:00am — 5 Comments

2nd Annual Gila Rideout

What an amazing trip it was.....the temperature was incredible, the scenary spectacular and company was great! The total mileage off road to Silver City was over 220 miles I believe and took 10 hours...we rode a total of 290 from Sandia BMW to Silver City. We started off going through the Laguna Reservation on L55 to Magdalena which was around 120 miles total. I couldn't get my camera out quick enough to capture the first drop of the day. [img]… Continue

Added by KatoomRider on October 29, 2009 at 10:21am — 4 Comments

my box canyon ride!

weather was beautiful!roads were fantastic from start to end. alas,the BOX after lookin at pics and readin other ride reports i was really waitin for the box to arrive.first thing into the box real deep sand and gravel mix in pretty deep water.sunk the old xr600r and myself in to the airbox.collected a sizable amount of water in the airboxand then into top end and bottom end.got it runnin and decided to see if it would clear out and cool down myself.hauled off and rode it hard for about 2 miles… Continue

Added by jimmy birdwell on September 28, 2009 at 4:22pm — 3 Comments

The box...

Buggs thanks for planning yet another memorable ride to the box. Hope your bike repair is not too expensive--and ThumptyDumps too. Here are some pics from the "excursion".

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Added by Akasy on September 27, 2009 at 8:01pm — 8 Comments

4 Days, 3 Nights, 2 national forests, 2 wrecks, and a Ruin

Hitting the Continental Dived in Colorado was my original plan, but then I realized it would be six days up and back to do that portion and I just didn’t have that much time. The continental divide will have to wait for a dedicated set of many days. So I devised a plan to spend a couple of days in the GIla National Forest in New Mexico. The plan was ambitious and supported only by the knowledge I had of the Gila from travels by truck through the area, and by my trip last year on FR 150 on the C… Continue

Added by Buddy_Holly on August 11, 2009 at 9:36pm — 14 Comments

Give it some throttle and watch out for that moose.

Like a lot of guys I was hoping to go to West Fest this year. A change in family vacation plans had me in Colorado that week, but in Grand Lake, which was far north of the moto-camaraderie in which I was hoping to share. Still, I knew I would get on the bike a couple of days that week and I was determined to get in some good riding. After much research, including a query of locals, I had a color, waterproof map of a prime riding area. Only I forgot it at home. Enter Jerry. Jerry owns the cabin… Continue

Added by Steve on August 9, 2009 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

A few rides from June and July

This is my first time at posting a ride or pictures on this site. Thought that I would try it out by telling of a few rides done over the past 60 days. Nothing long and just a few pictures to see how it works. All of the following are day trips from Albuquerque. I rode a solo out of Edgewood and took the dirt road to White Lakes and across to Leyba and down to Villanueva. I wanted to find the Leyba to Rowe Mesa road but I missed it. Circled north to I- 25 then down to the Rowe Mesa turn off and… Continue

Added by Roger Payne on August 4, 2009 at 9:56pm — 2 Comments

North end of the Guadalupe Mtns.

Took a 280 mile day trip today. My route was from home, into the Guadalupe Mtns., forest service roads and trails from Queen, NM to Hope, NM., then return home. Worked out to about 180 miles of pavement and 100 miles of dirt. Heres are a few of the highlights. Say hello to my little friend:

Overlooking the "Broke Off Mtns." from the "Rim Road".

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Added by Jody H on August 3, 2009 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

Corona, New Mexico, Center of the Universe

There are lots of motorcycle groups in New Mexico that post rides online around the state and region, and Ninja Dave belongs to all of them. When he’s not working or sleeping (or engaged in other activities we probably don’t really want to know about), he’s riding his motorcycle on epic rides to anywhere and nowhere either alone or with one of these groups. Dave has specialized expertise in fixing esoteric heaters, coolers and such, so his job sends him all over the state to the most out-of-the… Continue

Added by JMG on July 26, 2009 at 3:24pm — 1 Comment

Buenas dias, Hola, Hello, Gruess euch !

new back to NM. Looking for tent space and companionship. Help me get into rides. I´m a mechanic philosopher nihilist wrestling with this god awful heavy R1100GS... aaahhhh Gawd, it keeps falling over ! ...sing Ho !...for the life................. der "Zig" 802 535 4779 also lookin for 220X80 X 18 front or rear dual purpose tire or similiar Continue

Added by Zigeuner on July 24, 2009 at 10:59pm — 1 Comment

Went to Cuba but forgot the cigars

Aaron, John, Mark and myself met this morning at the Walatowa gas stop to ride to Cuba via forest roads. For the most part it was fairly easy riding as we stayed on the major roads. I had found a look out on the map so we went to investigate. We found this.

Great views overlooking H… Continue

Added by ditch on July 19, 2009 at 8:34pm — 7 Comments

My friend!

Brewtus is now your friend. Take that you guys. I have a friend!! Continue

Added by Gordy on June 26, 2009 at 9:40am — 4 Comments

Camino Amarillo

While comparing the forest service plans for road and trail closures (existing vs. proposed) I came across an addition to the trail system. The proposed trails showed a link from Bridge Rd. (which runs above Jemez Springs to the east) to Camino Amarillo in Canon (just north of the Walatowa visitor center). I had been down Bridge Rd. and found a cut off to the south marked with rock cairns and occasional ribbons, but lost the trail. Sunday I went up the Camino Amarillo end to check it out. One o… Continue

Added by ditch on June 22, 2009 at 10:00am — 6 Comments

NM CDR

Well a hugh turnout it wasn't--our gain your loss. Slojoe and I departed Chama to begin the NM CDR ride from the NM-CO border to the Mexican border. Day one follows--Chama to La Cueva, Day 2 got abreviated due to monsoons between roughly Cabezon and Grants--mud yuck. More to come as the days go by.... Day One: 17 in CO

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Added by Akasy on June 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Mt. Withington <------> Montecello Ride Report

Grizzly led us on a fantastic ride Sunday! It started with lots of hints of rain, and big rain for those coming from Socorro, but the rain remained a very minor player in this ride. 14 started the ride and then near the end of the day we broke into two groups to head back. The highlight for me was riding through the box canyon- I think it was for everyone else too! I also thought the trip to the top of Withington was amazing, but it came in second to the canyon with its multiple water crossings… Continue

Added by Buddy_Holly on June 15, 2009 at 5:42pm — 15 Comments