Progress made on the TRX450 ER

Time to find a new blog where I can post my pics.

Down with Blogger.

Riding with my little guys today!

Bye bye '84 Honda Big Red

I've been owing my sister and brother-in-law big time for a while and finally had the opportunity to kind of pay it back a bit. I passed good 'ole Big Red on to them, plow, trailer and all. We need them in on the rides and the Big Red has proven it can go almost anywhere the other bikes can. I am sad to see it go, but happy that it will continue bringing joy to all that ride it.

Her she is all loaded up.



Now I just have to find that helmet and the chains for snow plowing.

Jared Following Me

Learner's Loop 2

More Snow at Huntington

Snow near Huntington

Arapeen baby!

Sweet riding up near Huntington Res. on the Arapeen Trail...

Here's some footage from the family ride in So. UT

Coral Pink, N learns to dig...

Just Back from Coral Pink Sand Dunes!!

Coral Pink Sand Dunes, UT as seen on my new Go Pro helmet cam



Well, what can I say? The trip was very memorable for many reasons (even though it was only an over night). Let's leave it at this, "Satan" the '95 Suburban is now dead and will receive no more investment ($). We had to be towed from Draper to our home (at least we weren't in the mountains somewhere). The quads all worked even though there was some doubt about the little Scrambler (thank you guys at ATVConnection.com for the trouble shooting). The Yamaha Breeze did surprisingly well out on the Dunes and my oldest son evidently carved up the sand with the big dogs on the dunes as well (wish I had eyes on that)! Here's some of the scenery and riding. The greens were really this amazing as well as some wonderful wildflowers, what an awesome park! Oh, and everyone should be filming with a Go Pro!

Tooling around on the Polaris with the wife

This was the first time that the wife and I have been out together on the Scrambler.  Lots of fun just putting around.



See if you can hear the wife protest going through the mud:).

Here's another vid..

Here's the New Old Quad!!!

Up in the Hill with the XL 185 S

I took out the XL 185 S tonight for a ride out around the hills near my home.  What fun.  I have no experience riding 2 wheels off road so I am pretty cautious, but even so I almost wiped out.  After I splashed through a puddle I was able to stop just before heading off into a thicket of scrub oak, it would have been painful (glad my helmet was on).  Lots more slow practice needed and some decent tires wouldn't hurt either. 

Fun, fun, fun.

My rough calculation for the first tank of gas is 71 MPG, and that is with the idle not working well (so I have to rev it high to keep it alive at stops, almost all stops) when the bike is cold.  This is a 29 year old machine pulling my 200++ pound carcass almost 25 miles a day!  So, I think if I get the carb tuned up I should be able to push on through to 80 MPG.  I am also thinking about changing my sprockets to see if I can increase my top speed for cruising:).

These dirt trails are so nasty rutted it was hard for my inexperienced self to ride, but very fun!

New Addition

Already got the stickers off!

I found this on KSL and after some negotiating we added it to the pile.  I wanted something I can ride on and off road and something that would get 80+ MPG.  We'll see if this does it.

Plastic Wear Bar for the Warn Plow

So the make-shift plastic wear bar works great!  After several serious plowing sessions the plastic is holding up wonderfully. 

I acquired two 20 foot lengths of this plastic gardening border when it must have fallen out of somebody's truck last summer.  I moved it out of the middle of the road and when it wasn't claimed I moved it to my garage. 

The material is not too dense and approximately 5"x1" and is soft enough to be used on anybody's fancy driveway without fear of damage.  The fact of the matter is that the skids take the brunt of the wear or this wear bar would wear out very often.  I drilled the holes in the middle of the plastic so I can reverse it and get double the use and I put the old wear bar over the top to help secure it all to the plow.