New Years

[grandpa nate]

Okie Dokie Kiddies....

Most folk want to ride up Tortilla Flats for the first of the year and it's all good...but a bunch of riders are meeting up at the Goldbar @ 9 to ride up to Winkleman.   Just a thought.

[Dietrich]

Hmmm.....maybe I'll dress up like the Michelin man to stay warm and ride to TTF early enough to make the Winkleman ride!

[Michael]

Hmmm.....maybe I'll dress up like the Michelin man to stay warm and ride to TTF early enough to make the Winkleman ride!

[Dietrich]

That's it!  Just keep it inflated with a hair dryer hooked to the bike battery and it's better than any heated vest you can get! 

BTW- I really wanted to build an electric bike like the one pictured a couple years ago.  It's based on a Derby 50cc sportbike, but uses a 15 HP permanent magnet electric motor.  I had the motor already from another project....wanted to use and Aprilia RS50, possibly with 2 motors at 72V, geared for ~75 MPH.  Then I bought my Ducati and all my green pipe dreams went south. 

Nate - How many do you have going to Winkleman? Any plans for food stops, etc.?  I like going out to the anuall New Years Day ride to Tortilla Flat and was planning to do that again.  I like seeing all the bikes that come out of the woodwork for the first ride of the year!  Hundreds of bikes the last 3 years I have been.  Just need to figure out a meet up spot, time, etc.

[grandpa nate]

it will be a small group and prolly grab grub in either superior or globe...i love seein all the bikes but hate the road

[Dietrich]

Yeah, it's definitely a parade lap, at least the lower section, especially on New Years Day.  Literally hundreds of bikes throughout the day.  Hey - At first I thought you said Wickenburg...but now that I realize it's the Globe/Winkleman loop...that might be fun!  Weather pending I may have to see how to make both.

Pics from last year:  http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=17161.0

[grandpa nate]

Sweet pics!!!

It would be cool to have more bikes along for the ride and it kinda works out that my wife's nephew is some kinda manager at the Jerry's in globe.

[Monster Dave]

Don't forget that nearly every year there's at least 3 crashes on the TTF route too. Thanks for posting up last years link Dietrich. It was fun seeing those pics again! 

[Dietrich]

Dang Dave...buzzkill.....

Crashes are everywhere, all the time.  Doesn't keep me from riding where/when I want, but yes I get your point, the NYD ride can be a circus.  That's only part of the adventure!  Stay alert, don't go in planning on it being a quick ride, and enjoy the comradery of all the other riders celebrating the first ride of the year!  Takes all kinds to make the world go around...

[Monster Dave]

Dang Dave...buzzkill.....

Crashes are everywhere, all the time.  Doesn't keep me from riding where/when I want, but yes I get your point, the NYD ride can be a circus.  That's only part of the adventure!  Stay alert, don't go in planning on it being a quick ride, and enjoy the comradery of all the other riders celebrating the first ride of the year!  Takes all kinds to make the world go around...

My bad!!! 

I agree though - it is certainly an adventure!!! 

[Dietrich]

OK, a proposition, since most of the crashes occur on the first section...

How about this:  Join Nate and his group at least as far as Globe, get free bacon from his cuz or whatever (subliminal message Nate  ), then continue on to Lake Roosevelt and sneak into TTF the BACK WAY!!! Wooohooo! ...arrive all hardcore and dusty from 20 miles on the dirt road.  

Yes.  I would do it.  Who's in?







edit:  Bonus points for passing adventure riders on the dirt road.

[Michael]

Are you serious?

[rule62]

I've never been through the dirt part, but I can't imagine that it could be any harder than trying to get to the cabin up in Greer.  I'm in.

[hoyden]

How about this:  Join Nate and his group at least as far as Globe, get free bacon from his cuz or whatever (subliminal message Nate  ), then continue on to Lake Roosevelt and sneak into TTF the BACK WAY!!! Wooohooo! ...arrive all hardcore and dusty from 20 miles on the dirt road.  

Yes.  I would do it.  Who's in?

I'm in!!!
Sounds like fun!

[Michael]

Okay, so the solution to avoiding one of the three accidents on the road to Tortilla Flat is to take a much longer and twistier one-lane road that's on the edge of a steep canyon and is nothing but uneven, loose gravel while riding on street tires?