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Up on West Camino Cielo now. The left image shows the nice 4 miles of sin\u00adgle lane paved road pre\u00adced\u00ading the 10 miles sans pave\u00adment shown in the right image. After those 10 the road returns to pave\u00adment near the Gun Club.
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\nA panora\u00adma shot I took a lit\u00adtle fur\u00adther up the road. Pret\u00adty day, no?
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\nAlas, after I took the three images for the nice panora\u00adma I returned to the bike to notice the low fuel alert<\/strong> blink\u00ading at me. I was only 2.8 miles along the dirt sec\u00adtion and had no idea how much there was to cov\u00ader. Oh well, I decid\u00aded to push on rather than turn around (heck, I\u2019d already seen that part). I had last looked at the gauge leav\u00ading Jala\u00adma and it seemed like lots was left to use and to go explor\u00ading with then \ud83d\ude42
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\nTwen\u00adty five min\u00adutes lat\u00ader I came to the most inter\u00adest\u00ading part of the ride. I was mov\u00ading around a gen\u00adtle right hand turn when Whoa Nel\u00adlie!<\/em><\/strong> there\u2019s water all across the road, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading on around a slight left turn and up the road for about 35 yards. The water seemed too silty to see the road\u00adway so I just head\u00aded in and tried to stay along the right side while hop\u00ading for no big rocks or dips under me.<\/p>\nAbout a quar\u00adter of the way through the water fea\u00adture<\/em> I rode too high into the right side of the sub\u00admerged road\u00adway and spun the rear wheel to a stop. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, I was able to hold the bike upright while stand\u00ading in four or five inch\u00ades of water.<\/p>\nOnce stopped and try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out what to do next I noticed that I could<\/em> see the road\u00adway through the water and that it was all smooth and not more than six or eight inch\u00ades deep in the cen\u00adter, although quite slip\u00adpery under foot and tire. It took me five or six starts and restarts before I got the bike mov\u00ading and under con\u00adtrol. I head\u00aded to the cen\u00adter of the road\/pond for a ways then over to the left side as that was the first land\u00adfall. You can see some of this here but the over\u00adall length of the pond appears much reduced in this image than when one is stand\u00ading at the far end of it.
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\nFrom the point I saw the low fuel alert I remained anx\u00adious about run\u00adning out as I was not cer\u00adtain how long it had been with me when I saw it. In the end I got to the bot\u00adtom of the pass and into the near\u00adby gas sta\u00adtion for a top\u00adping up of the tank. Run\u00adning the num\u00adbers it seemed I still had about a quart left in the tank.<\/p>\n
The skid plate I pur\u00adchased and installed last year paid for itself today. At least four times I came down heav\u00adi\u00adly on it and it was a com\u00adfort to know it was not the Suzuk\u00adi\u2019s crankcase tak\u00ading such abuse.<\/p>\n
Friend Steve rode motocross bikes in his younger days and was of a mind that my new TKC80s might per\u00adform the same way at high\u00adway speeds as his old knob\u00adbies, i.e. be all bumpy and vibrat\u00ading. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, the TKC80s only exhib\u00adit a small bumpy feel\u00ading at very slow speeds and seem as smooth as the Suzu\u00adki orig\u00adi\u00adnals at any rea\u00adson\u00adable speed.<\/p>\n
It was anoth\u00ader 145 miles of fun, chal\u00adlenge, and explo\u00adration in the local environs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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