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no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:28 pm
by Craig Kahler
I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted. Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
I want to stay legal. I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers. Am I dreaming?
Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
Craig Kahler |
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:46 pm
by dooden
Move..

Know the feeling.. when I got my 01 I was still in the Chicago area and had to ride north into Wisconson just to find a damn gravel road.
Have since moved away, moved back and back away....
Lots of places to ride in Upper Michigan, just wish I would land some employment to fuel my habit.
Dooden
A15 Green Ape
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
>
> I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted.
> Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
> I want to stay legal.
> I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers.
> Am I dreaming?
> Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
> Craig Kahler
>
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:23 pm
by RobertWichert
These might be worth a look:
http://www.americantrails.org/resources/motors/VANew.html
http://americantrails.org/resources/statetrails/VAstate.html
Robert P. Wichert P.Eng +1 916 966 9060 FAX +1 916 966 9068 ========================================================
On 4/5/2010 12:45 PM, Dooden wrote:
Move..

Know the feeling.. when I got my 01 I was still in the Chicago area and had to ride north into Wisconson just to find a damn gravel road.
Have since moved away, moved back and back away....
Lots of places to ride in Upper Michigan, just wish I would land some employment to fuel my habit.
Dooden
A15 Green Ape
--- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
>
> I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted.
> Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
> I want to stay legal.
> I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers.
> Am I dreaming?
> Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
> Craig Kahler
>
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:24 pm
by Jud
That's why it's better to live west of the Mississippi.
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
>
> I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted.
> Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
> I want to stay legal.
> I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers.
> Am I dreaming?
> Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
> Craig Kahler
>
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:45 pm
by Tengai Mark Van Horn
Or central PA.
Mark
At 8:23 PM +0000 4/5/10, Jud wrote:
>That's why it's better to live west of the Mississippi.
>
>
>--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
>>
>> I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but
>>have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land
>>forbids dirt bike riding...
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:33 pm
by greg saunders
Go to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. There you can camp for a week and ride a hundred miles in a different direction every day. Plus the scenery is absolutely gorgeous. Course, I guess that is a bit of a drive from VA.
Closer to you there is the TransContinental Trail. I think is begins in Eastern Tennessee and ends in Oregon. Do a google search for Eagle scout and TransContinental Trail and you'll find a very good story about the entire trail.
Good luck.
To:
dsn_klr650@yahoogroups.com
From: ckahleer@...
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:28:41 -0700
Subject: [DSN_KLR650] No where to ride
I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted. Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
I want to stay legal. I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers. Am I dreaming?
Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
Craig Kahler
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no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:35 pm
by Jim Fortner
West Virginia.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Craig Kahler wrote:
I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted. Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
I want to stay legal. I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers. Am I dreaming?
Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
Craig Kahler
no where to ride
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:00 pm
by W.V. Doran
http://www.transamtrail.com/
WVDoran
Scottsdale, AZ
--- On [b]Mon, 4/5/10, greg saunders [i][/i][/b] wrote:
From: greg saunders
Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] No where to ride
To: ckahleer@..., "klr" dsn_klr650@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:27 PM
Go to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. There you can camp for a week and ride a hundred miles in a different direction every day. Plus the scenery is absolutely gorgeous. Course, I guess that is a bit of a drive from VA.
Closer to you there is the TransContinental Trail. I think is begins in Eastern Tennessee and ends in Oregon. Do a google search for Eagle scout and TransContinental Trail and you'll find a very good story about the entire trail.
Good luck.
To: dsn_klr650@yahoogro ups.com
From: ckahleer@yahoo. com
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:28:41 -0700
Subject: [DSN_KLR650] No where to ride
I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted. Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
I want to stay legal. I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers. Am I dreaming?
Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
Craig Kahler
The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail.
Get busy.
no where to ride
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:26 am
by CY
Utah! I had left off road travel and then was transferred to Utah. Now I have a dualsport (KLR) 3 trail bikes and 2 ATV's. Trails are 10 minutes from my door. Hundreds of miles of trails within an hour. Many trails marked for people, horses and machines. Low unemployment.
Clean air, pretty girls, big trout. I should work for the Chamber of Commerce.
Craig
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
>
> I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted.
> Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
> I want to stay legal.
> I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers.
> Am I dreaming?
> Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
> Craig Kahler
>
no where to ride
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:58 pm
by bryanonfire
The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests are huge, and it's pretty country. Although I haven't been back that way in years, I looked up their web site and they have some ATV roads/trails. Just google George Washington National Forest and click on the maps/brochures button.
Not exactly a day trip, though.
Bryan, now in AZ but once from Charlottesville.
>
> --- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Craig Kahler wrote:
> >
> > I live in the Fredericksburg, VA area. I have a 07 KLR650, but have not found many places to ride off road. Most public land forbids dirt bike riding and most private property is posted.
> > Its getting a little old riding the same couple short trails I found so far.
> > I want to stay legal.
> > I want to ride for hours on trails through the woods, cross streams, stopping to camp and fish. I don,t want to worry about trespassing or being arrested by rangers.
> > Am I dreaming?
> > Any suggestions on finding off road places to ride?
> > Craig Kahler
> >
>