I\u2019m strictly a street rider at this point in my motorcycling career. My first taste on a motorcycle was off-road in a farmer\u2019s beet field, but since that day back in about 1975 the only non-pavement riding I\u2019ve done is on gravel stretches of roads being repaved. Homey don\u2019t do dirt.<\/p>\n
My daughter, on the other hand, is tabula rasa motorcycle-wise. She hasn\u2019t ridden at all so she\u2019s open to everything, and lately she\u2019s been agitating for an ATV. Much to her chagrin I keep saying no, saying that $500,000 is too expensive. Her ATV, plus the one I\u2019d have to get for myself to ride with her, plus the dirt bike I\u2019d have to get because that\u2019s what I\u2019d really want to ride, plus the dirt bike I\u2019d have to get her so she could ride with me on my dirt bike, plus the dirt bike we\u2019d have to get for my wife to try to get her to ride with us, plus the trailer I\u2019d have to buy to haul them all, plus the new Ford F450 Super Duty Diesel truck I\u2019d have to buy to tow it, plus the toy hauler I\u2019d have to buy to tow the toys and give my wife the amenities of home because Mrs. Homey don\u2019t do camping, plus the motor home I\u2019d have to buy because my wife would hate living out of a toy hauler almost as much as she hates camping and requires the luxury only a Fleetwood Revolution LE<\/a> motor home can provide\u2026 You can see how it all adds up. That initial three or four thousand dollar investment snowballs pretty fast; it would cost at least half a million dollars, easy. So I\u2019ve been saying \u201cno,\u201d but\u2026<\/p>\n But now I\u2019ve been bitten by the Adventure Riding bug. My biggest motorcycling dream\/goal\/desire at this point is to get into the dirt and play. Reading Neal Peart\u2019s Ghost Rider<\/a> was the bait that lured me into getting interested in dual sport riding, the documentary Dust To Glory<\/a> got me to nibble on it, and the Adventure Rider<\/a> website set the hook. Now I\u2019m dying to get a BMW \u2014 a R1150GS, or R1200GS, or maybe the new F800GS (oooooh!) \u2014 and head down south of the border for a Baja tour. Unfortunately, finances aren\u2019t cooperating at this point, so all I can do is read about it right now. Which leads me to this\u2026<\/p>\n A group of guys over at Adventure Rider put together an amateur team last year and rode in the Baja 1000, then they posted a collaborative report on it \u2014 one of the best damn ride reports I\u2019ve ever read. If you want a taste of what I\u2019m talking about, what I\u2019m dying to do, go read their story<\/a>. It\u2019s really great reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m strictly a street rider at this point in my motorcycling career. My first taste on a motorcycle was off-road in a farmer\u2019s beet field, but since that day back in about 1975 the only non-pavement riding I\u2019ve done is on gravel stretches of roads being repaved. Homey don\u2019t do dirt. My daughter, on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}