Moab I<\/p>\n
5 days off so what do you do?\u00a0 Well, a few of us ADVriders, decided to take a trip to Moab.\u00a0 I headed out from Santa Fe on Wed.\u00a0 It was a late start, as I had spent zero time getting ready before that day.\u00a0 There are times when I\u2019m just super at procrastinating.\u00a0 As a result of my last minute packing I left my air mattress, extra blankets, inflator and tennis shoes at the house.\u00a0 It could have been worse, I was still operating under the impression that I was going to be crashing in Carol\u2019s trailer, but it wasn\u2019t a 100 percent sure, but that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to blame it on.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/captrick.smugmug.com\/Other\/Moab-4o26o15-to-5T4f15\/49053544_7c5nzw#!i=4036797474&k=vDXkfGD&lb=1&s=A<\/a><\/p>\n The members of the group that headed out before me managed to score a whole cul-de-sac at Sand Flats<\/a> for all of us.\u00a0 They have some great campsites, it is close to town, yet it has a number of trails that are all around it.\u00a0 I\u2019m planning on going back there.<\/p>\n http:\/\/captrick.smugmug.com\/Other\/Moab-4o26o15-to-5T4f15\/49053544_7c5nzw#!i=4036917691&k=9m2Kdsk&lb=1&s=A<\/a><\/p>\n It was a great night sitting around the fire listening to the stories about the rides they had done for the past 2 days.\u00a0 I was told the plan for Thursday was to ride the White Rim Trail.\u00a0 That meant a really long day, I wasn\u2019t sure about it as I have the stock gas tank on my lil husky that only like 2 gal of gas the trip as they wanted to ride it was over 150 miles.\u00a0 That meant it was a sure thing that I was going to run out of gas.\u00a0 I was assured that there were at least 3 bikes with oversized tanks that would supply me with fuel when that happened.<\/p>\n We head in to town the next day at 8am for breakfast at the Wake N Bake, (good food). KSU at 9am to start off on the White Rim Trail. (ksu= kick stands up, I had to have some tell me what that stood for too.)\u00a0 We added some extra miles to the trip by missing the turn off. But heck it was a pretty ride; I was okay with the extra 20 miles.\u00a0 Well, at that point I was.<\/p>\n http:\/\/captrick.smugmug.com\/Other\/Moab-4o26o15-to-5T4f15\/49053544_7c5nzw#!i=4040370208&k=SpgFVJK&lb=1&s=A<\/a><\/p>\n The trail isn\u2019t very technical, it however very long.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have really any major issues, aside from figuring out I didn\u2019t have a rear brake.\u00a0 So at the next rest break, I looked it over and discovered that I needed to adjust the travel and to be safe we added some more fluid.\u00a0 It worked great after that; good thing too, just around the corner was a really steep and long downhill section.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All 7 guys had been giving me a hard time about how I didn\u2019t really need the rear brake and how they never use theirs, they all ate their words on that section. Ha.<\/p>\n