Ohh man. Today's ride was insane. We took wrong road and end up on the a jeep 4x4 trail. Don't know how I never dropped her. Easy work for the 3 vstroms but the zx14r and a cbr not so much. Ohh and then the deep stream crossing...So the point being the zx14r can do anything.

No pics?? BOOOOOOOOO!! LOL

On our local forum, one rider posted video of the water crossing.

Do they make a snorkel exhaust for the ZX-14? LOL!

* Last updated by: mrwoo on 2/22/2015 @ 8:52 AM *

WoHoo!!!First in...as always!

When the road changed to dirt and not paved why not just turn around and head back? Why continue on a dirt road?

LOL you buddy on the 300 almost made me pee myself :D

Whoo hoo, Woo! Did the same thing on a 86 VFR years ago. Went dirt , we kept hinking,"It will surely go back to pavement soon, right?" It did, 30 miles later....Doh!

Mad

I knew to a point what I was getting into. These are the rides I luv the most by the zx14r hates. I'm up for a challenge.

Couldnt turn around. We were deep in the middle of nowhere. All of us were almost out of gas. So had to stay committed and hope pavement and civilization would come soon.

Will post the write up from this ride. This is how we roll around here.

When Sean says NOT a newbie friendly ride, take heed. We started out in fog (so thick on the 65 that Greg had to turn back) then got sunny and clear and then back into some fog at the end.

We were a gang of 7. Our leader Sean was up in front most of the day. Followed closely by Chad, Dylan, Michael, Bryan, Axel and Myself who rode sweep all day.
Sean's Amador County rides always start with 75 miles of El Dorado County backroads and we were happy about it.

We took Salmon Falls to Prospectors to 93 to Rock Creek, Mosquito Road, Cedar Ravine, Bucks Bar, Ostram, Hale Ridge, Railroad Flat, to Sheep Ranch.
We were basically a 7 bike congo line on a fun fast pace just playing mile after mile.

We rode the smooth fast gravel Fricot City fire road out of Sheep Ranch down the hill to the killer fun paved section on a ridge. Axel and Bryan were so happy to get back onto pavement and then Sean turned us off onto Esmerelda Road which was a rutted and slippery jeep trail that had a few creek crossings as well.

The 3 V stroms were up front with Dylan on his baby ninja in hot pursuit. I don't think anyone had more fun than Dylan. He was hauling ass and laughing all day. There was a long rutted slippery hill climb that had me wondering how much harder this might get. I thought this might turn back the sport bike guys but they just kept following.
I really felt for Michael on his FJR1300 and especially Bryan on his super pretty space ship like Ninja 1400 as it would have been real easy and very expensive to flop on over. They both stayed up.

Axel flopped over once on the wet wooden bridge at Slab Creek and again somewhere on Esmerelda. And as on previous rides, parts of his bike came home in a v strom suitcase and other parts hung off at cracked non OEM angles, but he and that Honda 600 RR just keep charging hard.

Adventure riding at its finest!

Good burgers and beers for lunch and then a high speed run down Murphys Grade to Pool Station, Palomar, Pardee, Stony Creek, Sutter Ione, and more high speed wheelies on Scott Road and home.

This was a solid group, I enjoyed riding with you guys. Thanks to Sean for putting on SCR's best rides, the Chadster so fast and so funny, Dylan cool guy who didn't dump his bike, but knows when to dump a chick, Michael who comes all the way from Vallejo to play with us and motors that big bike around with authority, Bryan who I wish would get a thrasher bike for these rides so I don't have to worry about that pretty white Ninja 14, and Axel who is becoming a regular and gets faster and faster on every ride because his bike gets lighter and lighter on every ride!

That's what this one is for!

* Last updated by: jtemple on 2/23/2015 @ 12:36 PM *

That was redonkulous. But at least you got video proof!

Took mine through a much tamer crossing, seen at the very top of this ride video: https://vimeo.com/117073419

* Last updated by: BigBloke on 2/23/2015 @ 1:59 PM *

Jtemple, nice bike. I'm fixing my sv650s so I can sell it to get me a true dual sport like yours. Lace some street tires and go hooligan style.