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06-25-2008, 05:42 PM
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| In Training   Join Date: Jan 2006
Bike: "Little" 6Fiddy
Location: Carlsbad (Not NM)
Posts: 127
|  StromFestWest 2008 Cedar City
Getting ready for the third annual western Vstrom gathering (held in Cedar City Utah this year). Wednesday afternoon I did my pre-ride maintenance . . .  Changed the oil and filter, checked and lubed the chain and put on the Happy Trails panniers. From San Diego I guess I coulda just slabbed it up the 15 all the way to Cedar city. . . Google says it would have been 482 mi or about 7 hours one of the most boring slab rides I can think of. Instead I decided to do what I have done every year for the StromFest. . . . Make it a No or Low-Slab trip. All in all I clocked 2114 miles in 5 days of riding. Actually ended up being 852 miles each way staying off the slab. So Thursday morning, armed with my fresh from Dazzle, semi-unofficial STROMFESTWEST 08 Tee shirt I hit the road about 7:30.  First day was gonna be a long one....I had reservations at a Notell Motel in Flagstaff. It would turn out to be 570 miles to Flagstaff. 3 ½ hours later, Over the hill through Julian and down into the desert to beautiful downtown Brawley (my apologies if you actually live in Brawley). Thinking about gassing up as I cruise down the main drag I noticed a local SD area Strom Rider (Craig) and his wife just finishing fueling up.  After fueling my 6FIddy Craig and Lisa and I head for Blythe. Craig and his Wife Lisa have 50K (Probably 30% dirt) miles on their little 6Fiddy including a trip to Alaska Out of Brawley and heading for Blythe we notice a monster fire in the distance.  As we get closer it's pretty obvious it's a controlled burn of some sort so it's on to Brawley.  From Brawley Craig and Lisa are taking a different route to the StromFest so we part company. I'm heading east now on the only slab I couldn't avoid. . . I10. Even using the frontage roads I ended up doing about 60 miles of slab.  CONTINUED. . . . |
