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your photography is fantastic. Take a bow
Great stuff! Who knew?
I think we should abandon "Picture of the Week" and simple have "Beerteam's Photos".
Have to say that your ride reports are some of the best ever. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Great report...as usual. Your pictures and details are always an inspiration!
Keep 'em coming!
Mad Jack said:...must try to explain the fun this trail was for myself and four other brushpopper club members. In two 1/2 days of smiling we manage to conquer the TWT, enjoying some of what has to be the best trails and roads Wisconsin has to offer.
Riding three Husky 610s, a XT600, and my ride a Suzuki gs750 with Dunlop 404s (metric cruiser tire), Renthal bars,& a Kerker header. Yes that is correct a 1980 Suzuki street bike, my sanity is always in question. But with solid B enduro skills and a lot of experience with all types of bikes and terrain ... we set out from Milledgeville, Illinois on Friday at 8 am. Through the early light fog our hopes of an epic ride were very high.
With the first day in southern Wisconsin things were easy cruising blacktops and mostly maintained gravel or "b" roads making our way to Wildcat State Park to camp before dark. Be careful of soft blacktop across from Tiny's bar though, one Husky leaning on the 'ol XT after a quick one. The ratcoons were very aggressive at the park....
On with day two, the horse and buggie religion is thick in this area but all waved, just watch out for those "ROAD APPLES"... A light over night sprinkle kept the dust down in the morning. As the day wore on, dust was an obstacle to deal with as was more trails with sugar sand and rocky areas, along with our second closed road and ATV riders... By the end of the day I had taken terra firma samples twice with the big Suzuki but still made Clam Lake campground, darn no showers.
Sunday showed us a cool sunshiny day perfect for riding except for the dust, but now being used to it and adapting to a wide spacing with waiting one rider at a time stopping to mark corners for the next rider in line all went smooth. We all hit our top speed of the trip on one very consistent surfaced long straight gravel road that begged you to twist it to the stops if you dare. At noon we were being splashed by waves of the big lake enjoying Zone bars and trail mix. Good Fun!
Our adventure continued to rustic roads down the west side of the state into Minnesota. & Iowa but that's another story. My verdict FUNFUNFUN Do I recommend any one else to ride this with street tires? no the soft sand in a few areas was incredibly challenging as was the fist plus size rocks even if is only maybe 10% of the ride. Any fear of flattening down pipes or very soft sand should be used as deciding factor for any adventure like this. Well I'm late for supper... www.geocities.com/brushpoppers till next time; Mad Jack
different bikes or do you change gas tanks like purses?
(love your trip reports)
rokklym said:Trans Wisconsin Adventure trail
Wednesday 5-14-2008, 9:28pm:
The sounds of coyotes howling their praise over a recent kill is the only sound that breaks the silence at our campsite at Perch Lake in the Chequamegon - Nicolet national forest in Northern Wisconsin. Dave and I listen to them howl as we sit and enjoy our basic meal of Spam and Ramen noodles cooked over single burner camp stoves.
We arrived at the campground at dusk after logging in a 320 mile day of exploring a route I mapped out that crosses the entire state of Wisconsin, mainly off pavement.
Our route for the day started at my house in south central Wisconsin and our hopes were to see if this route I mapped out was worth a hoot. I know all the roads on my route that are south of my house, and most of the ones within 100 miles north, so we had the get some miles in and see what was out there.
A 30 mile pavement blast started out our day to get to more interesting riding. Logging is a big industry in some of these areas and with the late spring, lots of rain and logging traffic, some of the "roads" were in rough shape.
We both rode 650 thumpers and they proved to be great machines for this route, very capable off road and not too bad on the highways. Dave's KLR has a sweet set of Husky forks on it and Happy trails bags and my DR650 has Ortlieb bags over Happy trails racks.
After riding a big chunk of ATV trails, we hopped on some fun, fast, straight gravel roads and kept pushing North.
WJL75 said:A friend and I set out a couple of weeks ago to hit the trail from Millston north. We changed some of the route to speed up the trip. Now we know that we are not fast enough to do the whole trail in just a three day weekend.
It was a very good weekend of riding. 1000 miles in two and a half days of road, dirt and gravel. Lots of nice people and great views of Wisconsin from a perspective few get to see.
Somewhere along the route an the eagle has landed...and got a rabbit.
rcniss said:
The fall colors where just getting started
You can read the full ride report here: http://picasaweb.google.com/rcniss/TWATRide908#
This is such a great way to see all of what Wisconsin has to offer. From the winding hills of the south west to the big woods of the north and everything in between. Thanks Chad for the efforts - I had a ball!
I'm working on a return track from Cornucopia back down to hwy 70 just east of Lorreta/Drapper. I know the area well and I thought it might be cool if some riders want a little more fun on there way back south. I need to ride it one more time to make sure all the bugs are out but hope to have it ready in spring.
Cheers, Randy
kleinergti1 said:... we just returned from the trail yesterday. We left Thursday afternoon. In all according to the GPS we traveled 1400 some miles from Dubuque. Great ride and also my first ever bike ride of more then a couple hundred miles.
ajayhawkfan said:The sand at the ATV trails around Black River Falls were only a warm up for the sand. There is more sand in Bayfield County then all the beaches of the West Coast! The last 30 miles of sand was the toughest for me and my pig (1200GS) however we made it!
Thanks for putting together such a great route!
It was 560 miles and took 2.5 days.