Wow! Adventure Riding

vtbob said:

Ha Ha These women riders are amazing. No giant GS style bikes needed....no special tires...just standard bikes!

This reminds me of the power of marketing hype!

No pretentious styling done....just doing their thing!

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36654 said:

It reminds me of Dad's Hunting Camp pictures from the 40's. The camp was a two room cabin built near a mountain stream about 5-miles off the "improved dirt" county road. The road to the cabin was the logging road that was cut when the mountain was timbered off in the 1920's. Up the face of the mountain (PA word for Ridge) with a switchback (an "elbow" in local speak), or two, then over top and down to the head of the spring which fed the stream. The members that had a car, drove them to camp. A pick-up truck was a rare thing in those days. At some point in the 50's a few members (2 out of 12, as I remember the story) got Jeeps of some form which were the first 4WD's at camp.

By the end of the century, all the members "had" to have a 4WD vehicle to get to camp which was now 5-miles off a paved road on a dirt road that was periodically graded, re-crowned and cut for drainage. Going to camp in a regular old 2WD pick-up was considered foolish, if not dangerous.

Apparently, the old guys knew something the younger guys didn't...........

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vtbob said:

+1 on that!

This made me dig out some old pictures of the ISDT of around 1972. A good many of the bikes were street 650 or 500 Triumps ( or other brands) with stuff stripped of to reduce weight, up pipes (now called scrambler style), a big rear sprocket and knobby tires. A world class event!!
Simpler times....where rider skill and endurance were more important than fancy tools.

Are we a spoiled, pampered bunch or not?

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