Class was cancelled so I had time on my hands to ride my DR650

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Today and all week I was going to be in class in Santa Maria, when I drove up there and found the class was cancelled. So now I have some time on my hands and when I get home I have to make a choice which bike to ride the DR or the ST. Well the DR won and off I went to the back country behind Paradise where I lived as a kid. I put in about 150 miles today and just over 40 miles on these roads. Not a bad place to ride.

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C'mon Mike. Your class wasn't canceled, you ditched class so you can go out and play ;)
Great pictures. I gotta get up there someday soon. Thanks for making me drool..........
 
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Wow, how sweet! Those are some great looking "trails".... great to get off the beaten path sometimes.
 

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See what happens when you have no class. LOL, been waiting to use that one for years...

Looks like a fun ride.
 

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Well looks like you enjoyed your ride more than you would have class. I rode mine to OkieSTOC over the weekend. The more I ride it, the more I like it. Dinkie took a short ride on it. He had to see if it could get the front tire off of the ground.
 

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I'm assuming you got your oil leak fixed? Otherwise someone could have followed you the whole way! ;)

Glad you had a good time!
 
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Well looks like you enjoyed your ride more than you would have class. I rode mine to OkieSTOC over the weekend. The more I ride it, the more I like it. Dinkie took a short ride on it. He had to see if it could get the front tire off of the ground.
So did he get it up??? :D

I'm assuming you got your oil leak fixed? Otherwise someone could have followed you the whole way! ;)

Glad you had a good time!
Oil leak is fixed. Just needed a new gasket.

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Yes he did. And I think he liked it. Talk about scary! :eek: If he ends up with one, I think his very nice wife might just shoot me. :eek:4: She had that look in her eye.
The first time I met Dinkie he was doing a wheelie on a mini bike in Nebraska where he went over the back. :D Not sure he should be doing that on a DR650 :22yikes:
 
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