Author Topic: The Adventures of a Black Rhino (Read 12971 times)

Daleroso · « **Reply #30 on:** June 12, 2019, 11:40:42 PM »

Best of luck in your recovery. So sorry🙁

yellowheader · « **Reply #31 on:** June 13, 2019, 12:52:49 PM »

That makes me see why ADV riders go in for the big tall MX style boots!

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #32 on:** June 13, 2019, 01:06:43 PM »

I was wearing Forma Terra Evo boots. It's an ADV/Enduro boot but not full on MX.

Lannis · « **Reply #33 on:** June 13, 2019, 01:29:58 PM »

Quote from: Blueboarhound on June 13, 2019, 01:06:43 PM

I was wearing Forma Terra Evo boots. It's an ADV/Enduro boot but not full on MX.

Glad you're OK. I dropped my own '09 Black Hippo on my own leg in Nova Scotia and got a high ankle sprain that bedeviled me for months. That was on a gravel road that was transitioning to pavement, with pea gravel over asphalt.

I didn't mean to be there. I was following a guy using a GPS that was taking us all over the place.

If I'm going out to play in the woods, I'm taking a 290 pound 250 of some kind; there's no way I'm taking that tall, heavy 600 pound, 105-hp monster onto a rutted trail and go 25 MPH. It's the best road cruiser ever, but I mean, where do you need that much power and weight back in the woods, riding over rocks and muddy ruts?

Lannis

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #34 on:** June 13, 2019, 02:15:32 PM »

Yeah, something along the lines of a KTM 690 Enduro R would have been better suited to where I was, MABDR alternate expert section, when this happened.

The majority of the MABDR is forestry roads with a few alternate "expert" sections that are only a couple of miles each. The expert sections are doable on a big ADV bike but if it was that kind of terrain all day the Stelvio wouldn't be my first choice.

There were four of us on the trip, three Stelvio's and ironically a KTM 500. It didn't help matters that my Stelvio was also fully loaded for me to live/camp off it for nearly a week so it was heavy.

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #35 on:** June 13, 2019, 02:17:22 PM »

lrutt · « **Reply #36 on:** June 13, 2019, 03:15:57 PM »

If I'm going on a trail like that I'm taking my XR650L. Anything else is just too big. But I guess that's why they call it an 'Adventure'

Thunderbutt · « **Reply #37 on:** June 13, 2019, 07:03:01 PM »

That definitely looks like a "Hey boss,, I won't be in for a few days. I had a little accident." Glad your not hurt seriously. Hope you have a speedy recovery. You must be "short timing it" aren't you. How much longer?

Jerry

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #38 on:** June 13, 2019, 07:16:07 PM »

Thanks T-Butt.

I had off for 10 days to do the MABDR and it happened on the second section so I have plenty of time for rest and recovery.

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #39 on:** October 16, 2019, 01:13:25 AM »

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oldbike54 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 07, 2020, 02:54:27 PM »

Dusty

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #45 on:** March 28, 2020, 12:29:51 AM »

Formal DeHyde · « **Reply #46 on:** July 03, 2021, 10:51:01 AM »

I realize this is an old thread, but wondered if you could make any comments about what you had to do to install the barkbusters with heated grips? I see they say they will not fit but obviously you were able to!
Thank you

dguzzi · « **Reply #47 on:** July 03, 2021, 03:54:30 PM »

AND...did you fix the crack by the added right hand light?
https://static.imgzeit.com/large/206f5cf2c5cf4010/IMG_20190506_195915705.jpg

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #48 on:** July 03, 2021, 05:24:48 PM »

Quote from: Formal DeHyde on July 03, 2021, 10:51:01 AM

I realize this is an old thread, but wondered if you could make any comments about what you had to do to install the barkbusters with heated grips? I see they say they will not fit but obviously you were able to!
Thank you

I don't have the heated grips on my Stelvio, sorry no input on that one.

Blueboarhound · « **Reply #49 on:** July 03, 2021, 05:28:59 PM »

Quote from: dguzzi on July 03, 2021, 03:54:30 PM

AND...did you fix the crack by the added right hand light?
https://static.imgzeit.com/large/206f5cf2c5cf4010/IMG_20190506_195915705.jpg

Not yet, been too busy riding.

JL Rich · « **Reply #50 on:** July 04, 2021, 05:33:01 AM »

Looks like some good times, thanks for sharing.

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Author Topic: The Adventures of a Black Rhino (Read 12971 times)

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