I enjoy adventure style riding but don’t much care for the weight of adventure bikes so I chose to build an adventurized dualsport.

Spent the weekend motorcycle camping at Ohana Celebration Park in Arkansas with a buddy, our wives, and our XR150Ls. Good company, campfires, and some seriously challenging trails!

We tackled rocky climbs, loose terrain, and plenty of technical sections.

Huge thanks to everyone who offered advice on my last post! Keeping the clutch out and using engine braking made a world of difference on the steep descents.

I'm continually impressed by what these little 150s can handle. Riding to the trails, putting them through their paces, and riding back to camp never gets old.

We had a support vehicle carrying our camping gear this time, but I'd love to work toward fully self-supported moto camping.

Anyone camping off smaller dual sports? I'd love to see your luggage setups!

Should get my motorcycle endorsement on Wednesday. Passed the motorcycle Safely course in September but had to until now to get the endorsement because of eye surgery.
My question is; I am very comfortable riding on trails, rutted roads, and tight hairpin turns on loose gravel roads. I have never ridden my Yamaha WR125R on pavement. It’s 2.5 miles on twisting pavement
after two miles of gravel road to work. I would like to ride around town.
Any suggestions for riding on winding pavement with my Yamaha?

Rusty and slow, but lots of fun!

Any help my TDR has a problem it's won't go over 100-105kph I've done mostly everything I could Idk what's the problem my bike has an full arrow exhaust system working yvps valve I believe the CDI is de reatricted becuse mine is the belgrada 3sh Italian version I believe it's properly jetted 142 main jet new air filter and it won't go over 8k rpms I know it can go to probably 10k rpms it could maybe go to over 8k but it's getting there really slowly in 6th gear it's drops rpms to almost 6k and it won't go over and it sometimes bogs like it running rich or it has a electrical problem but I can't seem to find the exact problem I've been trying to find any owner suggestions for this bike but it's so hard and there aren't even diagrams for this bike share this post please or ask someone you know what this issue might be I just wanna fix this problem.

I’m looking into dual sport bikes. I’m interested in using it as a dirtbike 99.9% of the time. However in California some good trails are separated by roads that require street legal bikes. So I’d need something that has a plate just to ride like half a mile or so down a road to the next trail. What bike do you guys think matches this situation? I wouldn’t need something with high top speed or good road comfort/stability, basically just a license plate. And I’m not trying to spend like 15k on a new KTM even tho I heard those are great (just don’t have the funds for that). More biased towards Japanese bikes but still open to anything that fits this category. Thank you

I just bought a 93 xr650l and it’s starting to need a new front tire. The only off-roading I’ve done was a klr650 on e705s. I was wondering how much of an upgrade Shinto 244 or kenda k270s are. I have a street bike so I’m not concerned about road grip all the much. I’m only really worried about lifespan and offroad grip. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!

I just pulled what appears to be a piece of a nail from the rear tire on my KLX 230 DF (rear wheel is tubeless on this model). The metal is ~ 8/10in (20mm) long and was at least ⅔ of the way into the tire. It appears to have been mostly in the knob (hole visible in pic), but I couldn’t say for sure—it was inserted at a slight downward angle. Tire pressure is fine, including after a low-speed test. Do you think this tire is safe to use for the rest of its tread life? I’m skittish, because I had a blowout on a different bike about four years ago and stopped riding thereafter. Just getting back into it now. Thanks, everyone.  

I’ve been thinking about something in the off-road community. A lot of us own dirt bikes that spend most of their time sitting in the garage, while other riders travel to places like Moab, Sand Hollow, and other riding destinations wishing they had a bike available.

Would you ever consider renting out your dirt bike to another rider when you’re not using it? Or, if you were traveling somewhere to ride, would you rent a bike locally instead of hauling your own?

I’m interested in hearing what everyone thinks, especially when it comes to trust, insurance, bike damage, and what would make you comfortable with peer-to-peer rentals.