Southern Maryland Adventure Riders

Adventure riders come in all different lots...
Some ride to meet new people
Some ride to spend time with old friends

Others are friends who just ride...challenging themselves as well as each other..

So old friends and new friends...here is a place to coordinate those rides...

(side note...often the "encouragement" provided by friends is mixed with a few other ingredients (like sarcasm and ribbing))

​

So Lets Ride...

<param name="movie" value="https://cdn.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2013072402.swf" /><param name="flashVars" value="AlbumID=47435028&AlbumKey=TQgs4f&transparent=true&bgColor=&borderThickness=&borderColor=&useInside=&endPoint=&mainHost=cdn.smugmug.com&VersionNos=2013072402&width=600&height=600&clickToImage=true&captions=false&showThumbs=true&autoStart=true&showSpeed=true&pageStyle=white&showButtons=true&randomStart=false&randomize=false&splash=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smugmug.com%2Fimg%2Fria%2FShizamSlides%2Fsmugmug_black.png&splashDelay=0&crossFadeSpeed=350" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="https://cdn.smugmug.com/ria/ShizamSlides-2013072402.swf" flashVars="AlbumID=47435028&AlbumKey=TQgs4f&transparent=true&bgColor=&borderThickness=&borderColor=&useInside=&endPoint=&mainHost=cdn.smugmug.com&VersionNos=2013072402&width=600&height=600&clickToImage=true&captions=false&showThumbs=true&autoStart=true&showSpeed=true&pageStyle=white&showButtons=true&randomStart=false&randomize=false&splash=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smugmug.com%2Fimg%2Fria%2FShizamSlides%2Fsmugmug_black.png&splashDelay=0&crossFadeSpeed=350" width="600" height="600" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" ></embed></object>

Direct Linky to Google calendar is here

Ride reports & GPX files
Maryland Tarmac Rides
Ferry Cream--Eastern Shore MD
Covered Cream Part Deux
Covered Cream (Frederick MD) Ice Creameries and Covered Bridges
Ferries! Northern Neck VA Download GPX file here
Bob's BMW Dirty Dozen Ride #1 (Western Charles County) Download GPX file here
MD Lighthouse Ride Download GPX file here (**NOTE File has not been ridden since re-created)
Southern Maryland Tarmac Tracks (Moy's Mallows Bay, Croom Country, and The Amish 100), Trail of An Assassin & Small Garages Download Track here
Southern Maryland Small Garages Tour RR
2013 Middleburg Tarmac Ride GPX here
2016 Leaf Peeping Tarmac Map and GPX here

Maryland Dual Sport Rides
Covered Cream (Frederick MD) Ice Creameries and Covered Bridges
Middleburg, VA Horse Country Big bike, Noob Friendly Download GPX here
Dual Sporting Around Catocin Mountain Park & Michaux SF (PA) Big bike, Noob Friendly GPX track here
Northern Neck Burger Rider GPX track here

Annual SoMD Rides
SoMD ADV Riders Present: 55th Parallel, But Whose Counting--A Trans Taiga Adventure
SoMD Continental Divide
April 2012 Splashes and Crashes

Ride Reports of Wingmates
Lakota's Library
Can an east coast rider survive RawHyde's Next Step ??
Southern Maryland Adventure Riders--A CornerSpin We Will Go-Hi Ho!
Southern Maryland Adventure Riders in George Washington National Forest (WV/VA) GPX Track here


Upcoming events

South America (Ecuador Part 3 TBD)
Freedom Bike Rentals

Out Year Events
Maybe Alaska
Maybe further South in South America
LA/Barstow/Vegas
Back country Discovery Routes (BDR)

Training classes
BMW off road school
https://bmwperformancecenter.com/school/motorrad
Location: South Carolina
Price: $
Course length: 2 days
Notes: Includes motorcycle/lunch
Rating: Excellent

Cornerspin
http://www.cornerspin.com/main.html
Location: North Carolina
Price: $525.00 first time, returning students $325.00
Course length: 2 days
Notes: Bikes provided
Rating: Excellent

Jimmy Lewis Off-road
http://jimmylewisoffroad.com/
Location: Nevada
Price: $
Course Length: 2 days
Notes: Bike rental available
Rating: N/A

Pine Barrens Adventure Camp
http://www.pinebarrensadventures.com/
Location: New Jersey
Price:
Course length: 2 days
Notes: Needs more refinement and focus on training with a set curriculum, need better training facilities.
Rating: Acceptable

Rawhyde
http://www.rawhyde-offroad.com/
Location: California
Price: $
Course length: 2 Days
Notes: Food and lodging included, Bike rental available
Rating: Excellent

Trials
Trials Training Center
Location: Sequatchie, Tennessee
Price: $
Course Length: 2 days
Notes: Bike rental available & camping
Rating: N/A

Xplor-Int MSF Adventure Off-Road Motorcycle School
Location: Western Pennsylvania/Maryland
Price: $ (includes two days of instruction, cabin lodging)
Course Length: 2 days
Notes: Personal Bike
Rating: N/A
Day one will consist of Close Range Excesses 6-8 hours Second day of the school will consist of approximately six hours of riding time and one hours of verbal instruction. Riding includes drills on dirt, gravel, water and grass and excursions up and around Appellation Mountain and the surrounding area.

CLASS Advanced Riding
Classrides.com
Location: Virginia International Raceway (Alton, VA) or CA
Price: $ 800
Course Length: 2 days
Notes: Personal Bike
Rating: Excellent
Ride your adventure bike on a closed race track

Total Control
http://totalcontroltraining.net/
Location: Varies in mid Atlantic
Price: $ 400
Course Length: 1 day
Notes: Personal Bike
Rating: N/A
Course is focused on learning to corner with slow speeds.

Riding Areas Closest to Southern Maryland (and our frequent haunts):
1) Country Roads
Middleburg, VA
Roads are well groomed gravel, with two open water XCings
Free

2) County Roads
Frederick, MD
Roads are well groomed gravel
Free

3) Eagle Bay (Private Facility)
Dahlgren, VA.
Two loops (2 mile novice, 13 mile intermediate/advanced). Single Track only.
$45/day must be accompanied by annual member. Annual membership $250/family per year.

4) Wicomico Motorsportspark (Private facilty)
Charlotte Hall, MD
Weekends only
MX track and trails (both atv width and some single track).
Fee: $45/day

5) Taskers Gap
Rocky, non-DOT vehicles allowed
Day use fee under $10

6) The Cove
Private 3,000 acre campground and Trails

7) Michaux State Forest
85,000 acres in the South Mountain area of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams counties, PA
Gravel roads some open water XCings
No fee

8) George Washington National Forest
Paved twisties to challenging dirt tracks
No fee

Maryland's Riding Areas
Budds Creek MX
The Landing MX Complex

Virginia's Riding Areas
South Pedlar ATV Trail System
Lake Sugartree Motorsports Park
Moto Cove
Elkhorn Lake and Campground ATV trails

Delaware's Riding Areas
Blue Diamond MX Park
Speed Citi MX

Pennsylvania's Riding Areas
Blue Knob Fire Dept. Poker Run
Breezewood Proving Grounds ATV and Motocross Park
Mines and Meadows ATV Resort
Mountain Ridge Trails Resort
Pennsylvania state forest ATV Trails systems
Tri-County ATV Club
Rausch Creek Racing
Rausch Creek Trail Riders
Rocket Raceway

West Virginia's Riding Areas
Burning Rock ATV Park
Hatfield-McCoy Trails
Tomahawk MX Park

Tennessee's Riding Areas
Brimstone Recreation Park
Royal Blue Rangers ATV Club
Wind Rock Park

North Carolina's Riding Areas
Brushy Mountain Motor Sports Park

South Carolina's Riding Areas
South Carolina Adventure World

The following private clubs did the legal paperwork to arrange themselves a riding area. Check them out:
Baltimore County Trail Riders Association
Delaware Enduro Riders
Green Marble Enduro Riders
Happy Ramblers Motorcycle Club
Maryland Competition Riders
Middle Atlantic Motocross Association
Prince William Family Off Road Riders
Potomac Vintage Riders
Southern Maryland Dirt Riders
Wolf Den Hunting and Riding club (Kitzmiller MD) Operated by Sherry Brady

see side note above....told you so

Any rides this weekend?

I will be training Saturday morning but am available after 11am. Available all day Sunday.

In before the ban. Oh, never mind this isn't JM.


Sunday is better for me. Lax practice and going shooting on Saturday.

Dave, when did you get a HP2?

Welcome Joints!!!

We will replace that picture later with our new group picture....maybe this weekend.

Anybody up for an RTE on Sunday?

http://www.tandjbbq.com/

Sounds good to me. Hawthorne rd. eh? Are we riding ruts in the "MOY backyard" after lunch?

We could set up a few cones and do a few exercises.

I'm in. Blaster, you planning on walking there

Katie's kicks are tourence so my Riding will be limited to gravel with no rain.

Alright then let's plan for 1300 on Sunday (18 Mar) at T&J BBQ.
http://tandjbbq.com/

Then afterwards we can discuss plans for some riding exercises at my house, doing the dirt road, or just going for a street ride.

Dave... nice wheelie!

I had to make up for the stall and drop with the cones didn't I?

Sorry. No vid/pics, so the drop didn't happen. Although the russian judge gives you a 9.5 for the roll away!

Hopefully I haven't started a new trend...
I dropped it again when I got home.
Pulled up in front of the garage...turned the bike off.
put the kick stand down...apparently half way
and down we went

hopefully I've gotten that out of my system now

Sorry to hear that but , I have done that a few times myself.