Breakfast Again on March 14th

Same place (Sam's Saloon) in Kennewick at 9am. Spread the word.

I'll be there.

I apologize, I am going to have to miss this one, got too many things going this month!

Anyone planning a mostly pavement ride after breakfast? If the weather is at all okay, Katy and I hope to ride the Stroms to breakfast and then put in a good ride. Thinking towards Bickleton unless someone has a better plan.

Anyone for Juniper Dunes?

Im the new guy and Im up for any off road riding at any time after 3pm on the weekdays, and after 10am on Saturdays in the Tri-city area. Or i would like to know where some more trails are.

richnewt wrote:

Anyone for Juniper Dunes?

ya when

Damn I would like to hit the breakfast and a dirt or street ride, but the schedule is putting kaput on that. One of these times though.

Ride to Juniper Dunes after the breakfast on Saturday.

Will try to make this - work permitting.

After it warms up, we should think about doing this later so out of towners, like myself can ride in for lunch or something.

If you plan on riding out at Juniper, you have to have a flag on your bike now. Just a heads up!

Oh cr#^ *"p. I didn't know that. Ok, where do I get the flag? The KTM dealer? Maybe the local toy store? Give clues please?

Last one I got one from was from Tumac, now that Shumate bought them out, its worth checking into.

Anyone going to Juniper, also be aware that since March 1, the north part of the area (the best part IMO) is closed until August. See Juniper Closure

I have seen flags for sale a NAPA stores also.

I'm tempted! :evil: The sand should be nice right now. Are you going RelayTech?

The KTM dealer has lots of them! Make sure you have a way to mount it. I'll be going to Juniper if anyone else is. That sucks about the closure though , I was just out in that part in February!

I talked to Heather at the KTM shop today. They have flags and mounting devices. I'm going down there tomorrow to get set up. They will be open on Saturday, so if you don't have a flag you could possibly stop by after the breakfast and pick one up. Looks like we will have some Juniper riders on Saturday.

ya what time do you guys leave sams. im not 21 so i cant go in, or at least i dont think so, i wold like to go to the dunes how much are the flags. Where would be the cheapest place to get them and the mounts? If any one wants to ride whenever call me up 308-2490

Probably leave Sam's about 10:30, best guess. You should call Sam's and ask them. They serve food in there so it may be legal for you to be in there. Check first though. Flags are supposed to be 6 feet off the ground according to Heather at the KTM dealer. They have them there. Also check the Yamaha dealer and Shumate Honda/Suzuki dealer. Walmart has them in the bicycle section for about $5. Not sure about the mounting with those though.

thanks, ill prob just show up there at 10:30, it would be better if you or someone could call me about 15-30min before you guys leave. 308-2490

This is how I mount my flags:



I made the mount out of aluminum angle. I bent is just so and drilled a couple of hole so it would mount using two existing bolts (see the two holes in the orange plastic). Goes on and off in a few minutes. Keeps the flag well out of the way. Cost was only a couple of bucks for the aluminum. The flags are cheap bicycle flags we bought several years ago when we went riding at Sand Lake on the Oregon coast and needed flags. On that trip, we just used duct tape to tape the flags to our fork tubes. Worked okay for the day, however, when riding fast, the wind blew the flags back into our shoulder/arm. Still for a one day thing (or the first time) taping a bicycle flag to your fork is a cheap and easy way to go. (Just remove the tape at the end of the day while it is still easy to get off) Be careful using mounts that hook to your rear axle. Have heard of people having issues with the flag getting caught in their wheel. Plus you need a longer flag if you mount it that low.

This fun sand hill is in the now closed section:





With two of the best sand hill climb areas in the closed section along with other good areas of Juniper, not really worth going out there IMO. The open area is where all the quads hang out. The closed area was the only real area to get away from the crowds of quads. Just going to force more people in a smaller area. Watch out for the quads.

If for some reason we don't ride the Stroms and bring our off road KTM's, will drive the extra time to ride Mattawa as opposed to going to Juniper.

If we have a big enough groop we could ride where ever we want over at hover. The cops probily would not go after a groop of 10ish, the most they would do is ask us to leave, is any one of you a cop? I went over their about a month ago and one asked me to leave because i told him i did not know about the restriction. If i rember right i think the fine is $500 to $1000

xt350boy wrote:

If we have a big enough groop we could ride where ever we want over at hover. The cops probily would not go after a groop of 10ish, the most they would do is ask us to leave, is any one of you a cop? I went over their about a month ago and one asked me to leave because i told him i did not know about the restriction. If i rember right i think the fine is $500 to $1000

What restrictions at Hover? Have ridden there a few times. Great place if you like to climb hills. A few years ago, we rode for hours to the south and west and found a canyon that took us down to the river accross from Oregon. (a few miles west of the grain elevator)