where did you TAKE your Tenere today?

Kyle_E

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ya but the gloves are a source of a contact ....

How? Ride to store, take off helmet, put on gloves, shop, load up, return cart. Put gloves in trash, put on helmet, ride away. Otherwise we on bikes are all touching our face 100 times on that ride home. I'd rather use hand sanitizer but I have thousands of medical gloves and one bottle of that.
 

bigbob

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Im worried about contact with the shopping cart handle, the credit card machine things that are high touch zones.
I try to use Apple Pay (or the Android equivalent) as much as possible since then I am only touching my phone and not the card machine.

Plus it is more secure since the only thing the store machine knows is a unique transaction Id.
 

Kyle_E

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I try to use Apple Pay (or the Android equivalent) as much as possible since then I am only touching my phone and not the card machine.

Plus it is more secure since the only thing the store machine knows is a unique transaction Id.
Agree, I use samsung pay or android pay depending.
 

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Agree, I use samsung pay or android pay depending.
I've really started using Apple Pay off my watch, and now find it annoying when stores don't accept it. I tied my ATM card to the system, and it works well where it's accepted...
 

max.arioli

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Nice! I rode out there two days ago, I was surprised to see the road to Black Rock is blocked to vehicles.
Is that the gated section? I was surprised to see so much snow up there - even got stuck because I couldn't figure out how to turn the TCS off! When the rear wheel started spinning in the snow the motor would just die. 600lbs in the snow is not so fun!
 

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Is that the gated section? I was surprised to see so much snow up there - even got stuck because I couldn't figure out how to turn the TCS off! When the rear wheel started spinning in the snow the motor would just die. 600lbs in the snow is not so fun!
Black Rock road is the road past the boat storage that goes south. If you head that way again let me know and I'll point it out to you.
 

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I went out checking the conditions of some of the better backroads in the southwest part of our county. As I suspected, many of them had been freshly (and heavily) graveled by the county road dept., and were no fun at all. But I found several that were hard packed and good for riding, and made good time down to the best, gnarly, steep, rocky with lots of ledges, impassable when wet, trail in the area. This hill is well over 200 yards long, has a bunch of rocks and ruts (some large), and most of the ledges are a foot or so high, and has been the demise of many a wanna-be truck, jeep, atv, and bike that didn't have adequate ground clearance and/or good skid plates or rider/driver skills. On my old Bighorn 350, the hill would have been a blast today. On my only previous trip there on the Tenere last fall, I made it up just fine. When I considered going back down it that day, I said "Uh-Uhhh, too slick" and went out the long way around (about 6 miles).

Today, when I arrived, the hill was remarkably dry and only wet at the bottom, so I didn't hesitate and headed right up it. That was a mistake. A Tenere Noob mistake. Forgot to turn off the Traction Control. And it was still set on #1.... I made it up through the most gnarly parts, but when I got to the steepest section, I goosed it a little (wanting to get a little air over the last slope-fronted ledge), broke loose the rear tire, and BAM, the traction control slammed on the rear brakes, and that plus the steep hill killed the engine before I could slip the clutch, and just before the last ledge. And of course, my foot came down in a rut below the last ledge, so over we went. "Pearl" (the name we've given her) wanted to take a short nap.

My friend, Logan, helped me get her back up on her feet, and rather than go out the long way around, I wanted to practice going back down that steep, rocky hill using some of techniques I've seen on the MOTOTREK videos on YouTube. Logan wasn't too enthusiastic about that, but we were both impressed that I took her back down the hill like a boss, even over the places where the skid plate drug. Anyway, Pearl was none the worse for wear, only a little dirt here and there and a few scratches on the skid plate. And it was definitely a learning experience.

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View from below, about a hundred yards up from the bottom, looking up. Pearl snoozing comfortably.
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Another shot looking down from beside where Pearl was napping. It's further than it looks to the bottom.
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