Actually over last weekend. About 900 miles total.
Rode up to the Fresno area, and spent two days in the Sierra National Forest. Took all the paved roads, and dirt roads I could. Great curvy roads, logging roads, very little people around.
One of the logging roads I took had a gate across it about three miles in. There was a Forest service truck parked next to it, and I talked to the guy in it. He was running a dozer in the area and the road was closed so he could work on some fire breaks in the area. I asked if there was another way out without going the route I just took. He point to a "road" and said that would work. I took it, and wow. The dozer had been brought into the area via that road and all the hills that I had to go down were loose dirt from the tracks of the dozer and rutted from rains. All I can say is the tires and bike made me look good. It was a road that I am not sure the Tenere should have been on without knobbies. Several times the bike going down the hills, due to the loose dirt, and steepness of the hill (I figured 45*, but in reality probably only 7-10*), the tires would lock up every so often as I was trying to keep the speed down using the combination of rear brake and engine braking. Have to say the Mitas E07 tires, even with the treads clogging/cleaning dirt, and the ABS when the tires did lock up really is what saved me from falling. Never fell ::012::, and even with ruts and loose dirt, the bike went where I pointed it.
What a great bike, and fun trip.
Mark