On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 20:54:03 UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:32:12 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 12:44:00 UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 05:21:14 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 09:12:23 UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 17:24:16 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:
On Thursday, 4 February 2021 at 20:56:06 UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:44:33 -0500, Wayne B
wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500, John wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:13:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

justan wrote:
John Wrote in message:r
That is the
question:https://www.motorichmond.com/New-Inv...=list--Freedom
Isn't Free!

HERE'S THE ANSWER I THINK YOU WANT. GO FOR IT. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG
ONCE.

I still have my motorcycle endorsement on my license, but I think the
reaction time is not there anymore to ride.

I just stopped because this is not a motorcycle friendly place. Too
many people who can't seem to see one in the city and not enough roads
to make it interesting in the country. Southern Md used to be a great
place to ride with lots of little winding country roads criss crossing
the 3 or 4 southern counties. There is really nothing like that here.
Roads tend to be long straight 2 lane blacktops.

We have some great roads over by the mountains, or over the mountains in WV.
Southern MD is too boring.

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We were on some great windy roads in WV a few years ago, over near
Cass and Green Bank. There's also a very cool steam railroad in that
area.

https://wvstateparks.com/park/cass-scenic-railroad-state-park/
I was never committed enough to ride from Southern Md to WV. I did
ride up to the GW Forest once but I was usually just a short ride guy.
Someplace we could go and stay off the interstate. Annapolis on the
back road was a nice ride. Maybe out near Harry's house, loop around
through LaPlata and back up through Chuck County. There are lots of
little roads only locals know about down there.


I was thinking of getting a small dirt bike to ride the rails to trails up here. We also have lots of logging roads criss crossing the province. The plan would be to load the dirt bike on my Mission utility trailer to access any where in the province.
A little dual-sport like this would be my recommendation.

https://powersports.honda.com/street...rf300l-crf250l

Light enough to easily put on a small trailer, heavy enough to ride on the
highway, easily capable of very rough terrain. Probably able to cruise at 100kph
all day long!
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Seat height 34.7 inches. I want something around 30 inches. I do like the "dual sport" feature though.
Both my wife and I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course on one of these.
Great little bike, could easily handle gravel roads, but I wouldn't take it off
the road.

https://motorcycles.autotrader.com/m..._250/201026880
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One of the gals at work had an early version back in the 90s.
Thought it was a bit small for a road bike but I see the new ones can be purchased with a 300cc motor or a 500cc motor.
Not really interested in a road bike.
Well, here ya go. Fast enough for pavement and will definitely handle the dirt.
My first Honda was a 125. Went fast enough, but not for the interstate!

https://www.hondaprokevin.com/2021-h...nt-accessories
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If it's approved for use up here, might be worth looking into.