Saturday June 27 - North\South DS ride

[Skinny-J]

This is an open invite to a pseudo dual sport ride this Saturday. My other bike is a Kawasaki Concours and I ride a lot with an owner's group called C.O.G. However, COG is NOT exclusive to owing a Concours and the group is made up of every bike imaginable, from old C-10's to new C-14's to V-stroms to BMW's to KLR's. This weekend, a local member is hosting a camp-out and ride at his house in Manchester MD and I was asked to layout one of the ride options in a DS format.

I have laid out a 200 mile loop that will take you from Manchester MD to the Catoctin mountains south of Frederick and then plays around and works its way north in the Catoctins into PA and then back to Manchester. I did my best to find dirt and gravel roads but this can be challenging so close to "civilization". Therefore, you can expect a route of short sections of dirt and gravel roads strung together with back country paved roads as connectors. I did manage to incorporate 3 water crossing into the route and one of them is fairly significant so be ready! I also would like to acknowledge the assistance of Code and Kyler, both of whom have supplied me in the past with nice tidbits of back roads which have been incorporated into the route.

More info about the general weekend activities can be found here: http://www.cog-online.org/clubportal/mb ... opic=17761 If you would like a copy of the GPS route just PM me.

Hope to see some you DAMN guys on Saturday. Come on out and make some new friends and enjoy a ride through Maryland's Roads less traveled!

Jay

[John Go]

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I have laid out a 200 mile loop that will take you from Manchester MD to the Catoctin mountains south of Frederick and then plays around and works its way north in the Catoctins into PA and then back to Manchester. I did my best to find dirt and gravel roads but this can be challenging so close to "civilization". Therefore, you can expect a route of short sections of dirt and gravel roads strung together with back country paved roads as connectors. I did manage to incorporate 3 water crossing into the route and one of them is fairly significant so be ready!
.......Jay

Sounds like a nice ride, wish I could make it. Sounds similar to a route I put together hitting most of Frederick County's gravel roads.

Here is a google map some friends and I put together of local dirt roads. Mostly Frederick, but some Carroll County and NoVa, and some PA near State College. Check it out and add to it. If you are interested in a text list of Fredco and CarrollCo gravel roads I can dig it out and send it to you.
Cheers,
John Go

[Rut Row]

Sounds like a nice ride, wish I could make it. Sounds similar to a route I put together hitting most of Frederick County's gravel roads.

Here is a google map some friends and I put together of local dirt roads. Mostly Frederick, but some Carroll County and NoVa, and some PA near State College. Check it out and add to it. If you are interested in a text list of Fredco and CarrollCo gravel roads I can dig it out and send it to you.
Cheers,
John Go

So YOU are the guy managing that map! I've been trying to find out how to help with that - we need to talk.

[John Go]

So YOU are the guy managing that map! I've been trying to find out how to help with that - we need to talk.

I'm one of the guys. It was started by a couple of friends for bicycle riding. Mixed surface rides are my favorite for any type of two wheeled travel.

[Kath]

Hmmm....200 miles on the XT. My butt is sore just thinking about it. I'm usually good for a few hundred miles on a bike, but after 100 last week on the XT, my ass was killing me. lol

[Rut Row]

Hmmm....200 miles on the XT. My butt is sore just thinking about it. I'm usually good for a few hundred miles on a bike, but after 100 last week on the XT, my ass was killing me. lol

Uhhhh.... last week you were a virgin and this week your ass is killing you?

[Kath]

I guess I need more ass time to build up stamina.

[Rut Row]

I guess I need more ass time to build up stamina.

[code]

I guess I need more ass time to build up stamina.

She tells me that in bed all the time.

[Rut Row]

I guess I need more ass time to build up stamina.

She tells me that in bed all the time.

get at it boy, a duty is a duty!