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I hope everyone is ready for riding season.
Our winter is almost over and this fall looks to be one of the best yet for Iron Horse and BMW motorcycles.
We have a great selection of 2007 R1200GSs coming with the newest generation ABS system.
We have one 2007 K1200GT that is not already spoken for and can be spec’ed anyway you would like.
We also have a couple of R1200GS Adventures that we can also build to suit.
We only have a few 2006 RT’s left, and if you get one before the 16th of September, BMW will give you the new Navigator III. Rawhyde is coming to AZ. Check out their new website, offering riding and educational opportunities for the on and off-road rider. We are going to plan an open house near the end of October to showcase the new R1200R. I am still trying to get a track day lined up for October/November. I have some of you on a list, but please let me know if you are interested. I will have all the dates by the next newsletter, so keep an eye out. John
I am very excited to announce that RawHyde Adventures has been building a new website! We would like to invite you to see this new site and an exciting new program.
The following link will take you to the new RawHyde Adventures program. By clicking on this link you will be able to view a brand new program that we are hoping will be a lot of fun, as well as very useful. Please take a moment to look through the Arizona Adventure Experience.
http://www.rawhyde-offroad.com/adventure_exp_arizona.html
We'd like to share the following info provided by RawHyde Adventures...
For starters this program will be based in Arizona, but our goal is to operate an "experience" in all of the states that have "interesting riding" & We will be adding those other states as time allows. This first program is called the "Arizona Adventure Experience" and will showcase the incredible diversity of "The Grand Canyon State" From the Saguaro covered hills of Phoenix to the red cliffs of Sedona and on to the forests near flagstaff. You will get a lot of backcountry riding and a great education. Join us from October 27th to Oct. 30 in the fabulous backcountry of Arizona for the "Adventure Experience"
This program combines a refresher of offroad riding skills and a focus on GPS navigation in the back country. Over a 3 day period you will learn how to download and use other riders "tracks," how to "Track Back" how to create and use waypoints and routes and much much more... You will also do a lot of "Real world" back country riding under the watchful eye of our instructors and guides! You will come away from the experience ready to tackle the world on your own.
Updates: for programs and events between now and the end of the year!
RawHyde Adventure Camp dates are now available through the end of the year. We have selected dates for our rider training school through December so if you have been interested in joining us for a training camp in the fall, these dates are not on the website yet, so call soon to reserve your spot.
September 29th and 30th
October 23 and 24th
November 4th and 5th
December 2nd and 3rd.
Click here to learn more about Adventure Camp
http://www.rawhyde-offroad.com/adventure_camp_home.html
The Sierra Extreme Adventure rally.
Summer is over, the kids are back in school - come play with us for a long weekend !
Coming up on the 21st of September is the Sierra Extreme Adventure Rally. It is going to be held in Bridgeport California, and if you have never been to Bridgeport you really need to check it out.... Its awesome. we are sure to have a great time, in an absolutely wonderful place.
The website with all the details is "live" at this link:
http://www.rawhyde-offroad.com/sierra_ext_rally_home.html
Please join us, this is the last event of this nature that we are going to do for 2006.
Special HP2 rider school. We are pleased to announce that we have a very special HP2 rider clinic happening over the weekend of the 11th of November. We are "importing" from BMW of Germany a gentleman named Bertie Hauser, who is the director of BMW's HP2 racing team to teach a select few riders the "real way" to ride a BMW HP2. If you own an HP2 and would like to work with one of the legends of the BMW world, join us for this very special 4 day program. Contact Jim Hyde personally for more detail on this program @ 213-713-5652.
Check out our great selection of used bikes, including the as new 2007 Tuono!
We can help you outfit your R1200GS with some helpful R1200 Adventure trim.
Add the Adventure winglets and mud guard extension (or beak) to better manage windflow while
giving your GS a decidedly unique look. The winglets, in addition to the
Givi GS windscreen, offer superb airflow management and greatly reduce buffeting for taller
riders.
You can also increase the comfort of your GS on longer rides by adding the Adventure seat
Ask Tom Kniest for details or come on by and take a closer look at his Adventure-accessorized bike.
By GS rider and Iron Horse customer, Mike Hoppe
The summer of 2003 found my wife Cindy and I in Northern Idaho on our touring bike.
As planned, she was flying home, but not as planned I was going to meet her in Carlsbad, California instead of Tucson, and had an extra day to get there.
At the last minute I decided to make a run for Banff, Canada and then loop west and down the coast.
The half day that I spent riding in and around Banff set the wheels in motion to return…Brian Sterrett and I are what you might call perfect riding partners for each other; not only are we able to tolerate each other well but we both like distance, both have GS Adventures, and ride the things in the dirt (sometimes extreme) as much as we can.
Leaving Tucson at 4:30am to beat the heat, we were headed for Bear lake in Idaho, about 125 miles
northeast of Salt Lake in the mountains.
Just shy of 1000 miles, we called it a day making it halfway to our destination in Canada.
Backroads up the Westside of the Tetons and some little traveled roads in Montana were the ticket that set us up for crossing into Canada just west of Glacier National Park. A 70 mile stretch of dirt was the first Canadian soil to change the color of our bikes and we would end up doing over 300 mile of off-road riding in the next 5 days. Arriving at our timeshare condo at Dead Man Flats just outside of Canmore, we had an overabundance of day rides to choose from, as well as the two day overnighter where we would camp on the Columbia Icefields.
Brian ended up having to return to Tucson earlier than expected so after spending the weekend at the Lunatic Fringe Rally in Calgary, I headed down to Going to the Sun Road in Glacier Park, and then backtracked some remote roads across Montana heading towards Yellowstone.
At the KOA about 50 miles north of Yellowstone, a chance encounter with Al Jesse made for great dinner company and I was able to help him eat his extra bratwurst!My wife was worried about me solo riding and I explained to her that more than likely I would find some BMW riders migrating from the RA National Rally to Paonia to ride with. Sure enough, I met fellow solo (his partner had to detour as well) BMW
rider Ray Moss in Yellowstone.
It wasn’t until we were looking for a place to stay in Jackson Hole that we discovered that we were both Pastors!
I think God was answering my wife’s prayer for me in a REAL obvious way!The next stop was the Top of the Rockies Rally in Paonia Colorado. I had not been to that Rally since the early 90’s but it had been my favorite…it’s even better now! The best part was a few weeks prior I had run into Menachem Lorber at Ironhorse and he told me he was heading up to Paonia…and we were able to hook up there. He and Jeff Coleman were doing a few days of spirited riding in the area and we all got to hang out on the grass under the big oak trees and eat too much!
I’m already planning next summers Northwest Adventure…either the Kootenay’s in British Columbia or a bit more aggressive schedule to ride the Cassiar highway from Upper Liard to Prince Rupert and then taking the Ferry down to Vancouver Island…let me now if your interested!
