The most dirtbike-friendly place in your country is...
 

I'm not sure what the ultimate answer is for the USA, but I do know that the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho set a high bar.
Connecticut is not a correct answer.

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California is dirtbike friendly, I hear... but I think Colorado and Utah beat the pants off of that stuff...

Really, variety being the spice of life like it is...
and the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence...
I'm always thinking about picking up camp here.

OTOH, I heard a guy grabbed an 81 inch striped (sea) bass about two miles off my beach - 60 or 70 pounds. Catches off the beach are smaller usually. That's OK. My freezer is small. Striped bass is my favorite. But I digress, as usual.

Where's the best friendly riding in your country?

-Dean
not trying to get political or anything... :p

in australia, i would have to say, anywhere in victoria.
can ride in lots of places, from desert to mountain, all within a couple of hours.
we can rec. register a dirt bike for 70 bucks a year, and you get full medical and income insurance, TAC, included in that,. - there are rules you have to follow about where you can ride, but baciaclly no freeways/main roads, not in town/cities....
but country roads are fine....
we have short summers when it gets dusty, but 8 month of the year its dirtbike heaven.
pretty bloody good. :D

Its not all that different up at the other end of Aus either bar the rec rego, but out full rego is only $220/year and you can ride whereever you want :D Mixed terrain all within a few hours of eachother.. Bloody beautiful mate!

i was waiting for you to say somthing......
must get up that end for a year one day, with the bikes.....

In the UK, nowhere.

10 yrs ago the government shut 98% of our trails, and what's left is not very good and is being shut one trail at a time.

But now I ride illegally, in bits of wood and some military land.

STEALTH is the name of the game now, and night riding.

One of the main reasons I don't update my bike is if I get caught there is a good chance they confiscate your bike..

Sounds like a desperate situation over there.
Reminds me of this profane but humorous rant:

http://greenlanecrew.proboards.com/i...ad=1343&page=1

That rant is very funny - especially the translation at the end!:D

Yup, I'm a member on there. :rolleyes:

yep i'm with todd unfortunatly they decide to close most of the legal areas in the uk on a daily basis, i tried to stay 100 percent legal but now they give me no choice. oh and its an added buzz riding "stealth" ;)

:D:D:D

And all the girls have beer flavoured nipples down here too!

If bikes were outlawed only outlaws would ride bikes.


That one of the best rants I've heard in a long time.

I really must visit that place.

The best bike friendly place in Quebec is a place we call Mekinac. Dirtbiking is allowed almost everywhere. One of the best spot for a real hard trail ride.

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In major part, if you stay away from big towns you can still enjoy ridding in a 100% legal mode.

i would think wv is the most dirtbike friedly state i've ever ridden. probably the most dirtbike friendly on the east coast aside from maine maybe (i don't know the law there...)

here's the law:

use is banned from paved roads with a CENTER LINE or more than 2 lanes, except to cross and EXCEPT for getting from one trail or field to another when traveling up to 10 miles no faster than 25 mph.

All must be titled.
All riders under 18 must complete a rider safety awareness course.
All riders under 18 shall wear helmets at all times.
No passengers are permitted except if the ATV is designed for a passenger or if the passenger is at least age 18 and the operator is at least 18 and has a driver's license.
shall not be operated from sunset to sunrise without a lighted taillight and headlight.


so, if the road has a center line, you can travel up to 10 miles, no faster than 25mph. - but i've read elsewhere that this is not the law...


if the road has no center line (i would guess 50% + of the roads are rural here, and none have paint on them....) there is no real law, aside from standard rules of the road.

i regularly see atv's and utv's on the roads here...

as for the 10 miles, if you can't find a trail or unpainted road in wv within 10 miles you're doing something wrong. :)

i regularly zip down a 2 lane 55mph painted road to get to other trails. i believe the police are so used to this, that they rarely hassle anyone.

needless to say, afaik we have the highest fatality rate among atv/dirt bike in the us...

needless to say, afaik we have the highest fatality rate among atv/dirt bike i the us...[/QUOTE]

You must be doing something right.
IMO a high fatality rate beats the government trying to save us from ourselves by passing laws.

I think I live in the most rider friendly country. The country is only 17000km2 but about 80% of that is nation land meaning it belongs to the king and falls under chieftaincies. This also means that so long as we do not cause trouble (ride through crops or grave sites) we can ride prety much anywhere we want without ever getting onto blacktop. And the last time an injury dictated that we return on the main road the cops stopped us and asked if we could teach them how to wheelie!!

It is actually embarrassing that I do not ride often enough when it is so easily accessible

Utah, parts of Colo, New Mexico, Arkansas, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, are all pretty friendly with great riding. Can't leave out Baja in Mexico either. I wouldn't say Louisiana is friendly, but we do have 3 areas with a lot of singletrack. Don't act like an idiot and we pretty much ride what we want with no issues. Our location is good though. I'm right in the middle of 3 Enduro circuits, which is nice, and I can be in the mountains of Arkansas in 6 hrs and The Rocky Mtn's in 15hrs. So I'm not complaining.

Bandit,
When am i going to see you in Arkansas again? Those rocks miss you.
Will you ride the Land Between the Lakes dual sport? It's in another week.

Give me a call soon.
Jim

n the UK, nowhere.

10 yrs ago the government shut 98% of our trails, and what's left is not very good and is being shut one trail at a time.

But now I ride illegally, in bits of wood and some military land.

STEALTH is the name of the game now, and night riding.

One of the main reasons I don't update my bike is if I get caught there is a good chance they confiscate your bike..






Ain't so in Devon, 1200 + mostly close packed trails.various terrain, mud/rock/slate, snow on Dartmoor, rivers galore.
I'm a TRF member good bunch of fellas.
Wales close by, Strata Florida / sheep etc.

Biff

here is the first part of a 10min loop i have put together across the stream from my house. The plan is to be able to just hi loops for an afternoon and not be out of sight from the house, should improve my fitness no end!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRKxLTgcHbA

i will post part 2 tomorrow

once i have the route clearer and i am more familiar with it i will do another run and see how i have improved. (PS those wet rock off cambers are pretty scary at the moment, although the lense flattens them out quite a bit)

part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzScdcgsas

That looks like a paradise for a trials bike.

I will let you know in 2 weeks when i collect my first trials bike :-)

(2004 Montesa Cota 315)

good choice on the 315. careful, them trials bikes look all innocent. they are brutality inflicters. :D

And very addictive....

I have a 315R. It's brutalized me a couple of times.

im in!!!!!!!!

Do you have a spare bike? I've never been to Africa, much less Swaziland. :D

I now have a 315 if you can call that a spare! (PS what is the trick to solve the clutch drag?)
Got a German buddy coming over to race the roof of africa extreme enduro in Lesotho in nov and he is renting a brand new beta from ktm dealer in south africa and they have said he can keep the bike for an extra week after the event while he is in Swaziland so maybe consider that as the double whammy option:)

And coming from Kansas you don't pay airfare just click your heels together three times ...

See of you can find a General Motors product called GM AutoTrak II. This works well in the clutch.

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Unfortunately Dorothy died so I'm stuck with airlines now. I can fly to Swaziland for the same price I can to my place in Dominica, about 1/5th the distance.

My first post here, I definitely need to know this place.:p

dirt bike friendly places
 

Out here in pacific northwest there are many good riding spots-state run orv parks. And if you know someone there is even more riding. I particularly like to ride at walker valley- it the closest riding to me
And I moved here from Connecticut- used to ride moto at milford riders

It's that time again. Land Between the Lakes DS Ride is Sept 7/8. (less than 2 weeks). I'll be there (on the DSed KTM 520EXC) with some buddies from the Arkansas Dirt Riders. Last time I rode it, I was on the '03 GasGas FSE400.

http://www.lbl200.com/

This weekend, the ADR is hosting the "160 Hare Scrambles" at New Blaine, Arkansas. I will be there working and running around on my sweet 2011 EC250 Spanish Dancing Girl (tm). This hare scramble is the 9th round of the AHSCS Series. Go here for more info: http://ahscs.com/schedule.asp
Here is a link for a location map: http://ahscs.com/map.asp

Come join us for the fun.

Good Riding to You All!
Jim

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UK is a shithole
 

Yip nowhere to ride, hate this cuntry