Just another 800xc rider

[nrvale0]

Hi, everyone.

Just getting this out of the way...

Been riding for about 3 years now. Went right into the deep end with a x-continent ride of about 10 months on another bike. Bought the Tiger 800XC on the way home. Have put about 20k miles on it since. I'm a full-time rider having given up my car about the time I bought my first bike. I've started riding more dirt lately and I'm fitting out a Chevy van so I can spend lots of time out in the US deserts riding for fun and eventually racing. Also lining things up to spend time in Mexico pre-running (and maybe racing?) the Baja 500/1000 routes.

I travel a ton for work but spend most of my non-travel time in San Francisco, CA. I'm a member of this club: http://pistonandchain.com but lean more toward dirty stuff and less toward fancy Italians than a lot of the membership.

That's the gist. Thx.

 

[TheWelcomeGuy]

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[Rocky]

Hello and to TT

 

[CarlS]

Welcome to the forum from an 800XC rider on the opposite coast. We'd love to see pics of your trips.

 

[nrvale0]

Thanks, guys.

I'm not a big picture person but here are the ones I bothered to post:

http://nrvale0.smugmug.com/Travel/Motorcycle-Touring/2011-Favorites

 

[CarlS]

Good pics. You have a fine looking XC. Some of those looked like some chilly riding.

 

[Mad On Triumphs]

Really nice pictures, I've been to a few of the places that you've been to as well. Touring on a Triumph just can't be beaten. Hope that you'll force yourself to take some more pictures on your next trip. Where ever that might be.
Oh yes and welcome to the forum as well

 

[devo]

Hi and welcome from nz

 

[hemibee]

Welcome to TT from Southeast Texas.

 

[nrvale0]

Good pics. You have a fine looking XC. Some of those looked like some chilly riding.

Well, I didn't post the pictures from Oklahom and Texas when it was 38F and 50mph winds. And raining! LOL

I'm heading to SoCal via Death Valley some time this weekend. Maybe I'll try to do better about taking pictures for this trip. Also, probably heading up the coast from SF to Seattle later this month. Would really like to hit Eastern OR and WA too but this doesn't seem like the time of year to be tackling that terrain.

 

[CarlS]

I surely envy your trips. I hope to do my ride from Orlando to Seattle and back next summer.