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eSGEe said:
mines faster :)
but yours is lighter--- I can do light gravel dirt stuff -- but Id never wallow this 400lb tank through the sand your zipping over
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My XR is around 240lbs IIRC, and its a good handling bike on just about any terrain. The dirt roads here vary from hard alkaline, to loose dirt/sand to hard pack with both fixed and loose rocks. Most roads are just excellent to ride on, but the terrain is always changing.

Between Hesperia and Kramer Junction, there is a great dirt road. running along the electrical towers, on the west side of the SR395 freeway. Its like a dirt freeway...
 
SG John said:
I found you. Are there really apples there?
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Im assuming you refer to nearby Apple Valley, California???

The naming of Apple Valley is historically associated with area pioneer, John F. Appleton.

There was, however, a well known apple orchard that was owned by Max Ihmsen, publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

In 1915, he developed 320 acres (1.3 km2) of apples and pears. The fame of Apple Valley spread as Ihmsen’s fruit won many agricultural awards. In the late 1930s, Ihmsen's son-in-law, Cal Godshall, took over the business operations and made the ranch famous as the birthplace of California college rodeo with the first intercollegiate rodeo competition ever held in the United States.
 
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