Gravel road run on my Concours 14

[JDMitchell]

My wife and I took off today to ride to Davisville, MO to see the Dillard Mill and eat at a place called the Traveler's Table. So we left about 11 and took off on some great Ozark roads. Somehow, about 15 miles from Davisville my TomTom wanted to take us on a "shortcut". Well the road started out as hardball, but about half a mile later I was on gravel, and I figured that I was gonna be back on pavement soon enough if I just pushed on through. Well lets just say we ended up on a dead end after about 15 miles of trying to make my sport tourer into an adventure tourer. I was pretty ticked at the time, but when I stopped to get my bearings, my wife told me that I would be laughing about it as soon as we found some blacktop. A Wee Strom this bike ain't, but maybe with the right tires I could see myself making it through some pretty nasty roads on my trip to Alaska. All in all it was a great day and we covered about 400 miles (about 25 of that on gravel) the Traveler's Table was an excellent restaurant, and Dillard Mill was pretty interesting also. If you are in the area for the great roads you might as well take an hour out of your day to stop by and visit both.

Outside the restaurant and it looks pretty nasty (for a street bike anyway)






My wife was getting a little overheated so she had to stay cool somehow, am I really gonna say "no honey don't dump that cool water on yourself?"............................ Ummmmmm nope!


Here is Dillard Mill

 

[panda24619]

thats sick. should take the ex next time and drive threw that water. haha jk. but yeah get some dual sport tires and you would feel more confident. but still. sounds like you had a good/funn trip.

 

[JDMitchell]

The funny thing was that I was trying to get my wife to take some video before we got lost........ errrr I mean took the scenic route. She said she wishes that she would have had the camera going while we were on the gravel roads because we were hitting bushes and tree branches that were hanging into the road. This wasn't a normal gravel road these were forest access roads in the Mark Twain National Forest. So they were rutted up and overgrown, any more and neither my bike or me could probably not have handled it. There were several times that I about wiped out and I am just happy that I didn't put the mother of my children into the gravel.

 

[walnuts4x4]

time to get a Kodak Playsport camera and mount it to the bike... that way you can record as you go.. they even have a remote to use with it... I have one that I am gonna attach to my bow for deer season... plus camera is waterproof to 10ft... but looks like a fun trip..

 

[SOLISIMO]

That is great, I wish I had something like that down here. Enjoy it man!

 

[JDMitchell]

I am trying to convince my wife that a GOPro or Countour HD is a neccessity for riding, but she isn't hearing any of that. Oh well.

 

[walnuts4x4]

playsport is a lot cheaper... I wanted the GoPro but the playsport was only 120$

 

[panda24619]

i want a gopro. so sick!

 

[Explor2Exped]

Those pictures are breathtaking!!!

Looks like ya had a wonderful trip.