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Riding the Grand Canyon’s Rugged Perimeter, A Dirtbike Expedition

  Pre-ride story:   For almost a decade since about 2003, we have been riding motorcycles all over remote trails on the Baja Mexico peninsula, Baja Norte as the Mexicans call it.   Let me tee this up to salt the readers sense of adventure: Our so called “trail rides” were dirt bike excursions of 50 miles which was about the range we could ride on one tank of gas and if you are really sharp at math, that was 25 miles out and 25 miles back.   Eventually, we were riding 250 miles on Saturday and 250 miles back on Sunday for a total of 500 miles.   I hope my math checks out. Since any Grand Canyon story will tell you about eons of history, here is a quick excursion into our history of how we came to ride this famous hole in the ground. When our boys were in middle school, we started dirt bike riding in California’s OHV areas.   OHV or Off Highway Vehicle area is basically similar to an Indian Reservation, some dusty out of the way desert set aside where mot...
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