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UPCOMING RIDES

NONE! VCARS is NO MORE!
Contact the shop to find out about their
monthly rides now put on in-house.



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for more rides, tours, & classes
READ B-4 U RIDE

WHAT TO BRING ON A RIDE

SETTING UP YOUR BIKE

ADVENTURE DAY RIDE FUNDAMENTALS
PART 1. . . . . . . . . . .PART 2

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Scroll down in this column for a link to tons of VCARS ride recaps, photos, & video.

'08 Adventure Day Rides 07-08 - Slideshows

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Click the image you like while it is showing on the slideshow. This should open a browser page showing the picture in one of EarthRider's Picasa galleries. Right-click the image and choose "Copy image address" or whatever is most like that, from the drop-down menu. Paste the URL you just copied into the address bar of your browser & click return. You should see the image by itself. If the URL you pasted has a piece that looks like this
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delete the s, the number, and one slash. Then hit return again. You should see the full size image.

Do you have images (or video, or stories) from one of our rides? Contact me about including them in "VCARS in Words & Pictures".




'08 ADR 07











'08 ADR 08

2009-06/06 - Adventure Day Ride 08 - Roster

MOUNTAINS & DESERTS
What
When
Where
To Register
Registration Fee
'08 ADR 08 Pages
Dualsport Ride, full day
Meet Saturday, 06 June, 7:30 AM
Meet @ BMW Motorcycles of Ventura County
email EarthRider
$25.00
[Intro] [Roster] [Recap] [Slideshow]
Registration Options









Laura Smith, Blake "Towstrap" Hill
'08 ADR '07
Honda CRF230, BMW R1200GSA

Jerome Smith
'08 ADR 07
BMW F800GS

Daniel Ackermann
BMW R1200GSA
{no photo yet}

Gary D'Amico
ER - 'o9 DSS 05
BMW X-Challenge

Ken Tarallo
'08 ADR 06
Kawasaki KLR 650

Peter & Christa Neuper
DST 05
BMW R1200GSA

2009-06/06 - '08 Adventure Day Ride 08 - Intro

MOUNTAINS & DESERTS
What
When
Where
To Register
Registration Fee
'08 ADR 08 Pages
Dualsport Ride, full day
Meet Saturday, 06 June, 7:30 AM
Meet @ BMW Motorcycles of Ventura County
email EarthRider
$25.00
[Intro] [Roster] [Recap] [Slideshow]
Registration Options









Descending through the southern Sierra foothills

BMWoVC’s adventure ride series is being re-vamped! This will be the last ride in this series. Future series will still include rides of gradually increasing difficulty. Each series will last 3-4 months.

ADR 08 will be less technical than ADR 07, and longer – perhaps our longest ride yet. The terrain will be rich & varied. We will visit the southern tip of the Sierras before crossing the westernmost portion of the Mojave Desert on our homeward journey.

Contrary to the BMWoVC Newsletter, we will be making a restaurant lunch stop for this ride. It’s a long ride; bring snacks too!

Movie of the Moment


Strong intermediate riders on R4 terrain. BMW R1200GS, Suzuki V-Strom, BMW X-Challenge. ['10 ADR 02/13 - R4]

picture of the week (or vaguely similar time period. Click to enlarge.)

"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul." ['10 ADR 04/10 - R3]

Community (Click to enlarge. [Er, to enlarge our community, come on a ride.])

Huzzah! Another best-laid plan "gang agley" yet survived all the same.
['10 ADR 03/13 - R2 (became, oh, R8 due to mud... and stubbornness!)]