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Can there be too many conchos? Methinks not.

Gotta hand it to the Nazi's - they had the coolest, best looking uniforms ever.

How much of an asshole do you have to be for Hitler to hate you!?!??

Didn't hang out with the coolest people , either

I think a tour of the ghost towns, haunted areas and old gold mines around here would do well. There are lots of local ghost tours that are popular . The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is one of the more famous ones: https://www.stanleyhotel.com/night-tour.html . It's the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining" . But there are loads of ruins, etc that could make up a week long riding tour.

Seems to happen just before every major election. Maybe the ammo manufacturers keep supply limited to keep prices up?

A man amongst men.

Depends on what your goals are - if you want to just stay in Colorado / Utah and ride some mountains, some desert and relax, shop, etc - 7-10 days would be about perfect. But if you want to see Colorado , Montana and some other states, you'd need a lot more time due to the distances involved. Sample Trip: Day 1 - arrive Denver, get bike sorted, sleep Day2 - Denver to Breckenridge - see Rocky Mtn National Park, ride some passes Day 3 - Breckenridge again. ride Passes to Aspen and back, shopping , etc Day 4 - Vail, CO - ride Leadville, Cottonwood Pass, etc Day 5 - Ouray, CO - Ride Animas Loop (easy off road), Silverton area, train ride Day 6 - Durango CO - Ride 550 (Search Million Dollar Highway) and others in the area Day 7 - Gateway, CO - Ride route 141, visit museum and hang at the resort pool Day 8 - Moab, Utah - Arches National Park. Route 128, etc Day 9 - Hurricane, Utah - Ride Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park Day 10 -head back to Denver, drop bike, etc Could shave off a night in Vail and stay two in Gateway or Moab if you'd rather, etc. But all of these days would only involve 300 miles or less - which can easily be done in 6 hours of riding. The last day - getting back to Denver - would involve more riding, but not a whole lot more.... especially if you were to head back to wards Denver a day or two early. If you wanted to do some specific things, let me know and I'd see if I could work a plan for you. The above has great riding each day. I should atrt a thread about it and post pics of each area.. maybe if I get soem time this week.

A great bunch of pics - thanks for posting them!

Toss it on a boat and bring it over sometime!

Sure, I do that every time I ride. ? Some people have a lot of time on their hands.

I got on there in 2003 and have 450 posts or so - have far more here in a few months! I go there to read ride reports and that's about it. But the levels of pretentiousness is unreal. Much better here, where if you're a dickhead, several people will call you a dickhead and you can make amends for your dickheaded ways. Hope that makes some sense.

Not boring at all - I like it! Swooping along, it's like snow skiing on wheels.

I'd agree with you and Pete - taking an overweight pig of a expensive bike into a swamp makes no sense at all. They're good for pavement and dirt roads and that's about it. A fuckin' chore to take them anywhere else. And what's riding them while standing on the pegs for no reason like it's a dirt bike? Feckin' wankers.

Answers: 1) The tires are the Dunlop Trailmax Missions - the rear I like as it lasts a long time, not so sure about the front. It wanders, loud noises and I've skidded it a couple of times on the street while doing moderate braking. My guess is that in a panic stop, it's not going to do well. 2) R1200GS - yes, have ridden them. The Tenere seems to handle better although it weighs more. I'm a bigger guy so the weight doesn't bother me too much. GS' range on fuel seems to be better as well. 3) Our area doesn't suck! Wish the riding season was longer, but it's great when we can get out.

It is kinda odd why you're blocked from seeing so many pages - dunno why.

Drag that KLR out here and we'll go do some exploring on the dirt roads. One of my favorite kind of rides!

In case the above link isn't available you damned foreigners, here's a copy and paste: CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT The Central City district is along the southern border of Gilpin County in the vicinity of the towns of Central City and Blackhawk. This district is the northern segment of the rich chain of ore deposits between Central City and Idaho Springs. Both the mining history and geological setting of Idaho Springs and Central City are so entwined that they are considered an entity and are discussed together in the Clear Creek County section of this report (p. 96). The production of the Central City district rightfully belongs under the Gilpin County heading. The district is credited with 95 to 99 percent of the $84,114,389 worth of gold mined in the county through 1923 (P. K. Sims, oral commun, 1959). Total gold production through 1959 was about 4,200,000 ounces; all but about 30,000 ounces was from lode mines. NORTHERN GILPIN DISTRICT The Northern Gilpin district lies north of North Clear Creek in the central part of the county and extends north to the Boulder County line. The most important mines are just south of Apex and in the vicinity of Gilpin. Gold was first discovered in the district in June 1859 in Gamble Gulch in the Perigo area, and lodes in both the Dirt and Perigo mines were discovered in 1860 (Bastin and Hill, 1917, p. 68, 197-198). Some of the ore was very rich near the surface, and within a short time 10 or 12 stamp mills were operating (Henderson, 1926, p. 31). However, the rich and easily worked ore was soon exhausted and in 1867 only four or five companies were still operating in the district. After 1868 the camp was almost deserted until 1879 when the Perigo mine again became active and continued activity at least until 1888. The district was revived briefly during the 1930's, but from 1943 through 1959 very little activity was reported. There was some placer mining near Rollinsville in 1897 (Henderson, 1926, p. 31). Many of the gulches in the district have placer ground, but production was small until 1937-39, when dredging operations along South Boulder Creek recovered 7,724 ounces of gold. Though the early production is unknown, it was probably small, and the total amount of gold mined in the district through 1959 was probably 35,000 ounces. The bedrock of the district is a complex of Pre-cambrian rocks, comprising schist of the Idaho Springs Formation and quartz monzonite gneiss, cut by Boulder Creek Granite and by quartz diorite. The Precambrian rocks are intruded by irregular stocks and dikes of quartz monzonite porphyry and dikes of bostonite porphyry of Tertiary age. The ore deposits are pyritic gold veins in fractures, most of which trend northeast; a few strike west or northwest. The primary ores are in general low grade and contain less than half an ounce of gold and 1 ounce or less of silver to the ton, but some veins have higher grade ore in the supergene-enriched upper parts. Many of the deposits are discontinuous lodes along shear zones that carry pyrite disseminated through several feet of sheared rock; however, fissure fillings are more abundant. Besides pyrite the ore contains variable amounts of chalcopyrite and locally, some galena and sphalerite. Quartz is the common gangue mineral in the veins (Lovering and Goddard, 1950, p. 193-194).

The whole county that I live in was a gold mining region. Quite a bit was mined and is still being mined by modern facilities in the area. I've never seen any in the wild though? edit: Apparently it was $85 million worth. See: https://westernmininghistory.com/articles/63/page2/

A nice little "Fuck you" to start my weekend. Thanks!

Short ride. That's all I got in before heading home. No more riding until next week after the tourists have left the area from the weekend.

Old framed miners house and the ruins oif another building - not sure what went on there. Some more work of the Welsh stonemasons in the foreground...

Old Assay Office. I might have posted pics of this before, so pardfon me if I'm repeating. Tailings from mines in the distance...

Mines are feckin' everywhere. Good for me as the old roads make for great riding....

All of those yellow dirt piles in the hills are mine locations. The dirt is the tailings from the mine. Lots of open shafts in the area making it pretty dangerous to just walking around...