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    Any time in the seat is a good time, even if you’re just putting around your property. I’ve never been to those places you cite, but maybe TFOGGER will have some ideas.
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    King's Peak goes from Nederland to Alice by Saint Mary's Glacier. Fall River Reservoir (and Chinn's Lake) are down below Alice off the Fall River Reservoir exit on I-70, which is the first exit West of Idaho Springs. So very close.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    King's Peak goes from Nederland to Alice by Saint Mary's Glacier. Fall River Reservoir (and Chinn's Lake) are down below Alice off the Fall River Reservoir exit on I-70, which is the first exit West of Idaho Springs. So very close.
    Being your first one. I suggest you start off slower, get a feel for the bikes performance & limitations. It's easier to find out up in pawnee, than St. Mary's Glacier.
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    I should probably stop getting ahead of myself and educate myself on helmets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    I should probably stop getting ahead of myself and educate myself on helmets.
    And riding gear in general. Also a way to repair a flat tire in the middle of nowhere.
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    That bike looked like it had been parked for a while. If it were me, I'd be putting some time on it to make sure it'll be good to go into the middle of nowhere and get you back again.
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    That's why Pawnee is a good idea. If it shuts down, I can just drive over to where it stopped and pick it up. Meanwhile I can run it through the paces with confidence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Irving View Post
    That's why Pawnee is a good idea. If it shuts down, I can just drive over to where it stopped and pick it up. Meanwhile I can run it through the paces with confidence.

    Items to replace before going out, anywhere. Throttle, clutch and brake cables, tires & tubes. . As long as it's been sitting that clutch or throttle cable will take a dump, somewhere between here and 1/2 way to screw pushing this anymore.
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    My wife had a TTR225. The thing I mostly didn?t like was the lack of a kick starter. I searched high and low and nobody made a kit or conversion that I could find.

    She rode it while she was learning and then it got sold in the big dirt bike purge of 2004.

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    I was reading reviews of other sizes of TTRs and it sounds like different models came with kick starters. That electric start seems to be a pretty common complaint.
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