Super Senior/old fart (40 years behind the bars!) from Chambersburg, PA, glad to find a site to meet up with some local riders. I started riding in the dirt and it's still my favorite place to ride, raced enduro's and hare scrambles (Yamaha IT250E and Kaw KDX 200's mainly) when I was a young lad, now I ride the dirt for exercise, to get away from the rat race and for the pure love of it, I'm hooked. Did the sportbike thing for a few years in the eighty's, loved it, but the speeding tickets, the dirt and then dualsport bikes kept pulling back to my roots. Now I ride a well broken in '96 Suzuki DR350SET with 30,000 miles and a nearly new Suzuki DL650AK7 (ABS) V-Strom/wee strom with 9,000 miles on it, that is mainly used as a sport-touring bike by my wife Karen (SoPaGuider) and I. Sold my old flame, a '99 KLR650 to fellow DAMN Rider, Frank (urklr connect), in the fall of '06 after 76,000 miles, 48 states & D.C., several 8,000 mile/three week tours of the west and two 1,000 mile non stop (except for gas) rides to Missouri. Frank has since sold the bike to his brother-in-law Ed, with the stipulation that I will always have first dibs to ride it, if and when Ed isn't! Last weekend I turned it over 82,000 miles and one way or another it's going to see 100 grand! Frank and I and possibly a couple of other lurkers are planning on truckin' our bikes over to Green Ridge State Forest/O.R.V. Riding Area on Saturday for the 2nd Annual DAMN Riders Reunion, hope to see and meet some of you there. I'm self employed/semi-retired and work from home, so I "nearly never" turn down a chance to ride, call or e-mail me if you ever want to hook up. Again, glad to be here!Later,
Jeff (SoPaRider)
SoPaRider@Embarqmail.com
717-262-1025
'96 DR350S
'07 650 wee strom
"The rides never long enough!"
