Photobucket Fail

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As I'm sure you've heard by now, Photobucket has made the questionable decision to disable all image linking unless its users pay up $400/yr. I am a long time Photobucket user and you will no doubt see a lot of this

here as well as on many of your favorite web sites.

I am not going to pay the ransom. I am hoping that the backlash will cause Photobucket to reconsider this decision. If not, I will have to go back through and try to manually repair all of the broken image links. This time around I will either upload them directly to this Blogger site, or I will implement my own photo hosting solution. If I decide on the latter, I'll share the directions for setting up your own photo hosting site. It is much less expensive to do than paying Photobucket.

Gas Gas is Back!

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Specifically, my Gas Gas EC250. She was down for a little maintenance but is back in business now. I did a top end, new reeds, new air boot, and cleaned up and adjusted the billet SmartCarb. My buddy Al did some aluminum welding on the rear subframe to repair a crack. I did a little shake down ride this weekend (video below) and all seems well. She's definitely a little snappier with the fresh piston and higher compression ratio.

Durty Dabbers 2017

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I really enjoyed doing the Durty Dabbers National Dual Sport in 2015. Due to a conflict I didn't get to go last year but luckily was able to make it happen this year. I believe they had all new alt sections this year and I found them to be challenging and fun. The long downhill alt was tough on a lot of the riders and the last alt of day two included a rocky hill climb that almost beat me. They also were able to add back in an old rail bed section that included a tunnel that was really fun to ride. I had a blast and hopefully will get to do this one again next year.

I'm going to do a series of YouTube videos of the various sections. Make sure you subscribe to my channel so that you can see them all.

https://www.youtube.com/tavisbogue

Colorado

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I finally finished editing all of the video I shot on last summer's trip to Ouray. I did some off-roading in the F-150 but I also had to bring along the Husaberg for some two wheel action (see Day 2 video). The Berg was right at home in the mountains. I can't wait to get it back out there to find some single track riding.