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🏍️Right in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, the start-up of our newest adventure bike rental fleet in Bend, Oregon has us in the perfect location to make this incredibly fun 1-week ADV riding package. Fly into RDM airport, your bike and hotels will be waiting for you, and along with all the highlights and other inclusions shown on our tour page link below, our Lead Guide and ADV Support Truck will show you 5 of the most fun dual sport riding days anywhere. Self-Guided versions of this trip are available, too, but with a lighter bike thanks to our ADV Support Truck on dates as listed on this page, some riders will enjoy having their luggage carried for them while ripping through an endless array of twisties and dirt routes. Yes, there's the Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route, and yes, this trip touches on parts of it. But instead of focusing only on that, we think we've got something even better to show you with the ride ahead. Come see why Oregon is one of the most sought after places to live in the U.S., and just how great our adventure riding and other outdoor activities are. Tour Start & Finish: Bend, Oregon (RDM Airport) Type/Format of Tour: Available either as a Self-Guided Fly & RIDE package, or a Guided Group trip format. Click Inclusions and Pricing tabs on this page for more info. Riding Skills: Only for riders with prior off-pavement riding experience on the size/types of motorcycles being offered. Riders do not need to be experts, as we have listed this as Level 3 per our Tour Route Difficulty Grading. This is the perfect adventure ride folks looking for fun, variety-packed riding, and the chance to enjoy truly remote spaces. Duration: 7 Days (5 Riding Days, 1 Arrival Day, 1 Departure Day) Tour Distance & Terrain: Approximately 1,270 miles (2,044km) of mixed terrain, approximately 70/30 paved/non-paved (about 60/40 in terms of "time spent riding.") Most of the non-paved riding is simple, smooth, hard-packed gravel and dirt, quite rideable by those with such experience. The paved sections in our mountains are comprised of some of the most outstandingly fun sweepers and twisties anywhere in the world! Weather Statistics: Click here for Bend, Oregon, and here for Baker City, Oregon. Pretty nice, eh? Group size: 5-7 riders Motorcycles available for rent on this trip: Honda CB500X, Honda Africa Twin/Adventure Sports, KTM 1090 Adventure R, KTM 1290 Super Adventure R (click "Bikes" or "Pricing" on this page for upgrades) 🙌Highlights -Dual sport adventure motorcycle riding through the most fun adventure-bike routes we know of in our homeland of Oregon. -Wildlife sitings including Bald Eagles and Cranes, Black and Brown Bears, Elk, Bobcats, Antelope, Pronghorn, Mule and WhiteTailed Deer, California Bighorn Sheep, Cougars, Wolf, Coyotes, Fox, and others are possible. -Crater Lake National Park, Smith Rock, Cascade Lakes Highway, Paulina Peak, Three Sisters Wilderness, John Day Fossil Beds, The Oregon Trail and more. -National Forests: Deschutes, Willamette, Umpqua, Winema, Fremont, Malheur, Ochoco, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman -The remote roads, small abandoned mining towns and rustic infrastructure spread across the wild west of Oregon -A chance to visit Bend, considered an outdoorsy paradise for those who enjoy biking, hiking, skiing, climbing, rafting, kayaking, fishing, golf, and much more. So proud of our hometown!
Hey riders, Eric from Ride Adventures and another video reminding you that we make it easy for you
to travel the world by motorcycle and 4x4 adventure truck by having the vehicle you want to ride in
the place you want to ride it. So the trip package I want to talk about today is what we call our
best week in Oregon package and just as the name implies it's one week basically five riding days
in the middle of your arrival and departure dates and it's through this incredible state that is
relatively unknown in the adventure riding world but therefore holds for you a great bounty of
riding opportunity that we'll get into and explain here. So starting from our hometown here of Bend
in central Oregon, first of all it's important to mention that this is one of the most sought
after cities in the world really for any outdoor lover on both ends of your trip or actually during
if you want to include things like whitewater rafting, golfing, hiking, biking, mountain biking,
kayaking, rock climbing, check out Bend we'll have a link in the description you can see more
about this incredible town and why you want to spend some extra time here. But again this trip
is basically just over 1,200 miles if you do the itinerary as shown over the five riding days and
it's a mixed dual sport terrain trip. So you start out on the beautiful paved twisties and sweepers
and throughout each day you go back and forth between dirt and gravel and maybe some light sand
back to the pavement back and forth it's a constantly changing dual sport trip absolutely
perfect for these adventure bikes that we offer for rent. Amongst the many highlights that you're
going to get to see on this trip you ride through nine national forests they're listed on the
website so you get to ride beneath the tree canopy of our beautiful ponderosa pine trees here you go
past incredible sights and scenery like crater lake, smith rock, the john day fossil beds,
the painted hills, you even get to see the Oregon trail and in one part of the trip you get to see
the original Oregon trail and where it you know made its way from Missouri out to the west coast
here when hundreds of thousands of people tried to make their way back in the 1800s and there's a
great story waiting for you there. Here in what is truly the wild west we would call this still
a trip that is very remote and it will give you that feeling of what it's like being out here in
the wild west of the U.S. We see old abandoned mining towns small villages and just the way that
it is really far and away and off the beaten path we've been touting for years our fantastic
trips in Patagonia and these other remote places but really some of eastern Oregon is some of the
most remote spaces I think you're going to find anywhere in the trips that we offer. So there are
a lot of wildlife possibilities you definitely have the chance of seeing bald eagles and cranes
black and brown bears elk bobcats antelope coyotes pronghorn mules and white-tailed deers
California bighorn sheep some of these cougars and wolves and things like that a little bit rare
but they are possible to see during this adventure ride. The trip formats that you have to choose from
are as it shows on the website there are dates where we have specific guided trips going you can
join up with another group of publicly available people from around the world or you can also do
this self-guided and in the case of self-guided of course then you can have the itinerary
customized if you want to do more than five days of riding or if you want to include a rest day or
go out to the coast or do some other things we can customize it for you and by the way with our
self-guided packages you can either have that as a fly and ride package where we include all the
hotels and everything is waiting for you the motorcycle rental just a turnkey operation or
again if you just want to rent our motorcycles and go explore the pacific northwest on your own
you're welcome to do that the seasonality and when you would want to do a trip like this is basically
may through october with july and august being the middle of the summer here in north america
those are of course the warmest and basically the driest months but things start warming up
pretty nicely and the snow pack disappears during the month of may some of the higher
elevation spots might still have snow like the scenes mountains and some of the mountain passes
but you can start riding in may and basically go through october even into november and do this
trip comfortably as mentioned before the terrain types you can expect are everything from paved
twisties and sweepers to again bouncing out into the dirt terrain like this and having what is
really a treat as far as dirt riding goes it's what we kind of sometimes refer to as uh the
chocolate carpet or if you just got a little bit of light rain and it's nice and moist it's kind
of like chocolate velcro we call it too where it's not real rigorous rough rutted rock filled
set of terrain that you're going to hit when you're off pavement but and actually more of
a smooth carpet so it's really a great ride for people that have kind of an intermediate level
of dirt riding background all the way up to the people that are advanced riders you know
intermediate you can handle this it's smooth and easy advanced riders it gives you a chance to play
around a little bit more with the you know steering with the rear end of the bike and really
enjoying instead of constantly pounding over ruts and stuff like that it's really great dirt riding
that we have here in oregon so look through the website you'll see the different details like
pricing and the highlights that i mentioned the inclusions and each type of package whether you
want to go with the guided group or the self-guided package feel free to ask questions if you have
them and a lot of people are probably thinking oregon who goes you know it's not as popular and
famous as places like california and other parts of the world for riding but trust me if you want
a remote getaway you like the idea of idea of getting away from big city life you want to get
your hands on a great bike and hit some dirt and explore some wild and remote places this is one
fantastic state to be traveling through and again it's all centered right around our beautiful
hometown here of bend on the deschutes river so thanks for watching feel free to use the contact
form to reach us and let us know when you're coming to oregon remember to reserve in advance
we do have a limited number of vehicles and motorcycles and 4x4 adventure trucks
available for these trips so thanks for tuning in right on we'll see you soon
