James Folberth

James Folberth

Motocycle Stuff

Hartman Rocks

Corinne and I went out to Hartman Rocks, near Gunnison, CO, for a couple of days to ride mountain bikes and motos. The trails are a super fun mix of mostly s...

Back to Moab!

Back to Moab, this time with Corinne, motos, and the MTBs. We hit Slickrock first, of course.

Couple days in Moab

It’s starting to get snowy in the Colorado high country, and I’ve never ridden the OG Moab trails… so let’s go! I threw the 300 in the van early in the morni...

Pennsylvania Gulch

A quick trip up Pennsylvania Gulch, a fun, rocky hill climb off of Switzerland Trail.

San Juans Ride - Days 5 & 6

Day 5 - Ouray to Moab Timetags: 0:00 Divide Road #402 0:15 BLM #100, part of Kokopelli’s Trail 4:26 BLM #100, Onion Creek

San Juans Ride - Day 4

Day 4 - Ouray to Telluride and back Timetags: 0:00 Corinne is vertically challenged 0:08 Ophir Pass #679/#630 4:37 starting the climb up Imogene Pass ...

San Juans Ride - Day 3

Day 3 - Ouray to Lake City and back Timetags: 0:00 Engineer Pass #878 coming out of Ouray, then CR20 into Lake City 3:43 Cinnamon Pass CR30 out of Lake ...

San Juans Ride - Days 1 & 2

Last year Corinne and I did the COBDR as a longer dirt bike trip. The San Juan mountains were the highlight of that trip, and there were a number of passes w...

Snyder Creek

Corinne and I spent a few days camping and riding at the Snyder Creek trail system north of Granby, CO. We camped at the Snyder Creek trailhead just off of h...

Crashing around Switzerland Trail

I recently picked up a GoPro. What better way to start figuring out settings, editing, etc., than to make a short edit of my generally shoddy riding?

Dino Ride 2019

Corinne’s first Dino ride. It was a super wet Spring, so we actually ended up going in the reverse order to allow the Yampa bench road to dry out.

Day trip to four mile

First trip in the Vandalizer! First time Corinne took the 230F out on the trails!

Camping overnight on Switzerland Trail

I picked up the Mosko Moto Reckless 80v2 and was eager to test it out before the upcoming Dino ride. I had previously gotten pannier racks for the DRZ, but w...

Overnight Trip to Granby

Corinne and I took a half-day on Friday and headed to Granby to ride some ATV trails and singletrack out of the Idleglen Trailhead. We strapped the camping g...

Kingston Peak and Central City riding

Kingston Peak (353.1) has been on my list for quite some time now. And the DRZ is the perfect bike to get up the couple of rocky hill climbs. The trail tops ...

First “real” ride on the DRZ

I’ve had the DRZ for a few months now, but I’ve just been farting around the neighborhood. We had a pretty warm day and I decided to head up into the mountai...

Fourmile OHV

An overnight trip to the Fourmile OHV area

West Fest 2017

Corinne and I rode in the 2017 advrider.com West Fest rally in Steamboat Springs, CO.

Dino Ride 2017

I participated in the 2017 running of the Dino Ride, a three day dual-sport motorcycle ride in Colorado, Utah, and a small bit of Wyoming

Dino Ride 2015

The Dino Ride is three day ride through Northwest Colorado. It’s organized on this advrider thread by a very generous forum member, Norm. This was the first ...

A Couple Pre-Dino Shakedown Rides

As a prep for the 2015 Dino ride, I put on an MT-21 in the front and D606 in the rear. This will be the first time I carry all my camping gear and tools on t...

That one time I lost my license plate

Soon after I got the KLR (still on temp tags!), I decided to take a trip up to the Pawnee National Grasslands. There are lots of dirt roads, and it’s neat be...