With just 10 days left until the start of this year’s dual sport, all the preparations have been going smooth. Our agreements with the PA Forestry Department and the Lock Haven Watershed have all been signed and approved. Saturday’s ride will be very similar to last year’s with a few changes and improvements to the alternate sections. Last week we mapped the course on GPS and it is ready to be downloaded for the adventure bike course and also the main course of the dual sport. Again this year, there will be six alternate sections on Saturday. A couple being relatively easy and ending up with one that is just miserably hard.

Sunday’s course has changed considerably for the adventure bike class making it a little bit easier, but a little bit longer and more scenic. The main course is very similar to last year including the infamous water crossing. The alternates for Sunday are new and exciting.

So far the pre-sign ups have been strong and the numbers are very similar to last year at this point. If you haven’t already, please pre-enter.

The t-shirt design this year came out really nice…a little bit different than the past. (more trendy)

I’ll have another update next week with any final details.

We are ready! Hope you are! We just had our final meeting with a huge turnout of over 60 Durty Dabber members all excited about putting on a fun dual sport for the 500 of you riders that we expect. (the weather still looks great for the weekend) This evening we rolled over 1,200 roll charts for both days and organized six rescue trucks for each day. We also finalized plans for the trials demonstration, meals each day and all the other activities planned for the weekend.Pre-entries have gone extremely well. We have over 50 more than last year at this time. The BMW adventure bike signup started out slow, but has been picking up speed this past week so we hope to have a good size group of them.

Final directions to Lock Haven:

Take Interstate 80 to the Lock Haven exit. Then follow the orange Moose arrows to the Castanea Fire Company Picnic Grounds of which adjoins the Piper Airport (the address is One Piper Way, Lock Haven, PA 17745)

See you in a few days!!