Dorks of the Desert

Eighteen years ago this month, a 1973 CB 175 was air lifted by helicopter out of the remote desert of central Utah, all because a man from back east traveled unprepared into the desert to take some pictures. Since that fateful day and after a recap of the story marked down in history as “Mork of the Desert”, the belief has been held that street bikes can’t hack it on The Waterfall Trail, a single-track trail in the Temple Mountain Area of the San Rafael Swell.

Always on the lookout for a new challenge to conquer, Wes and Chance, two ambitious riders from the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC crew, decided to see if it really was impossible to take a street bike (or two) on The Waterfall Trail, or if it was just a lack of skill that lead to the airlifted CB 175 marking this trail as off-limits for the heavier, generally less-equipped-for-adventure road bikes.