I rode part of the loop on Saturday 6/23 until a leaking rear tire cut it short near Fayetteville. Here's the story if you want to read it. NOTE THE PART ABOUT THE CLOSED ROAD.
I live in Houston near Jersey village so I just headed west and went out to the 99/GrandParkway and West Rd area to look at some new parks that I heard have fishing to check out the details, then from there I took West Rd (becoming Sharp Rd) which has a dirt section leading out to 362, then headed south from there.
CLOSED ROAD - From there I followed the track which has both some nice dirt roads some nice paved twisties out to Sealy/SanFelipe. After crossing the Brazos River bridge I turned onto Park Rd 38, turned left at Peach Street, and right on Peters San Felipe Rd and after a short distance found dirt piled on the road (if there were earlier signs, I missed them). I rode around it as it was pretty smooth and discovered why it was blocked. The edges of the pavement are washed out from previous flooding around the little bridge there. it was fine for a motorcycle then then I got to more dirt (3-4 feet high) and saw where people had been driving around although it had mud, deep ruts, and a foot of water. Since I was by myself and relatively new to off road (riding a KTM Super Adventure) I didn't want to get in over my head and get in a bind so I turned around and went a little farther south to loop around and picked up Peters San Felipe Rd again heading NW. I can post up a map showing all of this if needed.
So them I carried on my merry way. All the dirt roads are in good shape. Mostly flat, no ruts, mostly loose to firm dirt, and large-gravel. No loose sand more then an inch deep. One section was in the process of being graded/maintained so it was a little softer but nothing that made this newbie TOO nervous.
THEN as I was looking forward to checking out the water crossing in a few miles, I turned left off Wilde Rd onto 40 (Stokes Rd) and my LCD screen flashes "WARNING - Low tire pressure". So I immediately stopped and sure enough I had lost over 6 pounds of air out of my rear tire. So I told the GPS to find gas stations knowing I was close to Fayetteville and wanted the shortest route. In that maybe 2 minutes time I had lost 2 more pounds of air. I got going and made it out to Hwy 159 and headed to town but pulled into somebody's driveway as the pressure dropped into the low 20's. My Slime compressor fortunately put air in faster than I was losing it so I got it above 40 psi and headed into town. While it was inflating I looked all over the tire and wheel and couldn't find anything in the tire or where it was leaking.
I checked everything in town, still couldn't find the leak, and decided to try to head home. I made it the 85 miles home via Brenham and 290 while stopping twice to refill the tire up to 45 psi and stopping when it got down to about 24. I had people on standby to come to the rescue if I didn't make it.
So some folks don't like the electronics, but the TPS on the KTM was a huge asset, not to mention the different suspension and engine modes that make this monster bike into a docile beast on both pavement and dirt. I'll try this trip again at a later day. Now I have to head out to the garage to find that leak!