Bike is in Stillwater, OK.
He loves Colorado and comes out here about 5-6 times a year. Worth contacting him if interested. Great dude. I have a bunch of moto buddies in Arkansas and he said he’d even drive it to them at no cost.
The bike will be so relieved to leave Oklahoma!
Spent the first 24 years of my life there and I strongly agree with this statement.
The Ibex was high on my list until December when I sat on one and it just feels too short for a tall gal like me. That seems like a good deal on a nice bike though!
First 38 for me. Yes, way too long.
He has the taller rally seat for it as well.
I spent 6mo at Ft Sill / Norman, OK. It’s basically a repressed memory for me…
Ha! I get that. I grew up 15 minutes from Norman. I raced the 12 Miles of Hell mountain bike race at Fort Sill for many years. Actually a really fun event. Again, you have to seek your fun in Oklahoma. It doesn’t come so easy like it does here.
I was slightly farther out of Norman, grew up in Lexington. TINY. @Kurdz2408 is from Newcastle. My parents live on Dirty Bird. And by “on” dirty bird I mean the lake regularly floods and blocks off their road.
I was a Marine officer fresh out of The Basic School (infantry school that all Marine officers take) on an Army base for Artillery Officer school. 18 Marines in a class of 120 army officers.
We were “encouraged” to all finish in the top 3rd or there would be “consequences.” If I had studied half as hard in college as I did at Ft Sill I would have graduated in 2yrs.
Anyway, I saw very little of OK.
One of the guys in my class did call in a fire mission on a buffalo in the impact area, so that was something.
Small world. So you’re an OG Lexington Bulldog. I grew up as a Purcell Dragon. My stepdad and mom still live in Lexington. Stepdad owned William’s Pharmacy (John Williams). He was born there and is still there at age 79. I don’t remember meeting any Kurdziel clan members. A classmate of mine and his family would spend a lot of their time at Dirtybird, -noodling on the dam. He almost always had skin missing off his arm in the warm months. I spent a ton of my time on the South Canadian on ATVs and such. Honestly, I had fun growing up there, but very happy to escape.
Apparently, encouragement can be good for us sometimes. It’s an interesting landscape down there and a perfect place for an artillery range. There was a bar there that was so fun/wild (Girdlestones). Wonder if you ever went to it. I won a scholarship at Cameron University (Lawton) for agronomy and turned it down. Studying plants/crops in Lawton didn’t sound like a sustainable future for me.
I had a buffalo that blocked the road on a road bike tour that we were doing and he wouldn’t move for a while and also snorted at us. He was pissed. Must have been the one that was fired upon.
Whoa, that’s wild! Seriously small world. Bullldog class of 2005! All 63 of us. There are no Kurdziels in Lexington or Purcell. Took my husband’s last name, but you probably wouldn’t recognize my maiden name either. There weren’t many Day family members around. They’re all out in Wanette/Rosedale area. My brother still lives in Purcell and his youngest graduates from Lex this year. My first crash was on the South Canadian riding a mini trail bike at 4 years old with all my cousins watching. I got nervous and whiskey throttled straight onto the train tracks. I agree, growing up there was fun but I won’t be moving back.
BCADV is rad. I love this shit. Also, if anyone has ever wondered what our moto socials might be like, they’re like this. 
Community!
I was a few years before your time there (17 to be exact). I don’t remember anyone by the name of Day, but then again, there is plenty that I’ve forgotten. My last name is Wilson. Not may left there from my clan. I was just here over Thanksgiving and took my moto. My brother joined me and we rode over by Byers (just across the river from Wanette and we actually drove through Rosedale) and found some fun sand tracks off the beaten path.
I had some spectacular crashes on the south canadian. Fortunately most were soft landings. We will have to catch up in person this year and talk about our old community while hanging with our new community.