I’ve been riding a fair bit over the last months, so it was strange to realize that I haven’t ridden anything technical for months. Taking a loaded bike through a rough crossing or a rock garden isn’t the same thing as running tight left/right up/down single track with slippery bare wet rock bits. It is enough different I was getting nervous about it.
Continue reading2018/09/5-6 Nitinat (windsurfing)
hah! This blog used to have a “windsurfing” category. I get to use it again (First time in 3 *ing years!) I “ran out of skin”, but still had a good time up at nitinat.
2018/08/17-19 Molbdenite with James
A weekend+ trip, officially back to Molybdenite, but we expected the wildfire smoke to mess up the view. Neither of us had ridden either the east or west sides of Harrison lake. Throw in a couple hot springs and it sounded like a fine excuse to go riding…
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Still here, still riding / kicking (2018/08/12)
Sorry, haven’t had time to blog the big Tuktoyaktuk Inuvik ride, may have to break it into chunks. It didn’t come out as planned, but there were no injuries beyond skinned knuckles and being sucked nearly dry of blood by the bugs. Lots of wrenching, too many zero mile days and consequently lots of high mileage days. I will get to it … sometime. Currently planning another trip to Molybdenite.
2018/06/29 -> 07/03 North Van Isle Ride
Another great ride. A bit wetter than previous years, but I probably needed that as a prelude to Tuktoyaktuk. I certainly won’t be taking the same pair of boots north.
2018/06/17 Garry’s big Hemmingson ride
Gah, I’m getting way behind on my posts. Gary had a great ride that came together with a slew of riders.
2018/06/09 – “Something Nasty” – with James and Mike
Just a little “moto” ride out in west Sooke. We had some rough ideas of what we wanted to ride, and picked a hard path from the Clark area to the East Muir bridge. From there we went looking for a track that James and I had exited on (2018/03/30). We didn’t find it, instead we found a trail marked as “Something Nasty”…
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You rebuilt the starter, but now it just spins…
So, you pulled your motorcycle starter apart, to replace (brushes) or rebuild something, and now that it’s back together it turns great but the bike doesn’t crank over.!? Continue reading
2018/06/03 – Rob, Dave, Mike (+ Gerry and Darren) up near Oliphant / Mt. Wood
Rob Hayward invited me to “do some technical riding” with a friend of his. I extended the invite to Mike (knowing that James was away in Washington). This was a good day of riding, much of it tight and slow single track.
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2018/05/27 – No Ride. Thanks for the invite and help Garry.
Garry posted a “clean up” ride on Facebook, up Braden Main. It seemed like a good idea, cover some new turf and open (or keep open) some trail… Continue reading