Dual Sport rides on South Vancouver Island …
It feels like my ability to build stuff has exploded recently. Welding, metal folding, CAD, the lathe. That’s all from learning some basic skills. Some of it from watching makers on YouTube.
I ran across a few examples recently of people learning things “by mistake”. And since I’m pretty much avoiding FB, that post is here….
Nope, not dead yet. But I did need a break after that Hare Scramble (and maybe even before it).
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It was time to find out how I might do racing a DRZ in a hare-scramble type event…
Continue reading “2021/11/07 – Whiskey Creek / Bonzai Brapp”
Another quick trip for sunset pix. Cold and windy.
Continue reading “2021/10/30-31 Sunset Dash (4th?) Solo”I recently got a used GoPro 7 black, and it works quite well, except that it occassionally shifts into time-lapse mode and I get hundreds of jpegs instead of my cool action video :(
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Mostly just a place holder. A darn good ride despite being a long day in the drizzle.
I had some “unknown” wheels to “pass along”, and got to measuring them. I also had a spare set of OEM DRZ wheels handy, so I measured them too.
Continue reading “DRZ wheel hub specs”Just a place holder for now. Great ride, but long! Out over Todd, looked for Maid lake bypass, but had to run the moat, down to Lens via my original (KLR) track, looked for the high camp at Fairy Creek but couldn’t get all the way in. Gordon River Rd back to Cowichan. hard climb up BFH and raced daylight back to Shawnigan.
A run out through west sooke and back via Cowichan, sticking our noses into a few places I hadn’t been for a while.
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A quick run up to Oliphant to see how things might have changed over the summer when it was too dry to ride. Some of the less common trails NEED to be ridden, they are getting overgrown (e.g. A-frame). A good ride, took a while to warm/loosen up.