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If its not pouring, I am dying to try the pumpkin off road. Just don't get too close to the rear wheel!! Just put the handguards on and will try get the rad guards on today. So far, I have only been out on short solo rides (mellow), looking forward to cutting loose and enjoying the power!!:clap:
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If its not pouring, I am dying to try the pumpkin off road. Just don't get too close to the rear wheel!! Just put the handguards on and will try get the rad guards on today. So far, I have only been out on short solo rides (mellow), looking forward to cutting loose and enjoying the power!!:clap:
jon
xr8d
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Hope you're feeling better John, it was a perfect day for a ride. Only two of us for breaky today, Bill on a KTM 620, and me on the 45oh. Kinda looked like a KTM "then and now" commercial. Went exploring up Sylvester and found some trails I've never been on, and some I had. After stalling in a creek crossing, my bike puked out lots of blue smoke for about 5 minutes, thought I had lost the motor, so we headed back. It stopped blowing blue and seemed to run OK, so I have no idea what happened. Took a short ride up Hunter, then headed back. This tiny tank on the 450 is way too small, I had fueled up in Mission, and hit reserve on the way back out of Hunter, gonna have to get a bigger tank, 100k's is just not enough range!! Bill took some pics, hopefully be up soon.
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Hope you're feeling better John, it was a perfect day for a ride. Only two of us for breaky today, Bill on a KTM 620, and me on the 45oh. Kinda looked like a KTM "then and now" commercial. Went exploring up Sylvester and found some trails I've never been on, and some I had. After stalling in a creek crossing, my bike puked out lots of blue smoke for about 5 minutes, thought I had lost the motor, so we headed back. It stopped blowing blue and seemed to run OK, so I have no idea what happened. Took a short ride up Hunter, then headed back. This tiny tank on the 450 is way too small, I had fueled up in Mission, and hit reserve on the way back out of Hunter, gonna have to get a bigger tank, 100k's is just not enough range!! Bill took some pics, hopefully be up soon.
Jon
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Hi Jon, hope that your enjoying the new bike. I have just over 900K on mine and it was puking blue smoke as well. I drained the sight glass in about 100K, twice. Holeshot is in the process of installing a new cylinder, piston and rings. I really hope that you don't have the same problem. If you want to chat about it give me a PM and I will send you my cell #.
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Hi Jon, hope that your enjoying the new bike. I have just over 900K on mine and it was puking blue smoke as well. I drained the sight glass in about 100K, twice. Holeshot is in the process of installing a new cylinder, piston and rings. I really hope that you don't have the same problem. If you want to chat about it give me a PM and I will send you my cell #.
Scott
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Xrtd wrote:
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Hi Jon, sorry I missed the ride. All day I kept looking outside and wishing I could have been riding, the weather was just about perfect. How far up Sylvester did you go? I've been exploring some of the trails at the extreme northern end, and the road up to Kenyon lake and beyond is a nice ride too. I hope there's nothing seriously wrong with your new bike; man, that would suck! I'm starting to feel like I'm gonna live so I hope to be at Bruces next Sunday.
John
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Here's a picture of xrtd and his new steed. Nice bike!
For a minute there I thought it was a 2 stroke... actually I thought I could smell oil all day
Warranty, man... something's not right...
A beautiful day... no dust... burned all our gas... a couple of great views. We did some (fairly rapid) poking around on trails I've never seen before. It looks like there's much more to be found...
Thanks for the ride Jon.
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Here's a picture of xrtd and his new steed. Nice bike!
For a minute there I thought it was a 2 stroke... actually I thought I could smell oil all day
Warranty, man... something's not right...A beautiful day... no dust... burned all our gas... a couple of great views. We did some (fairly rapid) poking around on trails I've never seen before. It looks like there's much more to be found...
Thanks for the ride Jon.
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let me know if you need a hand at truing. Just about got the 450 back together and hope to fire it up tomorrow.....that is if I put it together right. :shock:
Will be riding the new trialer on Sunday.
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let me know if you need a hand at truing. Just about got the 450 back together and hope to fire it up tomorrow.....that is if I put it together right. :shock:
Will be riding the new trialer on Sunday.
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Few riders, Flynn, John and can't rember the guy on the BMW650
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Few riders, Flynn, John and can't rember the guy on the BMW650
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Finally got my first off-pavement ride!!
I picked up Michelin T63's for $60 each at the Tire tech day but did not get them on before the Newbie Ride. Finally got them on, and newbie friendly Alex is not riding the next few Sundays. Having registered for the Orca Run and wanting to ride before then, I decided yesterday to ferry over for the C route Pre-Ride. Had a great day. Happy with the tires and much more confident on the 650 even on the paved route home. (still feel I would be better with a 250).
Looking forward to riding closer to home. As I am at UBC area, I will look for easier rides also up the Squamish way. Off some Thursdays and Fridays.
Phyllis
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Finally got my first off-pavement ride!!
I picked up Michelin T63's for $60 each at the Tire tech day but did not get them on before the Newbie Ride. Finally got them on, and newbie friendly Alex is not riding the next few Sundays. Having registered for the Orca Run and wanting to ride before then, I decided yesterday to ferry over for the C route Pre-Ride. Had a great day. Happy with the tires and much more confident on the 650 even on the paved route home. (still feel I would be better with a 250).
Looking forward to riding closer to home. As I am at UBC area, I will look for easier rides also up the Squamish way. Off some Thursdays and Fridays.
Phyllis
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Flyn and I went up Sylvester for a day of riding and exploring. We checked out some trails in hopes of finding an easier way into the Norrish Creek system but we were turned back by snow. We should be able to get much deeper into some of these areas in a few weeks.
Here is a GPS track of our days ride:
Here is a closer view of the GPS track showing our attempts to find an alternate "north west connector"
And here is a close-up of the extreme northern reach of Sylvester. We had hoped that there might be a way through here but it doesn't apear that there is.
But the day wasn't limited to riding, Flyn found an old golf club and siezed the opportunity to practice some chip shots. Unfortunately he only succeeded in chipping some rocks.
While Flyn perfected his golf stroke I preferred to look at something a little more scenic.
But we finally found a good use for the golf club, using it to mark a hole in the road.
We moved on and were hopeful of finding a route through to the Norrish system but when the road conditions deteriorated to this we decided to go elsewhere.
So we headed back down the mountain and went to the twin lakes where we met these guys and their dog at what I think is called Schwinn Lake.
We finally wound up at the end of the road on the north side of Terepocki Creek. We did a little bit of a hike here to see if it would be feasible to cut a trail through to the other side but this does not seem likely.
Flyn and I had a great ride and I'm looking forward to exploring more of the Terrain between east Stave and Norrish Creek. Sooner or later we'll find, or cut, a way through and it will be a fabulous loop to ride.
John
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Flyn and I went up Sylvester for a day of riding and exploring. We checked out some trails in hopes of finding an easier way into the Norrish Creek system but we were turned back by snow. We should be able to get much deeper into some of these areas in a few weeks.
Here is a GPS track of our days ride:
Here is a closer view of the GPS track showing our attempts to find an alternate "north west connector"
And here is a close-up of the extreme northern reach of Sylvester. We had hoped that there might be a way through here but it doesn't apear that there is.
But the day wasn't limited to riding, Flyn found an old golf club and siezed the opportunity to practice some chip shots. Unfortunately he only succeeded in chipping some rocks.
While Flyn perfected his golf stroke I preferred to look at something a little more scenic.
But we finally found a good use for the golf club, using it to mark a hole in the road.
We moved on and were hopeful of finding a route through to the Norrish system but when the road conditions deteriorated to this we decided to go elsewhere.
So we headed back down the mountain and went to the twin lakes where we met these guys and their dog at what I think is called Schwinn Lake.
We finally wound up at the end of the road on the north side of Terepocki Creek. We did a little bit of a hike here to see if it would be feasible to cut a trail through to the other side but this does not seem likely.
Flyn and I had a great ride and I'm looking forward to exploring more of the Terrain between east Stave and Norrish Creek. Sooner or later we'll find, or cut, a way through and it will be a fabulous loop to ride.
John
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Farp wrote:
Lev and I spent some time on the Norrish side looking for the Blacklock Creek Road. The only remnant we found was grown over and deteriorated into a creek bed many miles from its original end point. I also did a fair amount of web research, in particular articles about hikers trying to get into Blinch Lake which is near the end of the old Blacklock Road.
You can read more at:
<<http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6539>>
After consideration it looked like the Terapocki to Blacklock connection was not viable and here is another link with some photos of the area:
<<http://www.canyoneeringnorthwest.com/Canyon/terapocki_Canada.html>>
I think thebest option is to walk the last kilometer between the existing trail head from last years efforts to the haul road 6fiddy, volconand I explored last year from the Statlu side.
One concern is the possibility that one of the major bridges on Statlu Creek may be removed in an effort to block access into the back side of Dickson Lake which is watershed. We should follow up with the forest district to see if this is still in the works.
Further discussion of this should return to the northwest connector section.
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We finally wound up at the end of the road on the north side of Terepocki Creek. We did a little bit of a hike here to see if it would be feasible to cut a trail through to the other side but this does not seem likely.
Flyn and I had a great ride and I'm looking forward to exploring more of the Terrain between east Stave and Norrish Creek. Sooner or later we'll find, or cut, a way through and it will be a fabulous loop to ride.
John
Lev and I spent some time on the Norrish side looking for the Blacklock Creek Road. The only remnant we found was grown over and deteriorated into a creek bed many miles from its original end point. I also did a fair amount of web research, in particular articles about hikers trying to get into Blinch Lake which is near the end of the old Blacklock Road.
You can read more at:
<<http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6539>>
After consideration it looked like the Terapocki to Blacklock connection was not viable and here is another link with some photos of the area:
<<http://www.canyoneeringnorthwest.com/Canyon/terapocki_Canada.html>>
I think thebest option is to walk the last kilometer between the existing trail head from last years efforts to the haul road 6fiddy, volconand I explored last year from the Statlu side.
One concern is the possibility that one of the major bridges on Statlu Creek may be removed in an effort to block access into the back side of Dickson Lake which is watershed. We should follow up with the forest district to see if this is still in the works.
Further discussion of this should return to the northwest connector section.
otg
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Thanks for the info, Ron.
When you look at the area in the Backroads Mapbook, and in Google Earth it looks like getting through to the Blacklock Creek road might be do-able. But when you get there with your boots on the ground it's quite a different story. Your observation that the Blacklock Creek road has deteriorated into oblivion makes it quite certain that that route is not viable. But we sure had fun trying.
I agree that any further discussion of this should take place in the North West Connector thread.
John
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Thanks for the info, Ron.
When you look at the area in the Backroads Mapbook, and in Google Earth it looks like getting through to the Blacklock Creek road might be do-able. But when you get there with your boots on the ground it's quite a different story. Your observation that the Blacklock Creek road has deteriorated into oblivion makes it quite certain that that route is not viable. But we sure had fun trying.
I agree that any further discussion of this should take place in the North West Connector thread.
John