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Upt'North ¹ said :-
Crumbly Cheese you say, mine would be soggy brie after that.
I've never truly felt the urge just to keep going to get somewhere. Like we've said before you would often go through somewhere that is probably nicer than where you're heading anyway.
I'm not saying I haven't sat on a French Autoroute to make sure that journey is completed on time, of course I have, but I don't think I'm in too much of a rush to get anywhere. Not any more at least.
I would think our longest day on The BeaST would be around 450 quick miles and probably similar on the previous CBF. Of course one 450 mile journey can be very different to another.
No, I think I'll leave the Sadlsor 1000 mile specials to someone else.
But, there's always a but, for every person who jumps on the Autoroute there will be another who just prefers to ride twice as long or more on backroads. We're all different I spose.
Now having given this matter due diligence I think I can say that when your arris smells like cheese you should have already stopped.
Ces't la vie.
Upt.
17/11/2023 12:48:44 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Plus on a serious note.....honest!
Who can concentrate for that period of time. If someone says "me". You're not being honest with yourselves. It's dangerous to be on the roads if you're tired and on two wheels it's deadly.
Just sayin.
Upt.
Zzzzzzzzz.
17/11/2023 12:51:33 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
I was thinking small Honda hired in Eastern Canada. Then point North and see how far north you can get. Baffin more aspirational you’d have to have a ferry or fly it in. A buddy of mine was climbing there he reckoned one of the few places where transport is not really based on roads as there are not really any.
Also think they get the CT 125 over there. Be great to hire one of those. Apart from the tiny tank.
https://youtu.be/Geb_QFxp_hs?si=CGYE59jg4C5MekmO...
17/11/2023 20:57:29 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
I was thinking small Honda hired in Eastern Canada. Then point North and see how far north you can get. Baffin more aspirational you’d have to have a ferry or fly it in. A buddy of mine was climbing there he reckoned one of the few places where transport is not really based on roads as there are not really any.
Also think they get the CT 125 over there. Be great to hire one of those. Apart from the tiny tank.
https://youtu.be/Geb_QFxp_hs?si=CGYE59jg4C5MekmO...
17/11/2023 21:01:12 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Watched it Mick or should I say the Most Reverend. Yes I should.
It was like watching a repetitive nightmare. A never ending struggle to end up somewhere you'd never want to visit, ever.
If that's the route to Baffin I'd rather ride through a gun fight in Colombia.
Although I'd draw the line before a night ride through Bolton.
Upt.
18/11/2023 13:51:09 UTC
nab301 said :-
That's very rude UPT ! If the 125 Trail / CT 125 was generally available I think I could see one appearing on Ren's horizon...
Nigel
20/11/2023 14:51:09 UTC
Upt'North ¹ said :-
Wude you say, I'll have you know wude is my middle name, along with ignowant and belligewent.
Although I'm sure the weverend will sort it all out.
I just can't say my R's today.
The wascally woman wan up the woad. No they've gone.
Upt'Nowth
20/11/2023 15:38:26 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
I watched that video when it first came out. I rather enjoy that kind of stuff although I have to remind myself these chaps have a "camera vehicle" with them. This makes the whole jeopardy of breakdown and other disasters so much easier to mentally cope with. If your bike fails or other mishap befalls you then the video project may be ruined, if it's just you then you're a long... long... long way from food, warmth and medical assistance.
And yes, if the CT125 made it to these shores, save for the annoyingly small fuel tank I do believe I'd have one in my shed rather swiftly.
20/11/2023 19:47:34 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
Ren,
My brother has lived in Canada all his adult life and now has retired there. Earlier this year he walked the CANOL trail ( look it up, I think it has been done by motorcycle), he had no camera vehicle.
So how would that be any different from having no camera vehicle on a motorcycle on a road, were things to go wrong.
I’ve never had a camera vehicle on any expedition, had an Austrian camera man on one.
When things go wrong you deal with it. That’s kind of the point of going on expeditions.
Adventure = a journey with uncertain outcome.
20/11/2023 22:52:58 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
Hi Rev. Mick!
If you were to visit Canada would you visit your brother there? I mean Canada is a huge country, does he live anywhere you'd want to explore?
My point about camera vehicles is the chaps in the video had support if needs be. While Ari had run out of food they were in no REAL jeopardy of starving to death. I admire those riders, cyclists and even walkers who take on such roads as The Dalton Highway without any camera vehicles. They're the ones who have to "deal with it" when things go wrong and work things out.
22/11/2023 08:07:37 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
I would not visit my brother as he lives in Southern BC. The idea I had was for the other side of that, as you say, very large country. The East side seems more remote and less popular.
Nowadays on a remote trip if the s*** really hits the fan, you can just set off your Garmin In Reach and there you are. Everyone, including I am sure the USA spying network, would know where you are. I think you can even send texts by that device. I am sure it makes it all safer, for me I feel a little sad that it is getting harder and harder to just disappear and fall off the end of the world.
I am sure if there were an incident in a remote area of Northern Canada and you were not carrying one you would be censured. Probably be required soon to have one on State land. The ghosts of my hero’s like John Muir, the British Indian Survey “Pundits”, Tim Severin, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Alex Supertramp and co would all be laughing at us. I despair sometimes that all adventure is becoming so unadventurous. Imagine Columbus who set off not knowing if he would fall off the end of the world, literally!
Sorry early morning rant.
23/11/2023 09:11:16 UTC
Ian Soady¹ said :-
It's essentially down to the individual. I prefer paper maps on the bike but welcome the convenience of satnav in the car.
Oh, and Columbus would almost certainly have known about America from the earlier Viking visits which are quite well documented. Hardly anyone thought the earth was flat in the Middle Ages.....
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2023/01/vikings-in...
23/11/2023 12:34:42 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
I am sure the idea of the spherical earth was well known to Columbus and other educated people. However how sure was the crew, they nearly mutinied to return.
The Vatican was still preaching against many of these ideas of astronomy. Coppernicus and Galileo were being attacked well after 1540. No one had actually sailed round the globe till about 1515. If you are an ordinary seaman lost in vast ocean reflecting upon your own mortality, while sailing into the unknown because the skipper had some notion.
24/11/2023 10:37:57 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
I am also not sure he knew anything of America. He set believing he was sailing to India. In fact even when he got to America he thought he had arrived in the Indies.
28/11/2023 21:29:39 UTC
nab301 said :-
Ren , avert your eyes , a gratuitous photo of a relatively clean motorbike originally in preparation for winter.... which seems to have arrived here with temps of -1.5deg c locally last weekend , salt appearing on the roads and wintry showers today. I've been using my 125 for the last fortnight, question is , should I make my Suzuki a winter garage queen, aka I'm too lazy to keep it clean and rust free over winter whereas the 125 rusts regardless of the season and tlc it receives!
Nigel
30/11/2023 14:09:32 UTC
Ren - The Ed¹ said :-
Obviously I'm gunna say ride it all year round, it's a motorcycle not an ornament.
However... Are you planning to keep it forever and run it into the ground, or trade it in sometime for some other new ornament? If you'll be looking to trade in sooner or later then bring it into the living room close to the fire (remove all combustibles such as fuel beforehand). If the good lady complains put some fairy lights on it and call it a new style Xmas tree.
Oh my eyes, far far too shiny.
30/11/2023 16:56:15 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
Hi Guys,
Not sure if right section.
Has anyone had any experience of a Yamaha SR250? Might go and look at one, anything to be aware of?
30/11/2023 20:12:58 UTC
nab301 said :-
"Ren - The Ed¹ said :-"
Obviously I'm gunna say ride it all year round, it's a motorcycle not an ornament.
However... Are you planning to keep it forever and run it into the ground, or trade it in sometime for some other new ornament?
Ren , no plans really , but for maintenance reasons I generally try to use just one bike through the winter , I'm thinking (after reading Sharons article on selling her 125) I'd like to shift my 23 year old R1100s BMW because I use it so little ( owned for 20 yrs) but like Sharon I keep making excuses and realistically in my case it'll be worth more for parts .
I did a lot of miles on my 125 in the last 2 weeks and it's definitely warmer on a slow bike in winter so maybe I've answered my own question !
Nigel
01/12/2023 15:56:27 UTC
nab301 said :-
@ Rev. Mick!
Sorry, no experience of the SR 250, are we talking about an oldie mid 90's or something newer? Looking at an old copy of used motorcycle guide suggests in one sentence that the old ones are indestructible but goes on to say "expect 40k miles from a reasonably treated example and half that from one that hasn't had regular oil changes. Bad ones will be vibey and mechanically noisy"
Pre 2020 , a mechanic In a bike shop I frequented owned a new version SR400 , my only comment on that newish bike was that it appeared to suffer from corrosion....
Nigel
01/12/2023 16:08:27 UTC
Rev. Mick! said :-
Thanks Nab301,
As you are in the Republic too it is on Donedeal. It’s up in Ballina and I have to get some fencing in Mayo. So as I would have a big trailer.
Where are you, I’m in Brandon down near Dingle.
01/12/2023 21:25:43 UTC
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