anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[Pedda]

I hope the rest of you and your bike are ok?

Thanks,
yes, sort of... besides the broken bone I cricked quite some joints, knee, wrist, ankle, which is even worse.
Managed to get home on the bike, so we're both seem repareable...

 

[trevor]

My wife and I decided to take a last minute over night trip up to Campbell River yesterday. It's about 285kms to get there. Left Saturday around 10:30am...Weather this spring has been awesome! I'm lucky that my wife is cool with making last minute trips on the bike.





This was across the road from our hotel...sat there while and watched the sun go down...







View from our room..too bad about the stupid power lines.








It was beautiful leaving Campbell River at 8:30 then just about 85kms in we had a little rain..nothing to get the suits out for. So we decided to stop for breakfast. The sun came back out 30min later.
We took the new hwy home that has speed limit of 120kmh...you sure can cover a lot of miles doing 140-160kms an hour! Lol...Did I mention my wife is awesome?!

 

[Charlie G]

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I went for a ride in southern Oregon yesterday to do a little exploring. This is a mountain meadow I came across on the way from Ashland to Klamath Falls.

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Those light green trees at the edge of the meadow are aspen trees which are just starting to leaf out.



The tan stripe on the hill side is the highway I'm heading east on.

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These mountains have a bit of snow on them. They looked like an old volcano cone from the angle I was seeing them from.

20 minutes later I got caught in an absolute deluge of rain as I made a turn west and attempted to head home. I opted to not go back over the mountains west but southwest around the southern end of the Cascade range. The 1100g is all ready to head to John Day in a couple of weeks to the pNW rally. If I could just get the speedo to stop jumping in 25 MPH archs I'd be happy. I would like to know with in 5 mph of how fast I'm going.

cg

 

[Buffalo Bill]

If I could just get the speedo to stop jumping in 25 MPH archs I'd be happy.

Lovely country Charlie.
I think the speedo needle jumping is a lube problem in the cable and or the gage.
You should try spraying something into both of those.

 

[Carter Turk]

Had a great day at the Ridge Motorsports Park. 55 laps were had which doesn't seem like much, but the mental concentration required, tires you out.
Bike ran great with 1200 miles on the clock after rebuild. It did however refuse to start in the morning, but we jumped it once and fired up every session for the rest of the day. A thunderstorm rolled thru on the last session, and parts of the track were dry and other sections totally wet, but I had the track to myself, with just one other bike, making the traction interesting after flogging the bike all day in the dry.


Cool RD

 

[dorkburger]

Carter, im glad to hear that the cycle is running well. Judging from the pic, you're using every bit of surface on the tire.....

 

[Carter Turk]

Carter, im glad to hear that the cycle is running well. Judging from the pic, you're using every bit of surface on the tire.....

Thanks Glen, I was worried the whole week leading up to the day, wondering if my bike would start in the morning-It didn't-even spinning the engine first before firing the coils. Whoever suggested stockers.com, Chuck Hahn maybe?-I'm gonna try a new starter brush plate and see if that improves anything. A mechanic I was pitted with, suggested a four brush plate might improve cold starts, but don't know if that's possible with the stock starter motor.

Great shots Charlie and Trevor, wish I could join u guys in few weeks, maybe, cause I'll be joining the "50 something crowd" a few days before the rally.

 

[Charlie G]

Great shots Charlie and Trevor, wish I could join u guys in few weeks, maybe, cause I'll be joining the "50 something crowd" a few days before the rally.

It's no as bad as you might think. Have a good one. Cheers!

 

[trevor]

Thanks Glen, I was worried the whole week leading up to the day, wondering if my bike would start in the morning-It didn't-even spinning the engine first before firing the coils. Whoever suggested stockers.com, Chuck Hahn maybe?-I'm gonna try a new starter brush plate and see if that improves anything. A mechanic I was pitted with, suggested a four brush plate might improve cold starts, but don't know if that's possible with the stock starter motor.

Great shots Charlie and Trevor, wish I could join u guys in few weeks, maybe, cause I'll be joining the "50 something crowd" a few days before the rally.

1965 eh?? Me too...turning 50 in December. Better than the alternative I guess. Would be great to see you in John Day though!

 

[Jedz123]

Nice day for a jaunt!!! Ripped up route 17 and finally made my way over 108 (smugglers notch). IT was a great blast, over 300 miles logged. The rear tire is just about completely gone on the back. I also ventured across a gentleman with a 1978 KZ1000 fitted with a factory Rajay turbo kit.... Really cool. Apparently he bought the bike from the original owner who was the owner of the Kawasaki dealer who had (whoever installed them) fit a Rajay kit on his KZ1000 LTD. Really cool to run into on the roads...

Great day to rip it up in the Green Mountains!

ON top of route 17 (App Gap) heading to Stowe to go over smugglers notch.

On route 108 heading up into Smuggler's Notch.

108 turns int a wicked windy 1 lane road. Very Very cool and fun to traverse.

Then the 1978 KZ1000 Turbo, sounded Soooo Sweet!

Pretty cool day

 

[Sandy]

Here's my first motorcycle video with the GoPro I got a while ago. It's from my first real ride on the 750EF since getting it back on the road. The route is Hwy #3a commonly referred to locally as the Kootenay Lake Ferry road. Nifty little 50 mile stretch of road from Creston, BC to the ferry across Kootenay Lake with about 350 corners and you get to ride it all over again going back to Creston. We took this road during the rally last year. Still having issues with trying to prevent the rolling shutter problems but have managed to edit out some of the other various shakes and vibration. A whole new learning experience. Maybe we should start a GoPro hints and tricks thread. I had it mounted on the left mirror stem which could be probably one of worst places for vibration but there's not many places to mount it on this thing.

 

[Charlie G]

Great video Sandy! I'm with you on having a thread for Gopro tricks. The camera must be improving , as I don't see as much shaking as I use to. Thanks for posting. You need a sound track?

cg

 

[Jedz123]

Looks like a really fun road Sandy!!!

I did some footage today, I have the suction cup mount and sticky mounts on various parts of the bike. I need to buy the extension arm too... If you have the suction mount it will stick to your tank very nicely. Then you get that kind cockpit view.

I'll post a video once I get the media edited and rendered.

Ride with my buddy and his RC51

The RC is probably one of the best sounding bikes I've heard in a long time... We went through a couple towns and the BK and RC made some awesome noise together

 

[bccap]

I use a suction cup too. Sometimes on the tank and sometimes on the fairing. Great video Sandy. Now I know why I never see you at rallies. You're too far ahead....LOL

 

[Charlie G]

It's look'n nice in Vermont!

 

[Jedz123]

I use a suction cup too. Sometimes on the tank and sometimes on the fairing. Great video Sandy. Now I know why I never see you at rallies. You're too far ahead....LOL

Where did you get those extended arm mounts bccap??? I guess I need to be more diligent on my Ebay shopping, thumbs up on on the safety harness too . I've leavened the suction cup doesn't do well on fresh wax...

Yes Charlie, It's finally nice here...

 

[bccap]

I bought a few different mounts for my GoPro. It is a bit of a hodgepodge of parts from the different mounts. Somebody over on Katriders posted that you can buy a Vivitar mount package from Staples for around twenty bucks.....

 

[Sandy]

Looks like a really fun road Sandy!!!

I did some footage today, I have the suction cup mount and sticky mounts on various parts of the bike. I need to buy the extension arm too... If you have the suction mount it will stick to your tank very nicely. Then you get that kind cockpit view.

I'll post a video once I get the media edited and rendered.

Ride with my buddy and his RC51

Yeah, I've to figure something different out for a mount. I don't necessarily want a cockpit view especially with gauges visible if you know what mean. :hopelessness: I use a tether too, lost and broken to much stuff over the years, especially when out paddling.

Great video Sandy! I'm with you on having a thread for Gopro tricks. The camera must be improving , as I don't see as much shaking as I use to. Thanks for posting. You need a sound track?

cg

Just new at this and still have to figure that one out once I get the video working better.

 

[lurch12_2000]

After spending a week in North Dakota without a bike it was good to be back in NH and get out this morning on the vStrom. The GS650E is also a great bike for the gravel roads but the suspension is lacking and of course the street tires not as stable. The uphill ride and the view when you take a few steps beyond the big maples. ND is flat and windy but a few hilly spots northwest of Minot would have been nice on the bike.

The view....

 

[Carter Turk]

I almost ran out of gas entering Minot on my Kat. I bought a way to huge can of chain lube there to fit into my already crammed full soft luggage.
I could imagine dinosaurs roaming the rolling pasture land, but I was on my own dinosaur.