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STRANDED on the side of the road!

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TheNose said:
I've been to Canada in the winter too. Had to tease you guys a little. Of course, those few beers I had right before I wrote that post make me a little cocky too. Hope I didn't offend anyone. My buddies that have been riding for a long time tell me that winter is the best time to ride here. I'm looking forward to it.

Terry
I went to Quebec in january once and spent most of my bankroll upgrading what i thougt were winter clothes for the 4 of us. I was living in new york at the time and I THOUGHT i understood what cold weather was. HO HO HO
 
Up here where I live in Western Canada (Kelowna, B.C.) it rarely gets warm enought for our igloos to melt, but sometimes it is warm enough that all the Moose take off, and we have nothing to eat except whale blubber and smoked salmon, the trading post only gets supplies every twice a year and the red coated mounties only ride into town on thier horses every 2 months, eh. And it gets really cold, I am not exagerating when I say that just a little while ago it was -40 Celsius, it held that temperature for two solid weeks, and that was our summer! :) I am not looking forward to winter, eh! :wink:
 
GSJamie said:
Up here where I live in Western Canada (Kelowna, B.C.) it rarely gets warm enought for our igloos to melt, but sometimes it is warm enough that all the Moose take off, and we have nothing to eat except whale blubber and smoked salmon, the trading post only gets supplies every twice a year and the red coated mounties only ride into town on thier horses every 2 months, eh. And it gets really cold, I am not exagerating when I say that just a little while ago it was -40 Celsius, it held that temperature for two solid weeks, and that was our summer! :) I am not looking forward to winter, eh! :wink:

That was a line that would rival any line of bull
 
SLOWPOKE said:
GSJamie said:
Up here where I live in Western Canada (Kelowna, B.C.) it rarely gets warm enought for our igloos to melt, but sometimes it is warm enough that all the Moose take off, and we have nothing to eat except whale blubber and smoked salmon, the trading post only gets supplies every twice a year and the red coated mounties only ride into town on thier horses every 2 months, eh. And it gets really cold, I am not exagerating when I say that just a little while ago it was -40 Celsius, it held that temperature for two solid weeks, and that was our summer! :) I am not looking forward to winter, eh! :wink:

That was a line that would rival any line of bull

GSJamie, You sure you're not from Texas?

Terry
 
I learned a very valuable lesson from my bike. I was sitting at a stop lite and all of a sudden my bike died. I hit the starter and nothing. I tried bump-starting it, nothing. So I walked down to my fathers machine shop, borrowed the truck to jump it, nothing. So very honked off at the bike I loaded it and hauled it home. Put the battery on the charger. Got up the next morning and she fired up and was at the same lite and wham-o. same thing again. I learned that a bike doesn't run off of the stator/alternator. it runs off of the battery. all the stator does it charge the battery. i ended up having a dead cell in the battery. the battery would hold enuf charge to crank the starter twice, then it was dead. didnt have enuf juice to fire the coils. so that battery might hold some charge to fool you but not enuf to fool the bike. make sure that battery is in good shape. testing voltage on it doesnt do the trick. it has to be able to hold the amperage in it too. we all feel your pain. hang in there. it makes it worth all the frustration the first time you go back out on her and take a bug off the bridge of your nose. :D
 
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