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Bikes and Babes…in Canada
While riding the Great Canada Adventure, this summer visiting friendd in Castlegard, I was presented with some wonderful historic photos of women riders in Canada. Sadly there was nothing written down about these babes, so I have nothing but some wonderful photos. Still I thought that I would share! I don’t know if there are…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Detroit Lake, OR to home, the end of an epic ride!
I was actually up early, had coffee with my mom and the bike packed and ready to go. My intention was to meet Bill in Detroit by 10 and I knew it was about an hour and one half ride there from the Tigard area of Portland, so I was off at 8:29, how’s that…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Castlegar to Enterprise
We geared up and got ready to leave Castlegar but with reservations, as I have never had such a bonding with a group of like minded riders. A couple of cups of coffee and I was ready for the road. Bill and Mitch, Endo…two handsome devils! We decided to ride with Geoff over some of…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Miette Hot Springs to Castlegar
While at Miette, I met an awesome couple. He was a rider and she a rider to be. She had ridden a small 250 and was bitten by the bug and couldn’t wait to do some more riding. This is one of the things I love most about touring, seeing the glow in another female’s…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Canmore to Miette Hot Springs near Jasper
The mighty fine Garmin GPS wasn’t quite up to being fine or any sort of asset on this trip for in order for it to be mighty fine one needs to load the necessary maps onto the unit. This, I admit, I forgot to do, so the GPS was virtually useless on nearly all of…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Red Lodge to Seely Lake MT
So, I’ll pick up where I left off… From Red Lodge to Seely Lake. We left on the edge of a storm, but from the weather service it looked like we’d be skirting the worst of it and so it was. A drop of two feel along the way, but nothing much. Our intention was…
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The Great Canada Adventure…Slogging CA to Boise let the real roads commence!
It began as an inquiry on my home motorcycle forum, pashnit.com as to routes and sights not to be missed in Canada. I wanted to ride farther north than I had in the past and see some new country. Well, as the posted advice came across, one heavily detailed post caught my eye posted from…
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Another cool moto site for surfing!
I have a visiting Canadian friend who showed me this site belonging to one of his mates from Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. It’s a fun site that I felt compelled to share with my readers! ENJOY! Check out the the alexander project a motorcycle-surf journey through the Baja, Mexico and Central America
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Riding to Canada–Three weeks o’ riding bliss
Several weeks ago, I posted on pashnit, my home motorcycle forum a query for taking a summer ride up to Canada with the intention of riding some roads that I hadn’t previously ridden. I got a few thoughts and ideas but one forum buddy living in Scotland, jumped on and had an absolute wiki of…
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2010 the MOST AWESOME RIDING Year Yet–A year end synopsis slideshow