Midweek coffee/rides.

[Steve G.]

  Unfortunately I’ve got a doctor appt mid afternoon tomorrow so will just have time for coffee/muffin at fresh street. Safe ride Bucko!

[Galactica]

I won’t be at coffee on Wednesday.  My neighbour broke his leg.  Riding his Africa Twin on the Douglas Lake Road in the mud.  I’m driving him to the orthopaedic surgeon Wednesday at 9:00.

[Steve G.]

   Is that the fellow that had issues with the fork seal issues on his Africa Twin?

   Geez, I've been down Douglas Lake Rd when it was popcorn dry, not a problem. But mud turns anything into gumbo. How did he evacuate out of there?

[Galactica]

He and a friend went up there, not sure exactly when, last weekend or early last week.  They had snow up on the Coke and rain in Merritt.  It had stopped raining when they were on the Douglas Lake road.  I guess the road, on the gravel was good until it wasn’t.  He got into some slimy stuff and got fairly well whoed up, but then at a slow speed the front went out and down he went.  Left leg under the bike.  Cracked the big bone (fibula?).  He didn’t know it was broken as he could put “some” weight on it.  His friend picked up the bike and they continued on to their campsite on Westside Road.  Big swelling overnight.  They road back the next day and he spent 10 hours in Emergency at RCH.  There’s supposed to be an ortho surgeon on but I guess he wasn’t available so Michael had to make an appointment, earliest is Wednesday morning.  Our health care system is thoroughly broken.

Yes, it is the fellow with the NFG fork seals and left side oil leak.  Also after a mishap when on our trip a couple of years ago (the one where Malcolm wrecked his ankle) he had to get the display replaced.  Well Honda replaced it with a defective one.  It would totally cut out at times while riding.  Honda said “bring it in when it’s not working and we’ll take a look at it”.  Well, it was so intermittent, and would right itself, so basically he was stuck with a defective display.  Fast forward and he got a recall notice.  Now Honda admits that the displays are NFG.  So much for Honda quality.  Go figure.

[Steve G.]

   It's good that he didn't go up alone. Serious business!!

[rz5mark]

When I worked at Nicola Valley Hospital a group of guys came in with their buddy who had a broken leg. Also Douglas lake road. People need to check their ego's and ride at a pace which is safe for themselves not the group. And mud is horrible with most dual sport tires.

[Steve G.]

  I’m following a forum covering Dempster Highway riders this season. 2 deaths already. The last 85 miles from Inuvik to Tuk especially, is being rather difficult to say the least.
  At least  so far this year there are no Northern Grizzlies hanging out at Eagle Plains eating tenters.

[Bucko]

Déjà vu all over again... Looks like dry and sunny (and warmer) tomorrow so I'm going to mix it up a bit - going to go for coffee in Horseshoe bay if anyone is interested in joining.  Shooting for around 10am at Blenz (to avoid some of the traffic).  Maybe take a ride up to Squamish (or ??) for lunch. 

[Galactica]

Sorry mate.  I’ve no interest in driving on that highway except to get the heck out of Dodge.  Certainly not in both directions in one day if I can avoid it.

[Steve G.]

  Congratulations on Bob's new purchase 2024 Yamaha Tracer 900 GT [I think that's the model] which he showed up on at Wednesday coffee.  A completely different bike compared to his old Yamaha Super Tenere 1200, but I think it will turn out to be a much easier bike to ride in most cases within suburban Vancouver City. 150 ibs less weight, much better handling, perhaps a step down in overall comfort with less leg room. Probably slightly less capable offroad, only because of the very low slung exhaust muffler/catalytic converter.

[Galactica]

It’s the Tracer9 GT+.  Super nice bike.  All the bells and whistles.

[Galactica]

Further to our discussion of fuels in our motorcycles, I decided to drain the float bowls in my CB750 to check for any water.  They were all perfect, no water visible.

[Kiwi_Roy]

The Ethanol adsorbs the water and it is burnt.

[Steve G.]

  I’ve got family coming in tomorrow unfortunately not be at mid week coffee lads, July 24.

[Steve G.]

Gonna be running late August 7th coffee lads.