It had a spitfire windshield on it. No windshield at all is so tiring.
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Pickle Lake to/from in 5 days.
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I could only get comfortable on the CBF1000 for half an hour and that shortened up as the day went by. AirHawk helped, MotoSkiveez helped ...breaks helped most. If I wiggled my butt and half stood up ( cannot stand on the CBF which tells me I really need risers. ) then I could reduce the pain.
Fiddled with the aIr in the Airhawk and a couple of times seemed to get it correct but never for a length of time.
The seat on the CBF has 88k km on it from somebody else's butt ....might have worn in a different pattern.
But also have not been riding much in the last 12 months and that counts big time plus only have the bike for a few weeks. Happy enough I made it the 6 days but certainly was dragging toward the end of each day.
Maybe try a couple longer rides on the weekend with the Beadrider ...it always surprises me.
Considering a Corbin or a Sargent for The CB500x - Sargent is making promises for July.
RDL of course will solve the problem but logistics and money. I missed a brand new Corbin for the CB500x by one day for half price
At least ride showed my my hand and shoulder could take the hours which was my main limitation so despite the heat it worked out.
Doing a day 500+ day ride with Shane at least was a start in the right direction but my right hand gave out.
Got that sorted for this trip. Sucks to be getting old....
Fiddled with the aIr in the Airhawk and a couple of times seemed to get it correct but never for a length of time.
The seat on the CBF has 88k km on it from somebody else's butt ....might have worn in a different pattern.
But also have not been riding much in the last 12 months and that counts big time plus only have the bike for a few weeks. Happy enough I made it the 6 days but certainly was dragging toward the end of each day.
Maybe try a couple longer rides on the weekend with the Beadrider ...it always surprises me.
Considering a Corbin or a Sargent for The CB500x - Sargent is making promises for July.
RDL of course will solve the problem but logistics and money. I missed a brand new Corbin for the CB500x by one day for half price
At least ride showed my my hand and shoulder could take the hours which was my main limitation so despite the heat it worked out.
Doing a day 500+ day ride with Shane at least was a start in the right direction but my right hand gave out.
Got that sorted for this trip. Sucks to be getting old....
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I actually just texted the guy I sold my old VTX to and asked him to measure the seat for me. It as an Ultimate as well (also have an Ultimate on the Vulcan now) but I'm pretty sure the the seat on the VTX was waaaaay wider.
Been doing some reading about sciatica and riding and one theme I'm seeing across quite a few posts is "get a wide seat".
My aforementioned FJR buddy is having a Russel Daylong made up right now. Huge $$$ but if it fixes the issue, well, it's a worthy expense.
If I can't get things sorted out by the end of this season I may ask Santa for one over the off season.
Been doing some reading about sciatica and riding and one theme I'm seeing across quite a few posts is "get a wide seat".
My aforementioned FJR buddy is having a Russel Daylong made up right now. Huge $$$ but if it fixes the issue, well, it's a worthy expense.
If I can't get things sorted out by the end of this season I may ask Santa for one over the off season.
not one but two KTM 1290 super adventures. Not surprised they had some fuel to give you...my tank will get maybe 550kms I think.
I just noticed the question on reservations ....I don't think you need to bother ....without tourists there are lots and lots of rooms but no bargains as I think they upped the prices for the Covid cleaning needed. I gave the smaller places my money to help out.
There was at least 1 place I called when we were rejigging our plans for night 3 and 4 that said they were full.
I was careful not to cancel existing reservations before having new ones in place just in case, but yeah, in general there was lots of availability, especially at the smaller motels that dot the trans Canada...which honestly, I prefer over the big chain places.
Yep. One motel I tried to book told me that he'd take the booking but might cancel me 24 hours before arrival if he "needed the room for the construction guys". Bit of a dick move. I double booked elsewhere just in case and cancelled on *him* 24 hours out after the fact.
Very hit and miss. Not all are allowing transients versus seasonal, not all are allowing tents, not all have some services (IE, showers) open. Moto camping is pretty much out for me this season.
Mad Mike
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I prefer to ride visor -up and let my windshield do the work and keep my lips sealed.
Cost me a few face dents every year - no biggie - the down side is I usually get 1 or 2 bee stings each season, those little bastards get stuck in the fuzz on my cheek pads, then they try to sting their way out.
Logging here and there on the 599 itself, yes...but a lot of it still looked pretty active so I'm not sure how welcome you'd be. Probably unwise to be having an open fire anywhere up there right now as it's tinder dry as well. Stuff like this happens:
This was just outside Pickle Lake - the locals said it almost wiped the town off the map and was stopped barely outside it's borders. There were others up the highway as well.
The bear issue is another ball of wax.
I'm all for Motocamping, but I'm not sure I'd pick this stretch of road in particular, and in Pickle Lake itself aside from the public park (which may be verboten, I'm not sure, and there was bear warnings there as well) I'm not sure where you'd camp.
On the Transcanada itself I'm sure there's options.
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