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« on: October 07, 2009, 05:38:44 AM »
I had a PM from my buddy Darcy this week, suggesting that he and I toss our bikes in his truck and go do some off road riding this weekend. I said sure, and told him I'd post our plans to ride the Burgoyne's Cove Loop run in the Events & Meetings section of our local forum, just incase anyone else might like to tag along.

Who knew we'd end up with our largest turn-out for an RTR off road ride ever?! We had fourteen bikes on today's ride.

The Burgoyne's Cove Loop is a 100 km ride, which includes about 25 kms of twisty coastal road, 25 kms of rolling back-woods resource roads, followed by 50 kms of trails. Thanks to a week of rainy weather, this is the most water I've ever seen on the trail section of the route. The trail passes through numerous flood plains and wetlands areas, but today they were busting at the seams. Riding up parts of the trail was more like riding upstream through a river, than anything anyone would normally refer to as a 'trail'.

To make matters worse, the weather stayed damp and drizzily for most of the day, too. But no way were any of us gonna let all the H2O on the trail and in the air dampen our spirits. Boots full of water be damned, we had ourselves an off road hoot!

And besides...

Bucky's wife made sure we were all quick to warm up when we returned to our trucks, at his place in Shoal Harbour, by having on offer an unexpected and very impressive spread of coffee, tea, beer, soft drinks, donuts, and cookies for all of us to enjoy. I'm thinkin' that woman is a keeper, Peter!

Surprisingly, no one took a swim in any of the deep and slippery flood zones we rode through today, although Doug did have a little face-plant at one tricky obstacle, but his SCUBA gear wasn't required.

This may be the last big group ride of the year, and despite the weather, I think it was a great success.


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Jim (Slade) Suzuki DRZ400S


Steve P (spick) Yamaha WR450


Lorenzo (KLX400R) Kawsaki KLX400R


Steve (slane) Yamaha WR250


Craig (outsideset) KTM 300XCW


Peter (Bucky XR) Honda XR250


Doug (dougger) Suzuki DRZ400S


Bruce (Bruce) Kawasaki KLX250S


Chris (Stuckless) Yamaha XT350


Jim (Slade) Suzuki DRZ400S


Darcy (joey90210) Kawasaki KLR650


Brian (4Lo) Honda CRF230


Bruce (Bruce) Kawasaki KLX250S


Rich (Scevr) Suzuki DR650


Steve P (spick) Yamaha WR450


Steve P (spick) Yamaha WR450


Darcy (joey90210) Kawasaki KLR650


Peter (Bucky XR) Honda XR250


Doug (dougger) Suzuki DRZ400S


Rich (Scevr) Suzuki DR650


Peter (Bucky XR) Honda XR250


Doug (dougger) Suzuki DRZ400S


Chris (Stuckless) Yamaha XT350
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 09:30:39 AM »
Cool.  Bigok
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 11:23:38 AM »
Looks like a blast!!  Make sure you have wheel bearings on hand, some day in the future you'll find you need them the night before you want to ride Wink

Your riding buddies must be nicer than mine, Mine would have wheelied into that water drenching everyone on sight Bigsmile
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2009, 11:40:28 AM »
Quote from: black hills on October 07, 2009, 11:23:38 AM

Your riding buddies must be nicer than mine, Mine would have wheelied into that water drenching everyone on sight Bigsmile


We must ride with the same people.  Lol
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2009, 02:45:40 PM »
Where was my invite?  Headscratch
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2010, 07:31:47 AM »
Yeah, this is an old thread but I still want to know whose feet stayed totally dry in all that water?  And what brand of boots did the best job.
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2010, 04:38:03 AM »
No one ended that ride with dry feet, because even the guys with waterproof boots, ended up with water flowing over the tops of their boots and filling them up.

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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2010, 08:51:53 AM »
Quote from: GraniteGray on March 04, 2010, 04:38:03 AM

No one ended that ride with dry feet, because even the guys with waterproof boots, ended up with water flowing over the tops of their boots and filling them up.

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That's when "waterproof" boots really suck. It seems better to just have boots that can get some air through them at that point.
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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2010, 09:01:35 AM »
Neato. Epic photos. That was really cool.  Thumbsup
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2010, 04:27:21 AM »
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That's when "waterproof" boots really suck. It seems better to just have boots that can get some air through them at that point.


Yep...

That's my philosophy, too. On my FZ1 I love wearing  my waterproof Sidi Vertigo Rains, but off road I wear a pair of Aplinestars Tech 4s that leak like a sieve, but the up side is the water drains out of them just as fast as it goes in.

Waterproof boots wouldn't have done me much good in this situation, I assure you...



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Thanks, it was a fun day of riding with the lads, for sure.
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2010, 09:41:08 AM »
Looks like you all had a blast. Lots of DRZs in your group too.
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2010, 10:51:36 AM »
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Looks like you all had a blast. Lots of DRZs in your group too.


Yep...

After six years, I sold my DRZ400 in the fall, and have now gone in this direction (KLX450R). Lots more power, but I doubt she'll ever be quite as good at playing the submarine, as the DRZs are. But we'll soon see... Bigsmile...
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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2010, 04:24:18 PM »
WOW....I never knew a KLX could look that good.....now that's a good looking bike there, I don't care who you are.
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« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2010, 05:58:57 AM »
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WOW....I never knew a KLX could look that good.....now that's a good looking bike there, I don't care who you are.


Thanks.

I like the way it looks too, and it's been passing the off road fun-factor test with flying colors, so far...
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