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Post by franko on Apr 12, 2013 21:34:42 GMT -5
today sucked. and I'm not even living out west!
can't wait to hear . . .
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Post by franko on Apr 21, 2013 18:31:02 GMT -5
tomorrow. 'nuff said.
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Apr 21, 2013 22:11:29 GMT -5
Give 'er man!
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Post by franko on Apr 22, 2013 16:50:04 GMT -5
ahhh . . .  |
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Post by Cranky on Apr 23, 2013 0:01:21 GMT -5
ahhh . . . No ATGAT? |
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Post by franko on Apr 23, 2013 6:16:41 GMT -5
it's a clear helmet ;D
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Post by franko on May 20, 2013 15:57:56 GMT -5
and so a month from now I'm on the move . . . actually day 2 of the journey . . .
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Post by Cranky on May 20, 2013 18:49:35 GMT -5
I'm getting my brains scrambled by the wind. Lifted the screen, fine up to 100kph and now it worse art 120kph. It's so bad, I can't see. I'm riding with an open face helmet and it may be part of t he issue.
Ordered a new, taller screen and if that doesn't solve it, I'm getting a close face helmet. if it still doesn't go away, the bike will.
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Post by blny on May 20, 2013 19:20:30 GMT -5
Sure hasn't arrived in Gander. I guess they got something like 50cm snow this weekend. :S
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Post by franko on Jul 11, 2013 23:57:37 GMT -5
5,000 km in and still alive.
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Jul 12, 2013 13:39:30 GMT -5
5,000 km in and still alive. You are a tougher rider than me! |
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Post by Cranky on Jul 12, 2013 18:58:37 GMT -5
5,000 km in and still alive. I have this magic mod powers and I'm tempted to change your name to SoreButt.  |
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Post by franko on Aug 13, 2013 0:35:30 GMT -5
 the beginning . . . "the middle" [the end of the trip west] . . . heading home now. |
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Post by franko on Aug 19, 2013 21:33:54 GMT -5
tonight when I stopped . . . 14,000km on the nose.
one more day and I'm home . . . then a week for my back to recuperate!
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 22, 2013 7:27:59 GMT -5
How was the trip, Franko?
Cheers.
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Post by blny on Aug 22, 2013 12:00:03 GMT -5
He's a bit like a bow-legged cowboy at the moment lol.  |
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Post by franko on Aug 22, 2013 19:34:26 GMT -5
I feel like I should be standing in front of Phil Keoghan of The Amazing Race: after 63 days, 14,725 kilometers, 2 oil changes, 1 lost key, too many Tim Horton and Starbucks coffees to mention -- along with innumerable bad meals on the road -- I have made it back to Ottawa.
All in all, a great trip. Reconnected with family and friends -- some I hadn't seen in 25 years. Rode some fantastic/amazing roads -- AB/BC #3 / #3A through the mountains [not as hard as BLNY would have, I'm sure]; #4 across Vancouver Island; #99 through Whistler and Lilloet . . . revisited a number of places I'd visited or lived.
10 minutes -- yes, minutes -- of rain through the trip. The Island was drizzly, of course, and one day I delayed leaving my B&B in the States by half an hour because of showers, but other than that . . . 10 minutes of rain-gear-wearing wet stuff.
Back to work Sep 3. Actually, starting now, putting this trip into perspective [gotta be able to say how the sabbatical was a good thing for me].
Don't quite look like the above picture, but my lower back is sore, I tell you. Wasn't planning to be home until Saturday or Sunday, but said "enough is enough" and rode long and hard [for me, anyway]. Glad I bought a gel seat, but after 4 hours it started to feel like I was sitting on bricks anyway.
More than willing to regale anyone interested with stories and pictures . . . but bring on the hockey season, already!
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 22, 2013 20:32:25 GMT -5
Good to see you back safely, buds. Quite the trip. I took about six months off work before heading back part-time. Have a renewed energy for work. Another part-time gig in Ottawa, no less. I'll drop you a line with details.
Sounds like an excellent trip, Franko. I look forward to hearing more about it.
Cheers.
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