My friends and I had a wonderful day in the high dez at my favorite wet weather riding spot, only now it was sno-cone wet. All you snowbirds from the snowbelt that have to run studs and snowplow your way through drifts probably don't think that it's much of a big deal (unless you are wishing that you had had that small of an amount of snow to deal with), but for us, it's a rare adventure that we only get maybe two or three times a winter down here. Where was my TE? Sitting in the garage with very worn dualsort tires on it. Since I didn't know how much snow might be out there and all my friends were bringing two strokes, I took the lime bike with fresh tires for the fray. And don't worry....Trajan the TE had his fun day out there on Wednesday.
Frosty. The mountains are making a good picture from Huntington Beach. I just need to get up early and get a high vantage point to make it "purty". Starting to like this global warming.
conditions are the best we can have here,,, yesterday snow over un frozen wet soil and today less snow but -plenty of moist stuff. Glad you guys got out there!! I was completly possesed between sat and sun!!
The throttle hasn't stuck since I replaced the slide and the cable, but I think that the carb body may be a little damaged.
My day did not go as well I've never experienced crap like this. I fell twice just walking in it! It was like glue. It was so-bad I could not even move the bike. I mean nothing! No movement whatsover!! Eventually I found a discarded 4x8 and was able to use it as a lever. Once the bike made a sshhhhhtk sound I was able to gradually lift it and then walk it to higher ground. It's like the bike was covered in poo! The stuff would cling to anything, and soon everything was covered. I stopped to adjust my iPod and a local stopped to ask if I was okoser He really wanted a picture of this idiot covered in mud so I obliged. He was nice enough to take a photo of me with the phone. :clap Here's a KML if you're interested in the locations. http://ontheboat.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=map.GoogleEarth&g2_itemId=23106 All the pix are located at http://ontheboat.net/gallery2/v/motorcycling/rides/album/01242010-mojave/ When I got home I noticed the bike bleeding oil pretty badly. I think the chain used the mud to sand away the epoxy I used to fix the hole I punched in the case on my Yuma trip. Scary that I went like 100 miles on the 5 @ like 90 before noticing it. The sight glass is pretty empty, but it is still leaking pretty good so hopefully I didn't hurt it too badly. I guess I gotta get that sucker welded up. If any of you spot a 610 motor for sale Septic and I are both gonna need one:thumb Biggie too probably. The desert be FUN right now!
Looks like pretty gluey stuff. Hope you get your patch repatched okay. Some stuff that is like adobe can be found in the lower desert after a good rain, but up at McCain Valley, most of the dirt is like decomposed granite sand and it holds very firm, doesn't stick to your bike and provides lots of traction after a rain. As I often say, there's no way it can ever rain too much at McCain.
