Recent content by NuggyBuggy

Thanks! I considered buying a dual sport, even just for the purposes of the trip. Did you ride the whole T'Railway when you were there?

Looks like fun, yes, but for me anyways- in moderation. If it's - say - four hours of that stuff straight - that would be exhausting. But I couldn't tell how much of that was the main railway and how much of that was a side stop. OTOH, I see reports about people doing the Railway on...

The narrowness of the trail doesn't look so bad to me, but I appreciate the personal experience. It's the rockiness of that section looks like it could be a pain, if it goes on for hours and hours - hard to tell if it's a a short stretch or not. But the video isn't so clear as to whether that...

There's a pretty detailed page here about it: Crossing NL by ATV Home including quite a few videos. I messaged the guy and he said you can do it on dirt bikes. I just booked my ferry passage yesterday. My BIL was nagging me to get this done because he says the ferry books fast. It was $170...

Have you done this trip @Lightcycle ? Any advice? BIL wants to stay in hotels so no need to camp. I have to say don’t like idea of leaving a light weight dirt bike overnight at hotels, even if I chain it up.

My brother-in-law is planning to do the trip on his ATV and I've committed to going at the end of August. I plan to ride. Anybody done this on a dirt bike? There's a few websites about doing it by ATV but next to no mention of dirt bikes. I considered buying a blue-platable bike but now am...

I really should sell my sleds. I need to cross at least Lake Couchiching to get to the trails from our place, and it's not usually frozen thick enough for my comfort for long. And I don't really care much for trailering. There have been entire seasons where I didn't even run them.

I have met that guy and I can tell you, you’ll be back and forth at his various garages a dozen times while he tries to figure out what is where

I wouldn't consider either of them "large" - hard to consider anything large when there is GP Bikes out there - but there is also: - ATC Corral in Uxbridge (Kawasaki and Suzuki). I had good experiences there about 4-1/2 years ago - in the course of 1 year, at the height of Covid I bought a...

That was me, but I do now have two of them, both of them very complete mechanically, one of them missing some plastics. I got them in more complete state for less than that guy is asking. Still, if you need the parts you need the parts. Thanks for the point-out though! EDIT: Oops, I found...

Don't forget Apex Cycle in Cambridge.

Yeah, I was trying to get them off the workspace closest to where my bike sits now on a work stand - they took all of a workbench - but I do agree it feels like a waste. Although that shelf was a major junk collecting area for me anyways. Your point about leaking acid onto my tools is a good...

My vehicles are in a shipping container with no power, and maybe 75 feet from the nearest outlet. I don't want to drill anything in it. I used to do exactly that to my vehicles when I had a garage.

I finished rearranging my shipping container and inside "garage" at my cottage. I put the latter in quotes because it's a garage in name only and was jam packed with junk and woodworking tools. I parked our 3 dirt bikes, Vespa, CBR600F and Multistrada in the container along with all the stuff...

Ugh. That is bad news. What does "reasonably equal" mean? I don't think my winters are anything close to new, but maybe I'll check tread depth. I expected the tire shop to try and sell me a full new set, but they didn't even ask. Maybe they were just in a rush to get through their tire...