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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...

That's good advice. We'll double check the tires that came off again. I know my brother went over the set of tires that just went on, extra carefully after he noticed the first problem.

If it weren’t spinning, wouldn’t my car be pulling to that side hard? I guess I could also mark the front wheels, move my car a bit and see if the marks move the same. Or even just do that on the one wheel and see if it moves.

So the idea is get the wheel off the ground and see if I can spin it? Someone asked what car I have. This is a Lexus IS250. It has AWD.

Tire is gone. Took car to the nearest place to me right after I posted. Colour me impressed - Active Green & Ross asked me to come back in a week so that they could retorque the lug nuts. If I'm changing tires, I like to retorque them, but I have never had a shop or dealer *ask* me to bring...

No young kid getting the blame here. It would entirely be on me. Tire comes off, I bag it where it lies before it goes onto the rack. We usually inspect the tires going on - that's how my brother caught it - but we're not as good looking at things coming off. That will change.