I’ve been too lazy to edit the videos of our ride in Barrie last Saturday… but that can be a job for later this week 🙂 . Yesterday my friend BJ gave me a spot on his trailer, and we headed out with 3 other guys (Dan, Jeff, and Rob) to Ganaraska Forest again.
I tried to bake my pictures into the YouTube video this time… but I still had few other shots to post. The first being something you don’t see every day: an elderly man that rode his electric scooter to the gas station… to fill up a Jerry Can?!?
The ride started out well enough: we tried some new trail South of Wilcox road, until Dans bike lost power and we couldn’t restart it (even after trying new plugs)
While BJ and Rob looked at the bike… I looked at Robs nice Suzuki… to discover BP doesn’t have the market cornered in environmental disasters 🙂
Eventually we had to tow Dans bike back to the parking lot…but not before I kinda sorta mangled a couple of Robs tiedowns in my rear sprocket, oops (sorry Rob!):
Jeff had had enough for the day, and Dan had to put his bike back on his trialer, so Rob, BJ and I headed back out. Visited a couple of the hills and The Lookout, then had some lunch. While picking up some food we met a real friendly guy who asked about our helmetcams (hi Richard!) so I gave him a link to this site and BJs YouTube page (Xhumeka). After a quick bite to eat we got back on the bikes and made our way to the Forest Center… just as the Trail Tours team pulled in as well:
The rest of the trip was uneventful: though we seemed to find a lot more whooped-out trails heading back to the parking lot that we found leaving it. I managed to retain my spark arrestor (the screw that holds it in fell out someplace):
…but I still haven’t figured out how I bent my license plate back almost under my fender. It was OK after I wrapped the tiedowns in my chain… and after I fell over at the top of sand hill… I can’t think of what else I hit? I bent it most of the way back… but it shattered the metal plate mount around it so I must have whacked something pretty hard? Strange:
Other than Dans problems, it was a great day! Forecast was for rain or thundershowers… but the rain held off all day: can’t wait to go again!
Now… on to the moving pictures…