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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 \ud83d\ude42 . 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.<\/p>\n

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?!?<\/p>\n

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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)<\/p>\n

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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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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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!):<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>). 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<\/a> team pulled in as well:<\/p>\n

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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):<\/p>\n

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…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:<\/p>\n

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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!<\/p>\n

Now… on to the moving pictures…<\/p>\n