Coldest I have seen was -20* F in Iowa. That was the year I discovered block heaters...
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Coldest I have seen was -20* F in Iowa. That was the year I discovered block heaters...
I've never ridden or driven that route but I do know people that have.....and I've flown into that area before
The black flies and mosquitoes will carry you out of the bush up in those regions...
Buy a mosquito suit and bring lots of "Off Skintastic".....it works good.
And pray your bike doesn't have any issues along the way, communities and support are not readily available....
You can imagine the coldest I've seen.....
However the coldest I've seen here where I live is -35'C with windchill making it feel like -45'C.......that year is was cold and stayed like that for a week or so......
Years ago I watched documentary on Antarctica where the doctor had to operate on herself. As I recall, they were running diesel heavy equipment which really surpised me.
Another movie, a plane went down in Alaska or something. At the time, I thought the hero was a bit of a dork. But he did the right things: He stayed put, built a fire, kept the batteries in the radios warm. It was ugly, but he made it. In the movie anyway.
In the early '90s we had a C-130 go down on it's way to our base on Ellesmere Island.....the SAR techs jumped in during a big snow blizzard they told the pilot that the people on the ground will die if they don't go in....
They went in and saved them.....one of the people on the C-130 was temporary blinded when the bladder full of diesel ruptured in the crash...I met that guy when I went to Ellesmere Island in the mid '90s......we were at the crash site and he found a name tag belonging to him....it was kind of surreal....
I met another guy who tried to get to the aircraft crash site by ground in a BV206 and he said the wind was blowing so hard it almost tipped them over...they had to turn back and he said it was one of the hardest things he had to do....
The terrain there is very mountainous and there is little depth perception with no trees or features to base distance on.
Amazing.
Earlier today, I was talking to a friend of mine who took his Ducati Panigale V4 via enclosed trailer to Florida to ride around during the holidays....
He rode it for a day and it broke....he took it to a dealership and the part he needs is back ordered so back into the trailer it went.....
He said this thing has spent a lot of time getting repaired as it has been one of the most unreliable bikes he has owned......
It sure is pretty though.
He rode it for a day and it broke....he took it to a dealership and the part he needs is back ordered so back into the trailer it went.....
He said this thing has spent a lot of time getting repaired as it has been one of the most unreliable bikes he has owned......
It sure is pretty though.
I think some motorcycles make great home decor. A buddy of mine had an old Sportster in his house.
Of couse he was single then...
TallTom
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The best part of my job is traveling around the region seeing new places. I was in a new town yesterday. Found a pioneer cemetary. Nosed around. Found one of the oldest dates of birth I can recall (1828).
Well, a bit down the road I start noticing the "Applegate Trail" markers that I have driven by for years. Hmm. Turns out it was an alternate route for the Oregon Trail.
www.oregonencyclopedia.org
"The Applegate Trail, first laid out and used in 1846, was a southern alternative to the western-most segment of the Oregon Trail, with its users leaving the original Oregon City-bound Oregon Trail route near Ft. Hall, in what is now southeastern Idaho, and following the California Trail west along the Humboldt River, to where the Applegate Trail branched off to the northwest. Conceived as being safer, quicker, and more secure from possible British control should war break out over the Oregon Question, the trail (which was also known to Oregonians as Applegate's Cut-off, the Southern Emigrant Road, and simply as the South Road or Southern Road during its main period of use, 1846-1860) was intended to bring wagon trains of settlers into the Willamette Valley. Although the number of emigrants who used the Applegate Trail was comparatively modest, it had particular significance in the settling of the Rogue Valley during the 1850s."
Well, a bit down the road I start noticing the "Applegate Trail" markers that I have driven by for years. Hmm. Turns out it was an alternate route for the Oregon Trail.
Applegate Trail
The Applegate Trail, first laid out and used in 1846, was a southern alternative to the western-most segment of the Oregon Trail, with its users leaving the or…
www.oregonencyclopedia.org
"The Applegate Trail, first laid out and used in 1846, was a southern alternative to the western-most segment of the Oregon Trail, with its users leaving the original Oregon City-bound Oregon Trail route near Ft. Hall, in what is now southeastern Idaho, and following the California Trail west along the Humboldt River, to where the Applegate Trail branched off to the northwest. Conceived as being safer, quicker, and more secure from possible British control should war break out over the Oregon Question, the trail (which was also known to Oregonians as Applegate's Cut-off, the Southern Emigrant Road, and simply as the South Road or Southern Road during its main period of use, 1846-1860) was intended to bring wagon trains of settlers into the Willamette Valley. Although the number of emigrants who used the Applegate Trail was comparatively modest, it had particular significance in the settling of the Rogue Valley during the 1850s."
On tour I’ve stopped at several grave yards. Very quiet and peaceful.
I like them too, peaceful places full of history, and often overlooked.
michael parris heuberger
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Hi. Around my towns close to me there are graves fron the 1600's
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That figures. That side of the country was populated long before the West. Out here the oldest graves belong to the Indians and aren’t exactly ‘marked’.
Yep, we have those here too, 1592 is the oldest I ever saw, and it was a white stone, heavily worn as you would expect.
And also Alot from the civil war...alot.
While no interesting recent stories come to mind, I’m hoping to get a Harley in from one of my buddies that was in the sandbox a few times, it’s been sitting for two years and after bugging him to get back to it so we can go cruise, I just told him I’d do it for him if he brings it. So here’s hoping
Just so I don't clutter up the Gen 3 valve adjustment thread.....
Some years ago my younger son put an Acura engine in his Civic.....I was deployed when he did this and when I talked to my wife, she said he thinks the engine is no good and might be changing it out again...
Roll around a couple weeks and I come home....he pulls in with his Civic and I could tell right away there was a lot of valve clatter and the engine was revving way to high...
He said he thought the engine was done....I said let me look at it....when I took off the valve cover, I noticed right away one of the screw adjusters was missing so I got a magnet and fished in the oil wells and found it...his eyes were big seeing that missing...
I reattached it and adjusted the clearance then checked all the rest and most of them were out of adjustment for some reason.....I got them all sorted out, buttoned it up and told him to start it.......the engine ran without a sound, not more clatter....then I went after the high revs...
Because it was a junkyard engine, they didn't really care about vacuum hoses and the like so I found one that was cut....I fixed the hose and the revs dropped to where they should have been in the first place...
What is crazy is he drove the thing like that for a month.....I don't know how he did it as it was a standard...
Some years ago my younger son put an Acura engine in his Civic.....I was deployed when he did this and when I talked to my wife, she said he thinks the engine is no good and might be changing it out again...
Roll around a couple weeks and I come home....he pulls in with his Civic and I could tell right away there was a lot of valve clatter and the engine was revving way to high...
He said he thought the engine was done....I said let me look at it....when I took off the valve cover, I noticed right away one of the screw adjusters was missing so I got a magnet and fished in the oil wells and found it...his eyes were big seeing that missing...
I reattached it and adjusted the clearance then checked all the rest and most of them were out of adjustment for some reason.....I got them all sorted out, buttoned it up and told him to start it.......the engine ran without a sound, not more clatter....then I went after the high revs...
Because it was a junkyard engine, they didn't really care about vacuum hoses and the like so I found one that was cut....I fixed the hose and the revs dropped to where they should have been in the first place...
What is crazy is he drove the thing like that for a month.....I don't know how he did it as it was a standard...
I was talking to a former colleague last night on the phone....he said he has younger neighbors who moved in last fall and are a bit "out there", he lives on a country road and these people never shovel their driveway.....the other day it was kind of mild out and they got a dump of snow, then later that evening the plow went through leaving a big furrow at the end of the driveway like they often do...
He knew the temperatures were supposed to plummet that night so he went out around 8 and shoveled it off....
Of course the neighbors didn't bother and when he went out to go to work, their EV was high-sided on the end of the driveway and because they hadn't shoveled all winter, the driveway was a sheet of ice under the snow so they couldn't get any traction.
They are both teachers and asked if he could pull them out...he said he went over and looked at the car and there are no pull points anywhere like on all new cars....he said he wasn't comfortable trying to pull it out in case he damages something.......he said he really wanted to say if they had cleared their snow, they'd not be in this mess but abstained.....
He said when he came home from work, their car was on the side of the road and both of them were trying to chip away at the ice on the end of their driveway....he did note the front lower valance was missing on their car though.
He has a mini tractor so after these people were at the ice for Lord knows how long, he went out with his tractor and cleared the ice for them...
The guy came over to thank him and said he guesses they had better take care of their snow better and they have a snowblower that came with the house but he had never used one before and didn't know how.
He knew the temperatures were supposed to plummet that night so he went out around 8 and shoveled it off....
Of course the neighbors didn't bother and when he went out to go to work, their EV was high-sided on the end of the driveway and because they hadn't shoveled all winter, the driveway was a sheet of ice under the snow so they couldn't get any traction.
They are both teachers and asked if he could pull them out...he said he went over and looked at the car and there are no pull points anywhere like on all new cars....he said he wasn't comfortable trying to pull it out in case he damages something.......he said he really wanted to say if they had cleared their snow, they'd not be in this mess but abstained.....
He said when he came home from work, their car was on the side of the road and both of them were trying to chip away at the ice on the end of their driveway....he did note the front lower valance was missing on their car though.
He has a mini tractor so after these people were at the ice for Lord knows how long, he went out with his tractor and cleared the ice for them...
The guy came over to thank him and said he guesses they had better take care of their snow better and they have a snowblower that came with the house but he had never used one before and didn't know how.
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