toats coulee

went for a 990 spin today in my usual riding area of toats coulee to see how far i could get before the snow made me stop. at the bottom of toats the creek is really rolling!

this is montey carlo meadows, the south fork road is a main road that offers all kinds of terrain, from trees across it, to mud holes that appear from no where , to deer, moose,bear walking out in front of you. this was the first test of the 990 with knobbies an i loaded all my bags with enough stuff to live here for a year.

just up from montey carlo there is another example of our fine 5 ***** accomidations in the far north, i'm pretty sure there was a vacancy , i think even the pack rats moved out

Man that bike looks like fun. Bet you can cover loads of ground with it.

the new knobbies really transformed the 990 in the mud an on dirt roads, however at the 6300' level, about a half mile above the cabin the knobbies some how didn't feel that good. probably could have made it around, but didn't want to take a chance on dumping the big beast. ,i can still do it but ,an ''erection'' of this size is not easy, especially if it is on the down hill side. and i was up here for about 3 hours an never seen another person. a picture of the skull&crossbones hill side will have to wait until the next trip

decided to do some back tracking an head up the chickadee road an over douglas mountain, on the way i saw that the state has failed to pick up one of there lynx traps from there ''lynx study''

the knobbies had there grip back an were feeling good, an then i decided to stop an take a pic of blue lake in the sinlaheaken. i was coming down ''cemetary grade'' an at the last stop i forgot to turn off the abs. you must turn if off every time , when you shut the bike off an restart it , it automatically goes back to abs. mode which is on a dirt road when you'd like to stop quick! so just remember to turn off the abs on dirt roads, that way the only '' skid marks '' will be in the road, an not in your shorts!

Inspector wrote:

Man that bike looks like fun. Bet you can cover loads of ground with it.

oooh ya , these things are a blast, an they haul ass!! i've geared mine down 1 tooth on the front for dirt roads. i really don't see a need to do 140mph in the dirt , 120 is enough!

That looks like a fun area to ride, and the lake looks even better.

big jer wrote:

just up from montey carlo there is another example of our fine 5 ***** accomidations in the far north, i'm pretty sure there was a vacancy , i think even the pack rats moved out

Cool place!

big jer wrote:

oooh ya , these things are a blast, an they haul ass!! i've geared mine down 1 tooth on the front for dirt roads. i really don't see a need to do 140mph in the dirt , 120 is enough!

yeah that is true for sure. 120 is fast enough....

just got back from a camping trip at palmer lake. you got some killer country up there big-jer. to bad i didnt take the bike. we drove up to oriville to check out the place my wife use to live when she was a small girl. went to the cemetery and found her grampa and 3 year old aunt. i have to get up there with my bike. looks like there is a ton of ridding up there.

What were her grandpa and 3 year old aunt doing there?

Shane wrote:

just got back from a camping trip at palmer lake. you got some killer country up there big-jer. to bad i didnt take the bike. we drove up to oriville to check out the place my wife use to live when she was a small girl. went to the cemetery and found her grampa and 3 year old aunt. i have to get up there with my bike. looks like there is a ton of ridding up there.

no no the riding and the country pretty much sucks around here, you should just stay around wenatchee. to bad i was gone this weekend, an you should have brought your bike what were you thinking!! [i hope the slap head smiley shows up]