With or without you springtime...

Had a little incident riding home from band practice last night. Snow storm, headlight went out, almost ran out of gas. Got home safe and sound to my little igloo. That's right crappy winter weather I got home alive, you lose!!

Note the ice packed into my ears here.

Taking spring by force III

Cyclemania sucked. Fun Motor Group bought up all the dealerships and then got all Bible Belt about it being an HA event and didn't show up. Sooo it was dead.
So I totally came home and rode my XT around town all day. Through alleys and up Spadina had a blast.

 

Went over Kenny's and helped him dig out a bike (I mostly just drank beer) and then we pulled his boat out. Because we here in Saskatchewan consider this to be right on the cusp of boating season.

Take spring by force II

 Sometimes you just have to say enough is enough and take spring any way you can.

Wintery Welcome to Spring

 Beautiful weather up at the lake this Easter weekend. Busted the DT250 out of it's winter wrapper beside the cabin. Fired up on the third kick. Damn I love that. So we gave her a proper flogging in the melting snow and ice.

 

Vintage 2 Stroke - check
White Sorels - check
Canadian Tuxedo - check
Bearded Weirdo - check
Northern Lake Covered in Snow and Ice - check
"Hold my beer, watch this!"



And here's your winter driving tip #472, stay off the front brake on ice and snow.

The Red Rooster

Brian finished up the Red Rooster recently so we loaded it up and took him out for a winter shakedown. Photo's to come. Oh yeah and if you like what you see, the Rooster will be for sale very soon, so start putting your money aside for this touch as hell cone zone shovel. Billy, I'm thinking you ought to buy this for the Mrs. She'll hate it and then you can ride it instead.

Winter Rulez

Saw this on the mother blog, Chvrch of Choppers, and had to share it.

DT winter ready

Third kick! What a trooper.

Mule Riding Division Closed for the Season

Well that pretty much does it. Other than a few drunken escapades that are bound to emerge throughout the long Saskatchewan winter, I believe we have probably reached the end of the riding season. So what does winter look like?

With that. I declare building season to be in full production. Bought a new ceramic heater for the shed and will be putting in the storm windows today. Lets get these projects sorted!

And just a demonstration for those who think fuel injection is the only way to get a bike running in the cold. Dale was ready to ride today as always.

Running out of weather

Still not too bad a day for a ride. Fingers got a bit cold on the highway, but around town fine. Bike's extra barky in the cold. Sweet. As much as I love the mules, when starting a big bike below freezing, fuel injection sure is nice. She did have an opinion on where her life has taken her though. I think she's having a hard time adjusting from her previous life in sunny Miami. Ran perfectly but was only going to give me the absolute bare necessities. The motor. No lights, no speedo, no indicators, no odo, no nothing. Everyone's entitled to their opinions, even bikes. Felt pretty good though, pure. Tasted some of that essence of biking again today.

Total = 6895mi (11,121km) this summer. It was a good year.

fresh meat

for du

Winterized...soon

Went to winterize the machines today and got a little carried away with running the stabilizer into the carbs. Took a run out to Moto Keno then Billy's. No one around so I started back home and ran outta gas. Bahah. Dale just refused to be winterized. Gonna need to run stabilizer again this weekend. Maybe get another ride in too.



note: Youtube was getting all uppity about copyright so I had to load this vid on my work account to get a good quality version on the blog. All other videos on this account are boring as shit. Don't bother.

God'dam winter...

...die die die

God'damn Winter...

...die die die

winter ride?

Any of you mules still got a bike on the road? Looks like a good weekend ahead. I'm itchin for a ride. any takers? There will be a prize this year for the mule contributor who takes the latest spin of the season (Just to encourage unsafe riding conditions to be challenged).