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Watch me bail, over and over again.

WestCoast Rider — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:55:06 GMT

Fooling around with the GoPro on Tamahi Creek this last weekend.

I'm a newb rider incase you couldn't tell...

Sunday Church Sept 12

Mike O — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:40:44 GMT

Planning a ride in the Church area, still looking for the old grade from Tamihi to Buffalo Jump, would be riding and maybe some walking. Meet at the golf course at 0800 hrs for breakfast.

Mike

Week day riders

Smokey — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:39:54 GMT

Whos available to ride during the week? I can ride weekends, too, but I have a LOT of time during the week to kill.

I would consider myself to be able to ride advanced stuff, I just don't do it quickly. No "expert" trails. I prefer small trails/single track.

Let me know when and where! I'm going to try to hit Vedder Mountain sometime this week.

Bruces Casual Breaky, Sept., Oct., Nov.

Phoenix — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:51:58 GMT

Generally occurs Sundays @ 9:00 a.m. 240th and Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge. A good place to meet other Dualsporters, take a ride in the N.E. of Fraser area etc. etc. All riders welcome to chime in on the thread, add ideas, or just drop in for coffe or breaky. I may not be able to ride much on Sundays, but I do have to eat. If you plan on riding your bike out you should post up though, that way there won't be any confusion when your the only person on a bike and a few people are in their cages just havin' a DSBC BS session/breaky.

Cheers, Alex.

Modern's last week of business - good deals I would think

Mollygrubber — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:08:40 GMT

Their Craigslist ad is attached, probably some good stuff here if you can tolerate the management...

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/va...925074756.html

free ride

jordy007 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:52:47 GMT

Hi guys
Looking for someone who wants to take my klr to South America, no charge.
We are doing copper canyon in 3 weeks. I will be leaving the bike in Mazatlan then sailing our sailboat to SouthAmerica. Should be in S.A. in about 8 or 9 months. I am offering the use of my klr free to someone responsible to ride it from Mazatlan down to somewhere in S.America. Then while we are down there, I want to do some touring afterwhich, again, we offer it for anyone to take back to US or Canada. The use of the bike is free, but you pay the traveling and getting it down there. Contact me at tr3jordy@gmail.com
Jordy

Anybody Going To Bruces This Sunday - Sep 5 ?

Farp — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:07:12 GMT

There seems to be a loss of interest in meeting at Bruces Market Sunday mornings. I'd hate to see it die completely. Is anybody going there for breaky this Sunday and then a ride? I'm willing to go where ever you want; just post up and lemme know.

John

We are lucky in BC (RUM)

Lockitup — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:39:19 GMT

http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/s...41#post2625241

Ouch.

Thanks
Stephan

Who's up for a East Harrison > Lytton > Nicoamen FSR > Boston Bar - one day ride.

Farp — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:22:08 GMT

This is gonna be a good, long one day ride on Sept 12. Meet up at the Old Settler Pub parking lot in Harrison Hot Springs at 8:30AM and ride up East Harrison, Kookipi, Texas Creek road to Lytton for lunch. Then up hwy 1 for 15km to the Nicoamen FSR and back to hwy 1 a few km north of Boston Bar. Then we can decide to return the way we came back to Harrison Hot Springs, or ride hwy 1 back to Aggasiz. One alternative on the hwy 1 route back is to ride the American Creek FSR back to the Lougheed about 18 km east of Aggasiz. The attached photo shows the route.

The magenta is off the pavement riding and the blue is on pavement. The red legs are the options.

Some of this ride will include some steep and technical sections which are not recommended for beginners and, depending on your skill level, might not be big bike friendly. You should be at least a B rider to do this ride.

John

Meager Creek, Hurley pass, Gold Bridge

Lucky — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:49:53 GMT

Did anybody do trip from Pemberton to Gold Bridge by Hurley rd recently?

Does Meager Creek slide affect this route?

Is it possible to get close enough to the slide area to take some pics?

east side Harrison Thursday

W RON — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:58:58 GMT

I am planing to ride east Harrison on thursday, If someone what to come along. Let me know whats your wishes, would love to have some company.
Leave the wack 9:00sh

W Ron

Lodestone Loop Labour(Day weekend) Sept 5th

Fbomb — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:17:59 GMT

I am proposing a loose outline for next weekend. Sunday, Sept 5th 9:00 am Home Restaurant in Hope (Old Hwy to Princeton) and then on to Portia exit to ride the pipeline road (and any diversions we feel like) to Tulameen, Lodestone Mtn, etc. and possibly refreshments at the end. Any takers can damn well show up! (or post up a better idea).

Riding This Sunday

tjronyx — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:03:45 GMT

Hello, I'm going riding this Sunday August 29th. Thinking of going to Hope, to Tailings Pond, but open to suggestions, Looking for some people to ride with.;)

Ride east side Harrison sunday

W RON — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:36:45 GMT

There are a few riders coming into town to ride at the Gnarly parts ride. Is there anybody interested in doing east Harrison on your way home? Love to hear from you.

Ron

Chilliwack Valley Riding Area Maps**** Church Liumchen Tamahi and McGuire areas

tomcycle — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:28:08 GMT

Chilliwack Valley Riding Area Maps**** Church Liumchen Tamahi and McGuire areas

We have tried to compile GPS tracks of the trails roads and route that we ride in these areas but have never got them finished

So here we go again

We need someone who would like to take this project on and get it to the point where we have a good start for a map.

I am not that person, but if I have to be I will.

What I need now is if any of you have any gps tracks of any of these areas. if you could forward them on to me and I will keep the ball rolling on getting this map project under way.
if you pm me i will send you my email address

Thanks

Tom Timmeman

Second Annual Ride for teh way and Bike fest

livinadream — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:10:08 GMT

The Second Annual ride for the way and Bikefest is taking place September 12th here in Duncan, BC
The event is going to be a lot of fun.
Contact: Carole 250-748-1312
e-mail: office@cowichan.unitedway.ca

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harrison west how far can i go on vstrom1000??

newfienighthawk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:16:31 GMT

well it s time to put the big bike on the dirt!! just wanted to know how far I can get up harrison west on vstrom 1000?I never rode there so i know nothing about the area:confused:

8 Years of the Dead Zone

skidmark43 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:42:23 GMT

This seems like as good a time as any to announce that the Dead Zone is now Dead. Passed on, No more, Ceased to be, Expired and gone to meet his maker.

It's been a lot of fun and come a long way; originally organized on a napkin by Tom & Ted, starting from the Onion Lake campsite with less than 20 participants...

Tom, Judy & I have been the main force behind the event these past five years. It's been an honour to host this party, but we are exhausted.

As many of you are aware, the riding area has come under increased pressure regarding 'land use claims'. Trying to satisfy the demands of other user groups / governments at the eleventh hour this year was extremely stressful and sucked the fun out of it...

We all love the riding area, but at this juncture a new 'base' for the event would need to be found, since Spences Bridge is no longer viable. That leaves Lytton, Lilloette or Cache Creek - all of which pose their own challenges. This seems like a reasonable segue for us to step aside.

We've discussed this issue with many of our volunteers in recent weeks, and there doesn't appear to be anyone to carry the torch into 2011.

With our (your) support of BCORMA, hopefully the challenges facing the region will get sorted out over the next few years. After a rest I'm sure that Judy, Tom & I could get this going again.

To the DZ riders, sponsors and volunteers, please accept our sincere thanks for supporting us and our event, and for riding these trails with us. it's been a blast!

Mark Gray

Sunshine Coast DualSport riders?

roninja — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:03:49 GMT

Anybody out there?

Church Sunday Aug 22

Mike O — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:22:46 GMT

Anyone interested in a ride/ hike on Church Mountian this Sunday. We have found an old grade running from what is called Bufflo Jump to the Tamihi FRS. This old grade has not been used in 20 or 30 years. Some of us have walked a small portion of the old grade, but would like to see if we can walk the full length, and see if this route is ridable. This is about a 5 km hike.
Meet at the Cultas Lake Golf Course 0800 for breakfast.

Mike

Vancouver Supermoto

fartypants — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:25:04 GMT

Anyone know what happened to Vancouver Supermoto??? Place is empty, phone no longer works????

Thanks !!

Dorky — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:53:30 GMT

:clap::clap::clap:

Thanks to everyone who came out and made the ride a success and a good time. It's the smiles and the laughter that make it into a good weekend. There were lots of laughs, some great rides, some good food, and many nice swims over the weekend. Many, many people helped out; I hope I thanked them all on Saturday night.

Special thanks go out to the sponsors who make it all possible.*** I hope the riders who went home with a new tire or GPS or helmet etc will remember that it came from one of the sponsors below. Thanks also to all the riders who generously bought raffle tickets - that money goes to support this website, the Loose Screw ride, and dualsport events in Kamloops throughout the year.

All B2 riders should mail a beer or other thanks to Neil(hawk), Mark(skidmark43), John(whatthehellisjohn'ssitename) and several others who sawed through the huge log that fell over the trail near the start of the ride. This was in an area which would have been very difficult to bypass for anyone not familiar with the area. These guys saved the ride - Thanks!! Thanks also to Terry and Doug who sawed out a tree even earlier in the day; before any of you got there.

Please put your pictures in the LSDS2010 picture forum so we can all see them.

We all had fun and we hope you did too. We'll see you in Chilliwack later this month and next year at the Loose Screw.

Thanks,
Greg, Gord, Dan, Wayne, Reid, Ross, Terry, Doug, Rob, Lisa, Shelly, Connor ...

*** Major Sponsors:
Rivercity Cycle - Kamloops
RTR Performance - Kamloops
Valley Motosport - Kelowna
GPS Central - Canada
ACR Electronics - Florida
Leading Edge - Kamloops
Cooper's Foods

:clap::clap::clap:

Garnet Creek FSR To East Harrison Saturday Aug. 21

SouthPoint — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:42:49 GMT

On Saturday, August 21 Farp, Phoenix and myself are planning to ride the Garnet Creek FSR to East Harrison. For anyone who hasn't done this loop, it is very scenic and there is a good variety of road conditions to ride through. A washed out bridge was recently replaced, so I am hoping the road will still go all the way through. If not, there is still plenty of good riding in this area so it should be a good day.

If anyone is interested in joining us, we are going to meet at the A&W in Agassiz at 8:30am.

GPS coordinates for most all fresh water lakes in BC

edzzed — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:47:52 GMT

Took me quite a while to figure out how to transfer these from google earth to POIFRIEND.COM these are what I gather most if not all frsh water bodies in BC. In some cases who ever did the original file put the coordinates smack dab in the middle of a lake. I altered some to get you to a boat launch or provincial campsite. Ed aka Edzzed http://www.poifriend.com/poigroup.php?poigroup_id=6938

Loose Screw 2010 Photos

miller — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:43:28 GMT

Some pics from a fantastic day of riding and hanging out with fellow DSBSers...:)

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crashproof bike safety system invented

edzzed — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:31:22 GMT

leave it to the Germans to invent a crash proof motorcycle. I can't quite believe the system works so see for yourself. http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=21816

Saw this ride listed!

donbcivil — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:24:36 GMT

Just wanted to say congrats to you all for getting the publicity.

Rode through the Cariboo last week and picked up The Official gold Country Visitors Guide. Under the heading Horsepower Heaven, they had the Dad Zone ride listed. Nice!

Ride to Lillooet this Friday AM returning Sat

tmurrayis — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:53:33 GMT

I missed Farp's ride in July and was thinking of doing the loop using Farps GPS track as the route.

http://bike.stu.ph/rides/ride.php?ride=216

I planned to take this Friday off and beat the weekend traffic on the way up. Overnight at Lillooet and then down via Mission mountain and the highline road on Sat.

So far there are two up us (my KLR and a DR650). Neither of us are very experienced and we don't know the route. If there are others out there interested we might be able to get a group rate from the search and rescue folks.

A couple of serious questions:

Is the route hard to follow? I am thinking of the turn off from Harrison East to Nahatlatch FSR and then again at West Fraser. I was hoping there would be some signage of some sort.
Is anyone else interested and able to come along?

Cheers,

Ted