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I know most of you have seen my ride report over on ADVRider.com on my recent trip to Patagonia but in case you have not and are interested here is the link to the thread over there... An Alternate to Shoveling Snow Enjoy.

We bring Greetings and Salutations from Her Majesty The Queen to our neighbours (note spelling of "neighbours") upon your recent nomination of The Donald as one of the candidates for goverenor or whatever of the recent colonies. The Great White North Liberation Army has been charged with the...

I just set up my SPOT for the trip with Ray & Jeff to Red Lodge and beyond. I'll help BigJohn and contact Jason at Spotwalla about setting up a group page. My SPOT linky We are leaving on Thursday by trailer across the flatlands.

Unfortunately other commitments forced me home on Saturday but I had a nice safe ride down Hwy 41 to Hwy 28 to Peterborough and then down the 35/115 all the way to Bowmanville. Arrived at my Casa four hours after departing Pembroke.

I spent some of the morning at the local Canadian Tire looking for a few things the patch up the FJR after my deer strike yesterday. Chris saw my post and called me and Chris offered to bring me a foot peg off his old bike that we will install once he comes back from his ride. After I checked...

Yesterday I had my 06 AE strand me on the side of the road when I got a weird shift and a SH_51 code came up on the dash. I was stuck in gear and the bike would not restart. Fortunately I was still in town but the bike was not going anywhere. I pulled the side panel off and noticed that the...

Finally got enough dirt bike stuff out of the way to actually start putting together routes for the gps. #1 - The Poutine / River Route The route takes you into the land of poutine and Labatts 50. We cross over the river into Quebec for a run along the river before crossing back into Ontario...

As seen on a bumper sticker today...

So I'm installing a new Rekluse Core 3.0 EXP auto clutch in my new WR450F dirt bike. I pull the old clutch plates out as per the instructions and remove what they call the throw out washer to get access to the inner basket that gets replaced with the rekluse unit. All that goes fine and I have...

Not even out of the box and it's already being abused.... Not to worry all is good but some assembly is required.... I go to the shop tomorrow to take delivery and then go get it all dirty.

A number of folks on Facebook have been taking part in a 10 day dirt bike photo challange to get everyone through the winter. I got challenged to post up some stuff but rather than just post up recent stuff I decided to take the opportunity to drag out my old slides and start digitizing all my...

Registration for CFR 2016 is now open. KJ was kind enough to put together the website and all the information you need is there. 2016 CFR Website The pertinent facts are: Date: June 9th to 12th, 2016 Location: Comfort Inn, Pembroke, Ont. Lodging info is on the website but is here also...

Due to Global Warming (thank you Al Gore) we had to wait up here in the Great White North until late January instead of early September for the lake to freeze. We finally got enough ice to build a track to get out to play.... I also mounted up a couple of GoPro's to one of the Mini A bikes...

How do you know it's winter in Canada? When the snowmobiles outnumber the cars at the gas station......

I have finally updated my video editor to Final Cut Pro X since after the last OS update on the Mac does not play nice my old version of Adobe Premier Elements. I just did some quick playing around with some footage I had from a trail ride on the WR450 in the Simcoe County Forest north of...

My buddy Warren put a trials tire on his dirt bike and we went for a ride with other friends this past weekend in the Simcoe County Forest. After slipping and sliding around on the wet leaves Dallas asks Warren what his opinion was of the trials tire.... https://vimeo.com/144381695

One of my club members dad works for Yamaha Canada and brought home the new 2016 WR450F. This bike was so new it had a sticker on it that said, "For Internal Use Only" which means that Yamaha Canada cannot sell the bike to the general public and is intended for display and demo purposes only. It...

Hey people, there's one more Enduro left to ride this season. Stud up your tires and I'll see you in the Ganaraska this Saturday. There's even a Pot Luck dinner afterwards. Yep, that white crap is snow.

After BikerGeek's Tech day I had an itch to get the FJR out on the road. According to the Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report the colours were peaking so we saddled up the FJR and headed north. I wanted to make a quick stop in at the Ganaraska Forest to see if any of my buddies were riding their...

All the great attack plans of the Great White North Liberation Army start with a trip to Timmy's.... This year the main attack force consists of Ray and myself. Our NEXUS cards got us across the border in short order in Buffalo and we were feeling a little peckish so our first stop was for...