Cycledude
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One of my brothers broke a tooth and wound up going through the same crap including the implant.
What TenereGUY has been up too
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Ouch.
He will try and put a crown on in September when I finally wander home. This was just temporary and I was told... chew on the left side.
Rode across the 125 miles of Minnesota and then North Dakota. Now 600 miles of Montana today. Write up at Adventuresbyguy.com
I'll get better about pictures. For now we are just making distance.
Yesterday's pics here.
I'll get better about pictures. For now we are just making distance.
Yesterday's pics here.
skoron
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I was driving East with the family on Rt 94 heading back from vacation in Western Canada. Spotted a Super 10 heading West in Southern Minnesota (maybe Fergus Falls area) around 10 am on Sunday morning. Might have been you? Looked like the headwind was a bit of a battle. If so I waved... 
Small world considering I am just north of you in southern Wisconsin.
Skoron
Small world considering I am just north of you in southern Wisconsin.Skoron
We were on US hwy 2. Cycledude myself and his friend who is on a Honda NC750X.I was driving East with the family on Rt 94 heading back from vacation in Western Canada. Spotted a Super 10 heading West in Southern Minnesota (maybe Fergus Falls area) around 10 am on Sunday morning. Might have been you? Looked like the headwind was a bit of a battle. If so I waved...
Skoron
Rock County... yep, I bought this bike from a friend in West side of Janesville. I like to wander out to Brodhead WI and eat at Villa Pizza. Good food.
Cycledude
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Here is the link to Tenere Guys blog, it’s pretty interesting and has lots of nice pictures.
Thanks Cycledude.Here is the link to Tenere Guys blog, it’s pretty interesting and has lots of nice pictures.
Going unexpectedly off road has had me trying to find a shop all morning to replace my fork seals. No luck. So when it cools off I plan on going outside and removing my calipers and cleaning them and the pads then rotors. Reassembling everything then hit the road Eastward over some smaller mountains then head across the Central Valley and get to the Sierra Nevada mountains and head north from Grass Valley to 89 up through Lassens Volcanic Park then get over to Boise.
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TGuy - the bike is looking good its blending in perfectly with the mud/dirt all the best with the rest of your tour !
I washed this off as soon as I could as there is a LOT of calcium chloride in that. That's in Fairbanks. By the time I got down to Hyder and crossed back into Canada the border agent couldn't read my license plate again it was so dirty. Then the rain cleaned it up a bit.
#7 birdshot?
I never thought of that. It just looked like something had made holes in it. Didn't see any bird shot buried in it. Just all hollow.
Read the description on the video to understand it.
Update. My wife flew to Idaho to see our son while I am here. She said it would be stupid to miss the BDR ride because of my fork seals and brakes. Try to find someone to fix them. I tried. Try some more! OK. SpudBob found someone and I found a dealer in Boise. I am going with SpudBob's suggestion. So I have a little repair to do on the bike, thin down my load and get some freeze dried food for the trip and get my butt back over to Boise. I just came from south of there on Saturday and now going back (5 Hrs). Then go SE to Jarbridge, Nevada and meet the group. I have a very understanding wife!
Update. My wife flew to Idaho to see our son while I am here. She said it would be stupid to miss the BDR ride because of my fork seals and brakes. Try to find someone to fix them. I tried. Try some more! OK. SpudBob found someone and I found a dealer in Boise. I am going with SpudBob's suggestion. So I have a little repair to do on the bike, thin down my load and get some freeze dried food for the trip and get my butt back over to Boise. I just came from south of there on Saturday and now going back (5 Hrs). Then go SE to Jarbridge, Nevada and meet the group. I have a very understanding wife!
Headed East to home my FB post explains the 1st and possibly the 2nd day route.
Scott
Regarding the blown fork seals.
Just when we got done with the Dalton Hwy oil was actually dripping in small puddles underneath the forks. Maybe I should have pulled the AltRider lower fork protectors off right there then pulled down the dust seals and cleaned them out with my seal cleaning tool. I didn’t and we got to a hotel and I came out the next morning to do just that. No drips on the ground. Everything seemed dry. Between three of us we were skeptical but it seemed like the seals had flushed themselves and quit leaking. Still the pads were oil coated so I didn't hit the corners quit like I normally would. Now this was in Fairbanks when they were dry. Then somewhere in Washington State they seemed to start leaking again. No drips but you could see dust collecting on the lower forks due to oil being there. I had been riding so I wouldn't need the brakes that much. I had some braking power but much diminished. Maybe 50%?? It wasn't until the last day on the coast that it started to really wear on me. The bike's suspension is acting normal. More air gap as some oil had leaked out so softer cushion in the action. But earlier in the day I was coming out of Redding on back, back roads and they were narrow and twisting through the mountains just south of 36 which runs East/West in Northern California. Look for Red Bluff in the upper central valley about equidistant from the east west borders and you will find it. Everyone should ride 36 from Red Bluff to the coast. Anyway... I came over a sharp rise into a steep down hill grade with a sharp left turn at the bottom of it and not a lot of road before it turned. I grabbed full front brake and started down shifting and I'm now in 1st or 2nd gear and now I start using the rear brake too. I may have been using it all the time but once I got into 1st or second the rear wheel locked up and started coming around. I let go of the rear brake and still couldn't slow down enough. I may have had target fixation but I don't believe I would have made the 90° turn so I picked my spot and tried to align myself so I could ride down a very steep 3' rocky ditch wall and my intent was to run along the sharp V at the bottom of the ditch. I got to the bottom and the other side went up at about 70° and I wasn’t quite aligned and I started climbing this incredibly steep embankment at an angle until my tires are probably 5 to 6' above the road. My suspension was handling it but I was bounding along from full compression to totally unloaded. Bike stayed in line and controllable the whole time. My 3 biggest fears that ran through my head at the moment.
1. I didn't want to hit one of the big rocks and spill on the embankment.
2. I was afraid my right saddle bag would come into contact with the embankment or one of the big rocks and fling me out away from the embankment and the bike might land on me.
3. My tires would lose traction and slip out and I would go down hard onto the embankment.
The 1st 2 didn't happen and amazingly the tires stuck and never slipped on the bare dirt and rocks! Front was a Tractionator Adventure and rear was a Tractionator GPS. Speed scrubbed off and I wasn't just trying to ride it out as now I thought I had some control. So I looked down to the road and the bike followed. Nothing I did just been riding long enough I saw the road and wanted to get there and training /experience took over. Drove down to the V in the ditch and once there drove up the steep 3' of dirt/shale/rock and was on the road . I think I remembered shifting down one gear as I was going rather slow by now. And I went ... whew! And kept going but a bit more cautiously. By the time I got to Leggett and on hwy 1 I was going well. But by the time I got to Bodega Bay I was worn out as I was shifting down early and not trusting the brakes. Got to Petaluma and nobody could get me in in the next couple of days. So the next day I took the stuff off the front and cleaned the seals as best I could. I had cleaned them earlier and gotten fine grit out of them. Nothing this time. I had a can of Brakleen and I cleaned the rotors, calipers and fork tubes. Then replaced the stock pads with new EBC HH pads I had in my pannier. Next day I went through the mountains over to the Central Valley to Grass Valley and up 49... everyone should ride 49. Then to 89 to Lassens volcanic Park. Brakes were much much better and the suspension was just fine. Now in Idaho after at least 100 miles of gravel mixed in there. I see a thin film of dust sticking. I used a whole can of Brakleen on the pads and rotors in Lakeview, Oregon before I rode that day. I bought two more cans and plan on doing it tomorrow when I start out. I plan on doing Chief Joseph Hwy down and up and Bear Tooth Pass. My rotors seem oil free. I will blast them each morning. I will report how much oil I get out of them when I get home and replace the seals. Coming up to Idaho I had confidence in my brakes again. I'll post up on my blog tomorrow night on them after the days ride.
Regarding the blown fork seals.
Just when we got done with the Dalton Hwy oil was actually dripping in small puddles underneath the forks. Maybe I should have pulled the AltRider lower fork protectors off right there then pulled down the dust seals and cleaned them out with my seal cleaning tool. I didn’t and we got to a hotel and I came out the next morning to do just that. No drips on the ground. Everything seemed dry. Between three of us we were skeptical but it seemed like the seals had flushed themselves and quit leaking. Still the pads were oil coated so I didn't hit the corners quit like I normally would. Now this was in Fairbanks when they were dry. Then somewhere in Washington State they seemed to start leaking again. No drips but you could see dust collecting on the lower forks due to oil being there. I had been riding so I wouldn't need the brakes that much. I had some braking power but much diminished. Maybe 50%?? It wasn't until the last day on the coast that it started to really wear on me. The bike's suspension is acting normal. More air gap as some oil had leaked out so softer cushion in the action. But earlier in the day I was coming out of Redding on back, back roads and they were narrow and twisting through the mountains just south of 36 which runs East/West in Northern California. Look for Red Bluff in the upper central valley about equidistant from the east west borders and you will find it. Everyone should ride 36 from Red Bluff to the coast. Anyway... I came over a sharp rise into a steep down hill grade with a sharp left turn at the bottom of it and not a lot of road before it turned. I grabbed full front brake and started down shifting and I'm now in 1st or 2nd gear and now I start using the rear brake too. I may have been using it all the time but once I got into 1st or second the rear wheel locked up and started coming around. I let go of the rear brake and still couldn't slow down enough. I may have had target fixation but I don't believe I would have made the 90° turn so I picked my spot and tried to align myself so I could ride down a very steep 3' rocky ditch wall and my intent was to run along the sharp V at the bottom of the ditch. I got to the bottom and the other side went up at about 70° and I wasn’t quite aligned and I started climbing this incredibly steep embankment at an angle until my tires are probably 5 to 6' above the road. My suspension was handling it but I was bounding along from full compression to totally unloaded. Bike stayed in line and controllable the whole time. My 3 biggest fears that ran through my head at the moment.
1. I didn't want to hit one of the big rocks and spill on the embankment.
2. I was afraid my right saddle bag would come into contact with the embankment or one of the big rocks and fling me out away from the embankment and the bike might land on me.
3. My tires would lose traction and slip out and I would go down hard onto the embankment.
The 1st 2 didn't happen and amazingly the tires stuck and never slipped on the bare dirt and rocks! Front was a Tractionator Adventure and rear was a Tractionator GPS. Speed scrubbed off and I wasn't just trying to ride it out as now I thought I had some control. So I looked down to the road and the bike followed. Nothing I did just been riding long enough I saw the road and wanted to get there and training /experience took over. Drove down to the V in the ditch and once there drove up the steep 3' of dirt/shale/rock and was on the road . I think I remembered shifting down one gear as I was going rather slow by now. And I went ... whew! And kept going but a bit more cautiously. By the time I got to Leggett and on hwy 1 I was going well. But by the time I got to Bodega Bay I was worn out as I was shifting down early and not trusting the brakes. Got to Petaluma and nobody could get me in in the next couple of days. So the next day I took the stuff off the front and cleaned the seals as best I could. I had cleaned them earlier and gotten fine grit out of them. Nothing this time. I had a can of Brakleen and I cleaned the rotors, calipers and fork tubes. Then replaced the stock pads with new EBC HH pads I had in my pannier. Next day I went through the mountains over to the Central Valley to Grass Valley and up 49... everyone should ride 49. Then to 89 to Lassens volcanic Park. Brakes were much much better and the suspension was just fine. Now in Idaho after at least 100 miles of gravel mixed in there. I see a thin film of dust sticking. I used a whole can of Brakleen on the pads and rotors in Lakeview, Oregon before I rode that day. I bought two more cans and plan on doing it tomorrow when I start out. I plan on doing Chief Joseph Hwy down and up and Bear Tooth Pass. My rotors seem oil free. I will blast them each morning. I will report how much oil I get out of them when I get home and replace the seals. Coming up to Idaho I had confidence in my brakes again. I'll post up on my blog tomorrow night on them after the days ride.
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