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Hi, all. I got a neat opportunity to write about biking in western Canada, and I'm looking for someone who rode through Nakusp and took a photo along the way. Could I interview you asap, pretty please?

This week the weather smartened up, and we finally insured our bikes. Ya-hoooo! :D Our 16-y-o son got his permit, so we put him on my Nighthawk and took him up the lake road yesterday (after taking him out other places to be sure he has a handle on things, which he does). Now if only the...

We couldn't have had a much nicer day for Precious's last ride of the year. It was chilly, but the sun was out, the leaves were all colors, and there wasn't much traffic on the lake road. Dh and I rode to Crawford Bay for lunch (and to warm him up, since he won't wear his rain gear and winter...

Finally I got a turn on the CBF1000. It's a smooth ride. All the clutchy-throttly-shifty bits: smooooth. :-) I don't know that it's that much more powerful than an FZ6, at least not in normal riding on the road; maybe at full throttle (I didn't try that on the road, obviously). I think the...

Yesterday I took my daughter for a ride, and along the way she started tapping her helmet against mine. She does silly things sometimes, so for a minute I didn't think much of it. Then I thought what if she's asleep, so I tapped her hand. Nothing. Squeezed her hand. Nothing...

Monday dh and I rode to Kalispell, MT. We were going to go to New Denver originally, but the weather lady said there'd be rain, so we thought to heck with that and went south instead. Gosh, was there construction. Roads completely ripped apart, gravel, long waits, 10 mph behind a pilot car...

I had a scare yesterday, and I think it was from a vapor lock. It was idling at a needle width over 1K (that's where it always has idled). It happened several times, like this: Bike was sitting for a while in the heat (it was hot out, between 90 and 100 degrees). It didn't start on the first...

For one reason or another, I've ridden pillion more in the last few weeks than ever before. :( VF1000: I still feel like I'm going to die every time I'm on the back of this bike. FZ6: I let DH get on the front of Precious yesterday and take me for a ride. It was that or take the VF, and we...

Dh pointed something out to me that he found befuddling (well, one of many things). When we go through the twisties, I'm right behind him on my old Nighthawk 450, but I'm more sedate on my FZ6. We finally figured out why: the Nighthawk's speedometer is in miles per hour, and apparently I don't...

I'm trying to decide which of my Nighthawks to keep for my son and which one to sell, and it would be really nice to know whether there are going to be size restrictions by the time he's ready to get his license. Should I keep the 450 or the blue one (a 600 or a 650, I can't remember). But all I...

This picture is what came out of my bike's radiator last night. It feels slippery (not as slippery as cooking oil, just somewhat slippery), and it smells like caramelized sugar. AFAIK, it might be the first time anyone has changed the coolant. The bike had 400 km when I got it and has 7K km...

Creston to New Denver (look down the thread for more pictures) Saturday, we (dh, me, and dh's friend) rode from Creston to New Denver and back again. I took a picture, but my phone ate it. :spank: There was just about no traffic the whole way: up the east side of Kootenay Lake, then across...

I took my mom out on the bike this weekend. She's been on my brother's bike before, but she's never been on the twisties. She loves them! We went Sunday, and she asked to go again Monday. :cheer: Every once in a while she'd lean a bit funny. It was OK, not too alarming, but I could definitely...

After goofing around all afternoon, trying to fool hubby via sms into thinking I'd taken his CBF 1000 over the Salmo-Creston summit, with him egging me on, I finally found out he had the key with him. But he didn't have the key to his Interceptor. :Sport: So . . . Obviously I had to take...

No, I didn't drop my bike. But it was close. I've been fooling around with my handlebars to get a more comfortable wrist position. Tried them rotated lower toward myself, but that made it go from discomfort to wrist pain. Tried them rotated higher, and ahhhh. But although I checked nothing...

I was ordering my lowering link from Wild Hair Accessories, and when asked what kind of bike I have, I said it's an FZ6. The lady asked where I'm from, because the way I talk is so exotic. :confused: Apparently most people ride an F zee 6. Which sounds so very odd to me. Mine's an F zed 6. :BLAA:

I just ordered a Joe Rocket Cleo 2.2 jacket, and I was wondering if it will zip together with the Alter Ego pants.

Yesterday for the first time I (140 pounds with gear) took my son (215 pounds with gear) for a ride on my FZ6. Totally not what I expected. I think I should've adjusted the preload all the way up to 7, not 5 (I normally have it at 2). It felt squishy, although we didn't bottom out. That...

booked my road test (passed it) After trying since last August to book my road test locally, I finally got one booked for June 4 in a city an hour and a half away. Gotta love small towns, huh? Now I'm almost as nervous as I was before skills test day, even though there's no reason for me to...

We had a good rain that hopefully got most of the salt off the road, so dh and I tossed in some fuel stabilizer and went for one last ride yesterday. :D Some twisties, but with a 50kph speed limit in a residential area, we just putted along in second gear and enjoyed the autumn scenery. It was...