Bayley-Hazen ride Sunday?

[kpinvt]

...and another thing, Google Maps' Street View will let you see the whole road up close but very slowly.

[Wanderer]

Excellent stuff mark - I've wanted to do the BH road for a long time, oneday need to drag my GS up there

[kbroderick]

So, being the slacker that I am, I just got around to uploading my pics. Skipping the ones that are damn near the same as others posted above:

[markbvt]

I think it's funny how I have my helmet on in every one of those pics, but no one else does.

--mark

[SVenpointsixtwo]

I think it's funny how I have my helmet on in every one of those pics, but no one else does.

--mark

Safety first!

[MotoFreak]

I was thinking the same thing just now...good stuff fellas! Great pictures as always Kev.

[Dichotomous]

I think it's funny how I have my helmet on in every one of those pics, but no one else does.

--mark

atgatt

[Slyder]

If only I had a DS bike....

Funny thing though we had a ride right after you guys did the BH road, only Bread showed up on the Duc and he and I headed for the NEK. Just about every where we went, we saw the signs marking the BH road. So uhm, we were kinda with you guys, a few days late

We just took the street bike friendly approach, clearly no where near as cool though. Would love to do this ride with the right equipment

[Slyder]

If only I had a DS bike....

Funny thing though we had a ride right after you guys did the BH road, only Bread showed up on the Duc and he and I headed for the NEK. Just about every where we went, we saw the signs marking the BH road. So uhm, we were kinda with you guys, a few days late

We just took the street bike friendly approach, clearly no where near as cool though. Would love to do this ride with the right equipment

[markbvt]

It's totally doable on a street bike, as David and Kevin proved.

--mark

[Slyder]

Well...if I had an old beater bike. Like my CBR600 from back in the day. I use to take that thing all over the dirt roads, it being a honduh and all I didn't really care about it

But a DS bike would be much more fun than a gixxer 1k, or beater cbr

[markbvt]

You can definitely go a lot faster on those roads on a DS bike with decent tires.

--mark

[SVenpointsixtwo]

Well...if I had an old beater bike. Like my CBR600 from back in the day. I use to take that thing all over the dirt roads, it being a honduh and all I didn't really care about it

But a DS bike would be much more fun than a gixxer 1k, or beater cbr

I'll take one of these, please!

[Slyder]

That looks like a great way to get hurt really fast, I'm in

[markbvt]

Jesus. That rear tire looks like it'll pop off the bead as soon as you lean the bike into a turn... and if it does manage to stay on, you wouldn't be able to lean very far before you run out of tread. That's the problem with fitting a 150 tire to a rim designed for a 180 or 190.

This modded SV650 works better:


--mark

[SVenpointsixtwo]

I've read through the entire build thread for that one, very cool work. Would love a sumo sv650, the aprilia svx550 can eat it

[Slyder]

I heard the RMZ450 would eat the SVX550...so I imagine a tarded out SV650 would be pretty evil.

I wonder if that radiator is big enough though? Hot day, mud, woods, boulders, slow going? I think she might get a little too hot. Then again you don't want much bigger of a radiator, unless you build it some decent guards.

I remember long ago seeing pics of a can-o-tuna with dirt tires on it and someone riding it on sand dunes. Not something you'd want to hit the deep woods with though.

[markbvt]

Well, truthfully you don't really want to hit the deep woods with anything much bigger than a 250 single. The bigger, heavier bikes are great in wide-open spaces, but they're pigs when things get tight and technical.

I found a sub-class 4 road in the Adirondacks today that dumped me off my XR650L (slimy mud, lost the front end) and turned into an underbrush-overgrown reminder that there was once a road through the woods there; I had to be somewhere and had taken this road because it was in my GPS software, but I was already late so turned around and headed back onto pavement. But I'll have to go check that road out again sometime when it's drier and I'm not on a schedule.

My point in bringing that up is that my XR650L, which is actually designed for offroad riding, is a pig once the surface gets slimy and uneven. I wouldn't really want to try riding a street bike with knobbies on that kind of trail.

But that modded SV would be just the thing for the Trans-Labrador Highway....

--mark

[SVenpointsixtwo]

Delivered a range to a customer who lives out on hazen notch rd. today, wound up driving past the eden mine and some other cool stuff that I missed on the ride. Lots of fun, even in the ginorm-ass delivery truck!

[Dichotomous]

Delivered a range to a customer who lives out on hazen notch rd. today, wound up driving past the eden mine and some other cool stuff that I missed on the ride. Lots of fun, even in the ginorm-ass delivery truck!

it wasnt a pion you delivered to was it?

[SVenpointsixtwo]

pion? no, some new-built summer cabin type thing up in lowell.