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EEJIT


From an early age I wanted to fly like Biggles!

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So i worked for 5 hours in the morning last Saturday, got home and a couple of friends called me to say they were camping on a bluff on the east side of a town called Radium just inside the British Columbia border. They were out for a weekend's trail riding so i thought i'd pop out and join them. An ideal test for the kit i'm taking to the Yukon. It took me 20 minutes to strap all the gear on....the bike looked like a Fleet Air Arm plane with all the junk lashed on.
One hundred miles down the road I was 2000 feet lower in altitude and the bike was giving me an ambient air temperature reading of 31 degrees c in the valley (Just thought i'd annoy you with a BMW tw@t fact).
After only 3 miles of dirt road I found their camping site but they were out on the bikes for the afternoon so I put the tent up and assembled all the bear deterrents so I could find them easily in the dark. At this point I was hot, bloody hot and needed to get out of the bike trousers and boots before I became a statistic for Harley riders that believe all you need to wear on a bike is a T-shirt and a bed pan on your head.
Mozzie repellent, that's what I forgot and boy did I get a sharp reminder. These buggers were eating my back throught the T-shirt (honestly). I swear to God they were twin engined jobs that were the same size as cats with wings. There ensued the most miserable warm sunny afternoon I have ever had. I had to sit in the tent with the Mozzie screen down, roasting inside in the afternoon sun that was beating down on the tent and losing the will to live. "Who the f*ck makes a living out of sucking the life blood out of another living organism anyway"? I thought to myself and then chuckled because i actually know a few people that do. 
It was a loathesome situation indeed because I'd left my book in the side pannier of the bike and was damned if I was going out there just to satisfy my impending boredom. It was then that i heard the bikes coming back. ten minutes later a CRF 230, XL 650 and a DRZ 400 rolled into the campsite. Some bloke came over to my bike and started with "Jeez buddy that's an awesome bike" and started to pour over the Warthog. At this point one would normally respond with a modest line or two but all I could say was "Have you got any Mozzie repellent"?
Ten minutes later I was sitting in a folding camp chair, smelling like a urinal block and sipping a can of beer in 31 degrees. The view was breathtaking from our vantage point as the sun went down and I could fully understand why some folks call it God's Country. He could have made the mozzies extinct millions of years ago though.
All the gear worked as it should. Including the half sized bottle of Glenfiddich I bought. I am now ready for the Yukon next Friday, and yes....I bought 2 bottles of "Bugger off".
The photos attached aren't that good....I did shoot videos in a 360 motion for you all but I can't seem to get them to load on this site.

Regards to you all

EEJIT

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Nice to see the you managed to crawl far enough away from the blindingly ugly warthog so that the photo doesn't upset some of the more delicate people we have inhabiting this forum biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

We also have blood sucking creatures in this country but they write letters which are headed H.M. Inspector of Taxes! Bugger off doesn't seem to work even if you shout it. biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

How far was the bloke with the CRF230 going? I'd have thought that it was a bit tedious on a 230. Nice bike but not for wide open trails.

You're only jealous of the Harley riders 'cos their bikes are lighter than yours! biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I remember Radium isn't that the road that we came back on and averaged slightly more than the Canadian National speed limit. I'd like to remind your Guiding skills/Care in the Community that I was the one on bald tyres following what looked like a removal lorry with two wheels. Mind you the GS I was on must have looked like a truck as well.

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Thanks for the post and good luck, I rekon the Banks are the biggest blood suckers over here!

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biggrinKeys and DEET then??



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EEJIT


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Tibby.....
You should try Canadian banks! Leeches egad!

Fixer......
105 MPH through the park fully stacked with gear and a rear tyre that's now resembling Erroll Brown. Had to do it though, there was this Audi with a spiky eighties hairdo at the controls......had to do it as you can all appreciate.
It's 156kms from Radium to my house (almost 100 miles). Allowing for multiple caravans and campers travelling at 50mph and a ten minute stop en-route for a glass of apple juice and a fag, i got home in 1 hour 15 mins.
The CRF never rode the journey (This pertains to the rest of the bikes too). They were all transported in the white pickup in the photos. Great little bike to ride on the dirt though. love it to death. I like to think that i expired as many mozzies as possible on the windscreen during my hooligan hour. What concerns me is the insect that left about 1/4 litre of yellow/green ooze on the plastic. I thought i'd just been shot until i saw its eyeballs sliding at opposing tangents across my field of vision.
Withy......you're right. DEET first and foremost....i'll keep the spare keys really close at hand just in case i need to fark off fromk some heinous insect!

:)= EEJIT



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FROMK?

Sorry I was enjoying a large scotch.



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So first of all he mentions some fag or another, then he was enjoying a large Scotch (who he doesn't name) and then I notice that he always wanted to fly like Biggles.......Is my brother Jack Barrowman and therefore Gay? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

I leave you to decide but remember he does ride a BMWarthog!

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By the by....Biggles was our Dad's dog. I never realised he could fly but his eyesight did get a bit poor and he was never that good on the stairs so.....? biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

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Eejit set off on his grand adventure last Friday (17th July) I believe. He made contact with home at Smithers and again at Stewart but I haven't heard where he's got to in the last couple of days.

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