That's what dual-sporting is all about! Great ride report. I love riding around gates, moving logs, coming up with creative solutions, etc.

 

Good stuff! And good job for pressing on!

If you're not living, you're dying!

Thanks for sharing.

 

I Agree with TylerSC! Thanks for posting your trip!

 

ol'klx-er's bike:



Nice setup! I think you're missing something vital though...the gastank?!!

 

Thanks jckid.

It's an experimental model, runs on air only. Power sucked real bad though.

The bike lives in the basement for the winter. The fuel tank stays in the lawnmower shed. Call me paranoid: the natural gas hot water tank has an always burning pilot light. Not how I want to "light up my life".

 

What are the orange things hanging off the bars? Hippo hands? Leg warmers (from the 80's?) Chaps?

 

Opened back YMCA chaps...LOL!

 

As you may have experienced stationary objects tend to turn into clothes racks. In this case the KLX became a drying rack for the gaiters I wear when cross country skiing.

 

NOT PARANOID at all. I had mine all torn apart this winter, in the basement. Fuel tank off, but sitting in the basement next to the bike. Got talking to a buddy's father in law one night at a birthday party, and somehow mentioned the bike in the basement. This guy said "I hope you don't have the gas tank down there too". Uh .... actually I do. Well this guy is a retired fire chief, and he proceeded to tell me about a guy that recently burned down his house because he was working on the bike in his basement, and the gas fumes were ignited by one of the pilot lights down there. I went home and took my tank out to the garage.

 

I usually move *most* of my survival kit, from the snowmobiles to the bike, as soon as the snowmobile season is over. No need for the snow shovel on the bike, but I do move the Gerber retractable-blade saw.

Gerber FISKARS Wood Saw With Retractable Blade - Knifecenter.com

This saw is incredibly sharp, and will easily handle anything up to about 6" in diameter. Besides; I'd rather I cut something smaller, and use it as a lever to move the big stuff, than to wear myself out sawing through a giant redwood. :-)