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The Canada travels have ended. As far north as you’re allowed to go in Quebec before being turned back because of large fires (just south of Raddison and Hudson Bay) while riding long days on rough dirt and gravel roads, my bike had a major motor malfunction. I knew something bad was wrong and even suspected the actual cause (gear holding primary drive gear into shaft came loose, spun out to grind against the inside of the clutch cover and the destroyed the key and key way on the main shaft) but she still was running strong and I was over 150km from any cell phone signal, motel or help (aside from the occasional logging truck) so I decided to go for broke and rode Sunny till she died at a motel in southern Quebec. From there obtained a rental truck and drove her back to Ohio. Over 80,000 extraordinary miles. Many many borders crossed. Fantastical places visited and countless wonderful people met and friends made in many countries. Hard to be mad even though the experience sucked and was stressful. I’m back at my buddies place in Wooster. Will tear into the bike to see the whole carnage soon. In the meantime, I located yet another 2011 DR650 at a dealership with only 582 miles on it. Sunny is also a 2011 and had 62 miles when purchased in 2018. I’ll be picking up the new bike Saturday in PA and then spend the Fall and Winter prepping and combining the two bikes to get ready for riding to BC the Yukon and Alaska next spring.

Shitty pic but here she is. now who wants a clean well sorted Vstrom 1000?

Just picked up this sweet-Kawasaki-powered-ride. It even came with a 34ft Travel Trailer.

damn there are some names on there I totally forgot about and this was a couple years before I even started coming around

Words cannot describe what approaching 100k miles on this bike feels like. Far different that other bikes I’ve known, regardless of their accumulated mileage