Newfoundland Continued
NOTE: cross posted from Mike, aka Skibum69
Here's a shot from the west coast on the T'Railway, about 100 from Port Aux Basques when we were trying to ride across the island offroad in a single day, only about 800km's if you take the shortcut with 150+ of pavement around Red Indian Lake.
This was where my buddy overshot this weird right chicane and sailed off into an overgrown washout hitting about 8 feet down and breaking 2 ribs. It only took us an hour to get his 450 out of the hole, thank the gods we weren't on our big bikes, his 800GS or my 640A. This section may not make it onto the TCAT as it's below where you'd head up the Northern Peninsula to get onto the TLH, but much of the railbed looks similar.
sometime later...that might be a part
We wanted to prove to ourselves it's doable and felt we accomplished something for ourselves by this time despite losing serious time from mishaps. My buddy is a tough bastard and we rode another 400 km's to Gander after the crash! Better living through chemistry
This is a shot of a fun washout on an old spur line section between Argentia and the main line with the CFA's who just got off the ferry headed to the "Skibum Soiree 2010" which is a good option for only having to run the island in one direction, the guy in the foreground from Boston rode this on his 1200GS last year.
Here's a shot of my second flat of the day recently where another friend and I were running terrain near Gander looking for suitable routes for the Rally Newfoundland that we're helping organize for 2011 and beyond, must have something to do with the ultra cheap Shinko's I keep running, hard to pass up $100/pr.
This section is part of a series of logging/mining roads in various stages of decay that should be able to connect the town of Terra Nova to the Bay D'espoir highway if they fix some of the bridges that are out. I'm thinking some of this stuff might be a nice diversion from 900 km's of T'Railway, or maybe only 600 if I can start finding routes north to the ferry to Blanc Sablon. Hurricane Igor did some serious damage in the eastern part of the province and that may have some impact too.
NOTE: cross posted from Mike, aka Skibum69
Here's a shot from the west coast on the T'Railway, about 100 from Port Aux Basques when we were trying to ride across the island offroad in a single day, only about 800km's if you take the shortcut with 150+ of pavement around Red Indian Lake.
This was where my buddy overshot this weird right chicane and sailed off into an overgrown washout hitting about 8 feet down and breaking 2 ribs. It only took us an hour to get his 450 out of the hole, thank the gods we weren't on our big bikes, his 800GS or my 640A. This section may not make it onto the TCAT as it's below where you'd head up the Northern Peninsula to get onto the TLH, but much of the railbed looks similar.
sometime later...that might be a part
We wanted to prove to ourselves it's doable and felt we accomplished something for ourselves by this time despite losing serious time from mishaps. My buddy is a tough bastard and we rode another 400 km's to Gander after the crash! Better living through chemistry
This is a shot of a fun washout on an old spur line section between Argentia and the main line with the CFA's who just got off the ferry headed to the "Skibum Soiree 2010" which is a good option for only having to run the island in one direction, the guy in the foreground from Boston rode this on his 1200GS last year.
Here's a shot of my second flat of the day recently where another friend and I were running terrain near Gander looking for suitable routes for the Rally Newfoundland that we're helping organize for 2011 and beyond, must have something to do with the ultra cheap Shinko's I keep running, hard to pass up $100/pr.
This section is part of a series of logging/mining roads in various stages of decay that should be able to connect the town of Terra Nova to the Bay D'espoir highway if they fix some of the bridges that are out. I'm thinking some of this stuff might be a nice diversion from 900 km's of T'Railway, or maybe only 600 if I can start finding routes north to the ferry to Blanc Sablon. Hurricane Igor did some serious damage in the eastern part of the province and that may have some impact too.
