Alaska riding video

MisterBigWheel

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• Jan 8, 2011

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Greetings,

This is a recent edition of the Enduro Alaska series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygGhNy_YhZM

This is from the middle of this past summer.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

whenfoxforks-ruled

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• Jan 8, 2011

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Your the 1 that hit the camera! Good stuff, thanks for sharing. Note to self, never buy a bike that has been in Jim Creek. Vintage Bob

 

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• Jan 9, 2011

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That was good video...and great narrating :) Thanks

 

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• Jan 9, 2011

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I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!

 

MisterBigWheel

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Thanks guys. Thank you for taking the time to watch.

Vintage Bob,

I agree with you totally.

The three essential questions for buying a used bike should be:

1) Have you ever changed the oil?

2) Have you ever loaned the bike to H6llyw66d?

3) Has it ever been across Jim Creek?

I'm starting to think that buying new is a really good idea.

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Mr. BigWheel

 

High Lord Gomer

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• Jan 10, 2011

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That was GREAT!

 

MisterBigWheel

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Thank you, Your Highness.

It is good to see that there are members of Royalty with the sensibility to be moderators at such a fine forum.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

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MisterBigWheel said:

with the sensibility

Click to expand...

let´s say sensibility is one of the most known gomer´s qualitys :laugh:
(sorry, coudn´t resist :cool: )

if you ship the bikes to the other side of atlantic i buy two of them. not the wr because it´s too clean in the picture...

 

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• Jan 12, 2011

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That was a great vid! thanks!!!

 

MisterBigWheel

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• Jan 13, 2011

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Thanks SVTMc-G.

This is the 45 second teaser for the video to be released next:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEEzYmD6i3M

That just means that we've been fairly slack about working on it.


Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

High Lord Gomer

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• Jan 14, 2011

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I can't wait...get to work!

(Very nicely done, BTW)

 

MisterBigWheel

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I've had every intention of getting to work on the next edition, but it has been blowing 45 knots for the last four days. The temps have been hovering around 0 farenheit, dropping into the negatives at night. When you apply a windchill factor to that, it requires using the kelvin scale.

It's not that I'm being a sissy. It's the camera gear that has issues with the conditions. Not me. Really.

Really.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

High Lord Gomer

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• Jan 17, 2011

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We believe you Mr. BigWuss.

:p

I couldn't imagine riding there...or even living there.

 

MisterBigWheel

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That title has never been more appropriate, but we finally made it out for a ride today.

It was -4f when we started. A week's worth of wind blew all of the snow off of the rivers and lakes that we rode on. Perfectly smooth, beautiful, unmolested ice. I felt like Chris Carr. The throttle dialed in the amount of drift precisely.

The cameras failed miserably. One got too cold to focus and the helmet cam's battery got too cold to operate.

Still, I won't forget it any time soon even without a video record.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

High Lord Gomer

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• Jan 18, 2011

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You're more of a man than me. I'm in Boston this week and 16 degrees felt much colder than I remembered.

 

MisterBigWheel

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I'm not even half the man that I imagine I used to be.

I think that if the temps got back up to 16 degrees again up here, we'd all be riding in Speedos and flip flops.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel

 

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• Jan 20, 2011

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Hey great film looks like fun. Should have planned the trip on a better day.

 

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• Jan 21, 2011

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A better day in the Arctic Circle, in winter? Penguins only?

 

MisterBigWheel

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We finally found a better day to ride on. Temps were at -5f, calm winds and an overcast. The clouds made for some very flat light, which made it very difficult to see the whoops along the snowmachine trails.

We made it about 70 miles and only had one major get-off. I always thought that it was nearly impossible to bend 1 1/8 aluminum bars but now I know how to.

Regards,

Mr. BigWheel