Last minute Sooke Run - Tomorrow (Sat)

[asutherland]

Hey guys,

Ray and I are doing the Sooke loop (where we usually go, Muir etc) tomorrow morning, leaving Langford at 8am.

Post in here if you'd like to come along, I'll check right before I leave at 8 tomorrow morning. I'll try to stop by Sooke A&W tomorrow at about 8:45 to see if there's anyone there.

Andrew

 

[Rigpig]

Andrew, i PM'd you!

 

[Toshi38]

Please keep an eye out for my truck... I'm off to go check weeks lake area tomorrow morning...

 

[asutherland]

Please keep an eye out for my truck... I'm off to go check weeks lake area tomorrow morning...

Of course dude...

 

[asutherland]

8:00 AM... woken by Ray shutting off his engine in the driveway. Oops... slept in. Who knew having a baby would be so tiring....

8:15 AM... Ray takes off his rear bumper and leaves it in my garage. Load the cooler, some misc stuff into the cruiser and we're ready to go.

8:30 AM... meet up with Ray's 2 friends at Timmies. Eat breakfast and chat.

9:35 AM... arrive at the gravel pit and air down. WONDERFUL... my new Stauns I got for Christmas work AWESOME! Take a pee and drink the rest of my coffee and b.s. with Ray while my tires deflate. Cool

9:40 AM... the trip commences! No one takes pictures until Ray realizes his camera DOES work... it's his viewfinder that's dirty... not a bum lens. HAHAHAHA Phewf!

11:30 AM... break for lunch. I try out my new single burner butane stove from capital iron... works AWESOME... all we can smell is cooking spicy turkey dogs. We have a couple beer.

12:00 ... here are the pictures from the rest of the way up the hill. We stopped at the big rock gully thing at the bottom of the Birf Breaker hill, where I previously broke my birfield pulling Dano off the rocks. With Ray's good direction... I made it RIGHT UP! Open on the back, locked in the front.

VIDEO

YouTube - Muir Creek Birfbreaker - Championed!

 

[asutherland]

2:45 ... we make it to the top, at the clearcut. Have another to celebrate, and head back down the way we came in, with minor deviations along the way of course

 

[ForealBoreal]

sweet little jaunt! You locked the front and kept the rear open? How the heck did you manage to do that? Did you mean rear locked with the front open?

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Sorry I missed it bro, I was training all day. Looked like a good run. Ray's window looked a little different in some of the pics though....

 

[asutherland]

Yeah, he backed into something on the trail and shattered the entire thing. He was holding it on with the tint and with an entire roll of duct tape that I gave him...

The secret to having only the front (and center) locked, is to have a bum motor on the back that does nothing. Cam and I spent several hours cleaning it but it still doesn't even try. The armature (sp?) is probably shot and will need a rebuild.

To that extent - anyone know of a good local shop that could rebuild the motor for me?

 

[Toshi38]

you could try the place that rebuilds starters/alternators down on princess they do good work... not sure if they can do a locker motor:

Brian Roberts Auto Electric Ltd.

Their prices for rebuilds wern't bad in the past... but I havn't used them for anything in quite a while.

 

[asutherland]

you could try the place that rebuilds starters/alternators down on princess they do good work... not sure if they can do a locker motor:

Brian Roberts Auto Electric Ltd.

Their prices for rebuilds wern't bad in the past... but I havn't used them for anything in quite a while.

Thanks for the tip, I called and talked to Brad... he said to bring the truck in next week, they'd take a look at the motor and give me an estimate. Here's hoping!

 

[themorb]

the Sooke loop

Just curious, are you going in and out the "scratchy way" where all the dirt bikers and quads are? Or is there some other entrance open that I don't know about...

Those scratchy bushes are the main thing keeping me from wheeling in Sooke... Take less time to drive to Jordan River than it does to polish the truck The odd soft branch is okay, but those things are like razors!

 

[chet]

welcome to vancouver island wheeling! Not many routes clear enough to not get scratches! If they were they won't be after spring!

 

[asutherland]

Just curious, are you going in and out the "scratchy way" where all the dirt bikers and quads are? Or is there some other entrance open that I don't know about...

Those scratchy bushes are the main thing keeping me from wheeling in Sooke... Take less time to drive to Jordan River than it does to polish the truck The odd soft branch is okay, but those things are like razors!

Going in and out the Itchy and Scratchy way That being said, the path isn't that long... you'd only be suffering for a few hundred meters. After that, it's AWESOME (as you can tell from the pics!)

Either that or bring your hedge clippers with you

 

[j_dog]

Just curious, are you going in and out the "scratchy way" where all the dirt bikers and quads are? Or is there some other entrance open that I don't know about...

Those scratchy bushes are the main thing keeping me from wheeling in Sooke... Take less time to drive to Jordan River than it does to polish the truck The odd soft branch is okay, but those things are like razors!

It's all good a little, "BC pin-striping" adds character to your cruiser!