Rally in Northwest????

[3Phase]

Scott. You have an aproximate arrival date? We need to find a close in spot to meet, and maybe stay overnight. Need it close enough for Tony, and whoever else

Bob, I'm trying for Vancouver, WA on Friday, Aug 27th, or Saturday, Aug 28th.

I still have some work to do before I take off, to The Great White North! and I have to find my passport or they won't let me into Canada even if I bring my Bob & Doug McKenzie CDs.

[XS1100 Newbie]

What the heck did Oregon do to the parks? In looking for a campground with tent sites, or even a campground, it appears that Oregon has turned most of the parks into day use areas only. There are a couple with tent sites, but not a good selection. May have to meet up, and ride.

[XS1100 Newbie]

Scott. You have an aproximate arrival date? We need to find a close in spot to meet, and maybe stay overnight. Need it close enough for Tony, and whoever else

[Alan1982XJ]

Another pair of wheels here joining in on the fun. ... if you guys are still active with this sort of thing before the heat is gone.

[XS1100 Newbie]

I'll try to meet as well.

[Geezer]

Be sure and post your route and I'll try to meet up with you. I've been as busy as one legged man at a butt kicking contest but I'll take some time off and take a ride that day...

Geezer

[3Phase]

It looks like everything is coming together. If everything stays on track I'll be heading up north next week for the first leg of a multistate (multinational?) trip.

Whatever else happens, this is going to be a fun ride! I hope I can meet up with at least some of the people that made the Detroit Lake rally last year as well as the new riders that have joined up this year!

[Kronk]

If you have a full week for a rally, I live in Grande cache, Alberta, and to get to here, you would have to go through the banff national park, the jasper national park, and up a windy mountain road. We are part of the scenic route to Alaska. You can legally camp in any spot you find along side the road once you are out of the park and into my area. It's an awesome ride, but there are only 2 roads coming here, 1 in and 1 out... and its about a 2 hour drive to the next town, but you could go 2 hours north of here, to Grande Prairie, and over to British Columbia for the ride south... but if you ever want to come up through Canada, let me know... I have a big yard for camping, and a wife who makes a wicked meal!

[3Phase]

Okay, skip the rim locks then. It shouldn't be able to spin the rim in the tire until I get the bike running anyway.

[Geezer]

I do need to find a set of rim locks for it. Someone did a messy job sealing the rim lock holes with epoxy and I'm not comfortable with putting tubeless tires on a tube-type rim or running a tube without the locks..

Rim locks are not required. Back in the early 1970s some moron ran his rear tire low on pressure on a KZ900 and when the tire spun and ripped out the valve core, he crashed and was majorly F'ed up. Then he sued Kawasaki for a fortune. After that several big bikes started coming with rim locks until tubeless tires were introduced.

If you run proper pressure, the tire won't slip on the rim... I started tossing rim locks on my KZ650 30 years ago and have done so on every street bike I've had since that came with them...

Geezer

[3Phase]

I guess you could put a tube in it. A bit old school but it should work...

I''m putting a new tire on Columbo. I'm going to patch the new-old-tire and put it on my '79 parts bike with a tube. It has a tube-type rim so it should be fine, especially since the parts bike doesn't actually run at the moment.

I do need to find a set of rim locks for it. Someone did a messy job sealing the rim lock holes with epoxy and I'm not comfortable with putting tubeless tires on a tube-type rim or running a tube without the locks..

Just pull it off and patch it, I did on my last rear, same as you I picked up a screw shortly after getting a new tire. Rode the Heck out of that tire and it was fine, all this stuff about never patch a MC tire is BS IMHO!

Brian, I'm really glad you've had good luck with patched tires. I had to learn my lesson the hard way: it's not always about me.

I tried to squeeze a set of rear tires that I really shouldn't have been using on my Corvair and one tire blew out as I came up to an intersection. The jolt and the rubber chunks rocked the engine on its mounts, knocked off the clutch cable and jammed the throttle linkage, shooting me out into the intersection like a watermelon seed from between two fingers.

My car t-boned a van carrying contract farm workers home from picking crops. I didn't have insurance back then (it's betting against yourself, right?) so, naturally, the contractor's insurance company sued my eye teeth right out of my head with a long list of transgressions that would have made Captain Stern in the movie, "Heavy Metal" look like a rank amateur.

It took me over five years to pay off the judgment in 1970s money and I could have a bought a new car every year with five new tires on it for what I wound up having to pay. I'll play with cards, dice, women and tequila but not tires, insurance, or other people that have absolutely nothing to do with me and my personal decisions.

[psycoreefer]

Just pull it off and patch it, I did on my last rear, same as you I picked up a screw shortly after getting a new tire. Rode the Heck out of that tire and it was fine, all this stuff about never patch a MC tire is BS IMHO!

[Geezer]

Ouch, that hurts. This is the second brand new tire in a year that's picked up a screw/nail, apparently from my driveway. I'll see what happens next -- twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action!

I guess you could put a tube in it. A bit old school but it should work...

Geezer

[3Phase]

I bought 3 new Avon rear tires some years back thinking I'd use them up over a couple years. I still have 2 of them and now they're too old to use. It really sucks having to toss what looks like perfectly good new tires...

Geezer

Ouch, that hurts. This is the second brand new tire in a year that's picked up a screw/nail, apparently from my driveway. I'll see what happens next -- twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action!

[Geezer]

I bought 3 new Avon rear tires some years back thinking I'd use them up over a couple years. I still have 2 of them and now they're too old to use. It really sucks having to toss what looks like perfectly good new tires...

Geezer