GS to the circle AND beyond !!.

[Snake2715]

I have the gasket set. If he wants it, I will overnight it. I will send a complete gasket set just in case anything else happens.

[NortwestRider]

Our wheels will hit the pavement of the Alaskan Highway in about 1 hour !!!!


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[snOhio]

what an adventure!!!

[adidasguy]

Update: No internet access but sent me a text message. Here's tonight's update.....

They are at "Fort Nelson, 491 km up the Alaska Highway. Dora is dry (no oil leak now) and doing great. She sure draws a crowd among all the Adventure riders up here on their BMW's"

[NortwestRider]

HEY ,we just got the internet up and working.Thanks Pat.

Well it's 9:45 and still very light out,everyday we get further north the closer we get to 24 hour day light !!.
So today was a good,HOT day,Dora did great and my wife is not very sore.I have never seen such long straight stretches of road,some as long as 10+ miles !!.
The scenery TOTALY changed today!
Tomorrow a 550km day to Watson Lake.







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[NortwestRider]

We are getting ready to head out for about 550km day today.I here that the Alaska highway starts to get rougher today.Should make it to Watson Lake tonight.Update tonight.


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[NortwestRider]

!!!!!! WOW !!!!!
Is all I can say about today !.
Lets start with wildlife.We saw 4 black bears,1 mother with 2 little cubs playing in the grass.
4 mountain sheep in the road in front of me,had to wait for them to move.
100's of Bison,so close you could touch them.
1 Carribo,almost hit her.
And alot of Moose.
Also it must be Butterfly season becuase there were 1,000's of them,when they hit your sheild at 120kph your pulling over to clean your sheild.
Ok so now lets talk about the road.You go thru the Rockies around Muncho lake and it's AMAZING !!.Twisty,tight,slow and ROCKY.Muncho lake is a jade color and AWSOME.After the mountains you come down and you can speed up for awhile.Than you come the first MAJOR construction project.25km of LOOSE,SOFT gravel that is so dusty you can only see about 10 feet.Than you have harder wet gravel for about 10km.Than fun really begins,no pilot car and 50km of soft,loose gravel and 100kpm !!.Oh Yeahhhhhh....The tires worked awsome,it took Kate a kilometer or so to relax and then she caught up and we were truckin !!.We ended up in Watson lake( the garbage town of the Yukon,there words not mine )550km.Lucky for us somebody here told us that we better have reservations for the rest of the trip.Our next stop was Whitehorse,but they no rooms,21 hotel/motels and NO ROOMS ..
Sooo we have to go to Haines Junction,a extra 100 miles.
All in all one of the greatest days of riding in my life !!.
Oh ya I forgot to say that it never really gets dark up here..hehe.2:30am and there was still some blue sky out !!.








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[Snake2715]

Sweet! Whats with all the signs on the trees in the second to last photo?

Sounds so awesome!

[NortwestRider]

Oh ya,thats the signpost forest.People bring signs from all over the world and hang them.As of right now there is over 72,000 signs,it started back in the 40's.


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[adidasguy]

Cool!
Those signs are really neat. The "earth muffins" in this country would have a royal cow for people hanging all those signs.
Glad Dora is doing well. That will be so cool if she makes it all the way back with that temporary patch on the gasket. That would be one for the record books!

(Remember a gasket set is a phone call away. Barb at the office is ready to overnight them, should you need them.)

[Banzai]

NwR (and anyone else who may be interested) a Gold Coast (Australia) based friend drove his Lotus Elise from LA to the arctic circle and back last year. He started a bit earlier and was on the road for almost four months but he kept up a good blog along the way. Here is his summary:
http://elsiefrombottomtotop.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/my-whole-trip-in-summary.html
If you want more detail and pics you can look in the 2012 section and follow the preparation and journey.

115 days on the road.  15,334 miles.   468.6 US Gals of petrol at a cost of $2268.58.   An average of 33.19 mpg (US Gals) or 39.8 mpg (Imp Gals).  57 nights in a tent at a cost of $1266.72,  and 19 nights in motels at a cost of $1547.95, and the rest were in people's homes.

He has just sold the Elise and bought a Toyota Landcruiser. Next year he will be driving it all the way to the tip of Sth America and as far North in Alaska as he can. That will be an even more epic adventure.

[NortwestRider]

WE MADE IT TO ALASKA !!!.

We didn't have internet yesterday,so I will catch you up.Yesterday we rode from Watson Lake to Haines Junction ( 625km ).Watson Lake is the armpit of the Yukon...there I said it !!.
I can't think of anything good about the place,except maybe the sign post forest.It's dirty,stinky,expensive etc,$125 for a room with no AC,stinky,next to a bar that was loud until 4am.Whitehorse is a cool town,clean and very touristy.The ride to Haines Juntion was HOT and dry and a pretty ride.



This is a STEEL GRATED bridge that is like 2,000 ' long and a real Buddha Loves You with knobbirs !!.





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[NortwestRider]

Today we rode from Haines Junction YT to Tok Alaska,over the roughest road I have ever been on.The road has huge frost heves,patches of deep gravel,parts of the road are just gone !!!.Luckily there were patches ( some as long as 30km ) of gravel,some wet that were smoother than the paved sections.The worst part is that you come around a corner at 90kph and the road is either gone or it's deep gravel!!.One thing that I can say about Canada is that the do warn you,Alaska not so much !!.And then there's yhe YUKON !!!,everything is 3x the price and not as good,gas is about $6 a gallon and a cheeseburger that is $4 in Seattle is $15 in the Yukon and not as good.The way we are making it is that we only eat 1 meal a day out.We eat yogurt and fruit in our room for breakfast and we make a half sandwhich and fruit somewhere on the road everyday.

DIRTY DORA !!!.






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[NortwestRider]

More pics from the road..






Our Alaskan cabin for the night !!


Tomorrow we ride to Fairbanks!!
Then REAL adventure begins !!


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[NortwestRider]

We just got word that there's a forest fire 16 miles away !!
Lets hope it go's the other way !!.


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[Vindicate]

Such a challenge and the pictures are very nice. Good luck with this voyage.

[steezin_and_wheezin]

Awesome progress so far!! The photos are really great, goodluck around those forest fires!!

[Snake2715]

Wow.. Full of challenges with a fire.. To the circle I mean ring... I mean hoop..

Get through that blaze and make sure its safe to do so.

[Vindicate]

Maybe motorcycle owner wanting to customise a GS500 in adventure style will like the link to Colombian enterprise who make special adventure accessory for our beloved GS500.

http://www.mastechno.com/marcas/suzuki/gs-500

Mastechno enterprise make a special style very strong crankcase protector bar. They make a very strong exhaust silencer muffler protection case. They sell in Brazil and Colombia and South American places. They say that they will soon maybe already sell their accessory in USA. Nice things and good pricing yes?

[NortwestRider]

Maybe motorcycle owner wanting to customise a GS500 in adventure style will like the link to Colombian enterprise who make special adventure accessory for our beloved GS500.

http://www.mastechno.com/marcas/suzuki/gs-500

Mastechno enterprise make a special style very strong crankcase protector bar. They make a very strong exhaust silencer muffler protection case. They sell in Brazil and Colombia and South American places. They say that they will soon maybe already sell their accessory in USA. Nice things and good pricing yes?

Good stuff to know !!


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