On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 21:06:51 UTC-4, Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:
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On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:13:38 -0500, John wrote:

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:14:34 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 17:24:16 -0800 (PST), True North
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On Thursday, 4 February 2021 at 20:56:06 UTC-4, wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:44:33 -0500, Wayne B
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500, John wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:13:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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justan wrote:
John Wrote in message:r
That is the
question:https://www.motorichmond.com/New-Inv...=list--Freedom

Isn't Free!

HERE'S THE ANSWER I THINK YOU WANT. GO FOR IT. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG
ONCE.

I still have my motorcycle endorsement on my license, but I think the
reaction time is not there anymore to ride.

I just stopped because this is not a motorcycle friendly place. Too
many people who can't seem to see one in the city and not enough roads
to make it interesting in the country. Southern Md used to be a great
place to ride with lots of little winding country roads criss crossing
the 3 or 4 southern counties. There is really nothing like that here.
Roads tend to be long straight 2 lane blacktops.

We have some great roads over by the mountains, or over the mountains in WV.
Southern MD is too boring.

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We were on some great windy roads in WV a few years ago, over near
Cass and Green Bank. There's also a very cool steam railroad in that
area.

https://wvstateparks.com/park/cass-scenic-railroad-state-park/
I was never committed enough to ride from Southern Md to WV. I did
ride up to the GW Forest once but I was usually just a short ride guy.
Someplace we could go and stay off the interstate. Annapolis on the
back road was a nice ride. Maybe out near Harry's house, loop around
through LaPlata and back up through Chuck County. There are lots of
little roads only locals know about down there.


I was thinking of getting a small dirt bike to ride the rails to
trails up here. We also have lots of logging roads criss crossing the
province. The plan would be to load the dirt bike on my Mission
utility trailer to access any where in the province.

Only time I ever got hurt on a motor cycle was dirt biking ... twice..

I broke only my little finger dirt biking. Tumbled into a little gully I
couldn't see.

I drove off into a cofferdam that I didn't know was there. The water
broke my fall ;-)
Nothing broken but I was beat up a little, the bike survived. The
carb was high enough so it didn't ingest enough water to hurt
anything. Took the plug out, spun it over. Put it back and it started.
I sold it soon after that so I don't know if there was any long term
damage but it got me home OK.
The other time I just got slipping on some leaves and tumbled down a
hill. My only problem was staying away from the bike. Again, nothing
broken but I got scuffed up a little.


I had a Kawasaki A7 Avenger. Junior rocket ship that went really quickly
and had handling problems. Wife was very happy when one day the rotary
valve came apart and caused engine destruction. Even split the barrel on
one cylinder. I would ride it in the dirt rarely as the gearing was to
high to go slow where needed. Caused a few scratches from potholes in the
dirt.


Another great bike for Blanco would be the Honda Super Cub. I know they
brought it back now, but those old 50cc 2 strokes ran forever at 110 mpg.


Dealer told me those bikes weren't submitted by Honda to pass Transport Canada road standards. Supposedly the cost of doing so not worth it for a small market. Might buy one if available, seems to meet most of my criteria and should be good on well maintained trails.