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Motorcycle Forum / General / Motorcycles / April 2008A Great Day For a Ride
After a ton of really crappy weather the sun finally came out, the ice melted off the road and a few of us headed out for a short ride. I threw out an invitation on a local riding forum to let folks know I was going for a putt today. Nothing too ambitious, just a short ride to the Black Diamond Hotel for lunch and then ride home. If you saw The Unforgiven part of it was filmed in The Black Diamond Hotel. The Bar/Restaraunt was remodeled to represent the early western period the film portrayed. It is a very cool place to eat and a popular place for riders to stop while on one of many day rides that would take you through Black Diamond. Anyway only one rider responded to my post, Dan. Dan has just moved to Calgary from Nfld and not knowing many people here welcomed an open invitation to ride. I was pleasantly surprised that a half dozen of the folks I regularly ride with were at the meeting place when I rolled in. With seven bikes in tow we headed out for Black Diamond. Damn after a winter that just doesn't want to end, it's great to be riding again. Not much of interest to report. The weather was great, the roads clear and relatively free of traffic, the food was terrific and the company even better. All in all it was a very pleasant way to spend the day. As you can see from these pictures, we were not the only ones thinking the same way! http://www.actualriders.ca/april08.htm Those pictures were taken in Bragg Creek, a common meeting place for riders. It is a convenient hub for several popular day rides. You could take a similar picture any Saturday or Sunday when the weather is good. This is going to be a very good year for riding. I hope everyone here gets out and enjoys the season and makes it home safe at the end of the year. -- See Ya On The Road 2000 Yamaha Venture Millennium 2004 HD Road King > After a ton of really crappy weather the sun finally came out, the ice > melted off the road and a few of us headed out for a short ride. Enjoy it while it lasts, the dark rain clouds we had here today will be yours tomorrow...! (Prevailing westerlies). Tell you what, we can try an experiment... I'll spray a whole can of WD-40 into the air and first thing tomorrow morning you should be able to smell it. > Those pictures were taken in Bragg Creek I'd sure like to take a bike up the Bragg Creek road again, and see the ice caves on Canyon Creek. SQ >> After a ton of really crappy weather the sun finally came out, the ice >> melted off the road and a few of us headed out for a short ride. > >Enjoy it while it lasts, the dark rain clouds we had here today will be >yours tomorrow...! (Prevailing westerlies). The only weakness in your theory is that big rock between us called the Rocky Mountains. Often that rock will block the clouds forcing them to dump all their moisture on your side. ;-) Last time I checked the weather here is looking ok for the next few days. Cooling off by the end of the week, but that could still change. >Tell you what, we can try >an experiment... I'll spray a whole can of WD-40 into the air and first [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >I'd sure like to take a bike up the Bragg Creek road again, and see >the ice caves on Canyon Creek. You're too late Sean. The Ice Caves were closed many years ago. I think they became unsafe. By the way a bunch of us are headed to Osoyoos over the US Memorial Day weekend. I believe that is the 23, 24, 25 of May. If you have the time why not ride out and join us. It would give me the chance to buy you a beer. We are staying at the Sahara. If they are booked up try the Poplars on the other side of the parking lot. -- See Ya On The Road 2000 Yamaha Venture Millennium 2004 HD Road King > The only weakness in your theory is that big rock between us called > the Rocky Mountains. Often that rock will block the clouds forcing > them to dump all their moisture on your side. ;-) Those rocks have been there since dinosaurs walked the Earth. If they totally blocked the rain clouds there'd be a 60-million-year's worth build-up of damp air mass hovering over Capilano Canyon. Well sometimes it seems that way from here (and particularly whenever I take a ride over to the North Shore) but actually they just get squeezed a bit every time they're forced up over a ridge such as the Cascades, the Monashees, the Selkirks, and so on. By the time they get to you they've pretty well been scrubbed, rinsed, wrung out and hung up to dry. >> Tell you what, we can try >> an experiment... I'll spray a whole can of WD-40 into the air and first >> thing tomorrow morning you should be able to smell it. ps. You'll have to ride down past Lethbridge to catch that little aerosol cloud as I'm a fair bit south of Calgary's latitude. >> I'd sure like to take a bike up the Bragg Creek road again >> and see the ice caves on Canyon Creek. > You're too late Sean. The Ice Caves were closed many years ago. I > think they became unsafe. No kidding. Well, ya had to clamber 100 feet up a loose scree slope to get to them and they weren't anywhere near as interesting as the Cave of Wonders in Disney's _Aladdin_. > By the way a bunch of us are headed to Osoyoos over the US Memorial > Day weekend. I believe that is the 23, 24, 25 of May. If you have the > time why not ride out and join us. It would give me the chance to buy > you a beer. If I can get the time off I'd like to. > We are staying at the Sahara. If they are booked up try the Poplars on > the other side of the parking lot. What do I do, just roll into town and look for a Road King with Alberta plates? SQ >> By the way a bunch of us are headed to Osoyoos over the US Memorial >> Day weekend. I believe that is the 23, 24, 25 of May. If you have the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >What do I do, just roll into town and look for a Road King with >Alberta plates? The Sahara has a courtyard with a pool. The motel owner lets us bring our bikes right into the courtyard. You can ask at the desk for my room (Don Binns) or just look in the courtyard for an aging overweight Albertan with a cheezy mustache. That would be me. I don't know which bike I will be taking, but being a Yamaha group there will not be many red and silver road kings or Millennium Ventures with a Cowboy fudging a dog while riding on a horse mural painted on the trunk. Or just call me on the cell 403-815-6358. -- See Ya On The Road 2000 Yamaha Venture Millennium 2004 HD Road King > Tell you what, we can try an experiment... I'll spray a whole can of > WD-40 into the air and first thing tomorrow morning you should be > able to smell it. Don't do that. The Water Displacement formula causes the atmosphere to dry up.  Signature.. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. 1979 Honda Goldwing GL1000 (Geraldine) .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 38° — Wind S 6 mph |
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