Fuzzy
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Is kick stand down or not?
Who Needs a Kick Stand?
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It's pretty much vertical so it has to be on the center stand. All that luggage on the back is making it rest on the rear tire.
JoeTx
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look how far they got, real good try, may be just a little bit to the otherside.
ChuteTheMall
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Those centerstands do like to sink in if it's soft.
itlives
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Looks like the woods would have been a better choice. The wife is gonna be pi$$ed when he doesn't come back with the milk and diapers.
Old Can Ride
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Ah, the Dalton Hwy on a good day! Yes, I have to have one of those new Honda Africa Twins? Last summer the entire road washed out a few days before I got there. The state of Alaska took weeks getting the road passable again. Thank goodness one of this forum's members let me know a few days before I got there!
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I did that to my 250 Husky 4-speed eons ago on a spring day. What I had to do was dig out the mud on one side of the wheels using a stick & my hands, then push the bike over on its side and drag it to firm ground. It happened to me 2-3 times and after that I rode back to the truck, loaded it up and drove home...totally exhausted. :-(
ps. can't imagine doing that with a large, overloaded adventure bike
ps. can't imagine doing that with a large, overloaded adventure bike
No centerstand. He has dug himself out a nice deep pocket for the rear wheel to sit in. And the road ahead could well be as long or longer than the road behind. Looks like one of those days (like OCR's pic) where we wonder why we do this to ourselves.
Agent
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It looks like Helge's gotten Olga a bit dirty.
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oof, my back hurts just looking at that...
wickerman
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Looks like a good place to set up camp for a day or two.
Old Can Ride
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Looks like a good place to set up camp for a day or two.
Can not set up camp safely along the Dalton Highway. Grizzly bears stay hidden along the side of roadway, looking for fresh road kill. If the grizzlys don't get you, the huge mosquitos will suck all the blood out of your body.
anglachel
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With mosquitoes that size in the area Grizzly bears should end up being far too anemic to be much of a threat.
Agent
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One day I'd like to do some riding in Europe and go see that bike. It did a 10 year round the world trip and now lives at the BMW museum in Munich. Very cool picture Fuzzy.
