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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
![]() I left Yellowknife this morning a balmy -24C(-11f) and got home some 13hrs and 1300km(800miles) later with temps sitting at 11C(52f). My street is nearly void of all ice so after unpacking I decided it was time to fire up the Nomad and go for a ride after nearly 5 months of hibernation. Finally got to try out my goodies I got for Christmas, the Engine guard chaps, vista cruise and grasshopper backrest. It felt friggin awesome. ![]() Here are a few pix from our trip up North. Alberta/NT border crossing. ![]() Ice bridge across the Mackenzie river. ![]() Ice bridge is rated for 64 tonnes ![]() View of Yellowknife bay on Great Slave Lake. Those are houseboats frozen in ice that are used year round. You can see the ice road to Dettah, a small Native community. ![]() View of Downtown Yellowknife. ![]() Let the 2009 riding season begin! For me anyways. ![]() Login or Register to Remove Ads |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Toronto
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Now that's just cold ...
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Morinville, AB
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
...cool pics Bosko. Great that you are riding again! :)
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Location: Newmarket Ontario Canada
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
I was surprised by the apartment buildings they had, I never would have thought that. I guess they dont bury the hydro wires either. Another place I would like to visit someday.
Is the road to Yellowknife paved or is it still gravel? I was on it about 35 years ago in the south end.
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Very cool pics. Gotta love the ice bridges :)
Welcome to the 2009 riding season, hope it is a long one.
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
WOW!!! Is that the ice road that the show "Ice Truckers" use?!!!!
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Location: Grand Prairie, TX
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
What the heck is all that white stuff??
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Dedham Maine
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BOSKO GREAT Pics,, good to see you gettting ready to ride,,,
TARNIS BITE ME!!! :) I send smoe of that WHOIT FLUFFY stuff to Tx,, for FREE,, YOU wait LOL.......Rich
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Thx for sharing the great pics Bosko. I agree what IS that white stuff Rich????
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Thanks for the pics Bosko. I don't know how people "keep on keeping on" where the weather is like that. Being a prairie boy from Winnipeg I know what 6' ft. drifts and cold {-40 + a wind} is all about. But does it ever really warm up there? At least on the prairie it gets hot in the summer.
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Bosko that is some great pictures. I always want to move up North when the hurricane season approaches. But, I don't know.......
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Brrrrrrrrrr . . . . . . makes me want to go put on a jacket!!!
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
Bosko, I never ever want to be hardcore enough to ride when its that cold, I don't even wanna be outside when it is that cold
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Traded the touque in for my full face helmet.
I never heard the term "touque" until last week, and here it is again....
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