Polar Bear Ride

FLHTbiker · Jan 2, 2013

Alex, you gotta wife or anyone? If I was in Colorado I would have helped you bring the bike home with my trailer.

alex the dog · Jan 2, 2013

Thanks FLHT. I have a dog and live perhaps 25 miles from anyone else. Living in the mountains is great most of the time, but gets a bit remote in the winter when snow sets in.

Looked at my calender from last year where I write down the weather each day for future reference, and saw that I rode my bike last Christmas day when temp got up to 60. This year, it got up to 5. There just never seems to be consistency you can count on. Anyway, someone once said that if it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger. Ha!

cardboard · Jan 3, 2013

alex the dog said: ↑

Yeah, a trailer would have been good, but don't have one, and finding one would be too much trouble. I can't put a bike in the back of my truck cuz it has a topper.

There are times when you think you can take care of yourself in anything, but there are times when I wished I wasn't so stupid or independent to ask for help.

Just watched a video ( Alone in the Wild) of a guy named Ed Wardle, who wanted to see how long he could survive in the wilderness of the Yukon in the summer. He started out with a canoe, guns, fishing pole, axe, and supplies for an emergency. He was flown in to a gorgeous lake to camp and hunt for his food. But Canada said he couldn't shoot any big game, only small critters like porcupines.

He was doing OK for the first 20 or so days, but couldn't find enough food to keep his weight up. Started losing a lot of weight and all he could think about was food and his family. He was able to catch some fish, but started cracking up with no one to talk to. He lasted 50 days after crying for about 10 days (he really was going insane) and called to have himself air lifted out. Funny thing was, he was able to sustain his body, but he really went nuts right on his camera because he was so lonely.

I think about this sort of thing when I go up to Alaska for a couple months each year, thinking I'm tough enough to deal with anything on my own. But I can go in to town after a few weeks when I get lonely.
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I found a 6x12 Utility trailer with a let down gate. Got a condor pit stop in it and some straps. Works great for moving the bike or taking it to anywhere.
When I git home I stick the bike in the garage and take the condor pit stop out of the trailer. And I don't even have a tag on it.

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