Shame on me for leaving this for so long...
It's not as if there's been nothing to report, I just haven't found the time to write it all down, so I'll make a bulleted-list of what's happened:
- The first official ride of the season (BOTH of us present) came at the end of March where we re-visited the Ladner Creek area of the Coquihalla.
- I also did a couple of solo runs to the West side of Harrison lake in an effort to determine my fuel range. As it turns out, I can go over 150 kms before switching to the RES position. In fact, I never really found out what the number was...but it's over 150.
- In mid-April we did a daytrip to Boss/Davis/Shea lakes in the Kane Valley area, as well as a trek to the south end of Chilliwack Lake.
- On May 4th, we did a Tom Waits/Cheryl Tiegs trip to the Kane Valley again.
- June saw us travel to Barkerville and the Eastern Kootenays. While in Fairmont, I started having some issue with the TW, but attributed this to the altitude. While in Christina Lake, we were able to complete another large section of the C&W rail trail. Then, while staying in Penticton, we visited the newly re-opened Adra Tunnel along the KVR.
- At the end of August, we traveled along the Tulameen FSR to the washout. The bridge at this location has been completely washed away. This is no longer a viable route to reach Tulameen...thankfully there are still a couple of options.
- In early September, we camped in Osoyoos for a couple of nights. Haven't been here in years, but it would serve as a basecamp for our trip to Midway, where we went overland to Grand Forks, then picked up the C&W trail from there, back to Midway. The first half of this counter-clockwise trip was nice and scenic, but the second half was unimpressive; lots of gates, fields, and even a section of pipeline road.
A far as the TW goes...it has been running as faithfully as ever BUT...I've been having issues with the "cold starts".
I've had the carb off and on so many times I could probably do it blindfolded now...but nothing I've done has addressed the problem:
If I adjust fuel mixture as per standard practices, the cold-starts are awful. Once warmed up she runs fine.
If I adjust the mixture for better cold starts, she runs fine once warmed up.
I've swapped the pilot jet 3 times now and then stock #31 is back in there for good. I recall buying a ProCycle jet kit for my 2008 and it didn't seem to make much difference power-wise, but left me with an off-idle stumble that I couldn't get rid of so I went BACK to factory jetting and left it that way until the day I sold it.
I'm looking to get to that point with this one...where cold-starts aren't troublesome and she runs well once fully warmed.
A week ago, I took a trip to the Henning Warming Hut and my "Man-racks" rear rack snapped in half on the way down. I've since built another one, using the plans of the one I had on the '08.
This brings us up to date.
I'll try to be a bit more fastidious when it comes to updates.
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