Well today I got to ride the GG down the road, and on some trails. I also found out that the range is 62 miles....but lot of slow going due to snow and ice on the mountain road I was on. I have such a nice wife, called her up and said...SORRY bring the premix I almost made it home with maybe 4-5 miles to go.
I also meet my usual USFS ranger. We chitchatted he was showing me his book on exhaust. We did find where it says USFS approved, hidden under the plastic side panel. He also showed me what they actually are checking for with the metal rod. Also how that they are suppose to match up the design of the exhaust with schematics int he book...he said no one does that. Nice guy, I've chatted many times with him and it was me that stopped to say HI and offer to show the temp tag (I had in my backpack). Reason we talked about stuff is his words "some of these rangers are on a power trip and our asshole"...LOL
Anyways I went up, went to an area that does not get many people and I make tracks in the snow (hit and miss where there is snow a very light year). This bike is letting me ride at a whole new level, logs no issue and fun, steep hills not an issue and also fun. Drop the bike on ice, its so light to pickup. The rear tugger strap was used today...works great.
I decide to go and hit a road called Hotel Gulch. Solid ICE in one section, and its usually bad but this was nuts. It was so bad that further down a cabin near the creek had to of been flooded, and frozen solid in ICE...someone won't be happy come Spring/Summer when they see their log cabin destroyed. Also s car flooded and frozen solid...LOL Well this leads me to the next part of the story. I had no 2-stroke oil with me, and I tried but i could not get back up the road...in fact I slide down it out of control and that was probably crash 3 or 4 of the day.
So my options were to continue out to the main road and continue to Woodland Park or go Rainbow Falls back to where I came from. Thank God I opted for town. I get to town gas still seems fine. Okay not a huge deal back to my house is downhill all the way. So I feel good I can at least get out of the mountains.
I'm right, I get out...there was sputtering at a point so I did turn reserve on. That reserve does not last long on these bikes I'll tell you what. I get to my town of Monument, and guess what a cop going the other way. I wave, he waves, and he turns around after he notices no plate, no temp plate. I figured this would happen so not a huge deal. I stop, get out the temp plate, give license, give insurance card and he gives a little lecture...gives a warning and I'm on my way. I get through the blink your eye town and the bike finally dies. It was out of gas.
Oh well it was a great day, will be going out tomorrow too. Have a friend coming down from Denver and as he is a noob to off-road (well he took a school on off-road once many moons ago). He will be on the XR650R...it be an easy ride trying to stay off the snow/ice.
So is this the mileage I should expect?
