{"id":21413,"date":"2019-06-30T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=21413"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:53:07","slug":"canadian-rockies-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2019\/06\/canadian-rockies-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Rockies &#8211; recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trip is over. Most of the guys flew home. Adam and I fly home in a couple hours. Hanging at Colin&#8217;s shop &#8220;number 8 wire&#8221; at the moment. Film photos to come in a month probably.<\/p>\n<p>Thought I&#8217;d do a quick recap.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall I had a ton of fun. Really great time<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll quote Quinn; not the trip I would&#8217;ve planned but glad Ben and Adam and others planned it<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful scenery everywhere. Mountains and hills. Wildlife. Stuff I&#8217;ve never seen in this capacity and scale<\/li>\n<li>Covered 2100 miles total<\/li>\n<li>No major bike breakdowns<\/li>\n<li>4 crashes: 1) Ben lost a water bottle on dirt trail and it took down Andrew. 2) Ben slid on slick wet mud and toppled over at 1mph. 3) Quinn lost it on a dirt road and went down at speed but was okay. 4) Quinn tries to climb a hill and lost<\/li>\n<li>Impressed with Quinn doing everything on Guzzi<\/li>\n<li>BMW GS did everything really well<\/li>\n<li>No motels<\/li>\n<li>XR650L was a champ. Did everything great except over 75mph sucks bad<\/li>\n<li>Weather varied a ton. Super cold then hot<\/li>\n<li>This trip def made me rethink my rain gear and cold weather gear<\/li>\n<li>I accidentally burned my RSD gloves by the fire<\/li>\n<li>Shinko 805 tires did great but not going to get them again. Was impressed more with other guys TKC80 tires<\/li>\n<li>This trip was mostly on-road but we def did a nice amount of off-road<\/li>\n<li>Def adding an oil cooler to the XR<\/li>\n<li>6 people and everyone was able to compromise at times<\/li>\n<li>XR650L averaged 47mpg<\/li>\n<li>Favorite Quinn quote: &#8220;I got caught partying&#8221; &#8230; when he crashed on dirt road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All setup now in Montana to do future trips heading south all off-road so happy about that.<\/p>\n<p>Trans continental divide trail off-road going south, Cali desert, then ultimately Baja someday. But probably come out to visit Colin again soon, and explore more of Montana off-road for a long weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_8321.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_8321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"897\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_8321.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_8321-700x837.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trip is over. Most of the guys flew home. Adam and I fly home in a couple hours. Hanging at Colin&#8217;s shop &#8220;number 8 wire&#8221; at the moment. Film photos to come in a month probably. Thought I&#8217;d do a quick recap. Overall I had a ton of fun. Really great time I&#8217;ll quote Quinn; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[282,294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21457,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions\/21457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}