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Categories: Road tripsRoad trip to the lower mainland – 2026
My only significant motorcycle road trip of 2026 was taken on May 9th through May 14th. The trip was planned as an opportunity to visit familly in and around Chilliwack and to familiarize myself with longer distance riding for the year. As luck would have it, the ride did not go quite as planned. I…
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Fog lamps on my lowers
I’m over a year behind on updates so this post might seem out of left field. Last year I got my new 2025 Road Glide FLTRX and had it converted to a trike. Over the winter I’ve had a couple of little updates I wanted to get done, the largest of which was installing Harley…
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Categories: MotorcyclesHarley Davidson Road Glide: what is going on?
For decades purchasing a full dress Harley Davidson touring bike has been relatively straight-forward. There have been specific models like the Road Glide Limited, Road Glide Ultra, and the Street Glide Ultra that came pre-built with ‘full dress’ touring features. My personal bike for the last decade and a half has been a 2011 Road…
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Categories: General motorcyclingThe biker’s wave
If you’ve ever been on the road near a motorcyclist you may have noticed that they often wave at other bikers as they pass by. This kind of friendly greeting has been a biker’s tradition in many parts of the world for decades, stretching back to the first world war era. What does the wave…
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Categories: Road tripsRoad trip 2024: Home again
I described the ‘outward bound’ part of this year’s road trip in an earlier post. After spending four great days visiting family and friends in the Edmonton area I began my return journey. My route used highways I haven’t followed before that took me through Rocky Mountain House, Nordegg, and Radium Hot Springs. Along the…
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Categories: General motorcycling
Winter is coming…
I decided a few days ago that it was time to put my bike up for the winter. When I lived in the Lower Mainland I kept my bike insured for riding year-round: I was usually able to fit in a ride or two even in the winter months. Here in the Kootenays, however, winter…
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Categories: Road trips
Road trip 2024: to Edmonton
I seem to have unintentionally established a tradition of completing one ‘large’ motorcycle road trip each year. COVID put a stop to that for several years, and various other factors mostly relating to the deterioration of my ancient body have kept the trips fairly compact since then. But I decided to ‘stretch my wings’ a…
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Categories: Repairs and upgradesTour pack replacement: installing the tour pack
In my previous posts I covered removing my Road Glide’s broken tour pack and relocating the license plate to accommodate the replacement’s configuration. In this post I’ll go through all the steps I followed to get my new Advanblack King tour pack installed, including a few ‘side trips’ for things that went wrong. As a…
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Categories: Repairs and upgrades
Tour Pack replacement: relocating the license plate
I started looking for a way to get my broken tour pack repaired shortly after removing it in 2023. My preference was to find a specialist who regularly performed body work on motorcycles, preferably on Harley-Davidson bikes. I finally found a motorcycle dealer with a body shop in Kelowna, Konquer Motorcycles, but the news was…
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Categories: Repairs and upgrades
Breakage and removal of a tour pack
My 2011 Road Glide has served me well over fourteen years and 130,000+ km without major complaints. But something fairly major broke in 2023: the tour pack. The tour pack is what Harley-Davidson calls the full-dress touring bike’s ‘trunk’. Mine had not been babied, occasionally being overloaded and mis-treated a bit more than it should…
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