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[bukwessul]

Wow!
That looks amazing! Thank you for the pictures!
Those tunnels are very cool.

 

[Kuro Neko]

Wow!
That looks amazing! Thank you for the pictures!
Those tunnels are very cool.

Glad you enjoyed, and all I need now is another Cub to explore with...

 

[DeadguyAle]

Got a break in the rain so gassed up the trai and headed for the woods.
First stop was some Honda turmeric yellow fungi.


Then a detour to the decommissioned bridge I haven't visited since summer.


Stop at the beaver pond on the way out.


logs behind the bike used to be next to the road, some have freshly missing bark. Thinking a bear might have been working them looking for grubs. They are about 12" diameter and 6 to 8 feet long so no small effort to move.

Back on the main "road" a Spotted Owl flew across the path, stopped to visit and let me snap some photos. Not common occurrence by any means!

Took a break a few miles up the road. The route goes along a series of older roads that are not being used (by log trucks) currently. The base ranges from fist to football minus sized rock that gets pounded down by logging trucks when the area is being actively logged. I appreciate my suspension upgrades more every time I go out.

To be continued

 

[Kuro Neko]

Got a break in the rain so gassed up the trai and headed for the woods.
First stop was some Honda turmeric yellow fungi.

Then a detour to the decommissioned bridge I haven't visited since summer.

Stop at the beaver pond on the way out.

logs behind the bike used to be next to the road, some have freshly missing bark. Thinking a bear might have been working them looking for grubs. They are about 12" diameter and 6 to 8 feet long so no small effort to move.

Back on the main "road" a Spotted Owl flew across the path, stopped to visit and let me snap some photos. Not common occurrence by any means!

Took a break a few miles up the road. The route goes along a series of older roads that are not being used (by log trucks) currently. The base ranges from fist to football minus sized rock that gets pounded down by logging trucks when the area is being actively logged. I appreciate my suspension upgrades more every time I go out.

To be continued

Awesome stuff!

That bridge looks very stout, and likely still walkable? What was it built for?
We've some less than sturdy closed bridges in our area, and I would not even try to walk them...

Beavers, bears, and owls too - excellent.
No beavers here, but the bears recently in Japan have developed a taste for humans and over 200 people have been injured, and 13 have died.
Luckily, we've no bears in Chiba-ken.
We do have owls, but we only ever hear them call and if lucky sense one silently flying overhead at night. To see one would be very special.

Interested too in your suspension upgrades, as though mine seems to function well, it does klunk on full droop sometimes...

 

[DeadguyAle]

Awesome stuff!

That bridge looks very stout, and likely still walkable? What was it built for?
We've some less than sturdy closed bridges in our area, and I would not even try to walk them...

Beavers, bears, and owls too - excellent.
No beavers here, but the bears recently in Japan have developed a taste for humans and over 200 people have been injured, and 13 have died.
Luckily, we've no bears in Chiba-ken.
We do have owls, but we only ever hear them call and if lucky sense one silently flying overhead at night. To see one would be very special.

Interested too in your suspension upgrades, as though mine seems to function well, it does klunk on full droop sometimes...

The bridge was built to access forested land when logged and support fully loaded logging trucks so very heavy duty, would be no problem walking on it. Once the area has been logged it gets replanted and the infrastructure is decommissioned for the next 30 years or so until the trees are mature enough to log again.
The picture is a little deceptive in that I am standing on a 30 foot tall mound of dirt that was dug out from in front of the bridge. There is a very steep path down and someone has put a ladder to get onto the bridge. One of these days I will take my walking poles so I can get down the face of the mound then climb up. Not sure what the other end looks like but expect it is the same as this side.
Been reading about the bear problem in Japan, there are similar issues in parts of the US due to humans encroaching on remaining habitat that is left for wildlife. Around here bears tend to be very shy of people and still have thousands of acres of forest to roam.

Suspension upgrade for the forks are in this thread https://hondatrail125.com/index.php?threads/yss-fork-spring-upgrade-kit-y-fcm20-kit-01-030.3512/
Rear has Ohlin shocks with upgraded swingarm bushings. Even with stock tires the handling difference is dramatic when off road.

Always enjoy reading about your travel, fun to see different parts of the world!

 

[Kuro Neko]

In Japan - as well as the bears - some forest roads were built and maintained for the same reasons.
Others, are left to decay...

I will check out the suspension options too. thanks!

 

[DeadguyAle]

Ride report Part II
Route totaled 62 miles paralleling Grays river for around 20 miles on the Northern reaches.
Segway in the upper right was the path to the decommissioned bridge crossing the Grays river at around 1000' foot elevation.

Route continues to climb and peaks out at 1800' then drops down to 400' when I cross the Grays river on the second segway to the left


Two bridges here and a gate so end of the trail and time to head back home.


On the way back a run through the White Tail deer refuge is always a great way to finish up the day.
Trumpeter swans and Pin Tail ducks overwinter in the wetlands here.

And a nice White Tail buck, these are an endangered species in this part of the country so they have a 40,000 acre reserve along the Columbia dedicated to them.

Clouds cleared out in the evening and closed the day with a beautiful sunset.

 

[Kuro Neko]

Ride report Part II

Awesome stuff... great feeling to seeing your Cub in these locations.
Really nice to look at...

Nothing much from this end (in Fukuoka for work trip), but I did see this in a shotengai:



The matching helmet, and hand-cut sticker showing real commitment...