Wes’s Ramblings

Well, after a few months of workin on the TX on and off, I finally have had it back on the road, but not without issue, sort of…

My work list was as follows:
- New Brakes
- New points and ignition repair
- Body work and paint
- Handlebar change
- Wiring repairs
- buffing and polishing
- General reapirs

I had it out for a couple of rides and put about 75 miles on it before it decided to stop running on one cyclinder. Of course this happened the night before I was going to ride it up to the Ponoka Vintage Motorcycle Rally. I guess better then than on the ride up to Ponoka…

Anyway here are a few photos of the work:

Wesley J

There’s a yearly show and shine here in Calgary which I’ve attended the last few years. I’d say there are usually about 5-10 really nice cars. But really, we see nice cars in the magazines and on TV all the time. I think the really interesting cars are the ones that are just plane ugly or have the kind of design you’d associate with that car Homer designed that put his brother’s car company out of business…

So here are a few of the honorable mentions, rain cut my photo shoot short as there were plenty more:

Also, on a side note, they probably should call this show “Waves on Edmonton Trail” or something like that. The body and paint work on 95%+ of the cars was absolutely aweful….

Wesley J

Paul and I loaded up our bikes and headed for Ponoka at around 6:45 am on Saturday. We rode up some back roads, including about 5 miles of gravel… Sorry Paul

One of the highlights was having breakfast in Linden, AB at the local restaraunt. It’s run by some local Hutterites and the food was fantastic. Anyway, here are a bunch of photos of the trip.

I’ll try to figure out how to embed the trip log from my Spot GPS unit. For now, here is a link to the page: FindMeSpot.ca Link

Here is a short snippet of video from the end of the road from Kaslo pulling into New Denver B.C. The video starts with me passing Gary on his ‘02 Ducati ST4s. 

Click here to go to YouTube to see the high res version as I uploaded 720P source video.

Wesley J