> I did it before in the summer of 1995 in a van but as you know there is > nothing like a road trip on a bike.
Pfft, I know nothing of it. I don't even know how to ride a motorcycle yet, my first bike is this Nighthawk with a blown engine that I rescued from being parted, to convert into electrical. So, even when it's done I'm looking at maybe 60 miles of range and, more importantly, 5 hours between charges. I did buy a generator and am looking for a motorbike trailer to someday make a longer trip. I'm jealous of the rest of you. > Of course the road stopped at Inuvik then and the last 150km to Tuk was just > opened last November as you have described. Being the most northern road in > Canada (likely all of N.America?) I have to go there. I mean, Alert ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut ) has, sort of, a thing that is a road. It has buildings and 62 people, and vehicles, so vehicles drive somewhere. And it's 1300 miles further north. The contiguous continent doesn't go much farther north than Tuk until you go, oh, 2000 miles farther east where literally no one lives. There's nothing even remotely as far north that's a continuous road, even between villages. The most northern road on the east of the continent is the Trans-Taiga and it doesn't even go as far north as Hudson's bay. It's barely half way through Quebec. Though, there's also the Dalton through Alaska that ends in Deadhorse and the oilfields, which I think ends a few miles further north than the Dempster, along the same coast. But, that's barely a logging road, it's recommended to take survival gear if you're going to even attempt it. > I should do it on an proper ADV bike and may actually consider that, but a > Nighthawk is what I have and has proved incredibly reliable over 140,000kms > so why not? Well I gave you lots of reasons why not, but you're determined that it will be "fun" and "fantastic" and you "probably won't even die." > Dawson City "City", population 1300. > I usually travel with a RotoPax gas can but It is cumbersome and on this trip > figure I might need 2. You should also consider that you might not be traveling at a fuel efficient speed, and gravel will eat up your range a bunch. You're not going to bring a trailer though, just the side and top bags? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
