My Motorcycle is RATTLING to PIECES... | S1E38

It's being held on by one bolt My journey begins at North America's most northern drivable point The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe from there I'll make my way across Asia and down to Australia New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across North America So there's been a change of plans so as you may have seen in my last video I was in Alberta I lost my license plate and I had to drive into BC to the nearest town three hours away a town called Valemont so I'm like a couple mountain ranges over from where I was and And I've been thinking well It doesn't make a lot of sense to drive all the way back to do the Rocky Mountains along the Alberta BC border And there's a lot of great mountains here in BC. So here let me show you in the map what I got planned so what I'm gonna do is drive south from Valemont and just past Blue River I can go into the mountains here and I saw there's like a road that goes really high in the mountains here and It seems like there's maybe a mine or something So I'm just gonna go in there and check it out it looks really cool and then I'm gonna head down all the way down here to the north end of Adams Lake and then I'll go across to Seymour Arm and Then I'm not sure where I'm gonna exit, but probably I don't even know how to say that Crag-a-la-chee Crag-a-la-chee and Maybe end up in Revelstoke. To be honest, I'm not sure exactly what's all in the area But I'm kind of excited for it and to be honest, I'm a little more excited than the Alberta route Maybe it's just because I'm from BC. I don't know but to me it seems like a lot more rugged unexplored area Whereas the Alberta side is I think You know, it's it's it's literally called a highway. Whereas I'm gonna be riding for service roads and logging roads all day. So Yeah, for me, this is gonna be a little bit more of adventure So maybe this whole license plate thing is gonna turn out to be to be a positive. So anyways, let's get going I have about a hundred kilometers to do before I get to the gravel All right Let's head south from Vail Mount Oh God, shift it So I'm gonna head to Blue Lake and fill up on gas and then a couple K after Blue Lake is the turn off For the FSR that I gotta hop on to and go for a bit of explore But oh my god, what a beautiful day for it. It's not a cloud in the sky No smoke Today feels like a no-pressure day for me because I know if I just go into the bush they're Interesting things are gonna happen. I'm gonna see beautiful things Cuz you know some days are like Okay, I'm gonna ride across this area. That doesn't seem like a lot going on. I gotta find something to one entertain myself with but also Entertain you with but today's just a lot of back roads logging roads and I'm pretty excited. It's Yeah up this one road. I don't know. It just it looks like it goes right into the Alpine But I've no idea what awaits me. So Look at that glacier up there. I don't even know what about that is, but Sure is cool my gas light just came on and I still like I might have to go back to Vailmont. I thought I should be at least be able to get 500k, but it's not looking good 58 kilometers 31 kilometers I Have to turn around Yeah, I don't have like I'll explain let me just turn around This bike doesn't give you a distance till empty So you just have to go the mileage and I figured I could get 500k, but I guess I did all this highway If I keep going as possible, I'll run out of gas if I go back to Vailmont, then I'll Okay Go back to Vailmont I have a better chance of getting gas I knew I should have filled up. I was just being lazy. I was like, oh, I just want to fill up once Yeah, there's no fuel gauge is just a light when it's low so like on your car You'll have like a little gauge give you you know, three quarters full one quarter. This is just difficult by mileage so I think on fancier bikes, you'll have like a number of kilometers you can do but I Don't have a fancy bike All right, I made it I Got 19 liters and the tank is 18. So yeah, I don't think I would have made it to Blue River. I Got lucky I think any further I would have run out of gas All right, here's our turn off Time to climb This road is pretty fun It's trying to get some views already That mountain the glacier hanging off of it on that nobody drives here this bridge Yeah Plates still on still on good. All right back to the main road Well, I'm getting down to the river now boats across it BC I love you BC. I haven't seen a single person on this road yet This road is amazing According to my map There's a big lake down to the left. I have not seen it yet. It's a river from Blake. Oh It's a dead end Oh Close to landslide. Oh I really wanted to go up there Closer to the last night. Yes, it's clear. I don't think you need the sign. Oh Oh, it's Could maybe drag the bike through here, but oh Yeah, it would be a mission to get the bike through here I'm sure You see those hard Enduro guys, you know That's this is what they would love to do I don't think I'm good enough to go through here So I saw the map that this road goes really high and I was like, oh it looks amazing This is where I want it. This is the one fork I wanted to do But I guess not So I guess we're gonna keep going south then Man, if I was a better rider, I could probably get through this but I'm not a better, right? Okay, well that's disappointing I guess I've got to turn around then All right. Well, I want to go look at the lake then Because it's here and I'm a little bit hungry and the lake I think will be a good spot to have lunch although it's a little late for lunch, but There's a little road here Down to the lake And a picnic table Perfect So now we're heading south So there's a bunch of lakes along this river so the river is called Adams River and we're gonna head to We're just gonna pass by a lake called Adams Lake And we'll head to a place Called Seymour Arm Looks like a tiny little community. I have no idea anything about it Yeah, and it seems like they might even have gas there You knew what you wanted and you fought so hard Just to find yourself sitting in a golden cage Left turn My case is moved No My case moved, okay It's being held on by one bolt. I thought I heard something rattling But the bike often rattles, so I was like I'll ride over And I also wear these noise cancelling earbuds, so I don't hear a lot. I'm just because I want to protect my hearing Maybe I should take this case off It's I'm still in my shakedown phase at some point this bike is going to become bulletproof You know what I do have These bolts on my license plate. I Do have those That might solve my problem actually This thing doesn't want to come off so easy Thing is both both halves are moving so it's hard to get them to line up Come on little guy There we go So here's a problem There's I have four bolts Holding this plate, so this is like adapter plate which attaches to the case I have four bolts and Two of them are completely missing. I have this one, but all the hardware underneath it. It's gone and This one is still holding true so now I might have lucked out because these might fit in those holes Alright, let's take the license plate off the thing is I locked headed them, so It's not gonna come off so easily This one's moving Okay, so will they fit in the hole? They fit in the top hole, but not the bottom one That sucks Okay, maybe Maybe I can just zip tie the whole thing down Maybe that's the solution here. I Have lots of zip ties. Okay, I put this back It's just all the vibrations it's just so hard on all the things like the bike itself should be able to handle it, but Everything I've done to it a bit of a question so I Was having so much fun on that road, too And whenever I'm having fun the bikes like not too much too much fun to be had Watch these zip ties. They're gonna last like hundreds of kilometers I've always worried about this because it's like a lot of leverage in that The box is fairly heavy because it's got all my computer stuff in it I Think the setup is okay. I just need to lock tight everything I think that's the key with the vibrations is lock tight five per side maybe Nice them to cut these holes in this plate. I Don't think they were meant to be used like this though One two, three, four five. Okay one more on this side Got to keep it got to keep the hack balanced man It's on there pretty good now All right, let's put this case back on. Let's see Lots of dirt, oh it's fouling now, but if I force it it should go on The problem is there is a spacers in the bolts So lift the plate up a little bit off the the mounting surface and now the spacers are gone. So it's fouling More leverage It's on oh I'm glad there's no bugs out All right So I don't think I'm gonna make it the Seymour arm today and I don't even sure if I should try to go there, but just the lake is just over here Adams Lake and I looked at my map. There's two rec sites on the lake and How's that doing back there? So far so good So, yeah, I'm just gonna camp there tonight cuz yeah, it's already six o'clock I think so By the time I get to any town like I'm still a ways out, you know, I'm in the middle of nowhere here so I Just want to go fast but All my computer and camera stuff is being held on with zip ties right now, so it's maybe Better to take her easy But yeah, my past experience with zip ties with the license plate couldn't even hold the license plate on so Well, we'll see how it goes All right, there's a lake and I think there should be a rec site That it Still in the Sun a little bit nice I smell smoke Someone parked here already I guess there's One site Maybe that's alright Well as usual things always go a bit wrong but they also go right as well and There's a great day in the mountains and my neighbors here are actually super friendly They gave me some tips on what to ride tomorrow It sounds fairly advanced and so I'm not sure if I can do it because of the situation with my case but I'll try my best to see if I can do it sounds like it heads up into the Alpine and it's pretty pretty epic trail so But anyways, thanks for watching and hopefully I'll see you in the next video