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Zemus DE
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Well first off I am sorry I didn't get this up earlier.
Anyhow as most people know there was that big storm that hit the northwest a few weeks ago. Well Dimension Edge was exhibiting a Cycleworld International motorcycle show in Seattle the weekend prior to that storm. We were hoping to see Augi and a few MBcers at the show which didnt happen, but that is ok. I didnt post the fact that we were doing that show until like 3 days before the show itself.
So after the show was over the first wave of the storm came through and closed the pass outta Seattle. We then decided that since we were stuck we might as well go visit augi in Ocean Park. So we called him and got on our merry way. oh yeah we checked the weatherchannel.com before hand. Looked and saw that there was a good amount of rain and just figured "Hey its just rain, theres no problem". So we drove through the rain all the way to Monteceno Wa. There police were blocking the roads because all the trees where starting to fall. so we turned around and got no farther then 500 feet from the cops and a power line broke and caught up in the solar panels of our bus. Luckily it was just the support line and it did no damage. We stayed the night in a Monteceno grocery store parking lot(every light pole there fell to the ground over the night).
The next day and night was spent trying to find any way through all the downed trees(pics below). we eventually got stuck on some coastal road after going over and under so many trees until, no joke, the last tree which was a more then 3 feet thick all the way across the road and was like 8 feet off the ground. And because it was 8 feet high most traffic could make it through, so no construction crews would stop for us cuz they had more important roads to clear. So we waited until we heard another highway was cleared which was a pain because there was no power, no cell service, and phone lines where down almost everywhere. So we drove down down a cleared highway and finally made to Ocean park just over 48 hours after we left Seattle
So when we got to Ocean Park there was still no power or phone service so we just parked at one of the grocery stores hoping someone would spot us out, which happened. I feel really bad but i forgot who found us, but he caught us in the morning makin breakfast and let augi know where we where and we finally hooked up.
Now after all that work to get here we wanted to go for a ride. Now we had a new problem. Because Dimension edge is friction drive we use different rollers for wet roads, and since we where in Seattle, all of our customers wanted the all-weather rollers. So we gave them all away at the show without even realizing it. So we had to wait for a lil sun to dry the roads a little. Eventually we got off so Augi and crew showed us as much of their peninsula as the downed trees would let us. eventaully we got back and took a few pictures and went back to montana.
the bummer is that we dont have any pictures of all our bikes together or of the ride. I didnt have time to reread so if there is typos or whatever, im sorry
Thank you all out in Ocean Park we had a blast.
Anyhow as most people know there was that big storm that hit the northwest a few weeks ago. Well Dimension Edge was exhibiting a Cycleworld International motorcycle show in Seattle the weekend prior to that storm. We were hoping to see Augi and a few MBcers at the show which didnt happen, but that is ok. I didnt post the fact that we were doing that show until like 3 days before the show itself.
So after the show was over the first wave of the storm came through and closed the pass outta Seattle. We then decided that since we were stuck we might as well go visit augi in Ocean Park. So we called him and got on our merry way. oh yeah we checked the weatherchannel.com before hand. Looked and saw that there was a good amount of rain and just figured "Hey its just rain, theres no problem". So we drove through the rain all the way to Monteceno Wa. There police were blocking the roads because all the trees where starting to fall. so we turned around and got no farther then 500 feet from the cops and a power line broke and caught up in the solar panels of our bus. Luckily it was just the support line and it did no damage. We stayed the night in a Monteceno grocery store parking lot(every light pole there fell to the ground over the night).
The next day and night was spent trying to find any way through all the downed trees(pics below). we eventually got stuck on some coastal road after going over and under so many trees until, no joke, the last tree which was a more then 3 feet thick all the way across the road and was like 8 feet off the ground. And because it was 8 feet high most traffic could make it through, so no construction crews would stop for us cuz they had more important roads to clear. So we waited until we heard another highway was cleared which was a pain because there was no power, no cell service, and phone lines where down almost everywhere. So we drove down down a cleared highway and finally made to Ocean park just over 48 hours after we left Seattle
So when we got to Ocean Park there was still no power or phone service so we just parked at one of the grocery stores hoping someone would spot us out, which happened. I feel really bad but i forgot who found us, but he caught us in the morning makin breakfast and let augi know where we where and we finally hooked up.
Now after all that work to get here we wanted to go for a ride. Now we had a new problem. Because Dimension edge is friction drive we use different rollers for wet roads, and since we where in Seattle, all of our customers wanted the all-weather rollers. So we gave them all away at the show without even realizing it. So we had to wait for a lil sun to dry the roads a little. Eventually we got off so Augi and crew showed us as much of their peninsula as the downed trees would let us. eventaully we got back and took a few pictures and went back to montana.
the bummer is that we dont have any pictures of all our bikes together or of the ride. I didnt have time to reread so if there is typos or whatever, im sorry
Thank you all out in Ocean Park we had a blast.
