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Hi My name is Michelle (aka: The Grasshopper) Welcome to Grasshopper's Ride, the adventures of a mild mannered, middle-aged bookkeeper on a motorcycle. Highlighting the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. ------------------------------------------- Let's start with an Intro! With my bike down for repairs, I have a bit of extra time on my hands. So I have prepared a trailer for my YouTube Channel, Grasshopper's Ride. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWHkOm8ZDUQ8XzdHkbM9ng?view_as=subscriber Have a watch, it's silly, funky and just good fun on two wheels. Have a great week everyone! I'll post other videos here for your viewing pleasure. Unless everyone starts throwing rocks at me, then I'll quietly retreat back into the forest again.....lol

Two eager Himalayans waiting for their afternoon walk. ?

Had our fill last time...

Expecting 8-12 inches tonight, ( and no, I don't need to hear "That's what she said" jokes ? ). Hopefully the forecast is off by a bit and it misses us....

I did mate, I guess it had about 135000km in these pics, I sold it in december 2017 with a little over 140000km on the clock for 600€.

We'll be expecting some ride report pics?

mid to end of next week I'm taking a ride through inner Portugal, finishing with a dip in the ocean. Not to spit in your porridge, just putting things into context. In average, we're average

Going up in altitude on variable road surfaces, adverse cambers, sheer drops, strong crosswinds, and at the summit it was cold enough to give me white fingers! Then on the way back I stopped to check out the Old Peoples Home (cos at 66 you never know)......and they put the barricade across the road!

Great photos @XTreme ?

I was looking through some pics for a froggy farceburke page and thought you migt like to see thm here, though some of you saw them back in 2015 on Maximumbikes, so you may pass your way. The pics are from a ride I did in september 2015, I rode with a group from Auxerre up to Sixte Fer A Cheval on the Saturday and when they turned around to ride home on the Sunday, I headed off on my own. The plan was to ride the Grimsel, Furka and susten passes in the day, finishing at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland overnight and riding home from there, via Belforet and the Autoroute on the Monday. the day got off to a bad start with a flat rear tyre. I think a pinched tube when having the rear tyre replaced a day before leaving so I lost a lot of time furking about with that and then riding gingerly as far as Chamonix before making a decision as to whether to continue on alone into the swiss alpes, or turn for home and ride the autoroute where I had garanteed air pumps at regular intervals and easy assistance if required. The tyre seemed to be pretty much holding pressure when I checked it at Chamonix so I said "Furkit" and kept going. up towards Martigny looking back to Chamonix and Mont Blanc I had lost so much time in the morning that when I got to the junction of the furka and Grimsel, it was clear that I no longer had time to do all 3 passes in the day and get to Lauterbrunnen before dark ( september, swiss alpes, 1500m plus altitude, in the above pic I had stopped to put on winter gloves already and it wasn't midday yet, so I really didn4t want to have to ride at night with the temperatures involved) After much soul searching I decided that I should skip the up and back trip up the Grimsel pass and push on to the furka and sustenPass and complete the loop round the Jungfrau to Lauterbrunnen as planned. so I turned my back on the grimsel pass that had been on my bucket list for years ( i'll obviously have to come back) and headed east up the Furka Interlaken The Jungfrau, from Lauterbrunnen. The Campsite handyman lent me his compressor the next morning as my back end was flat again. It had survived all day previous with no problem... Riding in Switzerland on the secondary roads rather then the autoroutes is a slooow business and I averaged only 50 odd km/h all the way from lauterbrunnen to the border, but once back in France I hit the autoroute at Belfort and it was a long booring run home checking the rear pressure at every fuel stop.

Odd, lots of Corsicans have guns, no one tells them otherwise

Yeh but there's Zombies on the way Chris........

Unusually cool here......and no rain! I can live with that!

In the future, I'll just send my bike to get groceries by itself

I like it, and love the horn at the end.

Nicely done. Wish I could edit video like that.

You and me both...??

So it should get you up to 50bhp then @Buckster?

Very remote.......this is actually the road......it's not some rural path!

Thank you Rick for writing this. And thank you for being such a good friend to me. Tomorrow will be four years since Billy left us. I sure do miss him. He was a one of a kind true friend. Love you Billy

Me and a mate were lucky enough to get snowed on riding up there in 2010, I don't think i will ever get a chance to ride that valley in fresh snow ever again our bike tracks were the only ones there