Oh yeah on the first day, we did about 60 miles. Finally we got to a nice lodge cabin called the Popple Depot. They sell gas at $1.25 a litre which probably comes out to close to $5.00 per gallon. Well it cost me $17.00 and it cost Chris $10.00. I guess the 650 gets pretty thirsty when towing all that weight behind it LOL!!!!. Thank god we brought an extra 10 gallon of gas with us. We only had to gas up when we arrived on the first day, and when we left on the last day. We used what we had brought in-between.

 

Nice pics Dan...I guess towing all that weight puts the reliability of the belt issue to rest.Too bad some of those boys on the brand-x forum can't understand that[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
02 650 camo

 

Dan,I read in your signature that you have Kimpex bumpers,any pics of the front bumper mounted on your P650?
The reason I'm asking is because I do alot of trail carving,meaning that I knock down alot of small brush with my P650 .I made a brush guard to push the small brush away from the edges of the fenders so that they don't get hung up on the black fender extensions,it's not stock looking but it works.
Two more questions, I was looking on a map where you're from, where is this area that you rode and the road that you guys were on, are those logging roads?

Cleve

 

Kawidan,
I was just wondering how your stoping power was with all that weight?

 

badprairie

You could definitly feel the weight pushing your forward when putting the break, but the bike breaked awesome. I used a combination of the engine breaking and the front breaks and I didn't have any problems stopping. I had to slow down extremely fast a few times due to holes in the road, and the bike stopped really well. I definitly have to say that the engine breaking helped a lot.

 

Cleve,

Here are a few pictures of my front bumper. The first 3 pics was what the bumper looked liked when I purchased it. A few months ago, I decided to add a piece of wire steel mesh to the bumper. This modification is in the last pic.

Stock Kimpex Bumper 1

Stock Kimpex Bumper 2

Stock Kimpex Bumper 3

Modified Kimpex Bumper

Here is a picture of a map of New Brunswick. We basically covered the area inside the red triangle I made on the map. We left from just bellow Miramichi and drove up North until we hit the river and then followed the river towards the West. The line going through the triangle is the Nepisiguit River. Most of the main roads are nice wide logging roads, but we did a lot of side road exploring up in the mountains, and these roads mostly consist of old abandoned loging roads, or snowmobile trais. Very nice terrain to ride in.

Map of New Brunswick


Dan

 

Kawidan,
About how fast would you say you were going when you had to jump on the brakes?? I'm asking because I am getting a trailer to go camping and I don't know if I should get brakes or not. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks

 

badprairie

It depends, but most of the time I was going between 35-40 mph on the nice roads, and like I said before, I was impressed at the stopping power of the bike with all that weight behind it.

 

Thanks for the pics on the Kimpex Bumpers for the front of the 650.It looks like they do an decent job of protecting the edges of the fenders.
Cleve