So...lets chat....this summer's trips????

[willys]

OK....who's doing what? Riding wise that is for the summer months this year.

I have plans to do the Trans-Lab with 5 good buddies in early August. But before that we have planned a few 2 night camping trips to get everyone up to speed on camping off of a bike. It is easy to slap a tent and sleeping bag to a bike and go for 1 night, but extend that 1 night into 14 and the art of slapping isn't any good any more. You need to think and realize that it needs to be able to go back on and off many times before you get home again. So we have 2 trial trips planned too. Also a few meets to discuss what we each want to get from this trip personally. We also need to make sure everyone is comfortable riding gravel without the old spinzter slapping shut in a milli second's notice.....lol Yep we all have been there done that...so we think it's sane to do some gravel road trips to practice that too.
Some of us have traveled on bikes before for days and some haven't. Some have camped for more than a weekend and some haven't.....so the whole thing should be a blast for all.
Half the fun is getting ready for a trip like this IMHO as long as you don't over plan....and yes, I'm a planner.....ooops...lol
We have planned a 14 day ride to go from Toronto lets say, across the Trans-Lab, down through NFLD, across to Nova Scotia, ride the Cabot Trail, ride the coast all the way back to Montreal and then back home hopefully not on the super highway but if we need to, fine.

So..if anyone has ideas, thoughts, suggestions on what to do or see....please speak up.....we're all ears.

Enough about our plans.....what has anyone else thought of doing?

[PonchoV]

I understand there's a road (now) from Goose Bay to Cartwright.  No more waiting of a ferry.  Is that in your plans?

[willys]

Yes that's right ...it was completed last year...should be a blast....almost virgin road....augh...the thought of it....

[Altitude]

Im planning NFLD this summer. leaving Moncton, I say about a week there and back.

[bikerman]

Hey Guys, I would like to go but unfortunately cannot leave work for 14 days, but I would like to join you guys for the short trips and camping if you don't mind, I always ride my bike on off road but been long time I haven't been in a bike again until just last week I got her and trying to leave her ready before a long trip, the only thing to do now should be clean up my Carb just to be safe, never done before but shouldn't be a big deal.
Are you going on 250 cc or any size bikes?

Thanks, excited to go off road soon!

BM

[willys]

Bikerman....all the guys around that come out are on 650 or modded 650's up to 705's......but no reason you can't come on the 250...IMHO. We ride very close to the speed limit as the fines just aren't worth it any more. Those fun days are long gone. Most of the guys I ride with are leaning towards the street to backroad riding with some light trail riding. Adventure type riding, but there are a few who ride the trails. I know of many hundred miles of trails that you can ride if you choose to from 25 plus years off-roading my Jeeps and ATV's. Off roading is now also becoming a dying sport thanks to the many who sooner ruin it for others than save it for future use. But that is another discussion altogether.
Give me a call if you like to shooit the breeze about it....any time....7----0----543------74-----31-----8
Jonathan

[gravelroad rider]

I am hoping to go along on a trip with the mn. guys to the gilbert area for some playing

[Eastern Rider]

For anyone planning on coming to the Rock, I'd suggest you check out ridetherock.com.  It's a local adventure riding website with lot's of useful information and helpful folk.

ER

[rarepartbuilder]

Hi Folks
With all the technology/// I wonder if there is a way  to post a highlighted map of a grooups planned ride... so when the mapped out plan comes close to another members area.. suggestions could be made for things to see or avoid...I talked to a gentleman last year stopping over night in a New Brunswick campground from the mid-USA on a dual sport.. the last leg of his trip was to ride the Cape breton cabot trail then ride to the other end of Nova Scotia and take the cat ferry back to Maine from Nova Scotia...  He had no idea the ferry quit running the year before! Hopefully we saved him a 200-300  mile change of plans..

Ride safe..
Bill

[PonchoV]

Sounds like a AAA for bikes could be centralized, but a forum would need to be on board.   There would be thousands of hits just for the update road data alone.

Wonder where such a site might be located?????........

Dates of the input data & update by riders passing through.
Could actually be full time fun too.

[td77]

Heading to northern MN from Flagstaff, AZ in early June and heading back in late June.  I may try to work in a stop in Moab on the way.

[Widow]

My brother and I are riding from Oklahoma to Toronto in August, me on my KLR pig and brother on his Harley pig    I'm requesting some wisdom of my northern neighbors in that area.  Got any knowledge of a great tent camping spot close-by to the Toronto/Niagara area that is preapproved through your experience?  Maybe on the Lake?  Not trying to jack a thread here, just trying to get a 2fer..

Thanks ahead of time! 

[gunny]

check the state parks in the buffalo area, cheap to stay at, have showers etc and are generaly close to everything. Let me know when you will be up and I'm sure Pete and I can ride up for the weekend if you will be there on a weekend of course.

[Widow]

check the state parks in the buffalo area, cheap to stay at, have showers etc and are generaly close to everything. Let me know when you will be up and I'm sure Pete and I can ride up for the weekend if you will be there on a weekend of course.

Thanks for the info, were gonna knock out a fishing day, Toronto day and then a Falls day, so my initial thoughts were to try and find a place in between..but as a back up plan..it doesn't look like there is much travel (couple hours) from Buffalo to Toronto..so that's not too bad. 
 

[tmills]

Nova Scotia to Ottawa, Ont. Hoping to leave next week

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[lucky2]

hey tmills, have a great trip. i grown up in noel road, kennetcook area so i hit truro  every trip home at least a dozen times for the tim horton's coffee.

good to see another down homer on here, iv'e been away to long