Your favorite weekend/long weekend trips

Manitoulin is great.Red Lodge http://www.manitoulin-island.com/redlodge/ is very biker friendly.
Stubby and I a couple years ago after the ride up.Our cabin is in the trees behind us.
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Wasted said:
So many amazing options. I think I'll have to ease her in with some of the shorter Ontario trips and then maybe take a few days off and do a PA trip as well. With any luck I can convince her to get her own bike by the 2013 season and the longer routes will be more realistic for a 'weekend' trip. SO pumped for spring now....thanks to everyone for the posts and keep 'em coming!!
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Its easy to see what we all do on the weekends in the summer. Its all easy to see we forget sometimes that not everyone thinks of Tobermory as a "day trip" :-)

Now the hardest part is going to be breaking it to your girlfriend on your first trip that she can't pack 5 changes of clothing, makeup, hair dryer, curling iron, matching shoes and bag for each outfit - I still remember the horror when my b/f told me I had one saddlebag on the Bandit for all my stuff for our 4 day trip. On the plus side, we ladies do get used to "grunging" it - and its added incentive for her to get her own bike.
 
Hey Rotten Ronnnie:

Are you the one that hit a dear on the 404 while travelling with a group of other riders on the 404 a few years ago?
 
BeastieGirl said:
...I still remember the horror when my b/f told me I had one saddlebag on the Bandit for all my stuff for our 4 day trip. On the plus side, we ladies do get used to "grunging" it - and its added incentive for her to get her own bike.
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I gave the ex two bags and kept a side case and the tankbag for myself. :P
 
Rotten_Ronnie said:
I gave the ex two bags and kept a side case and the tankbag for myself. :P
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She came to that realization the other day. I suggested that a good way to double the storage space would be for her to take over my bike and then I'll buy a new one. 2 bikes = 4 saddlebags!! It wasn't immediately shot down like I had expected it to be so I think that I'm making progress hahaha.
 
Wasted said:
She came to that realization the other day. I suggested that a good way to double the storage space would be for her to take over my bike and then I'll buy a new one. 2 bikes = 4 saddlebags!! It wasn't immediately shot down like I had expected it to be so I think that I'm making progress hahaha.
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Congrats I wish ill get your luck with the wife this spring.
 
For a weekend trip, you can go to Ottawa and back. If you take the side roads, and more twisty roads, you can make it a 700km a day trip.

For a small starter, you can ride to Huntsville via the backroads, and then take the backroads home the next day. This would be approx. 400km a day. (more or less, depending on how far you want to deviate).

Hope this helps.
 
Rotten_Ronnie said:
I gave the ex two bags and kept a side case and the tankbag for myself. :P
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I guess i'm spoiled.Stubby gets one saddlebag on the Couchrocket and i get the other.I can fit a 24 in the trunk!:p
 
Wingboy said:
I guess i'm spoiled.Stubby gets one saddlebag on the Couchrocket and i get the other.I can fit a 24 in the trunk!:p
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LMAO!

Happy wife, Happy life. :P
 
Wasted said:
She came to that realization the other day. I suggested that a good way to double the storage space would be for her to take over my bike and then I'll buy a new one. 2 bikes = 4 saddlebags!! It wasn't immediately shot down like I had expected it to be so I think that I'm making progress hahaha.
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Well although I started as a passenger, there is of course no requirement that you log any time as a pillion before piloting your own bike. But on a slightly more serious note, the only reason to ride for either guys or gals to ride is because theyreally want to. If she really wants to ride, you won't have to talk her into it (encouragement and support are good - pressure is bad :-) )
 
break her in slow.....cross the border and head up 219 to ellicotville...stop for a quick pint there, then head over to Letchworth state park ....slab it back to the outlets for some shopping and buffalo wings...rack up the points!!!!
 
BeastieGirl said:
Well although I started as a passenger, there is of course no requirement that you log any time as a pillion before piloting your own bike. But on a slightly more serious note, the only reason to ride for either guys or gals to ride is because theyreally want to. If she really wants to ride, you won't have to talk her into it (encouragement and support are good - pressure is bad :-) )
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Her brand new jacket came in last night and she immediately checked the weather to see if there was a day to get out in the near future. I don't think that I'm going to need to 'pressure' her hahaha......I may have created a monster lol lol

I also have dirt bikes including a nice tame 4 stroke TTR230 so I think that in the spring when the fields dry out a little bit I'll get her on it and see how she likes it. No sense in shelling out the cash for a MSF until she knows that she wants to ride.
 
i would love to find some hills where i can ride up and down, sadly there isn't one, plenty in BC i remember.
 
Wasted said:
She came to that realization the other day. I suggested that a good way to double the storage space would be for her to take over my bike and then I'll buy a new one. 2 bikes = 4 saddlebags!! It wasn't immediately shot down like I had expected it to be so I think that I'm making progress hahaha.
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The other option is to keep your bike for yourself and get a dedicated sport touring for your 2up trips, luckily my fiancee is good with this. Now I get a second bike, just have to wait until the end of the season probably to buy it.

Make sure not to plan your first ride of the season as a weekend trip. Make it only a couple hours around town if need be until she gets comfortable being on for longer periods of time after not being on all winter. Remember that your seat is way more comfortable than hers and you want her to stay comfortable and build up to longer rides or she will loose interest faster than you want her to.
 
YAY I just scored a 18L tank for my SMC. Since I dont have to carry jerry cans I can finally do nice 2up camping trips.

I was considering going to killarney for may 24 weekend. I want to go through Manitoulin Island by taking a ferry from Tobermory. Is this a good idea? Any one wanna join?
 
Geez about time you got some range on that beast.....120k range at your speeds means gas stops every 45 min ;-)

Ferry is great but May 24 weekend roads and ferry will be jammed.
 
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