2025 rides. Where the **** are you going?

Gaoler

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Provided we're all still here next season... Where y'all planning on touring to..?
Besides as many day trips as he can manage, Gaoler will be tripping out to BC for sure.
'usually stays on this side of the border, but if the US isn't embroiled in all out civil war 'might take a US route next summer.

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A few rides I've been meaning to do for a few years but never got around to yet:

-Up to Flin Flon SK, never been in that area yet. I'd like to go even further west but I don't think I can get enough time off work.
-Still haven't been up to james bay, can tour the power plant up there too
-Want to do the translab through QC/NL and into Nfld. Not sure if I should attempt that with my sport bike as I think there are several long sections of gravel which I heard can be pretty bad depending on how it's graded.
-Other than that, just weekend rides to PA/VA. Maybe VT/NH too.
 
danp said:
A few rides I've been meaning to do for a few years but never got around to yet:


-Want to do the translab through QC/NL and into Nfld. Not sure if I should attempt that with my sport bike as I think there are several long sections of gravel which I heard can be pretty bad depending on how it's graded.
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'Buddy of mine has done it a couple of times... On a F800GSA. 'He says its not that bad.
A quick google tells me it was paved completely in 2022
 
Gaoler said:
'Buddy of mine has done it a couple of times... On a F800GSA. 'He says its not that bad.
A quick google tells me it was paved completely in 2022
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No, large sections of hwy 389 are still unpaved, I think there's still several hundred kms of gravel.
 
Gaoler said:
Isn't hwy 500 the actual Trans-Lab though... ;-)
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I guess, if you're gonna start at the east end of labrador, ride across labrador to the quebec border, then make a u-turn and ride back. But most people who do the ride do a loop and that involves riding the 389.
 
danp said:
I guess, if you're gonna start at the east end of labrador, ride across labrador to the quebec border, then make a u-turn and ride back. But most people who do the ride do a loop and that involves riding the 389.
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Whenever my buddy starts talking about doing that trip again I'm like... "Have fun with the mosquitos, bears and sleeping in a bog".😁

But. I guess that's all part of being an "Adventure" rider... :)
 
mimico_polak said:
Hoping to loop Lake Ontario.

Looping Lake Superior requires a bike much different than a scrambler.
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If you want to do both lakes and make an IBA ride out of it, PM me. 😉

Myself? I was planning this totally dumb but oddly intriguing to me ride, (and don’t read into this and take the thread full potato political anyone, please), but after the election and expected political climate in the USA, it’s not likely going to happen now. At least not something even remotely that long and detailed. In the future now I guess.

I’ve always wanted to ride to the Northwest Territories (I’ve kinda sorta already got Nunavut already lol), so Hay River NT is on my radar. This would be an easy one for me to plan and accomplish as we have family in Alberta and my wife would jump at the opportunity to fly out there and meet me in the Edmonton area - I’d ride out there and back in a bit less than 2 days each way. Hay River is only 1000km from there. I’d try to get a tour of the Buffalo Airways hangar while I’m there too, bucket list item. I’ve already met Mikey and Joe (and been in DTD, for anyone who followed along on those adventures), but their hangar would give me a cool destination and cool tour.

Other than that…. running to the very end of Highway 138 to Kagasha in Quebec has been simmering on the back burner for a few years. There has been talked with my riding buddies of going out to the end, turning around and backtracking to the ferry and then doing the Gaspe loop. But Gaspe left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth when we were out there with the camper last year (about the fifth time for us) so I guess I’ll have to see if I can wash that out.

I also strongly suspect that me and my two riding buddies will eyeball going back down to West Virginia again this year to finish what we started last tear, but that too will be very political atmosphere dependent.
 
danp said:
What exactly are you expecting to change in the US? More hassle crossing the border?
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Who knows ultimately.

Canada is being portrayed as an unfriendly nation right now to a lot of the US population. The vision of roaming hordes of "illegals" crossing the border into the USA with guns and drugs from Canada is now being put into the minds of those who wish to believe it. We are being belittled openly and frequently, and the upcoming leadership is portraying us as complete ********.

I expect the people to be less welcoming in many areas, and personally I've no interest in travelling to those places.

So yeah, let's leave it at that so the thread doesn't get sent to TT. Everyone is welcome to do as they please, travel as they wish, and envision the welcome we receive and the attitudes we may experience (or not) in their own way.

This should probably be it's own thread, so if anyone wishes to continue it post it in the right place, and lets move on here....
 
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Gaoler said:
I wouldn't worry too much about that.. it's more likely our dollar's worth is going to fall so far that travelling in the US is going to cost waaayyy more than we're used to.
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That too.
 
Was in Orlando a couple of days ago. Nothing's really changed there. Half of our annual ride to Vermont wants to go somewhere in Ontario.
If my buddy's life is in order, we might make our cancelled trip to Alabama next year, but we won't know until we get to that time in one piece.
 
Planning a trip to the Mid-Ohio Vintage meet. We'll take a week and ride some nice roads on the way there.
Paris Rally, Bad Living Good Times rally and the Festival of Speed are now annual events for the group.
It's not a ride but we've booked a trip to the IOM for the Manx Grand Prix.
 
My goal is to point south crossing the boarder in cornwall and ride till i run out of time and need to turn back to get home in time for work. should be close to two wks.
 
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