If you had 9 Days of Vacation, Where Would you Ride to? Starting location: Toronto

Marinoni said:
1. fly to LA
2. rent a 600 from these guys:

http://southbaysportbikerentals.com/motorcycles/

3, ride for 7 days on the best motorcycling roads in the world
4. fly back to onterrible
5. open a beer and contemplate how utterly crappy the roads are here
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Just met a guy yesterday at the snake, who was actually just doing that.

He said he got a ZX6R for $150, including insurance and gear, and he said most Ducs are around $200.

200mile ODO limit tho. That's the only issue I see with that, but still cheaper than riding all the way there from here.
 
Not as much a matter of where, but what do you want to do and or see?

I had some things I wanted to do, and ended up working it all out and had 9 days.

Saturday/Sunday Rode the Suzuki National Enduro 200 miles of off-road on the CRF250X (Loudon N.H.)
Monday Toured New hampshire on the BMW K1200RS
Tuesday/Wednesday Track Days / Racing School with Penguin Racing N.H.I.S. (Suzuki SV650S)
Thursday thru Sunday Americade Motorcycle rally, lake George NY with a day of touring in Vermont

So over 10 days, spent two days in the dirt, two days on the track and two days touring and days with friends at the rally
 
Outlaws Justice said:
Not as much a matter of where, but what do you want to do and or see?

I had some things I wanted to do, and ended up working it all out and had 9 days.
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Exactly what he says :-)

Also how far are you comfortable in travelling in a day and what's your budget.

I can tell you I have done Colorado south into New Mexico in 9 days - but that was also my second trip down and I had very specific things I missed on my first ride that I wanted to see. And I went cross-country on U.S. 36 which is kind of what you think Route 66 is going to be but isn't.

I have no interest in wandering around little towns, so I take that out of the equation for me - although I did love Jerome, AZ.

For my vacation next week I'm centering at a campgrounds in Milton, PA and making day trips from there - but I'm also adding hiking, mountain biking and white water rafting into my game plan and I'm only looking at 5 days total - but could easily add more stuff to that. I don't mind making a 800 km day trip.

Deals Gap area is certainly easy enough for that time frame - you could eliminate interstates pretty well altogether - ride the Blue Ridge, spend some time on there on the hiking trails if that's your thing - if not, just zoom on and off to some of the great sideroads.

New York, Vermont, New Hampshire - again can be anything from an extended long weekend to a full week.

9 days and the world is your oyster - enjoy!
 
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I go down to Deals Gap every year for the Katriders rally, 2 days riding down leaving Friday. Sunday to Friday ride the area and wander around. Saturday and Sunday ride home. I've slabbed it down and 16 hours of interstate sucks ***, now I take the scenic route down and enjoy myself.

As for the east Coast, 9 day wasn't enough for me, I did the Cabot trail 3 or 4 years ago with 4 others, and with we missed a lot of stuff and the trip was rushed.
 
Marinoni said:
1. fly to LA
2. rent a 600 from these guys:

http://southbaysportbikerentals.com/motorcycles/

3, ride for 7 days on the best motorcycling roads in the world
4. fly back to onterrible
5. open a beer and contemplate how utterly crappy the roads are here
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Into my 3rd day
Day 1. Fly to Arizona, bought a bike, Ride to California.
Day 2. Insured and registered the bike at the nearest Cali DMV Ride Angel Cres at night.
Day 3. Borrowed a friend's bike and ride mulholland highway to PCH.
Now ---- I need to ride home I have till Monday to get home or at least to Denver.
 
Might take a bit more time than nine days, but I wouldn't mind just following US 62 from Niagara Falls NY to El Paso TX.
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