Copy + Pasted from another forum I put this on:
it's a little overdue but if you want to read my adventures check out my blog here
http://dc1986.blogspot.ca/
I managed to kill about 5000km in 10 days. this was my general route theres probably at least 200-400km unaccounted for of me randomly going off this path:
http://goo.gl/maps/cVVm
Would have been about 6500 but due to a chain failure I was stuck in Halifax for a day and lost out on touring PEI. No problems Halifax is an amazing city. Cape Breton is so random with the weather. you can be in full cloud cover, drive 20km and be in the clear blue sky. here's my photo album:
http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s414/davec86/East Coast trip/
here's some of my favourite pics of the trip:
this is a "sprocket" lol
thick *** fog
Hopewell rocks:
Mt. Washington, ascending 6200 feet in 8 miles
There's well over 100 more pics I took ranging from the Keith's brewery to old quebec city etc. I also took a few hours of gopro footage of my going around the cabot and some of upstate New York. NY was a great place to rip around. such a low population and miles upon miles of twistie roads.
For animals I saw moose, deer, wild turkey, lots and lots of crows/chipmunks. I almost hit a turkey and deer crossing the road, it was awesome
Not mentioned is how I goofed up on one turn on the cabot. I think it was a decreasing radius and I fixated on the other side of the road. Didn't dump the bike! held onto it and came to a stop across the road on the dirt shoulder...However, Leaving cheticamp I had parked on the wrong side of a hill and as I was swinging my short legs over the bike it was a bit much and I gently layed the bike down:redface:
Costs I anticipated about $2000 for the whole trip which was bang on. It ended up being around $2500 though for having to get my chain/sprockets replaced. The guys at procycle in Halifax were A++++ in getting me back on the road again within 24H of me stopping there having to order me a rear sprocket and getting it next day shipped.
I found that doing it alone despite what so many people said about how I should do it with someone else. The simple fact is being able to do what you want, when you want, how you want is the best feeling ever. There was no better way to take this trip and nothing I would have changed(aside from the fact that I had to come back). Staying at hostels was the best meeting all travellers from all over the world kept me from being lonely.
Also, any road that has the word "trail" in it is almost always worth taking.
Cabot trail, Ceileidh trail, sunrise trail, Fundy Trail(which unfortunately I didn't have time to do but seeing it on a map it looks amazing and full of twisties
Thats all I have now. Once I get some of the videos edited I'll upload. Enjoy
it's a little overdue but if you want to read my adventures check out my blog here
http://dc1986.blogspot.ca/
I managed to kill about 5000km in 10 days. this was my general route theres probably at least 200-400km unaccounted for of me randomly going off this path:
http://goo.gl/maps/cVVm
Would have been about 6500 but due to a chain failure I was stuck in Halifax for a day and lost out on touring PEI. No problems Halifax is an amazing city. Cape Breton is so random with the weather. you can be in full cloud cover, drive 20km and be in the clear blue sky. here's my photo album:
http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s414/davec86/East Coast trip/
here's some of my favourite pics of the trip:
this is a "sprocket" lol
thick *** fog
Hopewell rocks:
Mt. Washington, ascending 6200 feet in 8 miles
There's well over 100 more pics I took ranging from the Keith's brewery to old quebec city etc. I also took a few hours of gopro footage of my going around the cabot and some of upstate New York. NY was a great place to rip around. such a low population and miles upon miles of twistie roads.
For animals I saw moose, deer, wild turkey, lots and lots of crows/chipmunks. I almost hit a turkey and deer crossing the road, it was awesome
Not mentioned is how I goofed up on one turn on the cabot. I think it was a decreasing radius and I fixated on the other side of the road. Didn't dump the bike! held onto it and came to a stop across the road on the dirt shoulder...However, Leaving cheticamp I had parked on the wrong side of a hill and as I was swinging my short legs over the bike it was a bit much and I gently layed the bike down:redface:
Costs I anticipated about $2000 for the whole trip which was bang on. It ended up being around $2500 though for having to get my chain/sprockets replaced. The guys at procycle in Halifax were A++++ in getting me back on the road again within 24H of me stopping there having to order me a rear sprocket and getting it next day shipped.
I found that doing it alone despite what so many people said about how I should do it with someone else. The simple fact is being able to do what you want, when you want, how you want is the best feeling ever. There was no better way to take this trip and nothing I would have changed(aside from the fact that I had to come back). Staying at hostels was the best meeting all travellers from all over the world kept me from being lonely.
Also, any road that has the word "trail" in it is almost always worth taking.
Cabot trail, Ceileidh trail, sunrise trail, Fundy Trail(which unfortunately I didn't have time to do but seeing it on a map it looks amazing and full of twisties
Thats all I have now. Once I get some of the videos edited I'll upload. Enjoy
