Road report Eastern Ontario to Southern Georgian Bay

Thu Jun 25 09:32:25 PDT 2015

No> I  took the 2 side bags and the top bag off  (Off loaded).  I 
emptied one of the bags and put it on the top spot then went for ice 
cream & beer.   I don't trailer my bikes unless I'm bringing a new to 
me one home or taking one without legal plates some where that could 
have me meeting the police.

On Thursday 25/06/2015 at 11:15 am, dominatr37  wrote:
> Wait,  you offloaded the bike?  Was it on a trailer this whole time?
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> -------- Original message --------
> From masonjs at nrtco.net
> Date: 06/25/2015  10:52 AM  (GMT-05:00)
> To Ralph <dominatr37 at optonline.net>
> Subject Road report  Eastern Ontario to Southern Georgian Bay
>
> I decided to take a couple of days off from retirement and visit my
> Daughter & 2 grandsons Mason & Rhys (The piano boys) in
> Penetanguishene on the south east end of Georgian Bay 400 km away.
> First I had to extract my Suzuki vstrom from the garage.  All I could
> see of it was the rear tire and taillight.  After an hour of hauling
> crap out of the garage the bike was free.  I didn't want to back it
> down the hill so I was looking at moving more stuff to jockey bike
> around.  Then I remembered a method I used to move my old Yamaha
> parallel twin 650.  I put the bike on the center stand and fired it
> up. Then I pushed down on the rear luggage rack enough to get the
> front wheel off the ground .  The vibration from the twin cylinders
> makes the bike dance on the concrete floor and I just walked it
> around.  I could move the old Yamaha around with one hand and put it
> away in a corner for the winter doing this. The Suzuki doesn't vibrate
> nearly as much as the Yamaha so it was harder to rotate.  I never
> tried this with any of the multi cylinder bikes but it might work for
> them as well.
>
> I decided to stay away from the main roads and run through "Dueling
> Banjo Country" some of which has become very high end cottage country
> (The Kawartha and Muskoka Lakes regions).
>  I stopped beside White Duck Lake to have the lunch I packed  but
> deer flies the size of sparrows drove me off.  I stopped at Dark Lakel
> and Furnace Falls to have this lunch with same results, then opted for
> the Chinese Restaurant is Kinmount.   They make an excellent burger.
> I left Westmeath at 10:30 am much to the dismay of my Labrador
> retriever Levi.  After 50 km of riding past farms and hay fields I got
> to Golden Lake where the bush, lakes and twisty roads begin.   Ruby
> Road from Golden Lake to Kilaloe was resurfaced a couple of years ago
> and is in excellent condition as was the Rockingham Road.  At the 100
> km mark I was at Combermere and now on Hwy 62.  I got off it at
> Maynooth and onto the 33 km of the Peterson Road (Elephant Lake road
> if you come in at the south end). This was a workout for both me and
> the bike as there are very few straight stretches in this 33 km.
>
> The road surface was better than normal with the south 1/2 in
> Haliburton County the better portion.  Peterson Road stops at Monck
> Road and I took this west through the Kawartha Lakes to Orillia where
> I was back in civilization.  Here I picked up Hwy 12 and turned off it
> into Midland.  I cruised along Midland Bay/Harbor looking north across
> the blue waters of Georgian Bay.  Then through Sunnyside and into
> Penetanguishene.
> I off loaded the bike then went to the grocery store to get some ice
> cream treats for the boys and the beer store to get some treats for
> Jim.
>
> Jim  Stay tuned for the return trip
>
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