2025 Day Trips!

mimico_polak said:
Looks awesome! Was hoping to go there on Labour Day weekend...but I'm sure it'll be super busy.

It's so close to the cottage that I would trailer the bike up and pop over when some time allowed.
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If you are just riding over from Wasaga it will be fine and beautiful for the ride through the park, but camping will be sold out. Beaches will be busy and there will be lots of walkers/hikers in the park too. Fall is a really beautiful time in that park too.

Here's a nice little route for you too: Wasaga Beach to Wasaga Beach
 
Usually have all my rides in the Down Under thread but the road hazard today was noteworthy.
Bike running well - good run up the Gillies and this guy popped out on the road ...long enough to get a photo.
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Best riding day in a while. Up at Mungalli Dairy.
Some value for money here .....small latte and scones with real cream for $11
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Was getting a bit weary on the way home - 240 km ride and very enjoyable. First 200 km stock seat then switched to the AirHawk the last 40.
Riding with the padded shorts and stock seat pretty comfy. Likely next time will switch to the AirHawk a little sooner.
Back was a tad stiff but mostly gone now. Was wearing kidney belt. No sense of the bars being wrong, Throttle lock worked enough to be useful. Good loop light winds and mid to high 20s.

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Relevant drugs. Pseudoephridine, couple of Panadol to start, Celebrex to strip off a couple of decades
and Robax Platinum for a quick post ride sore back fix.
 
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Just a few rides this season so far. The weather was too good on Sun to miss riding and been a while I rode around Bancroft and the surrounding areas. Didn't try to hit all the usual routes, lower faraday road was in good shape.

The falls colours are already visible from Skyline park, and in some of the inner roads, which is a gentle reminder to take the bike out as much as possible.
 
A few of us did The Highlands Thurs & Fri. No fall colours out yet but it's always a treat to ride those empty & curvy roads.

917 km from the time I left the house to when I got back.
 
Decided last min and headed out last weekend (or was it the weekend before) for a longer ride, based on @shanekingsley 's route. I miss riding with a group tbh, but usually my plans are last min so I don't get a chance to post them up.

Pleasantly surprised to see @matt365 in his truck on 401. If he were on his bike, I would just joined him for a ride lol.

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The highlights for me were Lower Faraday and Northeys Bay (which I haven't been on in a while). Tried incorporating the Armstrong rd around Maberly, but soon realized that I was going the opposite way and it's gravel, I gave up and head the other way.

A couple of pics along the way.

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I still have a couple of routes that I really wanted to do...especially Thessalon - Chapleau that I have been eyeing for a while. Not sure if it will happen this year due to other commitments. For now trying to squeeze in a few more rides, as and when I can.
 
Friday was a glorious day to spend riding the double track of the Ganny and North Humberland forests along with a ton of unmaintained backroads.
Enjoying buddies dark homebrew post ride was just the icing on top.
 
Riding to the office on an ATV this morning, curious bystander watching me.

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For some reason, past Sun was quite busy in terms of traffic. No complaints, it was a nice warm day. 507, Glamorgan, Harburn, Haliburton lake rd, Kashagawigamog lake rd, S lake rd (enroute Minden), Deep Bay rd, Monck Rd, and back down.

In the spirit of exploring a new road, I took a detour between Nogies creek and Flynns Turn, a short diversion on Kennedy dr, and was planning to rejoin 36 via the adjacent Edwin Dr but the construction had cut off the connection between the two roads. I rode Kennedy dr back. But if I were to do it again I might just take the Nichols Cove rd and join back via Kennedy dr. It's very tight and technical, and with a lot of cottages and decent amount of traffic for the size of the road. Took it really easy on those roads.

Other than the usuals S lake rd is pretty sweet, though its short. The road has decent asphalt and is quite enjoyable.

Hard to stop for pics when riding, but had to take a couple just because the fall colours are here. It's quite visible on 507 and Glamorgan more than other roads. I feel in the next 2 weeks, it would be a good time to do a fall ride.

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sburns said:
@shanekingsley nice run, what's at the end of 14?
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Nothing! It just turns into a gravel road with some cottages. But the out n back to that point is fun and has zero traffic, so it makes for a very different kind of experience compared to everything else.
 
Are all of those roads unpaved @shanekingsley ?

I was out in the Highlands again over the weekend (this time the southeast section - we stayed in Cloyne) and made a point of doing a road you've mentioned called S Lavant Rd. It was gravel for a almost half of it before it went to paved at Lavant Stn (from that point it was nice, if short).

You're the guru of roads here so I like to take note of the ones you recommend so wondering about that one out of Dorset to point 14 - all paved it sounds like then?
 
LBV said:
Are all of those roads unpaved @shanekingsley ?

I was out in the Highlands again over the weekend (this time the southeast section - we stayed in Cloyne) and made a point of doing a road you've mentioned called S Lavant Rd. It was gravel for a almost half of it before it went to paved at Lavant Stn (from that point it was nice, if short).

You're the guru of roads here so I like to take note of the ones you recommend so wondering about that one out of Dorset to point 14 - all paved it sounds like then?
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I was wondering if they had finished the paving work on South Lavant yet…

That road out to point 14 is paved halfway to about 15-20 km from Hwy 35. Then it turns to hard packed dirt - I would have gone on it to the end of the dirt, but I was with an FJR that still hasn’t been dropped in 100k, so we skipped it.

If you don’t mind a bit of really scenic hard packed dirt, then up near Kenissis Lake is a road called Redkenn Rd, which leads to Boice Bradley Rd, and will shoot you out near Fort Irwin. That dirt stretch is very easy for a street bike and really scenic for fall colours through the woods!

One thing I forget to also mention is that the bits I did east of Hwy 11 between Washago and Bracebridge (Coopers Falls, Houseys Rapids, Uffington Rd, Bonnie Lake Rd, Stephenson Rd 1E and Deer Lake Rd) were really nice for fall colours and just fun riding overall.

The best twisty part of Coopers Falls Rd was gravel due to road work, but very hard packed and easy to ride. There was actually a fair bit of gravel on this route only due to road work throughout, and all of it was pretty short lengths and easy to ride.
 
shanekingsley said:
I was wondering if they had finished the paving work on South Lavant yet…
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I think the last time I rode it paved, had to of been around 4 years ago, the last 3 years it hasn't been paved. I'm starting to think the people that own the cottages there want to keep it that way to deter bikes🤔

I'm in Ardoch as we speak and the colors are all over the place, some still green, some reds and yellows, and some trees are bare.
 
manuel hung said:
I think the last time I rode it paved, had to of been around 4 years ago, the last 3 years it hasn't been paved. I'm starting to think the people that own the cottages there want to keep it that way to deter bikes🤔

I'm in Ardoch as we speak and the colors are all over the place, some still green, some reds and yellows, and some trees are bare.
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I've always found Ardoch Road colours turn a bit sooner than other places. Maybe it's the type of tree's with all the silver and reds but I love that road in the Fall.
 
LBV said:
Are all of those roads unpaved @shanekingsley ?

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S Lavant Rd. It was gravel for a almost half of it before it went to paved at Lavant Stn (from that point it was nice, if short).
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LOL. Just yesterday, I ended up in a ditch on Lavant Road. It was partly due to my lack of skill in riding on gravel and the Duc's ABS going crazy because of the gravel.

I decided to include this road in my latest road trip because, two or three years ago, I absolutely fell in love with it.
 
PacoT said:
LOL. Just yesterday, I ended up in a ditch on Lavant Road. It was partly due to my lack of skill in riding on gravel and the Duc's ABS going crazy because of the gravel.

I decided to include this road in my latest road trip because, two or three years ago, I absolutely fell in love with it.
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Can you turn the abs off, or is it an always on type of thing?

Hope you managed to keep the bike upright or at least were going very slow because of the gravel.
 
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