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I've ridden across a few times. If you're comfortable with 800+km days, 6 days is doable, and so is 5 if you're in a hurry, and I'm talking about taking Canada the whole way. If you have a week, I would recommend riding across for sure. You could shave a bit of time if you cut through the US...

Agreed. I'm someone that occasionally parked there. There's still 15-20 of sidewalk available for pedestrians, and part of it is actually partitioned off with columns for pedestrian safety. I can't see how someone could say this is the "corporation" being greedy; they're perpetually out of...

I remember hearing a story about two riders that were being tailgated by some idiot driver. They repeatedly tried to get the driver to back off, but it didn't work. So when they stopped at another light and he stopped too close, they both did burnouts, laying melted rubber all over his hood...

Today is a beautiful riding day. Don't miss it!

Judging by the road 6 years ago or so, if you keep it under about 90km/h for the 380+km stretch from Matagami to the gas station, you won't have to brake too much for the frost heaves. But the subconscious knowledge that the 100km/h speed limit is essentially unenforced, and the long gentle...

Most people resort to bringing a jerrycan to get you through to the gas stop at 381km. Note though that if you're a bit heavy on the throttle, you may burn more gas in that first 381km leg than you planned. When I went up, I burned through about double the fuel in the first 140km before I...

My DL650 was awesome this winter. I put my BMW K1300S away for the winter, but I winter-modded my VFR800 (winter tires, grip covers) as a backup winter bike. The VFR800 is in the shop right now getting summer tires put back on as my spare/west coast bike.

Oh yeah. August long weekend some years ago, the bugs were off the scale. But the road is so quiet even during its prime weekend that you could (and would need to) run up and down the road peeing to the side in complete privacy to stay ahead of the black cloud of insects committed to...

With the right gear, you can find riding pleasurable to well well below zero. Admittedly, if you can't have fun without getting a knee down, well, yeah. I admit, a -24c commute in jeans and long johns gets old in about 20 minutes. But with heated gloves, heated jacket liner, jeans and long...

Just wondering, why ship your gear? I have a couple of the MEC totes http://www.mec.ca/product/5030-444/mec-skyway-airline-tote-unisex/ , and they're really useful for carrying stuff in bulk, big enough that I can stay within the desired 1 free checked-bag limit, plus one backpack and my helmet...

-24c before windchill. Biggest problem I found below about -10c is frost buildup inside my helmet. At -20c, my M+S tires also get pretty hard.

[/COLOR]In general, I agree with this. However, if you're hitting a popular park like the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island, you may want to plan ahead. I've been there twice, and twice it was full. They even reserve spaces for motorcyclists, and even those were in use by time I...

I don't anymore, as I'm not quite hammock-sized these days, but I spent years camping with hammocks. A surprisingly large percentage of my friends that camp do so with Hennessy hammocks, and they all LOVE them. I believe they all also use thermarests to help with the cold back. Considering...

I just saved myself a BUNCH. I had my BMW K1300S on TD, until this renewal jumped my rate from $2600 to $3400/year. My VFR800 and DL650 are on Echelon (by way of RidersPlus). Almost $5200/year just on my motorcycle insurance. I just moved the three bikes over to Aviva (by way of Dalton...

And to note, those arguments were so compelling that the US opened HOV lanes to single-occupant motorcycles nationally, and penalized any jurisdiction that tried to fight it (like NY).

I have a couple of C3's and just got a C3 Pro. The C3 Pro doesn't give you the Schuberth Divot. I used a spoon to help compress the chunk of styrofoam in my C3's causing the divot, lessening its effect but not eliminating it. Schuberth C3 and C3 Pro skull shape is very similar to Shoei. I...

I bought the Garmin Zumo 590LM kit with two tire pressure caps. Works pretty well.

I've ridden through the Rockies a handful of times. They're awesome, and terribly distracting. I found I had to abandon any hint of a schedule I had, and just accept that I'd be stopping after every curve to take in the view and take pictures. Stayed in campgrounds a couple of times...

You should check. A quick google search leans towards no; home insurance might cover the contents of your vehicle parked in your garage, but not the vehicle itself. The reason lean towards believing that vehicles are not covered is because with home insurance, you often have limits on the...

Are you saying your home insurance covers your vehicles in the garage? I don't think mine is and I don't think there's an option to add it.