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I've commuted to work on my bike a handful of times - 105 km, QEW from St. Catharines to Mississauga/Oakville border. It's somewhere between soulless, boring, and terrifying at all times... And that it can go from 130 km/hr to stop and go in a heart-beat makes it a miserable ride.

Anything on Mapleview is a ****-show...

C-FBLU just flew over my place at about 1000' AGL - how the other half lives, I guess.... Based on the flight-path, looks like some sight-seeing at the Falls today.

The Guild of Automotive Restorers in Bradford has the original George Barris mystery machine (among other amazing cars)

How most condo's seem to be handling it these days is putting the EV chargers on the common meter - then use sub-metering (often with smart cards associated for billing purposes) to do cost-recovery.

The Eaton unit with wifi, metering etc (top of the line) is about 4200 usd - about 6k CAD. Unless the house was gas everything, a 50a continuous load (which is what an EV charger counts as) will put most 100a services over the allowed utilization. Will it work, especially if you limit the...

Installing a Level 2 charger at home can get expensive fast... The charger itself can be 2-7 grand depending on the specific make/model and options... Install is very specific to the home/layout - a few hundred bucks if your panel is in the garage; to 10's of thousands if the panel is at the...

Posting here, as I'm not sure where it would best go... Had my M2 for about 2 years now, and thinking about my full M test/course. Did the M1 -> M2 via Learning Curves, would likely do the M through them as well, or possibly Niagara College (since NC is literally across the road from me...

I live just up the street from a college with a large international student population... Their unique driving style has become so normal, it just blends in... Turn right from the left-turn lane? Sure. Turn against the advanced green? Why Not. The roundabout, however, takes the...

The maintenance manuals are available... Kinda. No longer directly from BMW, but through Amazon and eBay, can get PDFs or CD's of the full factory service manual. Parts are easy, if not a little spendy at times - and for tools, other then a couple of specific torx sizes; nothing too exotic...

Given the sad state of some vehicles on the road; I'd be all in favour of safeties as part of the plate renewal process... Getting mechanically unfit cars and trucks off the highway would be fine by me. Unfortunately, GG may be onto something with the per km road tax thing... It's the...

Claire's in Fonthill (I think? it's on 20, anyways) has a few smaller (300-450cc) bikes on their website right now; may be worth going to have a sit on a few of them, to see what you think, and how they feel...

I can top that, for embarrassment... New bike was probably 3 weeks old... Took a 350km ride up to my parents place for lunch. Showed her off; had lunch - was getting ready to leave - they have a drive that slopes down towards the road; but the sidewalk portion is level - walking a U-turn...

A 20+ year friend, and exGF of mine - ended up in the reverse situation... Her new guy rode; got her into it. She passed her courses and took all the training - bought a 600cc bike; the day she picked it up - a 19 year old kid blew a stop sign, and that was that.

As another Niagara rider... you will end up taking the highways more than you may plan on. Trying to cover any kind of distance on back roads/secondary highways takes forever, if only because of the way the roads are laid out, and the water everything has to go around. Jumping on the QEW or...

I'm in the process of requoteing all my insurance right now... 2021 BWM F750GS, 2018 GMC Sierra 1500, 2018 Ford Explorer - nearly 700/mth... My wife's record is clean, mine has a few blemishes, but all 5+ years old; and spotless since. CAA came back at less then 1/3 of what I'm paying now...

The battery AND the bike it's in, both cost way more then the proper charger... buy the proper charger.

RIP Rider... GWS to the passenger.

Elijah Craig is my go-to; for sure... Also enjoy a dram of The Macallan from time to time.