I haven’t ridden much yet, but I’ve done a lot of miles between Toronto, Ottawa and Timmins in the last month. Main roads are clean, gravel highways are graded, secondary dirt roads are still messy. Stay clear of the Sudbury area as flooding is still happening over small highways and the southern part of 144.
It looks like they are switching to full road closures for maintenance in some areas (do 200km in 36 hrs) vs doing 10km stints with lane closures over 20 weeks.
507 is in great shape; basically no sand at all. I can’t say the same about Harburn Rd near Haliburton though; most of the way toward Fort Irwin is still full of sand in the corners.
Not sure how well this link will work. We went to Huntsville over the weekend. The Ottawa BMW club was also there, and they spent four days touring around the area. I tried converting tracks into routes and merging them in MyRouteApp, but I never got a merge button. Here's the link of where we went: Ottawa to Huntsville and back
There was only one intersection that was covered in gravel/sand, and it was well marked. The leader was using Apple maps to follow the route and the lag between his phone and the display device made for some comical u turns.
507 is in great shape; basically no sand at all. I can’t say the same about Harburn Rd near Haliburton though; most of the way toward Fort Irwin is still full of sand in the corners.
Didn’t do many of the classics but Perth Rd the whole way (Scotch Line) was fine from Perth to Kingston and that’s always a fun road. The stone bridge at Pakenham is indeed closed for repairs now and is a bit of a mess so I didn’t take pics. If you needed to do any of highway 15 it’s all good all the way from Highway 7 south. The General Store in Pakenham is somewhere I’ll need to go back to, the place is amazing. Looks like great food.
Some roads I was on a few weeks ago that had gravel on have been cleared but I don’t know if they had been swept or if it was rain.
Didn’t encounter any slippy new tar snakes except the ones just round the corner from my house on cold tires which was a great wake up moment.
Had a great coffee and a toasted sandwich from Equator Coffee in Almonte.
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