devil999
Member
going to get my M this april, if insurance is kind to me, ill get a sv650 and organize a trip from T.O to vancouver! 
ROAD TRIP 2012 xD
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going to get my M this april, if insurance is kind to me, ill get a sv650 and organize a trip from T.O to vancouver!
If you already have your M2, there is no difference between M2 and M when it comes to insurance as far as I know
Salos Dafee
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I enjoyed that ride in 2006, on a new V-Strom 650, so I have a few suggestions.
Try to include flexibility in your trip. I planned to take eight days outward and eight more coming back. I needed six to get to Vancouver and five to get back, so you can tell that I was in fair condition and was not feeling pushed by external constraints. I think that the stress of a rigid schedule can interfere with the enjoyment and perhaps the safety of such a trip.
If you want to sleep outdoors with the minimum of expense and hassle, I suggest you fashion a large (1 meter by 2.5 meters) tube, closed at one end, from a couple of tarpaulins well glued together. You can put an air mattress and a sleeping bag and some of your luggage in this and sleep under picnic shelters or even picnic tables at rest areas, and I do not think law enforcement or anyone else will hassle you. Of course such a setup is only marginally rainproof, so perhaps use a motel in bad weather. You can air your bedding and such when you stop for lunch if weather permits.
Seek advice about routes, based on what you are looking for. If you want scenery, take a longer route and include US-93 through Idaho, but that adds 300 kilometers to the ride. If you want speed of travel, use I-80 west of Chicago, and switch to I-90 when you choose to. Then you can wiggle northwest from Spokane Washington and see the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River before reentering Canada at Osoyoos. That part is not very fast, but the scenery is so terrific it may be worth the extra hour (!) to you.
Bear in mind that you will not be doing this ride a large number of times in your life,
so include some things you would be sad to look back upon and feel sad you missed.
You will, of course. I skipped Vancouver Island, partly because of ferry costs.
Afterward, I reflected on how much it had cost to get my bike to the Pacific Ocean,
and wished I had ridden the Island. I got a second chance, on my son's bike in 2011,
and I was doubly miffed that I had not had the Vancouver Island experience earlier!
I also went all the way around South Dakota without entering it. Do you know how much time and effort people spend going TO South Dakota?! It's a gorgeous state, and worth riding to just for its own sake,
so some day I will need to do that. It's a long way from Florida!
But above all, ride your own ride. Ride alone if that is what you like, or ride with one or more whom you have known a long time. I think a long ride, in the company of near-strangers, is a dangerous error. Riding near them, you must accept some of their decisions, and if you feel stressed by those, the danger increases.
Lastly, good luck!
Try to include flexibility in your trip. I planned to take eight days outward and eight more coming back. I needed six to get to Vancouver and five to get back, so you can tell that I was in fair condition and was not feeling pushed by external constraints. I think that the stress of a rigid schedule can interfere with the enjoyment and perhaps the safety of such a trip.
If you want to sleep outdoors with the minimum of expense and hassle, I suggest you fashion a large (1 meter by 2.5 meters) tube, closed at one end, from a couple of tarpaulins well glued together. You can put an air mattress and a sleeping bag and some of your luggage in this and sleep under picnic shelters or even picnic tables at rest areas, and I do not think law enforcement or anyone else will hassle you. Of course such a setup is only marginally rainproof, so perhaps use a motel in bad weather. You can air your bedding and such when you stop for lunch if weather permits.
Seek advice about routes, based on what you are looking for. If you want scenery, take a longer route and include US-93 through Idaho, but that adds 300 kilometers to the ride. If you want speed of travel, use I-80 west of Chicago, and switch to I-90 when you choose to. Then you can wiggle northwest from Spokane Washington and see the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River before reentering Canada at Osoyoos. That part is not very fast, but the scenery is so terrific it may be worth the extra hour (!) to you.
Bear in mind that you will not be doing this ride a large number of times in your life,
so include some things you would be sad to look back upon and feel sad you missed.
You will, of course. I skipped Vancouver Island, partly because of ferry costs.
Afterward, I reflected on how much it had cost to get my bike to the Pacific Ocean,
and wished I had ridden the Island. I got a second chance, on my son's bike in 2011,
and I was doubly miffed that I had not had the Vancouver Island experience earlier!
I also went all the way around South Dakota without entering it. Do you know how much time and effort people spend going TO South Dakota?! It's a gorgeous state, and worth riding to just for its own sake,
so some day I will need to do that. It's a long way from Florida!
But above all, ride your own ride. Ride alone if that is what you like, or ride with one or more whom you have known a long time. I think a long ride, in the company of near-strangers, is a dangerous error. Riding near them, you must accept some of their decisions, and if you feel stressed by those, the danger increases.
Lastly, good luck!
onecartel
Well-known member
This summer I rode my SV650S with a buddy on his KLX250SF to Vancouver island (via Canada) and back (via the US). Most of the trip was camping in bivis.
Good trip. The prairies suck. BC kicks so much ***.
http://ride.countryclubcartel.org
Good trip. The prairies suck. BC kicks so much ***.
http://ride.countryclubcartel.org
and yea gave insurance a call today and looks like there will be a re-evaluation/ update on the prices this coming late november, fingers crossed and hope for the best! lol
devil999
Member
Insurance for my SV is the same as my 250cc supermoto. So things are lookin' up for ya
Dont get my hopes up bro lol, the girl said there isnt much difference in the amount of insurance even holding m license and going from 23-24 lol.........
