Time for a last summer fling so five of us departed to New England for a quick run through the mountains. Riders are:
- Tom - Ride leader
- Jeff
- Gokce on his bare naked Ducati Diavel (the bike is naked, not Gokce)
- Aryan on a brand new BMW K1600 GT touring bike with a lighting package that turns night into day.
Ride link: goo.gl/w7rtwg
Day 1 highlights:
Long Day. Met at Yorkdale parking lot at 1am Saturday morning. Most of us got up 6am Friday morning and spent the evening after work packing and preparing the bikes.
Crossed the border at 6ish - sun was starting rise.
Rode until 11 and had a quick nap, sleeping under trees in Speculator. Short nap but it reenergized us for the rest of the day. Roads are wonderfully twisty but.... cracked and destroyed. Makes for interesting moments in a curve when the bike is going one direction and the cracks in the road take it into another.
Got to our planned hotel in Montpellier at 8:30ish. This was going to be fun. Downtown, the women were all dressed up, ready to rock and roll and the town was hopping. Got to the hotel, first downer - no rooms - anywhere (probably because this is a happening place). We finally find a set of rooms in Lebanon, an hour away.
Nothing like a long ride, in the dark, on a road that has frequent signs that say "Deer Crossing next 5 miles", Bear crossing next 4 miles", Moose crossing, next 3 miles" and they all overlap. Aryan kept his full light package on the entire way. Good thing it was a split highway, because the on coming drivers probably thought they were witnessing the birth of a new star. They kept flashing their beams but the light kept getting brighter.
Got to the hotel at 10:30, watered the bikes an put their blankets on. Ordered a pizza and a few beers, and shared the ride highlights and then hit the bed. Slept like babies and now we are preparing for the next day.
Drove 1,110 km and 22 hours. This is a group record, and a personal record for most of the riders. Yeah - that's what adventure riding as all about.
Got to our planned hotel in Montpellier at 8:30ish. This was going to be fun. Downtown, the women were all dressed up, ready to rock and roll and the town was hopping. Got to the hotel, first downer - no rooms - anywhere (probably because this is a happening place). We finally find a set of rooms in Lebanon, an hour away.
Nothing like a long ride, in the dark, on a road that has frequent signs that say "Deer Crossing next 5 miles", Bear crossing next 4 miles", Moose crossing, next 3 miles" and they all overlap. Aryan kept his full light package on the entire way. Good thing it was a split highway, because the on coming drivers probably thought they were witnessing the birth of a new star. They kept flashing their beams but the light kept getting brighter.
Got to the hotel at 10:30, watered the bikes an put their blankets on. Ordered a pizza and a few beers, and shared the ride highlights and then hit the bed. Slept like babies and now we are preparing for the next day.
Drove 1,110 km and 22 hours. This is a group record, and a personal record for most of the riders. Yeah - that's what adventure riding as all about.
