Road report Eastern Ontario to Southern Georgian Bay

[Art Johnson]

Offloaded his arse...

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> On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:15 AM, dominatr37 <dominatr37 at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> Wait,  you offloaded the bike?  Was it on a trailer this whole time? 
> 
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> -------- Original message --------
> From masonjs at nrtco.net 
> Date: 06/25/2015  10:52 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
> To Ralph <dominatr37 at optonline.net> 
> Subject Road report  Eastern Ontario to Southern Georgian Bay 
> 
> I decided to take a couple of days off from retirement and visit my 
> Daughter & 2 grandsons Mason & Rhys (The piano boys) in 
> Penetanguishene on the south east end of Georgian Bay 400 km away.
> First I had to extract my Suzuki vstrom from the garage.  All I could 
> see of it was the rear tire and taillight.  After an hour of hauling 
> crap out of the garage the bike was free.  I didn't want to back it 
> down the hill so I was looking at moving more stuff to jockey bike 
> around.  Then I remembered a method I used to move my old Yamaha 
> parallel twin 650.  I put the bike on the center stand and fired it 
> up. Then I pushed down on the rear luggage rack enough to get the 
> front wheel off the ground .  The vibration from the twin cylinders 
> makes the bike dance on the concrete floor and I just walked it 
> around.  I could move the old Yamaha around with one hand and put it 
> away in a corner for the winter doing this. The Suzuki doesn't vibrate 
> nearly as much as the Yamaha so it was harder to rotate.  I never 
> tried this with any of the multi cylinder bikes but it might work for 
> them as well.
> 
> I decided to stay away from the main roads and run through "Dueling 
> Banjo Country" some of which has become very high end cottage country 
> (The Kawartha and Muskoka Lakes regions).
>   I stopped beside White Duck Lake to have the lunch I packed  but  
> deer flies the size of sparrows drove me off.  I stopped at Dark Lakel 
> and Furnace Falls to have this lunch with same results, then opted for 
> the Chinese Restaurant is Kinmount.   They make an excellent burger.
> I left Westmeath at 10:30 am much to the dismay of my Labrador 
> retriever Levi.  After 50 km of riding past farms and hay fields I got 
> to Golden Lake where the bush, lakes and twisty roads begin.   Ruby 
> Road from Golden Lake to Kilaloe was resurfaced a couple of years ago 
> and is in excellent condition as was the Rockingham Road.  At the 100 
> km mark I was at Combermere and now on Hwy 62.  I got off it at 
> Maynooth and onto the 33 km of the Peterson Road (Elephant Lake road 
> if you come in at the south end). This was a workout for both me and 
> the bike as there are very few straight stretches in this 33 km.
> 
> The road surface was better than normal with the south 1/2 in 
> Haliburton County the better portion.  Peterson Road stops at Monck 
> Road and I took this west through the Kawartha Lakes to Orillia where 
> I was back in civilization.  Here I picked up Hwy 12 and turned off it 
> into Midland.  I cruised along Midland Bay/Harbor looking north across 
> the blue waters of Georgian Bay.  Then through Sunnyside and into 
> Penetanguishene.
> I off loaded the bike then went to the grocery store to get some ice 
> cream treats for the boys and the beer store to get some treats for 
> Jim.
> 
> Jim  Stay tuned for the return trip
> 
> 
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