tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25599029180534093392024-03-13T01:14:15.025-03:00Ride Reports and Other DrivelRotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-67099930315636605542023-05-07T11:37:00.187-03:002023-09-16T15:35:06.077-03:002023-05-07 Sea Cow Head for lunch Yesterday we took someone special out for their birthday lunch, so today we thought we would have a picnic somewhere on the island, and of course there was no destination, it was just an excuse for a ride once again. Caroline atSea Cow Head LighthousePrince Edward IslandWe pieced together some food items, I offered up "meat sticks", and she contributed a can of Kirkland tinned chicken Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Seacow Head Lighthouse, Lighthouse Rd, Bedeque, PE C0B 1C0, Canada46.3159988 -63.81042840000001318.005764963821157 -98.9666784 74.626232636178855 -28.654178400000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-6767699505055866462023-04-24T12:15:00.004-03:002023-09-16T15:22:40.947-03:002023-04-16 Welcome Spring!!!I'd been a bit lazy, for when my Versys let me down in the fall of last year, no longer charging the battery and leaving me high and dry at Gas's grocery store in New Haven Prince Edward Island, Caroline helped me collect it, and we stuck it into her garage, where it has sat on a battery tender over the winter. There is a real danger of ice todayIt's 1C / 34F today!Brrrrr!I'd pulled into GasRotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Tryon, PE C0B 1A0, Canada46.236162 -63.54946599999998818.16070746184365 -98.705716 74.311616538156358 -28.393215999999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-30676115113424460392022-07-24T18:00:00.010-03:002022-07-26T07:45:51.076-03:002022 The Advocate Harbour ride We had planned to do three days of motorcycle fun, but when those plans fell through and we found we had a shot at a single day of riding the motorcycles, we took that toy firmly in our teeth and ran with it... We had a dogsitter!!! East Branch Apple RiverDay TrippingBorden-Carleton PE to Advocate Harbour NS and Return - Drive 351 km, 4 hours, 45 minutes
Borden-Carleton PE toRotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Advocate Harbour, NS, Canada45.3369594 -64.783120317.026725563821152 -99.9393703 73.64719323617885 -29.626870299999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-88395329839778660542022-06-19T20:26:00.001-03:002022-06-19T20:26:13.701-03:002022 The Home Plate run Father's day, but I'm not a father and my Dad is 1700km back west in Onterrible, so I made plans with Caroline to head out to our favourite Island restaurant, The Home Plate in Murray River PE to visit our friend Caroline F. and enjoy a wonderful lunch of the best fish and chips on the Island. Heading north on County Line RoadMurray RiverPrince Edward IslandDay Tripping - Tryon PE to Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Murray River, PE, Canada46.0137253 -62.61073949999998718.785090392477986 -97.7669895 73.242360207522012 -27.454489499999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-26714152669904426132022-01-28T15:26:00.007-04:002022-01-28T15:29:28.364-04:00Dos HondurosBored yet? We've got another winter storm warning for the weekend on our island home of Prince Edward Island where the bikes are tucked away someplace warm and cozy on their trickle chargers. I'm stocking up on junk food, milk and something to entertain us, like these yo-yos. :DDos HondurosGoldwing Motocross by Dos Honduros.railing berms and Hucking jumps on two 1980 Goldwing GL1100 interstates.&Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-89219592671575879272021-10-17T07:54:00.079-03:002021-10-25T15:02:54.996-03:002021 The Fall Colours of Prince Edward Island Caroline and I had been out for a day of riding the preceding weekend, stopping and taking the odd picture of the fall foliage, but I thought the colours would be closer to peak this coming Saturday, and as Caroline wanted to stop for lunch at the Home Plate diner in Murray River, I thought this a great excuse to get out for another ride and sample what mother nature had in store for us, Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Prowses Pond, Prince Edward Island C0A 1A0, Canada46.0846089 -62.73897580000001317.774375063821154 -97.89522580000002 74.394842736178845 -27.582725800000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-40951133775917605762021-09-12T16:23:00.104-03:002022-01-28T15:20:18.554-04:002021 The Taco Bell Tour Caroline enjoys camping and riding her motorcycle and we've been having fun since 2019 camping and riding together. Last year we stayed at a lovely little campground on the Sunrise Trail in Nova Scotia that sits on a body of water called Linwood Harbour adjacent to McCall's cove near Havre Boucher NS. We enjoyed the experience so much that she thought to invite her son and his friend Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Linwood, NS B0H 1P0, Canada45.650766999999988 -61.57451117.340533163821142 -96.730761 73.96100083617884 -26.418261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-80765187723859030392021-08-26T16:26:00.399-03:002022-01-27T13:25:47.894-04:002021 Fleur-de-lis, Cabot and Ceilidh Trail Caroline on the Cabot TrailTerre NoireCape Breton Island, NS There are many trails in Nova Scotia, and the most famous of these is the well known Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Caroline and I have been on it more than once, so for this short, three day trip, we planned to ride the Fleur-de-lis trail, then the Cabot and lastly the Ceilidh Trail, with a wee bit of the Sunrise Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Terre Noire, NS B0E 3A0, Canada46.483332999999988 -61.06666718.173099163821142 -96.222917 74.793566836178826 -25.910417000000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-325663223547091182021-08-08T16:48:00.214-03:002022-01-31T14:24:35.209-04:002021 Tubing down the Oxbow River with Stewarts TubingMy sister Wendy-Sue invited Caroline and I out to go tubing last year near Miramichi New Brunswick with Stewarts Tubing, and we had an absolute blast! We talked about going again this year, and it was easy time to decide that we'd love to go...Stewart's TubingDay 1Charlottetown PE to Wilson's Point NBDrive 349 km, 4 hours, 25 minutesCharlottetown PE to Wilson's Point NBSafety first! The ear plugsRotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0723 Back Rd, Lyttleton, NB E9E 1X6, Canada46.9376602 -65.90863818.627426363821158 -101.064888 75.247894036178849 -30.752387999999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-7941957321943793212021-07-31T14:58:00.128-03:002022-02-07T17:06:55.089-04:002021 Ye Olde Timey Sherbrooke Village Ride Our first ride off of the island in 2021, and a complete muddle. The rain on Friday was bad enough that neither Caroline nor I wanted to get started in that miserable stuff, and the forecast for Monday was dismal as well, so we opted to leave on Saturday morning, and planning? One minute it was to mid New Brunswick straight through the Irving Re (de) forestation project on 108, then Meat Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com042 Main St, Sherbrooke, NS B0J 3C0, Canada45.1409363 -61.984135516.830702463821154 -97.140385500000008 73.451170136178845 -26.8278855tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-27544372462610626202021-07-25T19:56:00.187-03:002023-11-16T16:21:02.319-04:002021 - My Versys has a flat tire again! Shinko 705 I bet you are wondering how I found myself here, sitting on the side of the road with a flat rear tire on my '09 Kawasaki Versys 650? It's a little bit funny, it's a little bit sad, let me tell you all about the ride we had. Facebook marketplace is a great way to find used gear at affordable prices, and I'd seen someone advertise some Alpinestars SMX 4 boots for sale that I knew Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Burlington, PE C0B 1M0, Canada46.479031 -63.60820999999999318.168797163821154 -98.764459999999985 74.789264836178845 -28.451959999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-37075099297129817132021-06-26T19:22:00.003-03:002022-01-31T14:25:12.963-04:002021 I don't know what to call this Caroline provided the name for the ride while I supplied the means. She's been having some soreness in her throttle hand, and the KLR is not the best bike to be riding unless the doctor ordered vibration as an effective treatment for it. Nope, so the ride we had half planned for today was cut a bit shorter as she elected to leave her toxic green steed at home in its stall, while I lowered Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Millvale, PE C0A 1E0, Canada46.410324 -63.42259799999998618.100090163821157 -98.578848 74.720557836178841 -28.266347999999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-73391208576909189532021-06-12T11:20:00.017-03:002021-06-15T11:36:28.683-03:002021 The Lupins are out on the Island You don't have to weed Lupins, in fact, Lupins are weeds here on Prince Edward Island, and in June they can be found growing where the plows and lawn mowers can't reach them, so our ditches and roadsides become a sea of Lupins for a short period of time, but it's a beautiful time to be a motorcyclist as the weather and the scenery is breathtaking. Lupins at the roadside, Founds Mills Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Founds Mills, PE C0B 1M0, Canada46.438964 -63.49781546.433049068928895 -63.506398068847659 46.4448789310711 -63.489231931152347tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-38000961846725012892021-05-17T15:40:00.015-03:002021-05-18T16:35:01.872-03:002021 The Almost Elmsdale Ride If you didn't already know, I'm a bit of a stove nut. No really. Anyhow, this fella was advertising an old Coleman single burner classic on USED PEI, and he was only asking five bucks for it, so I figured it was broken or suspect. Anyhow, I wanted one, so I jumped in with both feet and said I'd buy it, before realizing that he was located not in Charlottetown as I had assumed, but in St. Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Alaska, PE C0B 1H0, Canada46.61078 -64.11124099999999330.749786921621443 -99.267490999999993 62.471773078378554 -28.954990999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-21335782312097207792020-08-29T14:08:00.480-03:002022-03-18T08:41:40.677-03:002020 The Covid Diaries - Nova Scotia and New BrunswickYou may have heard of the great pandemic back in 2020? I'm here to tell you that it really messed with our travel plans for 2020, but in the end, we still managed to have a lovely ramble about our beloved "Atlantic Bubble".Caroline pulling into Peggy's Cove Nova ScotiaThe revised plan called for a week of riding in Nova Scotia followed by a day off on the island, then we would do some travelling Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Atlantic Canada, Canada43.37822 -64.940518522.5010485 -106.2491125 64.2553915 -23.631924499999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-74019553699123173682020-08-08T11:33:00.002-03:002020-09-22T13:45:11.234-03:002020 Tubing down the Little West Miramichi RiverWe were over at my sister Wendy-Sue's for supper, or that is, making supper, when Alex brought up the idea of tubing down the Miramichi river, as one of her girlfriends had done it this summer, and thought it was a great deal of fun. You jump into a shuttle that takes you up river and drops you off with your tube, and you then float down river back to the tubing site itself. It was just an idea Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0723 Back Rd, Lyttleton, NB E9E 1X6, Canada46.93989 -65.91099724.448331999999997 -107.21958799999999 69.431448 -24.602405999999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-55954554919847117072020-08-02T11:22:00.001-03:002020-08-07T11:36:43.318-03:002020 The Fleur-de-lis Trail and Fortress Louisbourg
The King's BastionFortress Louisbourg
Frédéric Gate
Fortress Louisbourg
Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
Caroline enjoyed our first trip together to Cape Breton Island's Meat Cove along the Cabot Trail so much that she was determined we would visit again the following weekend, but she was in desperate need of a new rear tire for her Honda Shadow, so we shelved the idea until a new ShinkoRotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0259 Park Service Rd, Louisbourg, NS B1C 2L2, Canada45.892190199999987 -59.985551623.400618199999986 -101.29414560000001 68.383762199999993 -18.6769576tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-17572308138492197882020-07-19T13:03:00.001-03:002020-10-14T11:19:23.361-03:002020 Caroline rides the Cabot Trail
I feel like such a poser. I belong to this Motorcycle Camping Canada group on Facebook and while I chatter away and offer free advice on all sorts of things from cookware to sleeping gear from a budget minded perspective, I hadn't been camping at all in 2020, not even in my girlfriend Caroline's backyard when she suggested it. I thought it was a joke at the time, but there was this manic "Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Meat Cove, NS B0E 2P0, Canada47.026539 -60.55956124.534975499999998 -101.868155 69.5181025 -19.250967000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-87911655599566536322020-07-05T16:23:00.000-03:002020-07-05T16:23:16.354-03:002020 The Versys Turns 100 (thousand!)Caroline and I were going out for an afternoon ride today, but my bike had some other ideas. I'd pulled a giant bolt out of the tread of the rear tire yesterday, and put a patch in the tire, so I was really looking forward to heading out after airing the rear tire up to 36 psi with my 12 volt air compressor. The patch was holding so I wheeled it out of the underground garage and headed towards Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Charlottetown, PE, Canada46.23824 -63.13107040000001346.1504165 -63.292431900000011 46.3260635 -62.969708900000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-2646580969051114852020-07-04T20:00:00.002-03:002023-04-24T12:59:04.406-03:002020 Installing a Brake Light Flasher on a Honda ShadowCLine was insanely envious of the Brake Light Flasher that I installed onto my Versys back in 2013. When I apply my brakes, a clever bit of electrickery strobes my brake light three times quickly, then goes on full solid, to alert motorists behind me that I'm about to do something (stupid? unique? entertaining?). The idea is it attracts their attention much better than simply oscillating between Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Charlottetown, PE, Canada46.23824 -63.13107040000001346.1504165 -63.292431900000011 46.3260635 -62.969708900000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-9478961367129779482020-07-02T16:43:00.014-03:002022-03-31T11:53:33.006-03:002020 The Shinko 705 gets it in the heart!It looks as if I may not get 10,000 kilometres out of my Shinko 705 rear tire after all. Caroline and I were out Thursday afternoon for a ride around Canoe Cove before the weather closed in on us, and I felt the bike hit something on the newly paved asphalt surface, then a few bouts of clicking. I thought perhaps that I'd picked up a stone as the noise went away in seconds, but on Saturday Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0Canoe Cove, PE C0A 1C0, Canada46.154768999999987 -63.29540523.663213499999987 -104.603999 68.646324499999992 -21.986811000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-52607357333094143152020-06-27T14:52:00.000-03:002020-06-28T18:36:06.792-03:002020 The North Cape RideCaroline and I were looking at the forecast for the weekend, and the weather report claimed there was a 60% chance that any riding we did on Saturday would be reminiscent of our Ontario - Yours to Discover, lots of practice doing the roadside rain dance... But Sunday was looking even worse, and I wanted to see if we had a bit more mileage in us before we had to put the bikes away to attend Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0North Cape Hiking Trail, PE-12, Lot 1, PE C0B 2B0, Canada47.0569266 -63.995770947.0515176 -64.0058559 47.0623356 -63.9856859tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-50704049231873652442020-06-21T10:33:00.002-03:002022-03-18T09:03:39.613-03:002020 Where are we going this weekend?
Caroline and I appear to have a problem with slow starting on the weekends, then a lazy riding style that I quite enjoy at the moment, as Caroline has a new camera and has been taking a ton of photos, so that works well with me, and I've enjoyed snapping a few more shots here and there while she tests out the ability of her telephoto lens. I'm still cruising along with my cellphone and my boy Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com032 Trout River Rd, Coleman, PE C0B 1H0, Canada46.6952969 -64.15114521.173262400000002 -105.459739 72.2173314 -22.842551tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-89928686518950900022020-05-24T17:39:00.000-03:002020-05-27T17:57:22.564-03:002020 Cape Bear PEIWe had sat with Caroline's Aunt Sharon last weekend who went on to relate that Sharon had joined her sisters Esther and Trenna for a trip out to the Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Museum and then out to the tip of the cape itself, which has an unofficial park out at the end. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the lovely Caroline had never been out to the Murray Head and the lighthouse Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com042 Black Brook Rd, Murray Harbour, PE C0A 1V0, Canada46.0040865 -62.45796199999998823.515409 -103.76655599999998 68.492764 -21.149367999999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2559902918053409339.post-60696149111431968062020-05-17T12:02:00.000-03:002020-05-21T08:40:23.474-03:002020 The Cedar Dunes RideCaroline and I really wanted to get out on the bikes this weekend, and as I'd spent my Friday night sorting out a charging issue on my Versys, I was eager to see if I'd nailed the problem, or if I was just guessing at it.
Cedar Dunes Lighthouse, West Point PE
My very own curb monkey.
A couple of days ago I had to make a wee trip to the office, and Caroline accompanied me there, but the Rotten Ronniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648027249082991290noreply@blogger.com0West Point, PE C0B 1V0, Canada46.626767 -64.371664920.763003 -105.6802589 72.490531 -23.0630709