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Very nice pics. I hope to make in next year or the year after.

Prayers sent your way. A new experience if you do have to drive your big rig. With an open mind and taking it slow, you will do well.

Jeff, I hope it doesn't come to that for you because of others neglect, carelessness, or dangerous driving habits. You would see how bad the problem is more than most of us.

I hope this great weather and heat holds up for your Rally. I'm on my final days of holidays and back to work Monday. I am working that weekend, but at the very least want to ride down Friday evening or Saturday evening and return the same night. Sorry I can't decide which day yet as I would like to be able to take a day off at work to stay longer, but won't know until I get back to work and see how many others are off.

Happy Birthday Bob. We wish you a great day and year.

We just got back from our trip of 3629 miles (my fellow Canucks 5840kms) bike trip to the Maritimes. It was suppose to be further and another week but we decided to come back home early to be with our boys. The point of the thread is my riding lane position on the road. I would generally be in the left of the centre part of the lane as most of you do to make yourself as big as possible to own that lane. Now I find myself out of necessity/survival to be moving over to the right side of the centre of the lane. The reason for this was on a two lane highway 80kms/h 50mph (one lane each direction) I literally saw hundreds of drivers going the other direction and looking down at their phone. They never saw me, in fact the survival part of it was that dozens and dozens of them came over the yellow line, into my lane and still never saw me. Some did and swerved back, but many did not. I quickly began to move to the right with on coming traffic then move back and this proved to be a very safe practice as many times cars crossed the line which would have made me take evasive action. The same thing was happening on the 4 lane highways (2 lanes each direction divided or not) As I was in the inside lane and cars would pass me and again seeing them on their phones texting, not talking on them. Many would wander into the right lane without them realizing. As a result of a few concerning moments of me having to move over from getting side swiped, I would begin to move to the right side of my lane when I saw a car about to pass me. When I was riding in the left lane (passing lane) I use to be in the right side of the middle part of the lane, but again the drivers in the right lane on their phones wandered over into my lane making me move over to the left part of my lane, so I again made it a habit of being on the left side of my lane when passing. I always said and practice in my riding that the other drivers are out to get you on the bike, so it was a quick and easy adjustment to make as it was happening so often. And not just to me on the bike, but I saw lots of cars that got cut off and pushed onto the shoulder because other cars came into their lane. My next group ride I will have to talk to the ride captain and the person who is right behind me, because if I see the driver with his/her head down, I am moving over a little. Nearly 35 years of riding and in all those years combined I have never seen so many people crossing over lines into other lanes. It is an epidemic out there. Be safe everyone and of course have fun.

Yes in Toronto motorcycles are allowed in the diamond lanes, but not with that many people on the bike. We did see families like that in China last year on their bike

A huge thank you goes out to Bert2006, who just came out to us with some WD40 and synthetic grease and it is moving better then when it was new. He is also going to ride with us tomorrow morning and show us a nice scenic route. Ventureriders and this forum really is amazing because of the high quality people. Thank you Hubert.

An interesting day of riding today. We are in Fredricton at a motel (long day) and my kick stand won't go down. It wouldn't budge even when I stood on it. I got some help from a gentleman in the parking lot and we where able to pry it out and down. I was on a lot of dirt and gravel roads yesterday going around the Cabot Trail if that has something to do with it. Any suggestions of what I could do to get some miles behind us in the morning before we stop in at a shop in another city to get it looked at? Thanks for any suggestions

Thanks we ate a lot of seafood during our week on the island. Just finished the Cabot Trail but still on Cape Breton at a great camp site. We both decided to cut our trip short and will be heading back to Ontario tomorrow via the fastest route along the Trans Canada highway. Planning on a two day ride as we are only just over 2000kms from home

Hahaha, you are not far off Puc. We had a few lobster feeds on PEI along with 30 lbs of muscles. We made two lobster sandwiches for yesterday's ride leaving the island and making our way to Nova Scotia to do the Cabot Trail.

We just arrived in Nova Scotia last night, so we may take a look at this route on our way back. Would that be before or after The Bay of Fundy?

By the boot, if you mean female end yes that is where the dialectic grease is. There might be a smidgen on the contacts when they went inside

Thank you Craig. I did split the fairing. What I didn't do was first ride and look for some contact cleaner. I did what I could to clean the connectors and pushed them back together. There still was a little dialectic grease on the connectors. Before putting the fairing back on I tried the radio but it didn't work. After putting it all back together I tried it again and still nothing. I flicked and tapped the radio unit and the radio came to life. I couldn't change the station as none of the buttons worked but our intercom will work if it stays on. I had tapped the unit several times before with no success. So maybe if I can get some contact cleaner I will have full success

Thanks. I only checked the one under the lower cowling

I'm on a bike trip at the moment and our radio system has completely shut down. Won't turn on. In the evening the buttons are lit up. I checked and changed the 10amp fuse with the spare but still nothing. It did stop working after riding in a heavy rain. It worked intermittently the next day turning itself on and off and changing radio Chanel's in it own then the next day it would not turn on. Any suggestions? I will look for a Yamaha dealer if I have to change the top unit. Really miss the intercom

Great pictures Evan and Don. Great to see and read all where having a great time. Especially nice to read from Saddlebum that the hotel and camp sites so close. Great planning

Oh ya. Let me see how to do this on my iPhone. Day 1 after a 13 hour ride.

Day 3 the GPS came back to life today but was useless as it wanted to keep taking us back to the planned route I had done as it recognized we missed some roads. The radio and intercom was still non functioning. Today's ride was easily mistaken for when we where in BC driving with the ocean on one side and the mountains on the other side. Views and roads where great. Some nice sweeping turns with up and down grades and some sharp winding turns that made the ride fun. Calling for a lot of rain tonight and all day tomorrow so we got a hotel room instead of camping that way we don't have to pack up in the rain in the morning.

Day 2. Our GPS didn't work and either did our radio or intercom which was too bad for all the great sites to talk about as we rode, not to mention wrong turns and stops to look at a map. Not nearly as many miles on day 2 but we knew that as a lot to see and do.

Day 1 was a 13 hour ride from 5:20am to 6:30pm when we pulled into a camp site. Only 560 miles, but we went thru some heavy rain in Quebec. It was so hot and the heavy rain fogged up my windshield and visor so I couldn't see. Fortunately we where able to stop safely under a bridge for about 20 minutes until my visor and windshield de-fogged and we took off again. Got about a half hour ride before couldn't see again and pulled over.

Sorry I missed you on Thursday. Riding Hwy 132 around Gaspe Quebec is majestic. The ocean on one side and steep mountains on the other side. We saw people BASE jumping a straight down cliff beside the highway. Also doing hand gliding.

Thank you everyone for the quick replies and suggestions. I didn't get it out. I went to our local Marine shop and they used a older type snake camera and grabbing tools, but no luck. I shook it for a few more hours and gave up and put it back on the bike and filled it up with gas. We leave at 5am tomorrow Saturday. I did order one of the iPhone endoscopy camera's off eBay. Hopefully it will be here when we are back in 3 weeks and I will try again.

Yes here too. But I thought in my stressed mind a form of a magnet to pick up plastic which would help my situation being that the nozzle that fell into the tank was plastic. There you go I was only thinking of myself. I apologize.