Trip is done and was a lot of fun.

Here is a photo journal http://www.flickr.com/photos/8004174...7630023568607/ and the route http://connect.garmin.com/activity/187433940

- This year's second short trip was from Belleville, Ontario, to home in Montreal. Five days on the Waterfront Trail along the St-Lawrence river. It's my second trip on the trail and will probably become a yearly thing. Easy cycling, tailwind (usually) quiet roads, nice scenery and spring comes a little earlier. Perfect to start the season. No pictures yet.

- Third trip was from Quebec City to Mont-Joli along Route Verte #1, again following the St-Lawrence river. Came back on the train. Mostly easy cycling with the odd hill, including one short twisty and very steep bike path with amazing views. Some very beautiful parts and the "second best sunsets in the world" according to National Geographic (don't know who's first). Very nice and quiet bike/kayak campsite in Le Bic park (although pricey). This coud also become a yearly trip. I still need to edit another boring clip and some more photos. Two pics:


- Fourth trip was from Quebec City to Jonquière via Baie-St-Paul, then the train to Rivière-à-Pierre and back to Quebec on the Jacques-Cartier/Portneuf bike trail. Lots of steep hills. Highway 138 is quite busy and highway 381 is fairly quiet except for a few trucks due to road repair. That road has some insane grades. My knees begged me to walk a few bits. Saw three moose on highway 381 and a bear crossing the bike path. A jogger was killed by a bear on that path a few years back. Don't wear earphones in the wild, folks. I do have a boring clip here and here are a few pics:

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The last one is the "little white house" that survived the 1996 Saguenay flood. That's it for me. No more bike trip until the big one in august.

Chekmx - Nice to see the Zug pics! I have been there a couple of times on business (company has office in Baar).

And to Eric L - love that pic with the butterflies and the bike in the background! You guys are inspiring me to tour more.

just seen this the bikes look great what do you think of them now that there loaded up.

They're what we expected. They do the job. I had to adjust the rear racks on both inward slightly to eliminate a slight wobble (tail wagging dog, really).

There are some quirky things, such as not through hole at the top of the fork and on the rear brake bridge, which makes fitting fenders/mudguards a bit more challenging.

I like the nice smooth ride, thanks to the longer wheelbase and despite the use of 28C Schwalbe Durano tyres.

So, long story short, we are happy.

Things have changes since my last post. Three of us will drive to Albany NY on July 13th, take the Amtrak to Buffalo and ride back to Albany on the Erie Canal. It's my and #3 sons 2nd time and our friend Dave will join us for his first ever bike tour. I will be posting daily HERE if I can get myself a cheap netbook.

Guess I will add mine here. Although I hope it really wont qualify for a short trip. Son #2 and I are starting in San Francisco on the 26 and hopefully will ride to Mexico. He's a busy 19 year old and I keep pushing the time longer and longer. I'm getting really excited and I think he is too.

You're right, this is not a short tour. Please start a new thread and tell us aaaaaall about this awesome tour! :)

Just got done with a 2-1/4 day 2-night tour on Cape Cod. We left Mattapoisett MA Friday eve after 6:00pm, down through Wareham and Orleans to the Cape Cod Canal Road and went over the Sagamore Bridge and over the Shawme Crowell for the 1st night - about 25 miles.
From Shawme to Wellfleet (friend's house) using the bikes paths extensively. A more direct route back to the start - for a 65-67 miles day at 14.1 mph moving average. For this 50+ year old with gear, that's plenty fast. The 4 of us had a pace line in the morning on the bike path out of Wellfleet. Big tailwind on that last day - thank god.

Saw two tourists on route 6 around Marion as we were close to home. IF you two see this, sorry we didn't stop, - it's was the busy 4-lane road, tailwind pushing us, pedaling hard on the final stretch.

I just got home from a 4-day trip through New Hampshire's white mountains. it was nice for the most part, but there were a couple of really bad climbs, like the infamous Kancamagus pass.

I just finished a one-week tour from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia to Seattle, following the North Cascades Highway in Washington. There are two passes along the way. Loup Loup west of Omak is a nasty climb. Washington Pass, while significantly higher, is easier. The road is an amazingly beautiful ride and there are lots of cyclists who use it as part of the Northern Tier across the United States.

Any other short summer tours in the works?

I added a little video of a short tour I did in early may, from Quebec City to Mont-Joli along the south shore of the St-Lawrence river. It's mostly easy and quiet riding with a tailwind (usually). There's one little bike path that has steep hills but it leads to great views. Not your usual boring rail-trail. Next week is the big tour! Woohoo!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4F8qyO6OeY

Really nice Erick, great pacing in your editing (as in the last one) .I see what you mean by not a typical boring rail trail. Looks like a really nice route.

that video was fantastic well done ,man what a route brilliant:thumb:

Minnetonka MN to Perham MN this weekend. Should be good weather for riding. :)

We finished our tour of the Erie Canal on July 17th a day ahead of schedule. We did around 55 miles daily and two of those days the heat was crazy. 98 and 105F. We got through it fine and it's all documented on Crazy Guy HERE

john, "Amsterdam, Rotterdam , god damn hills"--very funny, that made me laugh. Yup, heat like that just sucks the energy outta ya doesnt it? Looks like a fun trip. Your Boston to Montreal trip idea is a good one, there are cgoab journals and or folks here that have done it, you can check it out for routes as it looks like a nice trip to do one day.
cheers

just back from Algonquin park, ontario. from Ottawa to it, around 300km. bike and gears are about 110pounds, including tripod and my 5x7 wooden camera.

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Andrew, first of all, oooof a good 70 lbs of stuff, that's a schlep, hard work on the hills, hope you had a really low gear inch.Secondly, I used to shoot 4x5 and considered getting a 5x7 or an 8x10 just for doing contact prints, as the b+w tonalities are just so lovely with contact printing. Are you shooting colour? I still have a speed graphic, but having biked all my life and toured a fair amount, I must say that it never occured to me to bring a large format along, I suspect you are especially unique , and especially in today's non film world! Hope you were able to protect it well from vibrations etc. I recall some lovely cherry wood Japanese 4x5s being made in the 80s and 90s, some field models which you might own, being nice and compact. I used a toyo field, metal body, which was nice.How many holders did you bring? You know, I have to laugh, discussing lrge format here on bike forums, never envisioned that! Cheers

djb,
yes, i was hesitating for loading up my pics as it seems an off topic thing here.
my gear is the stock trek 520 48-36-26 i think, many hills on the way to algonquin along HW60, but i only used the lowest gear twice if my memory serves me well, its quite hard.
i carry 4 5x7 holders, loaded off course. the changing tent and Tmax film box is @ home as i only take 70 photos average a year.
i do platinum prints, and love it!. http://andrewren.com/

^^As long as you carryied it on a bike tour, I guess it`s on topic :D
I never messed with a view camera, but it sure looks like fun. Do you enlarge those big honkin images, or strictly contact?

Anyone got some end of (northern hemisphere) summer short tours planned? :)

Mine is in a separate post with pictures: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...wegian-Riviera