Teapot Travels TCAT 2023 is GO....!!!
 

Finally finally finally we are going to Canada after a frustrating covid ridden 2020 cancellation.
Two CRF500L custom built travel bikes are being shipped to Halifax NS due to arrive around 10th May. We will head East to Signal Hill for the inaugural launch West and an attempt at the full TCAT route.

We plan to post on HU along with other sites for updates and things so off we jolly well go... Two blokes, two bikes and 10,000 miles off gravel roads.... What could possibly go wrong..!!!

Bikes in van ready to go into there crates tomorrow....... [emoji636][emoji1063][emoji965][emoji100][emoji965][emoji100][emoji1063][emoji636]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2fff63eb79.jpg

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Best of luck to you - see you when you get to the West Coast!

Thank you kind Sir, of course we'll give you Western Canadians plenty of notice but obviously we will want 'Fish & Chips', Yorkshire Puddings and a Cornish Cream Tea upon arrival if anyone is reading this...!!??!!![emoji965][emoji100][emoji636][emoji1063]

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Crating up day was super busy, dropped by my suspension guru to have both bikes checked for rear shock ride height adjustment and a real good job I did with all the luggage on they were way out, what a difference it makes too have to say..
Bikes sail 23rd. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6c37939db9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6793ec041a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e777cf4e85.jpg

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Absolutely awesome Mez :) looking forward to following your trip :thumbup1:

Brilliant bike builds to, It's a shme Honda wont build some like that. :mchappy:

Nice one James, I'll be updating here on HU, ADVrider and ABR plus an obligatory FaceAche posting on several pages so plenty of coverage [emoji106]

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Well well well, they say when things don't go to plan 'It's all part of the adventure'..... we haven't even got on the plane yet and a couple of curve balls pitched at us. I've broke a rib (don't ask....) and the bikes have ended up at Montreal not Halifax and they are being held to a $900 ransome before being moved on to Halifax. If things come in three's I shudder to think what's next...!!!

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Maybe not all bad news – Montreal has the best smoked meat sandwiches in all of Canada and Quebec in general has excellent poutine...trying to find some positives for you

I can confirm this !

But also, as im based here in Montreal, if you need a hand with something here, let me know.

Cheers,

Paulo

Wow, thanks for the offer but only just noticed this post. We are currently holding up in a $20/day U-Haul cargo van sited in a Walmart car park in downtown Halifax. Hopefully we get the call today to go sort customs clearance out. Fly & Ride program next time for sure...

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TeaPot Travels have recovered the bikes and been on the road a week today. We've experienced two abysmal rain soaked to the bone riding days, a days offroading without luggage, a day fixing bikes (fitting bead locks to front tyres after a valve ripped out of a brand new 4mm EHD Michi 21" tube due to our upgraded front brake setup, getting our sidestands extended + camel feet welded on, oil change and chain lube oil in our manual feeders).
We've met a couple of Brits who have smashed the Canadian dream and are sitting back now free wheeling to the winners rostrum...!!!! Currently we've just crossed the causeway onto Cape Breton Island and facing a 9hr ride to Sydney or hug the coast anticlockwise for a mind blowing trail of non stop twisty tarmac. Rain/weather will dictate...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8a0098fed9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8b7a79f402.jpg

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Nice piece of coast the long way around Cape Bretton. I suggest a side trip up to Meat Cove, and if you're up for it, a side trip from your side trip past the end of the official road into the crown land beyond. There's a campground which I assume still exists after the floods, but limitless wild camping as well.

Cabot Trail, everyone we meet raves about it, it's weather dependent I'm afraid and we've been advised to go too Meat Cove also by some local riders...

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The Crown Lands past Meat Cove were a popular destination for people dumping stolen cars, which led a post-apocalyptic flavor to explorations of the wild, uninhabited forests and coast. Like everything else, stuff changes over time, which sometimes renders travel suggestions risky. I was last up that way in (....uhhh, carry the two, divide by a thousand, translate into Canadian "metric" dates....) the late 1980s in a Suburu Brat enroute to Newfoundland, among other places. I'd trust local riders over my own memory any day.

Safe journeys!

Newfies are super hospitable, this Harley rider gave us an empty house with shed for the night after bumping into us at a Dollama store. The tall pushbike rider is doing the TCAT without an engine crazy fool...!!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...faff128a87.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...65f506b31a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0e33f60a90.jpg

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