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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 Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk |
Best of luck to you - see you when you get to the West Coast!
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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 Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk |
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: |
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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
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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 |
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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 Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk |
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.
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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.
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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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We are back on Mainland Canada landing in Blanc Sablon a day ago, freshly fueled and about to set off from the port area a guy stopped us in our tracks and advised strongly not to venture on due too intense high winds, I guess the horizontal rain was a dead give away...!! He duly took us too an empty house he had and we holed out for 24hrs. The hospitality is overwhelming wherever we have been so far starting from Halifax.
@Toyark , a thankyou to you Sir for your input on my tracks, I had to giggle at your sneaky 'Bear' markers you snook in on the first Labrador track...!!! I'm using the updated 2020 version you mapped for me, cheers fella.....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fa2f03334e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...adb052a3af.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e029ec0dad.jpg Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk |
Now doing the TCAT French Quebec tracks out in the Bush, loving the remoteness and friendliness of the very seldom folk you meet on these gravel roads...!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...731725a475.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b6b816c5c2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2cb086b4bb.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1a58afe190.jpg
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It was a lot of work Mez- hopefully, it will continue to be useful. Bear paws were for humour although... there's bound to be a few around... Dibs on the skin if you drop one! I see you've learned to rest your bike on pebbles... Good to see my old fuel jerrycan continuing on its adventures! Stay well & enjoy. |
Riding up the Icefields Pkwy I took a hundred photos or more stopping every 10 mins is so annoying...!!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1ec0c91f20.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...90f9d0f212.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ddb9107ca6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...45ad08234d.jpg
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Canada still delivering.... BC TCAT tracks.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3bc9368379.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7ecd16de77.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2149186398.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2b88f191f0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...13a799b632.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5d77d5d240.jpg
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Random photo dump....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9c78b4669d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e04c1b2496.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...367daeb26b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ad17c494d1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...dd1768c985.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5088d3237e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...198c185e92.jpg
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Well done Mez! An epic trip, and some great photos!
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