My trip to Wasaga (Adventure touring maxim)

This is the story of the trip to Wasaga beach my brother and I took from our humble town of St. Clements, ON.

First of all I would like to say that we're new to riding and its the furthest we've gone in one day, about 430km in all. We planned out route using Google earth and made sure to take the most scenic route we could on the way there. This of course included the Hawkley valley route across the Niagara Escarpment which is a twisty hilly road of about 15 km. It was a blast to lean deep into the curves and see the wear marks in our tires showing the degree we have been leaning. One tar on gravel road heading north it started to rain buckets (The weather report showed nothing but sun all day for the area) and that was my first experience ever riding in rain. Quite frankly it really didn't effect me but my brother complained that it caused his bike to squirm around (different tires) and I had to wait for him as he would not go more than 70km/h.

The weather was nice again when we got to Wasaga beach. And let me tell you, besides the lack of palm trees you would swear you were in California. A huge beach, beautiful girls everywhere... more boobies than I could count, lol. As far as I know thats the first time I've been there in my life, one hell of a party town and I can only imagine what its like at night. Girls, Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, And bikes galore! during the day when we were there.

The way back we kept it scenic. This included one unexpected gravel road heading south to Hawkley. Neither of us have much experience on the loose stuff and kept it to about 50km/h and it was slippy. The road remained as gravel for about 15-20km and we sure had our hands full, looking for the most clear path through. As it turns out a Maxim makes for a quite capable "adventure touring" bike as well. I am also rather glad my uncle wasn't with us. He wouldn't dare take his precious Harley Sportster on some of the roads we were on, Hell it might get dirty. Pretty ironic for a bike that began life as a dirt track racer. He is however too caught up in the Harley mentality of "Live to own, own to live." And for those who don't understand that line its that most Harley riders seem to be more enthusiastic about owning a Harley than riding a motorcycle. Like my uncle they want to be seen, they take the busiest route possible and like to ride along and pose in urban areas. Unlike myself, I like to be as far from civilization as possible on my bike. I live to ride.

Later on the way back I remember the stretch from Orangeville to Aurthur, about 35km of dead straight road. That then about 30 more km south until home. By the time we got home it was nearly dark outside and my visor was so cover with bug splatters I could hardly see anymore... but I made it.

All in all a good ride and a hell of an experience

Pics below...



My "ghost rider" photos of my maxim, inspired by Neil Peart.





This one below, a pic of my brother's '83 maxim. Bought off an old German fellow in Toronto only about a month ago. Bought with 12,500km for only $2,500.ca! Rat bastard, I wish I could have got my hands on it first. This thing is so mint, it even has the original stickers and looks like someone pulled it off the showroom floor last year, not 24 years ago.




And finally, one of the Hawkley valley. Just one minute before I took this picture a Ford Model T came (obviously) very slowly up the hill. I would like to have got a pic of it but I damn near dropped my bike in the soft gravel shoulder as I stopped to set up for this pic. There was a cute girl in a passenger seat and it looked like the grandfather driving, and what appeared to be the mother in the back seat.




I would like to have some pics of the girls at the beach but something would seem rather perverted about that. Never the less, there were babes there like you wouldn't believe.

Thats the end of my story for an interesting day.

 

Wow - nice ride. I was over in your area of the woods on Saturday evening too - managed to get myself lost in Amish country LOL So I sure know what you mean about getting the maxim on the gravel.

Good pics, and glad to hear you had a good ride!