I love spontaneous adventures, so when my boyfriend and I decided last-minute to go on a four-day bike trip through Prince Edward county last week I was stoked to get on the road and see what happened.
We left Thursday (July 29) and came home Sunday (Aug 1). We biked 400km all together, spent 2 hours total on the GO train (to get 60km or so out of the city), camped three places, drank a bunch of beer, swam in the lake, saw a Great Blue Heron and a deer (!), got lots of great exercise and fresh air and had a blast!
Before the trip we both decided to buy the Salsa Bell Lap handlebar to replace our current set ups. We love it! It has a short top so you don’t have to reach too far, ergonomic drops for comfort, and flares out slightly in the drops. It makes you feel like you a lot of control when going downhill, and when touring those downhills can be good breaks from the constant pedaling.
It got really hot some days, and we’d go through litres and litres of water. We used Nuun hydration tablets (its an electrolyte thing, you add a tablet to your bottle of water instead of buying gatorade) and of course had to get the occasional popsicle.
Here’s a link to our route on Bikely. We followed the waterfront trail as much as possible, it has less traffic than the secondary roads and signs indicating it’s a cycling route.
I’m completely recovered from the trip except for lots of itchy mosquito bites. Can’t wait to do more riding and camping!
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Randwick+Rider // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:09 am
I+can\’t+see+your+bikely+or+your+flickr+link.+Wanted+to+know+where+in+the+world+you+are.
2 Randwick+Rider // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:09 am
And that last comment should have read something like – you have no links! Where in the world are you?
3 Kathleen // Aug 4, 2010 at 8:46 am
The links are there. For bikely click the word “link” and for Flickr click “Flickr”.
I’m in Toronto Ontario Canada.
4 Jean // Aug 5, 2010 at 12:51 am
It’s great to have the waterfront bike route as a guide to do that trip. We did that bike trip over 14 yrs. ago, when I lived in Toronto (I now live in Vancouver, BC). Pretty farmland, some wineries, etc. I remember we stopped at a fire department fundraising BBQ with my partner in the area. Great stuff.
It is possible to go further east along the Thousand Island Parkway path near the St. Lawrence River towards and past Kingston, Ontario which we did as well.
Ontario is lucky to have GO train running often. Here in Vancouver West Coast Express commuter train does not even run on weekends at all –yet.
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5 Ed @ Ideal Bike // Aug 14, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Sorry we missed you, and awesome blog! Stop by in Picton the next time you are in the County. – ed @ Ideal Bike Inc.
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