Cabot Trail, Cape Breton - The Long Way Round ( motorcycle BMW G650 GS )
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2011
- I packed up my BMW G650 GS motorcycle on the August Long Weekend and headed for the Cabot Trail. With only 4 days to complete the round trip from Ottawa, ON to Meat Cove, Cape Breton ( the northern most tip of Nova Scotia ) it was a long hard ride. Day one I put on 1000KM making it to Muncton, NB. Day two was an easy 800KM across and up the east cost of the Cabot Trail landing in Meat Cove for the night ( www.meatcovecampground.ca/ ). Waking up on day three it was simply a breath taking 800KM down the west coast of the Cabot Trail and back to Muncton, NB. The final day was a backbreaking 13hours and 1000KM back to Ottawa,ON! So many stories, places seen ( as I drove by ), just a beautiful place to be.
I went camping in Canada when I was a kid (15 years old,about 37 years ago). My father, towing a 25" camper took Cabots Trail . I remember seeing motorcycles along the way. Now at age 52, riding my bike along Cabots Trail is on my bucket list! Thanks for the video and the memories!!! PEACE AND SAFE RIDING!
Makes me homesick!! I've done the trail so many times since I was a kid it is forever embeded in my soul!! My heart is in Cape Breton!! Thank you!! Awesome video!!
Thank you! I am from Cape Breton and I love being able to see where I've been as a boy growing up. I spent some time at Ingnoish and at Black Brook and traveling the trail and going back to Ben Eion or spending time with relations in Big Pond before going back to Glace Bay, and after that the summer is over.
Again, thank you for the bike tour and I am glad you played it safe during the whole trip.
Glad I fell on this one!! I live on this wonderful splendor in Chéticamp and this video just proves why we are the best road to travel! I do highly suggest however to take 4-6 days to travel the Cabot Trail...take it all in, enjoy every corner (there are many). Stop for a whale cruise, enjoy the beaches, the scenery, the theatre, the culture.... I love this video....and lord knows....bucket list items have a way of repeating themselves, no harm in crossing it off twice! ;0)
Made this trip years ago. Such a gorgeous ride through there. Will do it again one day.
Awesome!!! I can't wait to get my bike there. I've car'd it a few times and rode my bicycle up from Cheticamp. Always love to see the Cabot Trail again.
Simply wonderful Ian thank you for sharing. Ride on ride free.
Gald to hear it! I love watching my trips over and over again. You will have a blast!
And I just watched your videos to Gaspe, QC just the other day. Terrific. I empathize with that weather you ran into. Ugh. Adding Gaspe to my to do list.
Hi Ian,
I have a website dedicated to the Trail! I'd like to share that the Simpsons on the lawn represent an odd but genuine story of a Nova Scotian Family. A grandmother challenged and encouraged her grandson to finish a certain part of school or trade school. Upon graduation, he made her Homer and Marge. She loved them and put them on her front lawn. Each one was made and gifted to her to show his love for her. The more characters, the more his respect to all his elders. Cute, eh?
We'll done Ian ! I'm a re-located Cape Bretoner (Calgary), have done the Trail many times in my life, but never on a Bike, I do plan on heading back that way, sooner than later, and I'm sure to do it then, on my new2012 Triumph Bonneville
Just watched the video again and keep coming back to it. 4 weeks from today, I'll be northbound from New Jersey, USA for my fourth time up there. I really dig when you pull over and we see your face. I know that grin very well. Of course, after I read your reply I've been surfing the Contour site and may go with the Contour Roam and get the side mount for the helmet. My God, I can't wait. I may share this video on the Nova Scotia Motorcycle Tour Guide page on Facebook if you don't mind.
Great video and music. Cabot Trail is gorgeous. Thanks
Love this - thanks for posting! I'll be driving the trail in June with my sister...was great to be able to see this footage.
Great Video. Great Trip. Great Editing. Great Music. Great for you sharing. and Great guy too..
Really enjoyed this. We were up there (from Florida) in 2008. Been wanting to get back but so far haven't been able. Went up to Pleasant Bay and back. Not enough time to go all the way around. Maybe next time? Recognized a lot of places. Glad the Simpson figures were still there. Thanks for posting.
was good to have this trip with you man! good one! enjoy next trips also.
What's up Ian ...... Well I did the east coast again last year with 4 other bikes and it was a blast .
Just stopping by to get my Cabot trail fix once again .
Take care bud .
Hope to join ya on an east or west coast ride one of these days .
Rex4x4
Loved it! Planning a bike trip with 7 other guys on the Cabot Trail this summer. Man, this video is inspriing!
I love your video, you have inspire me to go to the East! I've put on your video multiple times just for the music!
Nicely edited. Inspired me to make the trek to Meat Cove!
The Cabot Trail is on my bucket list. Thanks for posting. I may have to skip Sturgis and ride in my own country for once...
What a great video; ride, and music. Planning to visit Meat Cove this fall. Hope the old Harley will handle the gravel road. Thanks for your handiwork.
Well done Ian, I enjoyed that.I've been around the Cabot Trail a few times and was able to relive much of it through your presentation. Meat cove looks like a place I would enjoy should I ever get down east again. Thanks for sharing
Like Ken says - brings me back to good memories of our vacation there also from the Summer of 2015. We passed there at the beginning of August and the ocean was nice and warm. Thanks for sharing.
It is a ride of a lifetime.
Congrats dude! Glad you could get out there, it really is sublime.
Hey Ian .. I did the trip last month ... Fantastic .. I even stayed at meat cove .
Thanks for the compliment. I really loved being out there. I miss it very much. As for the camera I used the ContourHD camera. Great camera and easy to use. I stitched the movie together using Final Cut Pro X.
Omg I thought this video was gone ..... yessssssssss
ı like this video.bravo Ian.don't stop nothing
Hello again Ian. Had a tremendous time in Nova Scotia again, earlier this month. Bought me a Contour Roam last week. Should have got it before the trip, but recently found a place that happened to have it in stock. Still figuring it out and used it for the first time today. One day I'll be at your level, LOL.
I am heading out end of August... doing the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby and heading up the Cabot Trail for some therapy. :-) Awesome inspirational well done video Ian. Thanks for sharing :-)
I'm so proud to be a Caper :)
Awesome footage and editing !
Wow..Awesome ride man..
Nice footage and good music. Like your sponsors, i uses the same ones!! My last trip here from NJ was on bike several years back. Your video motivating me for another trip.
I am thinking about going to the cabot trail this year lol. Heard tons of good things about it so far.
Thanks a lot for this great video. You changed my plan for future and I will think to live those wheres. Best wishes from an author who lives in Turkey, Ankara...
hey, Ian , nice work.
Didnt realize it was you until see your face in the video.
Cool video and very nice motorcycle. This is a good reminder of why I love Cape Breton so much. I just ordered a new F800GS last week and plan on putting a lot of miles on it in CB. If your down this way again sometime and want someone to ride with drop me line. I have a couple of GoPros as well so we could get some really cool videos of our bikes in action.
Awesome video, enjoyed v. much. That would be a grueling trip, do it again and take a few days to chill. PEI could be added in as well, beautiful province especially during spring planting of crops. Moncton, NB is a neat city with great music concerts on Magnetic Hill, maybe you coasted your bike up hill there?? Come back to the Maritimes anytime, love our tourists who share their experiences.Thanks for the beautifully done video.
Great video Ian. Looks like a great ride and it will be my destination for my very first moto trip!!!
If you haven't tried the North Shore of Lake Superior; give it a try....or do the whole lake Circle Tour through Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (south and northwest shore) and Ontario (north and northeast shore)....
really nice job
Awesome Video, I grew up in CB and its nice to see the familiar roads. The only reason you get 9/10 instead of 10/10 is you misspelled Cape Breton at 0:22 and Cabot at 0:35. :-)
Thanks for the compliment. The camera is simply a ContourHD mounted on the bike.
Yea right!
Funny how out there that's all you see, BMWs and the occasional HD.
On every road in any kind of weather.
Your Italian Cafe racers and Japanese crotch rockets seem to shine only in their garages and show rooms.
But to each their own :)
@ibothwell :
Loved your vid, great choice of music too!
Thanks for sharing!
:)
Bob
Heeeeeeeyyyyyyy Ian ..... The snow is really getting to me .... Sure hope she melts soon ..... Watching this to hold me over till I can ride again .
+Rex4x4 Sincerely glad to be of service ;)
+Ian Bothwell were heading to Gaspe sept 11th to 19th if ya wanted to join us .
+Ian Bothwell sept 11th to 19th ..... Want in? Gaspe is awesome
Thank you for the invite but won't be able to get out this time. Have a great trip!
If you do like camping I really do suggest the cove. Details in the description. There are so many artisan shops and great restaurants along the way ... it all depends on what you are into. Very jealous ... wish I was heading back again.
Great Video!!!! Im doing this from Toronto this summer 2012!!!!
You made me home sick, excellent video
Awesome pics, My wife and I are going this summer on our bikes. breathtaking scenery, I can't wait. sorry about your choice in bike. BMW? really.
Thanks for your information.
i live here in sydney and the highlands is my weekend vacation
Further down the trail (towards Baddeck) you would've passed my folks place (fresh homemade bread & pies daily)!!!
I watch this a couple times a year. .... I made it out there finally last year (in a truck :-(. ) but if u ever get out to gaspe it's a way better ride ... Did it a few years back on my old 1100 shadow
Got it. . . the elders. Thanks.
@ibothwell thanks for the feedback! i'll be up this summer.
It really is so flattering when people get inspired and love the vid. Especially since it really was one of the best trips of my life. As for Sea Parrot Inn I will have to keep that in mind for next time as I have not stayed there... And I do like hot-tubbing! Meat Cove is certainly much more bare bones. I cannot remember what it cost me. Checkout their website... It really was not too expensive though.
Hey Ian .... Riding out east again last week of June .... Want in ?? One of these years u will say yes 🤘🏻😉🤘🏻
;) thanks for the invite mate! Another year. Headed over seas this summer.
Ian Bothwell have fun man
Thanks! Have fun on the ride!
Holy crap dude this is the best east coast video I have ever seen . Great editing too :-)
I rode from north bay Ontario to gaspe and back in 2011 .... I did 3100km in just over 3 days .
Videos on my channel if u care to take a peek .... I just favorited this video .
Once again THANK YOU
Fantastic video Ian and loved the soundtrack too. It was like sitting in front of a visual time machine. I too was on the Cabot Trail and at Meat Cove, specifically Saturday August 20, 2011. However, I did clockwise day 1 (Aug 20) and counter clockwise the next day (Sunday August 21). It would be crazy if you were there on the same dates etc. And what kind of camera did you use, I may have to get one myself. THANKS again. AWESOME.
very nice video Btw!
hahaha right on man thanks .... this guys video is awesome eh .
Nice video :)
Well done video! I have been to Canada several times on my drives to Alaska but have never been east of Ontario. How do you protect that GPS when it rains?
Not exactly something you could do in four days starting from Ottawa, but if you're ever in Arizona you should do the Apache trail (perhaps you already have) :)
Funny ya its cold there but thats the most extream atlantic on a clear day u can see NFLD from meat cove our water in other parts of the cape warm up end of july to 1st oct but not meat cove.
wow
Planning a trip next year Leaving from Boston I was told how spectacular the trail was that were gonna do it by Harley's any advice on where to stay as we will be bringing mobile home thanks for a look at such a beautiful scenery
Thanks for sharing, loved your vid, did the Cabot a month ago and we would go back anytime, one of the best site seeing trip we ever did. We did it on the oposite way you did (clockwise) next time we'll do it the same as you did and try to go up to Meat Cove, how mutch did it cost you for the litle shack loundge? Have you seen the Sea Parrot Inn? Hot tub right on the sea shore!
That was awesome. We just got back from Cape Breton...we stayed in Baddeck and Ingonish. My family is from there, and I hadn't been in 25 years..it was great to go back.
Can I ask what software you used to create the show? I love the bulletin board idea
Looks like a nice run. I did Windsor Ontario to Hollywood California and back last year by myself as well. What was your weather like, what were accommodations like, any road problems?
Ride was amazing. I lucked out and the weather was amazing. Usually that close to the coast the weather can go either way. As for accommodations there are a ton of amazing B&Bs as well as hotels/motels along the way. I myself stayed at the Meat Cove campground at the northern tip. Road conditions are some of the best I have ever ridden.
Awesome video. I lived in Cheticamp for 4 years as a kid. My father was a Chief Park Warden at CBHNP. Nice to see the old stomping grounds. I do the Cabot Trail just about every year. My in laws have a cottage on the side the the mountain along the Margarree River.
I have a question... what video editing software do did you use for creating your great movies? I would like to know. I might re-edit a few of mine.
Thanks, Tim
+MrMagicFingers1 Hi.... I guess I missed where it said "Final Cut Pro".
Great job!
Tim
What was the music with the lyrics about sending a prayer out to the universe? Grand song!
Made this same trip on a Harley Electra Glide Ultra Classic August 12th 2013. What kind of camera did you use? I have a Hero II, a Sony Nex-6 and a Canon A30sx. Don't see any way to do this with any of those cameras. Just wondering, PS: Great Video !
I am planning to go there on my 250cc vstar, Is it doable?
i live in saint john,NB. BTW ,Awesome video
Wow what a great video. I'm also from ottawa (orleans). I'm hoping to do this trip in July with the wife. I just bought a 2014 boulevard c90t boss so it won't be too bad comfort wise for 2 up. That stop at meat cove looked really nice would you have done that road on a cruiser? How many days was your trip? I might only be able to pull 7-8 days off without our four year old and I'm not sure if that's enough time. Do you have any tips or must see things?
I think one of the most beautiful roads in the world. I would like to go there for vacation someday. The film is very nice and not boring. Which camera do you use? Sorry for my english. Greetings from Fröndenberg/Germany.
Great Video. I'm planning on doing the Cabot Trail this summer on my motorcycle and your video makes me long to get my bike out and hit the road. Just wondering what video editing software you used, it looks fantastic..
Hey Ian how ya doin man ? Are u back in Canada ? A bunch if us are doing the east coast again on bike and I was wondering if u wanted to join us in June ? 15th-28th 2014
Nice video ! did u see somes road bikes ?
Very nice vid!! We are looking to make that trip next summer but we ride in Campagna T-Rex, so can you tell me how many kilometers are not paved?? I see in your vid some road are not paved...can we skirt the unpaved road?? Thanks to let me know!!
Great video. I am going to take the ride this month. Was wondering what camera did you use to take video?
Hi Ian, what a great trip!! My name is Marcelo and I'm from Brazil and I also have a g650gs bemmer. Although, lately I've been obsessed about trading in my bike with a larger model like 1200gs or even a 800s adv. My greatest concern is about the comfort when riding long distances and the fuel range. I've been planning to take a trip from a Sao Paulo to Ushuaia, which is about 13.000km. I love my bike! It's great in the city, great on offroad (I have the Karoo 3 tyres at the moment), and great in short trips. I just wonder if you could give any advice on that. Thank you!
It is a great bike. Specially because I've been riding for just a year and a half and I'm still improving my off road skills. I have attended a couple of off road courses and I noticed that my bike can overcome obstacles much easier than the bigger bikes in the mud, sand, gravel and steady hills... I guess there is nothing wrong about taking advantage of that. I'll keep you posted and thanks for your answer.
sweet vid dude! glad you enjoyed yourself! how long approximately did it take you to get to meat cove once you hit the dirt road?
The soundtrack you used is great. You only labelled Afro Celt Sound System though. What other artists/tracks did you use. I hear Great Big Sea but who else?
ive watched this video like 8 times now from beginning to end .
think u could put up a version with no music and maybe u talking in it a bit ?
dig up the old footage for a different feel of the area ?? waves crash , birds sing ??
thanks again for the 8th time lol
rex4x4
Oh, and can I post this on my website and/or Facebook? Daniel
i desire this music piece. what is it?
Hello Ian,
I notice some unpaved roads - were those your choice rides or can they be avoided ? I dont have a GS like you - I have a Goldwing and its not that crazy about unpaved roads !
Also - can u just pop in and get these B&B places or do you have to book in advance ?
Thank you,
R Jay The unpaved roads are only the ones leading up to the Cove at the northern tip for camping. The entire Cabot trail is paved so no worries there. As for the hotels and places to stay I would for sure just call ahead to make sure they are not booking up. The trail itself if you start out early in the morning will not even take you the entire day. So if you want to take is slow and do the trail in both directions look online and find a place or two you like and book in advance.
Have a great trip.
Thank you Ian for the responses. We will have a few riders so we will book in advance.
Cheers
Fantastic. What did you use to edit the video on please?
Thanks! all editing was done in Final Cut Pro.
Thank you
How much of the road to Meat Cove is dirt?
it is only a couple of Km.