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Long Sault Conservation Area
Sault St Marie where to eat and drink
Paris to Brantford
Ravenshoe
Pine Needle and Chocolate Ice Cream
The first visit to Long Sault Conservation Area and it was an interesting visit. Below you will find links to Trailforks and the park website. There is a parking fee of $6 and a long downhill with some interesting trails and the odd feature. https://www.cloca.com/long-saulthttps://www.trailforks.com/region/long-sault-conservation-area/
If you plan this road trip this episode may help you pick a few places to go and sample the food options of the Soohttps://www.sandrosrestaurant.ca/menuhttps://www.peacerestaurant.cahttps://ginosfiredup.cahttps://www.facebook.com/people/Ernies-Coffee-Shop/100062975332743/The machine districthttps://machineshopinc.ca
We did a bit of a special one today, easy on the green rail trail and then some simple greens, blues and blacks, such a cool little network. We parked here https://www.trailforks.com/map/?activitytype=1&z=13.2&lat=43.18851&lon=-80.35429 At the Paris end of the SC Johnson trail. Oh we also found 80lbs of Chicken of the woods.
Short Bonus update on Ravenshoe, trails but mostly mushrooms
Jessica while being out of action is turning to sharing some of the recipes we use when consuming wild edibles.
Grand Canyon 6 2022 Review I ride a Deviate Highlander 140 with a We Are One Wheelset, I run Sram Breaks that work better than the breaks in my car, have run AXS but am back on cable shifting, the charging when I ride so often is quite annoying even with two batteries and with radio mics, cameras and recorders, plus phones and bike computers I need a break from batteries. This high pivot full suspension beast of a bike makes up for every mistake I make though and I do ride anything else and feel lazy, scared and more of a pilot than a passenger. For the first time in a long time I decided to try and run one bike, I mean I have a fat bike and a city bike but my 4 rides a week on my mountain bike were taking its toll on my bank account. Out of curiosity and because I follow Sam Pilgrim on Youtube I took a look at Canyon.I went for the Grand Canyon 6 it arrived and in truth, I had tried to cancel it, I was not excited and felt a bit fed up, I unpacked it and noticed the bike had a bent hanger, not Canyon's fault more likely the carrier leaving the box in the rain so it soaked through and the bottom fell out. Canyon no questions UPS’ed me a hanger. Back to the bike, I was sad it is so basic, not even cable routing for the spare dropper post I had…..So I managed to fix the dropper post, I changed the Bars and Saddle to some spare parts I have hanging around I made it Tubeless even though the tires on it stock didn’t mention tubeless, I feel after converting our Fat Bikes and a dirt jumper I can make anything with a tire Tubeless especially if its Stans No Tubes. The stock wheels seated the tire super quick I did both wheels in 20 minutes. Pumped up and held air overnight.So, I took it out on my local trails in the woods expecting to hate it and I didn’t, I thought the 5mm quick release from a decade ago, I missed this on the spec, would be an issue, it wasn’t and has not been, even though I keep grabbing the wheel expecting some play, there is none. This continues to be the case five rides in. As for the Suntour Fork I just wanted an axel, the Suntor system worked loose on my trails, not a lot but enough feel, I messaged Suntour and the contact sent me a link to a video, it has helped maybe not eliminated the issue completely but I am a 6ft 3 14.5 stone human who is hard on bikes. I also upped the pressure in the fork so it is only every so often using the full 100mm of travel. Now when you fly off anything I can feel it drop, I think I just need to slow the rebound down. The ride on this fork is plush though and I have ridden much worse for more money. So far it confirms my thought if you are looking to purchase a new fork give Suntour a look.I took the Canyon for a ride in my local woods, nice blue and green trails, and lots of roots, sand and rocks, I know this place well so don’t mess around on any of the descending sections. The wheelset is so impressive for this price, I have put them through it already and they are still running true. The handling has been good so far, even on the limestone slabs of the Bruce, I did put wider bars as mentioned, but most of that is down to my riding style I find the narrow bars quite odd to deal with.Well done Canyon on an epic bike for the price, I am not easy on bikes and have had it out every day I have ridden since it came home. It proves that you can have as much fun on a cheaper bike as on a top-end full suspension and you might even be faster on the cheap one.www.canyon.comwww.srsuntour.comwww.notubes.com