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Old 03-20-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Looking for a week long summer ride. My parents tell me the Finger Lake region is real nice. But is it worth a motorcycle ride?
Looking to start in Boston, so I am open to other suggestions too. My plan B is somewhere in Maine.
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I've been through the finger lakes region, but it was on a B line home to Maine on back roads.

Maine has a lot to offer, between the coast, the mountains and the inbetween.

Are you camping or moteling?

Alone or 2up?

I can answer questions about Maine....
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Finger Lakes region is great! Awesome motorcycle roads, great food, wineries.

We have a BMW Rally there every year near Watkins Glen. Don't forget the Curtiss Museum.

Lots of good info here

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If you can take route 8 north from Utica to Hague NY. you can cross over to VT, and NH. When are you planning your trip? We have a RAT pack in VT too.

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Lot's of great places to stay too.



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Theres also the Americade rally in early June. See link. NY state is a great adventure Ive found no bad roads there at all.

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Used to live in the region. It's a great place! Watkins Glen and Letchworth are especially nice state parks. But plan to stay awhile!
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Thanks for the suggestions, two bikes, one up each and moteling it for a week.

We rode from Boston and B-lined it up the coast of NH and Maine to Nova Scotia. I love Maine. I am not set on the Finger Lakes and am open to suggestions, so if there are some good spots in maine let the fly !
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I'm planning my June vacation ride now.
My wife will be co-pilot. Her first "long" ride.
She's done a 300+ mile day on my other bike. This will be her first on the Sprint.

I'm heading thru Vermont and still deciding either west via ferry to the Adirondacks or east thru northern New Hampshire and western Maine.
I know my way around New England fairly well, but am willing to pull out the map and say let's ride this road.

I went on line to the Vermont tourism bureau, so between email and snail mail I've rec'd a lot of info, good info.
As an example they have a covered bridge tour already mapped out. Great one of the things I was looking for was to find some more covered bridges.
New hampshire has some great roads and good info on their tourism web site.
Maine has some nice sweeping roads, get up around Moosehead Lake, versus the tighter turns of NH and VT.
Think more mountains. Either one of these states have enough roads, good sweeping, twisty roads to keep your interest.

Go on line and look at the tourism web sites, you can also find some good deals on hotels/motels bed and breakfast types.

I'm up the road off 93 from you


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Looking to go out late August, maybe September, we have not really decided.
Just got the bike on the road today, what a beautiful weekend in the Northeast! :-D :-D :-D
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