Hey Everybody, I'm back from my 4-day mini-vacation which was awesome! I was with my roommate who has a 2005 vtx1800 and a co-worker who has an 06 600 gixxr. We started friday morning from Mahwah, NJ, rode to the Grand Canyon of PA on Friday, then went north to buffalo Saturday afternoon to eat at the anchor bar (where buffalo wings were invented) and then headed over the boarder to canada to visit the falls. We stayed in Canada Saturday night and Sunday night, then we headed home on Monday morning. Round trip it was right around 800 miles, with the longest "leg" being monday's trip from the falls back home which was 392 miles (according to gps, so it's pretty accurate)

I took 343 pictures total, but here are a few that I think you guys will like...

All Geared up...




G.B.A.




one of the many many gas stops - note the TERRIBLE weather.... :-D




me at the Grand Canyon of PA




Motorcycle only parking...




Grand Canyon of PA




Niagara - American Falls




Me and the gixxr rider and the horseshoe falls




Rider went down doing a u-turn with a real REAL dumb passenger who leaned too much and brought it down...




"Ontario gear" (never went over 30mph...)




From the Skylon



There is ALWAYS a rainbow...



The amount of water flowing is super impressive




And last but not least - a cool reflection...



All in all it was an awesome trip, the weather was beautiful, and although I'm real sore, I'm proud of my bike for not giving me one lick of trouble the whole way :-)

 

Going to be honest here, I thought Niagra Falls was just a big circle waterfall that the water just dumped into a huge hole. I didn't know it was just a silly waterfall. I'm quite unimpressed by Niagra Falls now. That being said, nice pics! Looks like an awesome trip and glad it was a safe one!

Mike

 

HOw did your bike felt with all those bags on it ?

 

haha, fair enough - it is in fact just a "silly waterfall" - but that waterfall is absolutly HUGE and it really is very impressive, my pictures do it no justice whatsoever. The "wall" of water before it falls is like 3 feet high all around, and when you are near the falls the sound it makes is really amazing. You can be unimpressed by the pictures, but the falls themselves are very impressive.

I hardly even noticed them, we did plenty of twisties and 100+mph "bursts" on the highways with a normal crusing speed of about 75-80mph. I highly recomend them, I'll give a mini-review in an f4i specific thread that already discusses saddlebags

 

can tell it was a nice trip...great pics, can't wait to visit Niagra Falls myself

 

You shoulda hit me up.. you must have cruised right by my place.

 

"Ontario Gear" Just cause we have free health care up here doesn't mean you need to try and take advantage of it.

 

yeah - sorry man - I had a post a few weeks / a week ago asking if anybody was in the niagara area, i guess that is kinda far from ithica... next time i'll hit you up... but it will be a while

 

Lol go visit the falls once snow, you'll be impressed. Looks like a cool trip "new guy"

 

Awesome pix man. I love the falls and only live 4 hours away, but have not been up there since 2001-long over due. The view from the Skylon tower is crazy good. Where is the grand canyon of PA located? I my plan a ride out there if it's not too far. Oh and you said you were impressed that the bike did not give you any problems-it's a Honda it's not going to let you down. I would have took my 2000 F4 with 31K on it on that trip and not thought twice.