Good afternoon from Nova Scotia, Canada

Elmobile · May 1, 2020

As I indicated in the subject line, I live in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.
I own a 1990 GL1500 SE with about 170K kms. I bought it about 4 years ago. Every year, I do some work on it mostly toward reliability. I think it is now at a point where I will hopefully prove that this summer, whenever COVID19 gets out of the way enough to allow us to get riding again :moped:
A big part of the project was the addition of a sidecar. It is a 2006 CSC FReindship III.
I have been reading and posting mainly on another forum and just came across this one via another member already on both.
The next "phase" is going to be body related. Fixing up a few cracks in some parts and plugging a number of holes. I am going to remove a few chrome railings which are rusting and frankly not to my liking. Once that is done I will probably wrap it rather to paint it... Next winter project!
Cheers for now and be safe.

Winger 82 · May 1, 2020

Welcome :hi: :hi: :hi:

DaveKamp · May 1, 2020

Good afternoon from Iowa... I got a chuckle out of 'rural Nova Scotia'... and I don't believe you because you were able to get to someplace with Internet Service...

An old friend of mine from Halifax joked with his lovely Acadian Scots timbre that "there's 'a place in town everyone always goes (goooez) to make a phone call... We got great technology now- it used to be that they had to wait in line to use that telephone, now they just wait for their turn to use the cell tower... but it's not a bad wait, there's only three people here..." :smilie_happy:

I know he was jOOOOking, but it was hilarious. I was on a long-term biz trip in Boston, had a 2-way radio antenna hanging from my 6th story corporate apartment, and was chatting with him one morning, he told me to open the window and shut the radio off, he could hear me better because the wind was blowing the wrong way...

My wife has always wanted to trek through upstate NY, through New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine, I'd like to continue up to NS and PEI, then back through PQ, up the St Lawrence, and cross back south at Sault Ste. Marie... of course, I'd prefer to do it in the Aspencade, but she hates riding on motorcycles :doh:

One of my old college roommates has an 1800 with a sidecar, it's rather large. I took it for a spin from Lake City, MN up to Red Wing with my daughter in the hack, and in all honesty, I'd probably like it more if there was one on each side, rather than just one side. If it was a spacious three-wheeler rather than two sidecars, I'd probably like it more, but I wouldn't like it as much as just having two wheels... but like He says... ice-fishing is so much easier when 'ya got a sidecar... :fishin:

BTW... name here is Dave, and I approve this message!

Ohara · May 1, 2020

Hello from Ontario. Will be glad to see an end to coved as well.

mcgovern61 · May 1, 2020

Welcome to the site from New Jersey! NS is on my list to visit! :clapping:

Elmobile · May 1, 2020

Thank you all for the warm welcome.
And, Dave, rural N.S. is definitely a fact. Yes we have an internet connection... with a rated latency of 600 which feels more like a 1000, no ISP really worried about us lost in the wood. Now considering that my closest neighbours are a family of deers and a black bear, I do feel like I live in a rural setting... and I love it!
My wife actually does't mind riding. She is a good passenger and you wouldn't know she's back there on my solo bike (A Suzuki DL650). She is looking at riding with me on the GL. Not in the side car which belongs to Elmo, our dog, but on the back seat. That will happen when I replace the rear shock absorber, just to make all 3 wheels stay on the ground...
Nova Scotia is a lovely place to visit. Lots of nice back roads and nice people...
Thanks again for the elcome. Be safe...