Monday, September 28, 2009

Scooter Sense Almost World Tour - No money, a $25 gas card, a stack of t-shirts, a tent for camping and a mission to spread the scooter gospel.

Hello to all you loyal Motorcycle Experience Viewers and Yamaha Bike
Blog readers!

If you haven’t already heard or are wondering what Motorcycle
Experience - Scooter Sense segment host Bryan Hudgin’s Twitter feed
has been referring to lately, we’re just about to shoot the second
season of “Scooter Sense” for the next season of TSN’s “A Motorcycle
Experience”. The concept this time around? The aptly titled, “Scooter
Sense Almost World Tour: Big City Lights and Camp Fire Nights”. Bryan
will be going on a good old fashioned road trip with his trusty Yamaha
BWs125 scooter for 3 days. He’ll be going from Montreal, to Ottawa, to
Kingston and finally landing in Toronto with a bunch of stops in
between.

The rules of engagement? No money, a $25 gas card, a stack of
t-shirts, a tent for camping and a mission to spread the scooter
gospel. His cell phone is rigged to the Yamaha corporate Twitter
account, so he’ll be updating frequently along the way. You can follow
along from each of Yamaha’s motorcycle or snowmobile blogs or search
for “YamahaMotorCa” to follow with your Twitter account.

Bryan says that he would love to have any fans and riders join him
along the way, which is we’re posting a tentative itinerary below.
Keep in mind, this is a pretty complicated beast to organize and
shooting TV can always take longer than expected, so things can change
really quickly. We will be changing things throughout this week and
during the trip but we wanted to get you up to speed to keep you in
the loop. You’ll need to check back with Bryans blog fairly frequently
to stay on top of our shooting locations!

Having said all of that, if you come out to support the tour, Bryan
will give you a limited edition “Scooter Sense Almost World Tour”
t-shirt for your troubles (while his limited supply lasts). Of course
he may use it to trade you for food though!!

Here is the current tour schedule as posted on Bryan’s blog.

Day One – Sunday October 4th

8:30am to 9:00am at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium

Feature 1 – The last breakfast! From now on in - no money, just a gas
card, a tent and t-shirts for the next 3 days. Can you eat cotton?

9:00 depart for Chateau Montebello via Hwy 15N and Route 50W

10:30am to 11:00am at Chateau Montebello gates.

Feature 2 - Unfortunately, I won’t be sleeping at the Chateau
Montebello, but it is a scenic place for a stop!

11:00am depart for Ottawa via Cty Rd 17 & Regional Rd 174W

12:30am to 3:30pm at Ottawa at the Parliament buildings.

Feature 3 – I’ll do my best to recruit some government leaders to chat
about the benefits of scooters! Heck we pay their salary, it’s the
least they could do, right??

3:30 depart for loyal “A Motorcycle Experience” viewer Bruce & Jan
Haskin’s home via Hwy 7W and Hwy 15

5:00pm to 7:00pm in Portland.

Feature 4 - Meet the Haskins! Set up camp for the night!

Day Two – Monday October 5th

8:00am to 8:30am at Haskin Home in Portland.

Feature 5 – Bright eyed and bushy tailed. Bruce leads the convoy down
Cty Road 10 to Kingston, the old hometown!

8:30am depart for Kingston

10:00am to 12:00pm at Queens University Kingston

Feature 6- Math quiz! Who can figure out a scooter’s gas mileage the
quickest? Shouldn’t have any problems finding any scholar’s here

12:00pm depart for Shannonville via Hwy 2

1:30pm at Shannonville

Feature 7 – What are my lap times? Face off against some road racing veterans!

3:00pm depart for Sandbanks Provincial Park via Cty Rd 49

5:00pm to 7:30pm at Sandbanks Provincial Park

Feature 8 - Set up camp. Dinner of champions over the open fire.

Day Three - Tuesday October 6th

8:00am to 8:30am Sandbanks morning in Prince Edward County.

Feature 9 - How was the sleep? How was breakfast? Where are we off to?

8:30am depart for Port Hope via Loyalist Pkwy and Hwy 2

10:00am to 10:30am at Port Hope

Feature 10 – Fuel Stop. How much money have I spent on gas?

10:30am depart for Toronto via Regional Rd 9, Taunton Rd and Hwy 7

12:00pm to 3:30pm at Toronto

Feature 11 – Group Ride with Toronto Scooter Club. These guys are hardcore!

Feature 12 – Hit the showers!! Cap it all off!

Anyone wishing to join us along the way are more than welcome! The
more the merrier!

Please ensure you check back regularly to Bryan’s blog and the Twitter
feed as things will be changing constantly.

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