it's official came in the mail yesterday, my lake Huron IBA cert. now I have a cert for each of the individual great lakes IBA rides
a great lakes sweep
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Tankereng
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Congrats! I've got a SS1000 and want to do a BBG as soon as my new career affords me the time to do so...
carpdm
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Congrats! Great accomplishment.
Congrats.
Is riding them all in one ride on the agenda - in 50 or 100 hours?
Is riding them all in one ride on the agenda - in 50 or 100 hours?
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Congrats. I've ridden around all the lakes but no certificates :-(
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tankereng: I want to try a bbg alsofnmag: lakes Michigan, Huron, and Superior have their own cert, lakes Erie and Ontario are much smaller and called the lower great lakes by the IBA so there are only four great lakes rides plus the great lakes challengecarpdm: thanksjeff: I was going to do the great lakes challenge this year but i'll be meeting up with some friends from Oz, they will be in Pa. at the same time everyone will be doing the GLC
Very well done! did you have comrades or were you solo? What time did you start your ride? Looking at doing the lower lakes this year. It is almost exactly 1000 miles around the two.
scootac
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Any photos of your trip?
That's awesome!!
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my buddy tony took this ride with me, he rides a big twin Harley, usually when I'm on an IBA ride I don't take pic's but while we were stuck in traffic on the international bridge between sault ste marie Michigan and sault ste marie, on. ca. I spotted a laker clearing the soo locks and took a pic of it and then one of tony, he said good idea and took one of me
Lol. Nice try. ;-)
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on the lower great lakes ride there were about 30 of us but we broke off into smaller groups. add a few extra miles so when the IBA checks your route you don't come up short
Well done Buzzard. I'd like to loop them all some day. I bet the Canadian part would be awesome.
I did end up doing this ride in 2018. Started/Ended in Watertown, NY. Approx 2500 miles in 44+hrs. And yes, the Canadian portion was the best...even with those slow speed limits.
Was that your riding time or the total time from start to finish
Total time was 44:09. That included a 4-5hr rest somewhere in Wisconsin (I went CCW).