Motorcycle Guide to Percé Rock
GASPÉ TRIP QUICK LINKS
Part 1 |
TOURING THE GASPÉ PENINSULA
Part 2 |
LOWER ST. LAWRENCE
Part 3 |
SOUTH SHORE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
Part 4 |
EXPLORING HIGHWAY 132
Part 5 |
RAMOUSKI & MATAPEDIA
Part 6 |
#299 NORTH TO GASPÉ
Part 7 |
STE. ANNE DES MONTS
Part 8 |
GRAND VALEÉ
Part 9 |
ARRIVAL IN THE TOWN OF GASPÉ
Part 10 |
BONAVENTURE
Part 11 |
PERCÉ ROCK
Part 12 |
Part Eleven | Motorcycle Guide to Percé Rock
Ultimate Ride Episode 11
So this season during our annual fall ride .. we’ve been in the province of Quebec exploring the scenic Gaspe Peninsula.. After 4 days in the saddle of a pair of K1600GTs.. we spent the final evening in the town of Gaspe proper. Then on the final morning of our adventure .. with only a couple of hours left before catching a flight back towards home…we squeezed out one last photo op at the famous Percé Rock. It required a spirited early morning ride that will never be forgotten…but alas no matter how hard we tried to stretch out the experience.. our journey was coming to a close…
Dave
Well Norm, here we are mid way through day four in this year’s Ultimate Ride to Gaspé and we’re at the Gaspé airport. Man, it’s a tiny airport. No tower and our de-icing… not that we need it, but our De-icing vehicle is actually a pick-up truck. It’s small.
Norm
That’s right. And only a one-way runway too, so that’s going to be interesting with all the wind when we leave here.
Dave
It’s going to be extremely windy today. But you know when we pull out the map and you look back to where we have been and how far we’ve come from flying into Quebec City, we’v covered a lot of ground.
Norm
Twelve hundred and fifty kilometers the way that we did the route.
Dave
Nice.
Norm
It’s perfect.
Dave
Quickly recapping the first part of the ride was a little straight forward, and pedestrian out from Quebec City to Rimouski. We spent the night there and then the journey really began for us the next day riding down the one thirty-two east to your sister’s place in Matapedia.
Norm
Yes, a nice little surprise lunch there and enjoyed that very much and then after that we continued on to Baie des Chaleurs and made our way to the two ninety-nine which is at New Richmond and up to Ste. Anne des Monts and that was a really spectacular road for me, I really enjoyed that, the two roads. The valley for seventy kilometers and then the mountains for the next seventy kilometers.
Dave
Yeah. That was a fantastic ride and we had a gorgeous day that whole day. It was all about following rivers. Woke up at Ste. Anne des Monts, a nasty day. It was cold, it was raining, but the ride to Gaspe, it did not disappoint. I mean we were smiling the whole way. The scenery was spectacular.
Norm
Just the way the mountains came right down to the ocean and the road just snaked along is fantastic and then every now and then the opportunity to go inland a little bit and get some roller coaster rides.
Dave
Yeah. It was beautiful and called it a short day yesterday. Four o’clock we were in Gaspé we checked into our hotel… this morning it was like icing on the cake. Percé Rock, we blasted out there this morning and what a gorgeous scene.
Norm
Beautiful.
Dave
Beautiful. And some nice roads too.
Norm
Beautiful roads and as you said before, when you ride it the opposite way you get a whole different perspective so I enjoyed coming from Percé back to here visually more than the ride out.
Dave
Well I think if you’re going to come out and do this ultimate ride the toughest decision will be should I keep the St. Lawrence on my left or on my right. Which way should we circle this thing.
Norm
Exactly.
Dave
‘Cause the scenery changes both ways but over all, when you’re thinking about an ultimate ride in Canada, I mentioned this earlier in one of the previous segments; the rockies, definitely, Cape Breton Cabot Trail, definitely, and I’ve got to put Gaspé right up there. This has been spectacular, fun, great riding. Thanks for bringin us this one.
Norm
No problem.
RIDE GUIDE TO GASPÉ, QUEBEC
Gaspe is one place, as a motorcyclist you want to see, it’s a motorcycle mecca, it’s all about the ride. There’s a lot of history here as well but this one is all about the ride. You’re on the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, you’re on the coast of Baie des Chaleur. You can go in and out of the Gaspe peninsula on these various roads and you’re going to get changing scenery continuously so it’s a real cool place to go as a Motorcyclist.
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PROUD SUPPORTER OF
The mission of the TELUS Ride For Dad is to raise funds to save men’s lives by supporting prostate cancer research and raising public awareness of the disease. Our goal is for men to continue to be there for their families and friends for years to come. The parade of vehicles grabs the attention of the masses and the media on ride day, the research helps find hope for the future and the awareness has the potential of saving men’s lives today.