Scooter Cannonball 2021 // Days 1-2: Bar Harbor to Grove City

Welcome back to our Super Cub Scooter Cannonball Run trip! Today is Monday, July 12, 2021, and we are beginning our 4500-mile trek across the country to Eureka, CA! Skip around with the chapter markers below.

Scooter Cannonball Run episode links:
T-2, T-1 & T-0: https://youtu.be/AoOPj8BDdUA (Bar Harbor bike prep)
Days 1 & 2: https://youtu.be/O1KlRldtRQ4 (Starting the 4500-mile trek)
Day 3: https://youtu.be/SSEJ162uuWs (Grove City, PA to Traverse City, MI)
Day 4: https://youtu.be/gSb-M-JPcwE (Traverse City, MI, to Marshfield, WI)
Day 5: https://youtu.be/bIqKkjhXyDw (Marshfield, WI to Huron, SD)
Day 6: https://youtu.be/7AxG7ABsZE8 (Huron, SD to Hot Springs, SD)

We left our campsite near the Acadia National Forest late this morning, so we missed most of the group pictures and news broadcasters that came to cover the event. However, we saw the entire group assembled before the kickoff at around 6:45 AM. We chatted with several riders, and I got some videos of the starting group.

Day 1 took us 377 miles from Bar Harbor, ME, to Manchester, VT. The weather cooperated with us today, and the ride was relatively light. The ride was easy and relatively boring, but that wasn't bad. It let us get acclimated and settle into the routines of using the routing tools and rushing from point to point to take pictures. Unfortunately, I didn't capture much video that day due to camera issues. We arrived at the final checkpoint at the hotel without incident.

Unfortunately, two riders went down just a few miles into the trip when they failed to negotiate an off-camber turn where they hit some gravel on the road. Korny (#51) low-sided his Honda Forza 300 resulted in several broken ribs, a broken sternum, and a punctured lung. He was transferred to a trauma center and remained there for five days before being transported by ground back home to Florida (no air flights due to the lung issue).

DJTINY (#177) followed Korny into the corner too closely, and he went off the road and flipped over the handlebars. Luckily, he only suffered minor injuries, but his new Vespa GTS was mangled in the wreck. He couldn't continue that day, but he purchased a new Vespa and continued the ride FOR ZERO POINTS just a few days later!

Day 2 took us 493 miles from Manchester, VT to Grove City, PA. The weather wasn't kind, and we rode about half the day through medium rain storms. We made good time despite the weather and managed to crush out nearly 500 miles in about 12.5 hours (including fuel stops). My rear tire was toast at the end of Day 2 and had to be changed. The Michelin Pilot Street tire was worn through to the cords after only ~3200 miles! I had a spare Pilot Street 2 on my trailer, so I swapped that during the frantic bike maintenance in front of the hotel while we dodged more rain storms. Luckily, I could change the tire and seat the bead without hassle. Future tire changes would prove more difficult and require access to large air compressors to quick-set the tire's bead on the rim.

Time indexes:
0:00 Leaving the Mount Desert Campground and riding to the SCBR starting point
2:32 Showing all the bikes at the starting line, only 73 out of 185 registered riders checked in!
5:24 Starting Day 1 of the ride without a clue... we're just following the GPS! 🤣
8:55 User error, reading TrickTracks incorrectly already
11:08 Already suffering on gravel?
15:44 Using a combo routing approach, wrecked riders already?!
21:03 Wrap up at the finish line for Day 1 at the hotel
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24:30 A very WET start for Day 2
28:15 Quick walk through the hotel lobby, no breakfast! Socializing with other riders on the ride
30:59 Starting Day 2 with a wet, soggy 500-mile ride
34:02 GPS routing hacks, using 3 different sources to beat faster riders to checkpoints!
40:53 This is why I run both hardware GPS and phone routing apps... no road ahead?!
46:54 Wrap up at the finish line for Day 2, my rear tire is TOAST at 3200 miles!
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