Meet V-Strom. I recently purchased this motorcycle and it was time to break it in on a trip. I originally planned to go for about 4 days around the 4th-of-July holiday weekend to see how it would perform on extended trips. I quickly decided to make it a week because it is easy to rack up miles on this type of bike.

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After being on the road for 4 days, I was having so much fun that I added another week. I made the mistake of reading about the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia right before I left and well... the rest is history. 4500 miles / 7250 kilometers later, it turned out to be an excellent motorcycle for a combination of touring longer distances, carving the twisties and exploring gravel roads. Intrigued? Read on!

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