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Awful Cabot Trail News

“It’s not so bad at the start of the season, when it’s just the guys on those big BMWs,” said MacAskill. “Their bikes are fairly quiet; they go through the Trail as fast as they can, then split off to Sydney. You see them there outside the Starbucks.

“But as soon as it warms up, the noise is terrible. You get these guys on big shiny bikes blatting their pipes the whole way, holding up the RVs trying to make it up the hills.”
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Still, summer will be different on the Cabot Trail without the thunder of motorcycles rolling through the hills. Some Nova Scotia motorcycle clubs have talked about “rolling protests,” riding motorcycles through the Trail at slow speed to show their unhappiness with the policy. However, those plans were abandoned when some members pointed out that wouldn’t be any different from their normal riding style.

Well, at least one guy guy realized that BMWs and Harley are entirely different machines.
 
Gotta be an April Fools stunt...seriously, why not go after offenders...and holding an RV up while climbing a hill when it's the opposite:scratch

Seems to bad to be true on a truly wonderful ride
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Fairly easy for us "locals" to detect. I've even noticed a mistake in their pun attempt.

An official with Nova Scotia’s DOT, Philip McAvity, said tourists and local residents alike are tired of open-piped cruisers blasting through the Cape Breton hills all summer long.

Angus MacAskill, a resident of Englishtown, organized a winter-long letter-writing campaign that asked local transportation officials and politicians to address the issue of loud motorcycles on the Trail.

“It’s not so bad at the start of the season, when it’s just the guys on those big BMWs,” said MacAskill. “Their bikes are fairly quiet; they go through the Trail as fast as they can, then split off to Sydney. You see them there outside the Starbucks.

“But as soon as it warms up, the noise is terrible. You get these guys on big shiny bikes blatting their pipes the whole way, holding up the RVs trying to make it up the hills.”
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  1. Philip McAvity: should have read Phil McAvity to get the old Scottish/British joke correct so it would then be pronounced - "Fill Ma' Cavity".
  2. Angus MacAskill of Englishtown: The Angus MacAskill of Englishtown better known as Giant MacAskill died in 1863. He was world known.
At 7'9" he almost dwarfs this 6'5" man, but more impressive was his strength having lifted 2,800 pounds and many other feats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill

330px-Angus_MacAskill_in_Canada.JPG
 
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