^^ TBH, I'm much more into cycling these days. Would rather spend $8k on a new mountain bike (but even that isn't going to happen.)
IIRC, you're loading the 500 into your
truck Ridgeline (
![Grin ;D](https://www.autos.ca/forum/Smileys/CarTalk/grin.gif)
) and hauling it to BC to ride there? Yeah, I can see that being loads of fun, but just too much of a time commitment for me.
I put over 10k km on the 690E when I had it, and did have lots of fun with it. Still, I couldn't find any practical reason to keep it: I rode it to work sometimes, but that was about a 5 minute trip and hardly worth it (I'm an ATGATT kind of guy.) Couldn't even use it for running errands around town, because that always involved hauling too much stuff. In the end, I'd get all dressed up to go ride around in circles for an hour. Just seemed silly and pointless.
![Sad :(](https://www.autos.ca/forum/Smileys/CarTalk/sad.gif)
I did take it on some great BC trips, though. Some awesome twisty pavement around Nelson/Nakusp, and then some equally awesome fire roads & lookouts to explore as well. But that's like a weekend commitment (at the very least,) while I can hop on my bicycle and go for a great ride from my back door.