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Heading up to Daytona Tomorrow!
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:27 am
by Mustang
Yep, looks like the trip all came together, even got the final piece of my ghost brackets today - the $25 handle making it easier to carry the bags when not on the bike.
Excited, this'll be my first rally! I've seen bikes loaded up heading north all day today as I drove around on appointments, some people with just a knapsack and others packed to the hilt.
Here are some pics of the event so far (have to scroll down to 'the day in pictures'...sorry couldn't get a direct link). All sorts of bikes up there.
So anyone want me to bring anything back for them
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:06 pm
by sapaul
Yeah, bring us back some pics and a great story about your ride.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:58 am
by Bubba
If I lived in Fort Lauderdale, I'd be heading there to. Trouble is I live in New Jersey and nobody I know wants to go.
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:41 pm
by Mustang
Bubba wrote:If I lived in Fort Lauderdale, I'd be heading there to. Trouble is I live in New Jersey and nobody I know wants to go.
Met a guy today who rode for 23 hours straight from New York City....wow
Can you Believe I rode past people trailering their bikes from South Florida....shame!
Great crowd here.... too much to type out on this PDA Im using to access this forum from my hotel room:)
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:42 pm
by High_Side
Mustang wrote:
Can you Believe I rode past people trailering their bikes from South Florida....shame!
Yep! When I was there in '97 I was feeling kind of sheepish for showing up in a rental car (I chose flying down over riding through several thousand km of snow....I'm a whimp!). Once I saw all of the bikes on trailers with Texas, Arizona and even Florida plates I felt a lot less guilty. It was over 80deg. and these guys had to trailer their bikes! The best T-shift I came across down there said "If you can't ride the F#@$er here, leave the F@#$er there! Priceless....
Have fun! And don't eat a big breakfast before viewing some of the "outfits" fat-old biker chicks parade around in down there......
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:08 pm
by earwig
Lucky am-fm... I have to work, woohoo.
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:37 pm
by jmillheiser
I have seen guys trailer Electra Glides up to sturgis from here in Cheyenne.
Cheyenne is only about 200 miles from sturgis.
The only 2 guys I know that trailered their bikes up there last year that could justify it were both taking campers up there, so the bikes got put in the bed of the tow rig
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:15 am
by Mustang
It's around 7am Saturday and as with yesterday morning, regardless of how tired I was the night before or even how late I went to bed, my eyes are open (without the help of an alarm) by 6.30 am....guess I'm so happy to be here!
Went on an all day ride hosted by a local non-brand specific club called Daytona 200 M/C. Nicest bunch of people you can meet and all they wanted was a $10 donation per rider to lead us through the backroads of mideast Florida on a 260 miles trip. Left the clubhouse at 10 am and after a little unplanned excitement made it back by 7pm....awesome.
Because I'm poking away at the keyboard on my PDA, limiting eloquence and volume I'll wrap this post up by giving everyone the main reason why I think this place is fun every waking minute. There are over 500,000 bikers coming from as far as Canada wanting to talk about, look at and ride motorcycles. Generally, everyone of them are the typical rider, nice, open, funny and will talk about riding and everything that revolves around it. It's Utopia!!!!!
Got to jump in the shower, I saved the visit to the big exhibit at the speedway and t-shirt shopping for the last day (today)....so what size does everyone wear.....
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:01 am
by Bubba
[quote="jmillheiser"]I have seen guys trailer Electra Glides up to sturgis from here in Cheyenne.
Cheyenne is only about 200 miles from sturgis.
The only 2 guys I know that trailered their bikes up there last year that could justify it were both taking campers up there, so the bikes got put in the bed of the tow rig[/quote]
Ah! Wonderful Wyoming. I was stationed there a F E Warren AF Base back in the 60s. Used to be a bar on the main drag downtown. Fight there almost every weekend. The good old days.
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:24 am
by Relsek
I rode over there this morning. It was 120 miles by the route I took, I had breakfast with some guys from the Hayabusa board, then headed to the track. After 3 light cycles trying to get to the track, I decided I'd rather ride than hang around in the heat with a buch of drunk bikers, so I rode a new 150 mile route home and had a blast. All that in 5 hours.
Kevin