well if we do a two week or so ride... say 15 days... we could ride from your place through AR, CO, up the Cal and OR coast... then up through WA and Canada to AK... then turn and come back down.

it'd be a fuck'n AWESOME trip.... we'd need to do it in late summer so things are dry up north...

I saw one of those on the ride home the other day and almost wrecked because I was staring

:drool:

http://www.bywayofmotorcycle.com

If you want to just see the vids.. http://www.youtube.com/billmaa

:D

I would be up for going into AK, but all the way to prudhoe bay, fuck that. I lived in AK. I spent enough time there to last me a lifetime. Fuck that place.

I say we get a shitload of video/picture equipment too. We got most everything we need as far as SLR with your setup. We need at least two shitty cameras that we could mount to the bikes and take pics while riding. A couple of camcorders for when stopped, the go pro for moving. Chatterboxes. We just need to break out a map and decide where we want to go. Start marking up locations that are musts and pick a route for it. Then I will take the diners/driveins/dives map and start marking off places we need to eat along the way. This would be an epic trip.

Thanks for pimpin' Billy and I out sweetie. :lol:

And and!!! There will be NO talk of riding to Prudhoe Bay without ME! I've been researching it for several years dammit!

Tentatively, I'm planning on making the run up to Prudhoe Bay in July of 2010. :D

yeah but trip... how could you ride all the way to AK... and NOT ride up to Prudeho?! seriously... that would be one of the most amazing parts of the trip!

and yeah... I like the idea about the camera's... though I say we look into a couple go-pro's... one forward one backward.. but also one for spare... in case a moose takes it out :lol:

and Grex my all means join us! course we don't have the bikes yet... this is a very premature plan right now

lol at this rate it'll be a TWFix tour of north america rally :lol:

Trip you should check out the links Archren posted above. My best friend and I have been filming our rides for the last few years and making movies out of them. Good stuff I think! :D

And Ebbs, I already have the bike for it! I'm tellin' ya, the Busa will make it! :D

I don't have any interest in going to Alaska ever again. Alaska holds a lot of bad memories for me. I hate that fucking place. That's how I don't care to ride up to Prudhoe. Prudhoe holds a much different view for employees/families of employees that work the north slope.

It's also the case of I have explored a lot of Alaska. This trip for me is about going places I never been before.

i have checked out yall stuff, it's good stuff.

ahh yeah ok... I understand... so maybe up to say Denali then back?

It just depends on how much time I can get off. I don't really want to waste it on Alaska. I will research it more though.

ok... yeah I hear ya... fuck'n northern Canada is insanely beautiful too...

but I figured we could ride up into the Denali range a bit... maybe camp a night out there... but I know how you are with camping :lol:

Besides Alaska, where are some other places you want to hit.

I want to try to hit Vegas, Mt Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Lookout Mtn, Pikes Peak, highway 1 (northern cali), Whats that desert section that is awesome through cali, can't recall it now. Definitely one of the good roads in north arky. Yellowstone and some of the other parks near there.

those are all the ones I've been wanting to hit... riding around near Tahoe would be gorgeous too... the roads north of San Fran on the coast are nice... the oregon coast would be awesome.

I'd also like to hit up Vancouver Island. Yellow stone would be cool... then swing down to hit up pikes peak and a few roads in CO.

I'm trying to get my mapsource software unlocked with Garmin as I type this... I'll bring it and we can check it out this weekend...

I always had sport bikes....an 04 GSX-R750 most recently....got bored with the one dimensional ride....so I got the 07 M109-R...haven't looked back once. It has huge torque....big horsepower...and decent handling for a bike of it's size. I love it. It eats up the over the road riding....and is still fun to hammer through the twisties.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...man/M109-R.jpg

Lately, though...I've been obsessing about the ADV ride...I've got the hots for a BMW 1200GS...not as a replacement bike...but as an addition to the stable.

Damn. I missed this thread somewhere along the way. I'd love to get into touring, but doubt I will do it on the R1. I'd like to get an FJR 1300 or something similar. Looks comfortable as hell.

for me the reason to go to the BMW is more than just touring... it's to not have to find different routes because of shitty roads... and being able to go up a dirt road to camp if I want.

You will seek out the service roads.

exactly

I think I have made my decision. I think once the rally is finished, the RR will be cleaned up and on the auction block.

well yeah this talking has really got me going about this trip... but I'll keep the RR... it's paid off... insurance costs me about nothing.

need to go test ride a BMW... I've sat on one... but never ridden one.

figure I'll pick up a used one... what with my military pay :lol:

We will have to go to the bimmer dealership on tuesday. I just getting rid of the RR cause andrea will cut my balls off if I keep going with expanding the motorcycle garage. It's hard enough to ride 3 bikes regularly. Plus I want to decrease my risk, I am not willing to accept as much as I use to.

:D planning on it!

and have you seen the slide show on the front page of Adventurerider.com?

:drool: exactly why I want to get one of those bikes....

you can go waaaaaaaaaaay further on the beemer too :)

Well, I went the cheap ADV route with a KLR. Plus I didn't want to lug around a big ass 1200 in the woods, but I still would like in on some of this adventure touring. The bike can make it, I'll just have to make room in the bags for a couple quarts of oil. :P

What's funny about KLRs is that they break down all the time, but they are so very easily fixed with a few roadside mods. The KLR is like my DRZ. It's more geared for woods and less for touring. I want something more for touring since I got the DRZ for woods fun.

So far mine's been good to me (knock on wood) and it's really for playing in the woods, chasing around my nephew, but dangit I get the urge something fierce to hop on and ride across the country when ADV riding comes up as a topic. And it's the KLR or nothing for me since I can't justify yet another motorcycle in the garage.

Thanks for the link. I will have to check it out more thoroughly when I have more time, I should be writing a paper right now. :panic: Not that I plan on changing a belt drive anytime soon but it is still cool to understand.