[pateta00]

Me and some friends were sharing stories about past trips, so now i'm curious about yours..what was you favorite trip??

i will start..
Mine was in Europe... I drove from Granada(spain), to barcelona, to andorra, to toulouse(france), to Nice, than all the way to florence(Italy) than up to the northeast of Italy (bolzano) towards Austria were the trip ended in Vienne...That was my best trip ever..I saw mountains, wine valleys, castles, the ocean(mediterranean) lakes....very very nice...

 

[Spyke_Da_Fresh]

Mine was a simple trip to Vegas

It was 4 of us, we left at 6pm from Santa Ana CA in January of this year. Well to our surprise it was some sort of freak day as the moment we hit the freeway we encountered 45 mph winds. Well here we are at near damn full lean on the freeways, cars are slowing down because the wind is so bad. My friend almost gets hit by a giant tumbleweed almost the size of him on the bike.

We pull over at a gas station and think maybe we should rent a hotel and wait it out till morning. Its about 9pm now and we are near victorville. 20 mins of thinking later we run into a guy on a ZX14, we chat it up with him and he tells us he has done this route for close to 18 years and knows the backroads to avoid the winds. a new spark of hope arises and he leads us through some pretty amazing canyon roads. About 2 hours past taking that route and we finally hit the freeway again and completely avoided the winds

Now we are on the freeway and we are way behind scedule and because of that we hit the some pretty bad cold with the elevation change and the fact that its winter. My hands are freezing and we arne't even in Nevada yet. All the cold made me completely forget to gas up at the gas stop. Literally a couple of miles from Vegas my gas light comes on as I passed the gas station exit. AH SHIT i think, I get on the chatterbox and let everyone know, we pull over try to supine(sp?) some gas but its know go, I decided to tough it out and we ride some 20 miles, pretty much babying the bike and we finally reach Las Vegas

It was around 12pm and we already had a place to stay. We met Kane-One at a bar and he leads us to his house and that is where we stayed for our whole trip. Its my first time meeting him and he is a real cool dude. Real nice house, bikes everywhere some place I wouldn't mind living. We park our bikes, head to the hard rock hotel at around 4am in the morning and live the Vegas life for the weekend

Estimated time to reach vegas: about 2 hours
Actual time to reach vegas: 6 hours

The rest of the days I can't post because of marriages, girlfriends, moms and the fact that this is the internet

 

[Nightfall]

I've ridden 150 miles to a family reunion and back ...

 

[g34343greg]

rode from Pittsburgh to Deal's Gap: left 4am with temps in the 30s. by the time i got there it was almost 80* without a cloud in the sky. there wasn't a ton of people on it either. checked in at the Two Wheel Inn (awesome place and owners are very nice) and met a group of guys from Ohio (a kid on a RC51 with his dad on a Goldwing and their friend on a VFR800). i hung out with them then we went and rode the Dragon as the sun was going down and then went to the BOSB at the Deal's Gap resort.

it was just about the perfect day. the only thing that could've made it better is if the place was 200 miles closer

 

[YamahaFreak]

27 day trip last August from Va to New York and all the New England states. Did much riding along the coastal area of Maine and in the Mountains of New Hamshire and Vermont. Once in a lifetime ride.

 

[arcticamt6]

Haven't gotten much of a chance to take a trip yet. I was going to ride to Myrtle Beach for my cousin's wedding, but it ended up raining so I took the car instead.

I'm toying with the idea of attempting a cross country trip next summer. It'll be my last summer break where I have time to do something like that. I figured I would take a month, maybe a month and a half and go from Pittsburgh to San Diego, to Seattle, and to Aspen and back. Maybe go to Maine or if I can add a long bit of time to go to Fairbanks. Somewhere between like 8k and 12k miles. averaging around 300-400 miles a day. I doubt it's ever going to happen though. Maybe take a trip up to Maine/Newfoundland though.

And most of it would be camping off the bike since I'm cheap.

 

[JERSEYRIDER]

Haven't gotten much of a chance to take a trip yet. I was going to ride to Myrtle Beach for my cousin's wedding, but it ended up raining so I took the car instead.

I'm toying with the idea of attempting a cross country trip next summer. It'll be my last summer break where I have time to do something like that. I figured I would take a month, maybe a month and a half and go from Pittsburgh to San Diego, to Seattle, and to Aspen and back. Maybe go to Maine or if I can add a long bit of time to go to Fairbanks. Somewhere between like 8k and 12k miles. averaging around 300-400 miles a day. I doubt it's ever going to happen though. Maybe take a trip up to Maine/Newfoundland though.

And most of it would be camping off the bike since I'm cheap.

I haven't had a chance to do any long trips yet either. I want to ride to Daytona for bike week. A friend of mine road San Francisco to Jersey and loved it. He'll be doing it again when he moves back out there.

 

[NattyDrez]

My 2 week moto trip down south was unforgettable.

But yet day rides with the usual fellas are, to an extent, just as good.

 

[rockscaler]

52 days 9,000+ mi from NJ through, PA OH IN IL MO KS CO WY ID NM TX OK AR TN NC GA SC VA WV MD. Rockclimbing, boxing matches,roller derby, drunk volleyball, mountainbiking, ride in a glider, face off a grizzlybear, sleep with wolves in view, sleep in cemetery, get within 10 feet of bison while on the bike, boat tour through cave system, climb 14k+ foot peak and got altitude sickness, lots of clubs in Denver, . WolfpenGap, Deals gap, BRP, Shady Valley and too many other famously twisty roads to list. Times pulled over-twice, tickets- 0.
Caught stealth camping-2 , times made to move-1. Lay downs-0, Nights paid to camp- 5

 

[ally]

Mine was in Europe... I drove from Granada(spain), to barcelona, to andorra, to toulouse(france), to Nice, than all the way to florence(Italy) than up to the northeast of Italy (bolzano) towards Austria were the trip ended in Vienne...That was my best trip ever..I saw mountains, wine valleys, castles, the ocean(mediterranean) lakes....very very nice...

WOW! Sounds absolutely beautiful! My hubby and I are taking next year off from work to tour the country on our bikes. I'm so excited about all the things we'll see...but Europe?!? Wow! I'm in awe!

 

[arcticamt6]

52 days 9,000+ mi from NJ through, PA OH IN IL MO KS CO WY ID NM TX OK AR TN NC GA SC VA WV MD. Rockclimbing, boxing matches,roller derby, drunk volleyball, mountainbiking, ride in a glider, face off a grizzlybear, sleep with wolves in view, sleep in cemetery, get within 10 feet of bison while on the bike, boat tour through cave system, climb 14k+ foot peak and got altitude sickness, lots of clubs in Denver, . WolfpenGap, Deals gap, BRP, Shady Valley and too many other famously twisty roads to list. Times pulled over-twice, tickets- 0.
Caught stealth camping-2 , times made to move-1. Lay downs-0, Nights paid to camp- 5

So on that one trip you hit every state thats lit up in your avatar. Impressive. I just figured Id pitch up a tent in a rest area off of a highway or in a local park. Hopefully I'll get in a multi-k road trip in soon. something more than the 100-200 mile rides i've been going on lately.

 

[rockscaler]

Alot of the nights were rest stops and parks, sometimes I couldnt find one that I liked and slept behind a school and one time in a cemetery. Yes all but the northeast states I hit for the first time on that trip. I haev several more planned. Go down to NC/TN again in 2 weeks or so. Itll be the 3rd time in 14 months.
Then in the spring I have a 12k+ trip to fill in all the rest of the western states and a mission to find all the twisty roads in CA.

 

[inpayne]

I enjoy just going places and having no idea were I'm going to sleep, what's going to be there, but it always works out. There are many places to sleep when you can't pay for a hotel. Airports (never did that on a bike), truckstops (did do on a bike)

or like when I went to deals gap. It was pretty short notice, about 2 days. Left at about 5am, it was 34* outside. I had race gloves on which was the worst. I just kept my hands on or damn close to the engine to keep them functioning. (learned that one from a euro mag , the bike couriers used to do that in the winter when they were still big I guess.)

I had little idea were I was going to stay, and was pretty unprepared as usual. But it was amazing, and as usual found a warm place to sleep.