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I am planning to attend the rally in St Paul next year. I am going to meet a friend along the way and ride together. He will ride a K1600GTL and will ride an Oilhead. My friend has suggested the option trailering our /5s to the rally. I have mixed feelings about this. Part of the rally experience his the ride to and from the event. On the other hand, trailering does not preclude stopping along the way have getting in some decent rides in nice areas. I know trailering a bike to the rally is not considered good form, but I okay with it. Not sure Ol' Red (or I) and up for that long a ride.
Any thoughts on this? Anybody been in this quandary before?
Lemme guess, you ride an RS, right?
About a year ago I was trailering my motorcycle with my 31 foot camper. I had my children with me and the wife followed in the truck. A motorcyclist passed me on the interstate and as he passed he looked back at me and gave the "what the f**k" look with one hand waved up in the air. I could have cared less because I had my family with and my motorcycle with me. I had an awesome weekend. Like somebody else stated, do what makes you happy.........
Hey John, sad that he isn't half the rider you are. He would be ashamed if he knew who you are. Got time for lunch in cedar key on 25 jan?
Correct! My HS class friend rides to Sturgis from Western KS every year on his police Harley, (rode his BMWGS across Siberia) stereotypes get ya in trouble... He does trailer his dirt bikes. I do reserve the right to "make fun of people", no matter how this turns out...I used to go to Sturgis. Did it in the 90s for 8 years in a row. Among Harley riders there is as big a resentment against trailering as in any other motorcycle community. In the greater Sturgis area are about 50,000 hotel rooms. The "Sturgis Bike Week" is visited by approx 350,000 people. You had to put up with only a small portion of those. Usually, more people who trailer stay in hotel rooms. And how many trailer rigs does it take to fill a hotel parking lot?
I bet, if you would have camped in the Buffalo Chip campground, you would have not met a single Harley owner who trailered his bike to Sturgis.
By who? Probably by the same people who consider themselves the only true motorcyclists because they have completed multiple Iron Butt events and have a license plate frame that states accordingly.
I have trailered to all BMW MOA rallies except for the one in Vermont. My reason was, I always brought at least three bikes, my S, my K1 and my RT and I could not ride them all at the same time.
How do you think all these pristine condition /2s from Florida, for example, that you see in the Vintage Show get to the rallies?
Any room on your trailer for another /5?
I have mixed feelings about this. Part of the rally experience his the ride to and from the event. On the other hand, trailering does not preclude stopping along the way have getting in some decent rides in nice areas.
... My friend has suggested the option trailering our /5s to the rally..... On the other hand, trailering does not preclude stopping along the way have getting in some decent rides in nice areas.....
....Any thoughts on this?
Hey IMO it's as much fun to road trip in a car or truck as it is on or in any vehicle! Frankly, for me personally, I don't like to ride on Freeways for extended periods of time... and don't really have the time to back-road it all the way across half the USA to get to... well, to anywhere. SO to trailer would, for me, mean taking the fastest possible route- AND I like the idea of dropping the bikes off here and there to ride great roads along the way. So it seems it's win-win to trailer the bikes...................
I'm fairly close to the rally but I'll probably trailer there due to the volume of stuff I want to bring.
So far the plan is to bring a pool, cabana, grill, and bacon. Everything is better with bacon...
Just do what is the best plan for you and don't worry what anyone thinks or says.
And I probably need Bloody Mary stuff for this rally
hey john, sad that he isn't half the rider you are. He would be ashamed if he knew who you are. Got time for lunch in cedar key on 25 jan?
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