| Author | Message | ||
     Cupcake_mike |
Planning a 2 week road trip on my uly that will kick off on 3/24 Day Date Leave Arrive Mileage Thursday 3/24 Home CycleOne 220 Thursday 3/24 CycleOne Giddy Up 520 Friday 3/25 Giddy Up Saturday 3/26 Giddy Up Sunday 3/27 Giddy Up Louisiana 500 Monday 3/28 Louisiana Spring Hill 580 Tuesday 3/29 Spring Hill Wednesday 3/30 Spring Hill Thursday 3/31 Spring Hill TWoS 520 Friday 4/1 TWoS Saturday 4/2 TWoS Prosperity 200 Sunday 4/3 Prosperity Monday 4/4 Prosperity Barber 350 Tuesday 4/5 Barber Memphis 260 Wednesday 4/6 Memphis Home 460 OR Wednesday 4/6 Memphis Austin 650 Thursday 4/7 Austin Friday 4/8 Austin Saturday 4/9 Austin Sunday 4/10 Austin Monday 4/11 Austin Home 700 Total 3610 OR 5000 This route is a rough estimate  Chime in if you are along the way, in case my situation goes south The plan is to either go to austin for the race on 4/7 or go back home (KC) from memphis (if my wife decides she doesn't want to drive solo down to Austin for the motogp race on 4/7) (Message edited by Cupcake Mike on March 10, 2016) | ||
| Buellerxt |
Very cool. Enjoy, and be safe. | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Seems like an epic ride. Photo's or it did not happen. | ||
| Cupcake_mike |
Thats funny, the way this came about was i was riding down for the giddyup bike show that first weekend, then coming back and working that next week and half of the next, then gonna turn around and ride back down to austin for the race. My wife, out of the blue, says, "Do you have enough vacation time to just stay on the road? You know, have an epic road trip?" Knew I loved her for a reason. Either that or she is planning a fun week with her boyfriend  -Mike | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I suggest you add blue hills parkway since you're already at the end of it for the wheels through time museum. As I recall, the museum was closed on Tuesdays. That was the day I ended up there on my last trip. I was a bit pissed to say the least. next time...I will actually plan my trip! | ||
| Boondocker |
Looking forward to hearing about your trip... 06 Uly owner over on the East side of Orlando. Cheers, Claude | ||
| Crempel |
Check out a app for computer/GPS called Rever if you have GPS. allows you to plan routes and download to GPS. If you use the pay version it utilizes Butler Maps information to lay out the best motorcycle roads. I just found it and love it! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Looked at Rever. Their web designer needs slapped, and then slapped again, and then replaced with an actual adult, but he app appears to do everything I want a motorcycle routing app to do. Offline maps, control over routing, GPX export, shared rides, professionally planned rides. I've been doing this stuff manually for years with much spit and duck tape and a Garmin Quest, and I'm sick of the technical drama. I'd gladly pay $60 for a year with a tool that does it right. I'm thinking a clear cover otter box with a built in big honking rechargeable battery and an IPhone would work pretty well (if the app runs well un-babysitted). | ||
| Cupcake_mike |
I have messed with rever a bit....I kinda like to get lost and not worry to much about planning on my trips | ||
| Crempel |
I don't know if or how it does directions on a phone. Does it? I'm not smart enough to figure that out. Looks to me like its a planner but not a direction giver. Is that right? Living in western NC where there are soooo many twisty roads, it really is easy to get very lost. I am lucky enough that I get to ride at work, like today, quite a bit. Gotta get where I'm supposed to be on time so I need help getting there. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Looks like an awesome ride. When you leave TWoS, I'd highly recommend you head north-east and hit some of the great roads in NC. You could easily work your way up into NC, hit the Dragon (US129), then take 28 south from Deal's Gap, through the tip of Georgia, and into South Carolina. 28 is a great road. | ||
| Cupcake_mike |
Made it to Florida with no uly problems (knock on wood)...scorpion trails are wearing like iron! Have put 2k on them in the last 5 days (including about 500 miles of heavy flogging in the texas hill country), they had 3k on them before I even left for the trip, and I have about 60% tread life left. They should hold out for the remaining miles and then some! | ||
| Arry |
Sounds like a good trip. I'm curious what will be left of your Scorp Trails, at the end of your trip. My first Scorp (rear) got about 7k, the second one only got about 6k. Have fun! | ||
| Glenn |
2nd on HUGHLYSSES comment about doing more of NC. These are some of the roads anywhere!. |
