So who all rides motorcycles?????

[joel2000]

Yes sir.. they can be a lifting experience too!

 

[JSoko]

All Vehicles Welcome
70 mile Escorted Ride
Live Music, Food, Drinks, Beer
and usually several selling junk

EVENT LOCATION:​

Southern Devil Harley Davidson
2281 Hwy 411 NE
Cartersville, GA 30121

ROUTE:​

The route will leave SDHD out to the left on 411, going to Hwy 140 and turning right. We will follow Hwy 140 to Waleska and turn right on Hwy 108. We will follow 108 to Hwy 20, turn right and go back to 411 north. You can see the route on Google maps by CLICKING HERE.

SCHEDULE:​

9:00am – Onsite registration begins.
11:30am – Onsite registration CLOSES. You MUST be registered by 11:30am. Please, no late-comers.
11:45am – Event prayer and blessing of the bikes, and safety briefing for the ride.
12:00pm – Ride leaves the grounds
1:30pm – Ride should be completed
1:30pm – 2:30pm – Raffle drawings, announcements, Vendor Sales and more.
2:30pm – 5:00pm – Live music

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I'm thinking of taking a 1000 mile motorcycle ride and finishing it within 24 hours, to qualify to join the iron butt riders association.
The "Saddlesore 1000" it's called.

To save on the cost of hotels, I'd like to go to some city 500 miles away from Atlanta, get a meal at a restaurant, turn around and come back. (all other eating would be short snacks consumed at gas stations and convenience stores.)

I'd do this sometime in the month of September.


I'm flexible as to the destination city, but right now it looks like New Orleans is a good choice because the interstate highways going out there are well traveled, most of the gas stations along the route will be open 24 hours, yet there are parallel US and State highways so I can get off the superslab and see a little bit of the countryside if I want to do that (and I'm willing to take the time penalty of dealing with red lights and stop signs.)

Anybody here want to join me for this long ride -- spending a whole day & most of one night on the motorcycle and basically wasting most of the next day catching up on your sleep?

 

[GeauxLSU]

I'm thinking of taking a 1000 mile motorcycle ride and finishing it within 24 hours, to qualify to join the iron butt riders association.
The "Saddlesore 1000" it's called.

To save on the cost of hotels, I'd like to go to some city 500 miles away from Atlanta, get a meal at a restaurant, turn around and come back. (all other eating would be short snacks consumed at gas stations and convenience stores.)

I'd do this sometime in the month of September.


I'm flexible as to the destination city, but right now it looks like New Orleans is a good choice because the interstate highways going out there are well traveled, most of the gas stations along the route will be open 24 hours, yet there are parallel US and State highways so I can get off the superslab and see a little bit of the countryside if I want to do that (and I'm willing to take the time penalty of dealing with red lights and stop signs.)

Anybody here want to join me for this long ride -- spending a whole day & most of one night on the motorcycle and basically wasting most of the next day catching up on your sleep?

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I would NOT head to New Orleans. Can't imagine a more boring stretch than I-65.
I mapped a decent triangle route for that very purpose. I can't recall the exact route but think it included Jacksonville and skirting Charlotte to the south. I'd personally avoid the monotony of an out and back and avoid east/west at sunrise sunset. Your not going to be able to do it all in daylight. I'd definitely have my dark hours on the front end and try and schedule to be back two hours before dark, because.... stuff happens.

 

[joel2000]

What about possibly doing a 1000mi or so specific spot away and a couple of days to ride back? So, three to four day trip. I’d possibly be interested that way. Got a buddy that would ride also if planning works out. Just a thought…maybe run up and hit the Blue Ridge Parkway. Run it a ways and cut off maybe around Boone and out to Johnson City. Could throw in Route 421, The Snake, and down to Cherohala Skyway and home. Lot better scenery. Exact route could be tweaked as needed.

 

[lostchild]

Used to have a friend who had an iron butt. Rode every day, rain or shine. He'd make a tour of the US every summer, put new tires on at the start, needed another set afterwards. Usually 7000+ miles.
I was at the old house on Tybee one afternoon, it was pouring down rain, heard a bike pull into the yard.
It was my buddy, saying he was en route from North Carolina to Miami, just detoured in to see if I was there.
We hopped in my car, went to supper, got back, he suited up and headed back out. NC to Miami, one dinner stop, otherwise straight through.

 

[GeauxLSU]

What about possibly doing a 1000mi or so specific spot away and a couple of days to ride back? So, three to four day trip. I’d possibly be interested that way. Got a buddy that would ride also if planning works out. Just a thought…maybe run up and hit the Blue Ridge Parkway. Run it a ways and cut off maybe around Boone and out to Johnson City. Could throw in Route 421, The Snake, and down to Cherohala Skyway and home. Lot better scenery. Exact route could be tweaked as needed.

If you're going to do 1,000 miles in a day on a bike, you're not going to have those roads in the route on that day. Way too slow. Realistically, you've got to make time. If you AVERAGE 55 mph, which, with all the gas, bathroom, eating stops, is no small feat, you have to start your ride at 4am to finish just after midnight. If you could somehow manage 60 mph, you'd trim an hour and a half.
And OP doesn't have a touring bike.
The iron butt is the "easiest" award the association gives out ( or was) and it's not for a casual rider. Fatigue, in the dark, is a recipe for disaster.

 

[joel2000]

If you're going to do 1,000 miles in a day on a bike, you're not going to have those roads in the route on that day. Way too slow. Realistically, you've got to make time. If you AVERAGE 55 mph, which, with all the gas, bathroom, eating stops, is no small feat, you have to start your ride at 4am to finish just after midnight. If you could somehow manage 60 mph, you'd trim an hour and a half.
And OP doesn't have a touring bike.
The iron butt is the "easiest" award the association gives out ( or was) and it's not for a casual rider. Fatigue, in the dark, is a recipe for disaster.

Good point. Made a trip to Colorado with a buddy one year. We left Atlanta at 7am rode hard and didn’t stop for the night till we were in Oklahoma City. 12:30~am or there abouts. Hair under 900mi. We were dead tired. He was riding a Wing and me on an Electra Glide. All major roads / interstate.

 

[Ken Ford]

What about possibly doing a 1000mi or so specific spot away and a couple of days to ride back? So, three to four day trip. I’d possibly be interested that way. Got a buddy that would ride also if planning works out. Just a thought…maybe run up and hit the Blue Ridge Parkway. Run it a ways and cut off maybe around Boone and out to Johnson City. Could throw in Route 421, The Snake, and down to Cherohala Skyway and home. Lot better scenery. Exact route could be tweaked as needed.

Kind takes away from the whole challenge, don’t ya think?

 

[Ken Ford]

If you're going to do 1,000 miles in a day on a bike, you're not going to have those roads in the route on that day. Way too slow. Realistically, you've got to make time. If you AVERAGE 55 mph, which, with all the gas, bathroom, eating stops, is no small feat, you have to start your ride at 4am to finish just after midnight. If you could somehow manage 60 mph, you'd trim an hour and a half.
And OP doesn't have a touring bike.
The iron butt is the "easiest" award the association gives out ( or was) and it's not for a casual rider. Fatigue, in the dark, is a recipe for disaster.

Most riders are not going to stick to the speed limit.
Not terribly hard to do, 15-16 hours I’d think. My VRod would be more like 18. Probably have to stop 8 times. LOL
That some bitch drinks gas.