midnightrider1300 Posted March 13, 2015 #1 Posted March 13, 2015 you have to RIDE your bike and spend the money on your trip .... Where would you Ride ?
slowrollwv Posted March 13, 2015 #2 Posted March 13, 2015 Canaan Valley,WV. There is enough good roads in that area to make anybody Happy.
ragtop69gs Posted March 13, 2015 #3 Posted March 13, 2015 I'd fly to Washington state, rent a bike and head south on the pacific coast highway.
pbjman Posted March 13, 2015 #4 Posted March 13, 2015 I would go somewhere I haven't been before....maybe south to Blue Ridge Parkway / Skyline Drive area.
cowpuc Posted March 13, 2015 #5 Posted March 13, 2015 A grand isnt a lot of cash and a week isnt a lot of time.. We would cross the bottom of the Badlands, up under Rapid City, rip thru Keystone onto 16A, drift across the top of Custer State park and up onto Needles High way, across the Black Hills to Spear Fish Canyon. Take the two tracks and single trail from the water falls at Spear Fish Canyon and spend an overnight in the Black Hills listening to Elk bugle. Ride the two tracks into Wyoming and pop out near Devils Tower. Stop and get a new Devils Tower sticker for Tweeks that got knocked off in the hail last summer. Ride south out of Wyoming across the National Grass Lands, National Forests, National Parks, Mountain valleys in a bold attempt to get to Santa Fe with enough money and time to beat foot it home..
midnightrider1300 Posted March 13, 2015 Author #6 Posted March 13, 2015 funny on another forum, I said 1500 and a week they said that was a LOT of $$ for a week.....why i said 1000 here lol guess the bama rednecks travel a little cheaper..
Flyinfool Posted March 13, 2015 #7 Posted March 13, 2015 Well ASSuming that you camp for free, and spend $10 on food at every gas stop, and incur no other expenses like tires or oil change, That $1000 will take you about 6100 miles, or 41 gas / food stops. That can get you almost anywhere in the country and back home. But that is a LOT of riding for one week.
Eck Posted March 13, 2015 #8 Posted March 13, 2015 Well if you left Hamilton and headed east, you could spend a night in Huntsville and save motel and food costs..........then as you head north ad farther east, there could be a Goldwing in your mirror for about 4 to 5 hours...a stop for lunch, and you could continue heading east / north while the Goldwing returns to Huntsville. I would strongly recommend Marlington Motor Inn as your hub. They have a restaurant and lounge on site and are very motorcycle friendly. There are many roads I could tell you about that you will never forget.. Let me know if interested. Or you could just mail me a check for $1,000 and I will tell you how the trip went and even post pics for you to view.. Eck
Chaharly Posted March 13, 2015 #9 Posted March 13, 2015 Well if you left Hamilton and headed east, you could spend a night in Huntsville and save motel and food costs..........then as you head north ad farther east, there could be a Goldwing in your mirror for about 4 to 5 hours...a stop for lunch, and you could continue heading east / north while the Goldwing returns to Huntsville. I would strongly recommend Marlington Motor Inn as your hub. They have a restaurant and lounge on site and are very motorcycle friendly. There are many roads I could tell you about that you will never forget.. Let me know if interested. Or you could just mail me a check for $1,000 and I will tell you how the trip went and even post pics for you to view.. Eck I would (assuming I'm healed and my bike is running good) Would go to the Black Hills (about a 7 hour drive) ride around the usual routes, the ones that @cowpuc described, but with a twist. Id spend a huge chunk of change in Deadwood since I'm legal now!!!
BigLenny Posted March 13, 2015 #10 Posted March 13, 2015 The Honey and I would take a couple days to ride to Vegas. Get us a room at The Flamingo. A one night stay would be long enough for me to work a number of Craps and Blackjack tables and turn the remaining $700.00 into $5000.00. Now we're cooking with gas. We would leave Vegas and ride up to and across southern Utah via Zion, Brice, Grand Staircase, Glen Canyon, Monument Valley then down through New Mexico in time to do a Howdy and Shake with Cowpuc in Santa Fe or Taos. Then ride the hair off of it to get back in time for the week to end. Put the remaining $4K in the bike fund and sit in my recliner and grin.
Zzyzx Posted March 13, 2015 #11 Posted March 13, 2015 I would head north through the sierras and the Mt Shasta area then cut across to the Chief Joseph highway in Wyoming, then ride back into Yellowstone then west to the coast and home, if I have enough cash left.
Hummingbird Posted March 13, 2015 #12 Posted March 13, 2015 At $100 or so a night for a motel/hotel that leaves $300 for food and fuel - probably wouldn't get much further than I would on a day ride
djh3 Posted March 13, 2015 #13 Posted March 13, 2015 YEa me too on the motel. Pretty much my days of sleeping on the ground are done. Been there done that and it was so long ago the T-shirt has been cycled thru the rag to the round can file many many moons ago. But I can get a room for under $60 usually. We like the Asheville, Waynesville, Maggie Valley area, or possibly a trip up thru NY Finger Lakes area and into Canada.
Motorcycle Mike Posted March 13, 2015 #14 Posted March 13, 2015 I usually don't "PLAN" trips other than what to take along. It seems the majority of the time I end up in the mountains somewhere. After retirement (come on January) I PLAN on seeing how many states I can visit before running out of money.
baylensman Posted March 13, 2015 #15 Posted March 13, 2015 I'd start here and head south using secondary roads to key west then up the east coast on US 1 Then follow the state Line to the panhandle till I was down to $100.00 or only had 1 day left then head for home. I think I could circumnavigate Florida in a week!
bongobobny Posted March 13, 2015 #16 Posted March 13, 2015 I would visit members and have a M&E every evening in a different state...
Shamue Posted March 13, 2015 #17 Posted March 13, 2015 THANKS FOR THE QUESTION. iT TAKES ME BACK TO SOME GOOD TIMES. In the late 70s early 80s each year I would take a 6 week motorcycle vacation and travel all over the US. Back then a thousand dollars was a lot of money and would take me almost the whole year to save it. But that amount was what I would take on my trips, with a back up credit card (that I never had to use). Bike would be preped and ready. In those years it was enough money to travel to every lower 48 and parts of Canada and Mexico. Camped every night usually in a national forest, would shower at KOA's or streams once in awhile. Those trips would be 6 to 10,000 miles each. had plenty of time and money and saw so much it's had to remember it all. Met so many great people, I long for the day I fully retire to do it all over again, this time with my wife. But with the $1000.00 and a week I would head to the Northwest and tour the coast line of Oregon and Washington returning home via Yellowstone and the Colorado Rockies. Thanks for the memories, we all have them.
Pegasus1300 Posted March 13, 2015 #18 Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) you have to RIDE your bike and spend the money on your trip .... Where would you Ride ? Pick up US 191 South in Price Ut and ride it to Clifton Az and pick up SR70/NM75 into Lordsburg Then I10 to Van Horn Tx and south to Big Bend NP.Back home by way of Carlsbad caversn,Santa Fe and US 84 to Chama and Pagosa Springs then Durango up to Grand Junction and home. Have to cheat on the days tho,it'll take me ten and the $1000.00 will be a good start. Since I am leaving on the 29th of April you'll have to get the $1000.00 to me by the 27th OK? Edited March 13, 2015 by Pegasus1300
SilvrT Posted March 13, 2015 #19 Posted March 13, 2015 you have to RIDE your bike and spend the money on your trip .... Where would you Ride ? I would ride to my dealer and purchase as much safety chrome and farkle as I could with $1000.
midnightrider1300 Posted March 13, 2015 Author #20 Posted March 13, 2015 I would ride to my dealer and purchase as much safety chrome and farkle as I could with $1000. that's NOT exactly what I had in mind......
SilvrT Posted March 13, 2015 #21 Posted March 13, 2015 that's NOT exactly what I had in mind...... I knew 'dis ... just being my usual smarta$$ self LOL
midnightrider1300 Posted March 13, 2015 Author #22 Posted March 13, 2015 I knew 'dis ... just being my usual smarta$$ self LOL better 2b a smart ass than a dumb ass
Dale124 Posted March 13, 2015 #23 Posted March 13, 2015 I'd use the money for gas to get to Michigan and beg Cowpuc for a place to stay. Guaranteed entertainment spending time with that road warrior. The stories would be plentiful, I'm sure. Dale
Freebird Posted March 13, 2015 #24 Posted March 13, 2015 He said he has one week. Do you really think he could listen to all of Cowpuc's stories on ONE WEEK?
videoarizona Posted March 13, 2015 #25 Posted March 13, 2015 I would strongly recommend Marlington Motor Inn as your hub. They have a restaurant and lounge on site and are very motorcycle friendly. There are many roads I could tell you about that you will never forget.. Eck Oh...and there's a DQ just up 219 from Marlington!! Hmmm....
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