Daytona Bike Week
- Thread starter Gilligan
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I have a 'toy hauler' RV. And besides that..my scoot is a 1947 model..
I was helping build a yacht in Key West about 10 years ago, over a two year period, and the designer/naval arch was/is in Annapolis and a fellow Harley rider. He regularly took his bike to the end of the line on the car train and carried on from there. It's a nice deal, actually.
I was helping build a yacht in Key West about 10 years ago, over a two year period, and the designer/naval arch was/is in Annapolis and a fellow Harley rider. He regularly took his bike to the end of the line on the car train and carried on from there. It's a nice deal, actually.
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
As a rider, it is far beyond me why I would want to go to any rally and sit around for a week and do hardly any riding and just drink and people watch. Everyone I talk to who does anything other than drink and people watch talks about some of the rides they go and do. Which tend to be poker run-esque cluster ####s only with a bunch of people they don't know at all of varying and unknown riding skill levels. My barber goes to OC bike week and is up and out before dawn with his handful of friends for a couple of rides during the week. The same thing he does any other time they ride. From home. Then, most of the rest of the time, it's drinking and people watching.
Bike rally's strike me as an awful lot like cruise ships; everyone I know says it's a blast; you eat and drink and people watch. Well, instead of cruise ships, I wanna go diving and walk beaches and sit in local bars. I don't wanna sit on no freaking boat most of the time. And I sure don't want to have to be BACK on the damn boat at such and such a time. As for riding, I wanna ride and when it's time to stop and have some cocktails, I don't wanna do it where 300,000 other people are doing it.
Rally; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey and..."
Cruise; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey...on a motorcycle...drinking...and..."
I do NOT get it. :shrug:
If I had a '47 pan head to show off, OK. That is something. I can see it if I had something to show off.
I had more fun riding the scoot to the shop today than I envision Sturgis or Daytona being. I was...riding.
Bike rally's strike me as an awful lot like cruise ships; everyone I know says it's a blast; you eat and drink and people watch. Well, instead of cruise ships, I wanna go diving and walk beaches and sit in local bars. I don't wanna sit on no freaking boat most of the time. And I sure don't want to have to be BACK on the damn boat at such and such a time. As for riding, I wanna ride and when it's time to stop and have some cocktails, I don't wanna do it where 300,000 other people are doing it.
Rally; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey and..."
Cruise; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey...on a motorcycle...drinking...and..."
I do NOT get it. :shrug:
If I had a '47 pan head to show off, OK. That is something. I can see it if I had something to show off.
I had more fun riding the scoot to the shop today than I envision Sturgis or Daytona being. I was...riding.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I think you get it... The whole idea of trailering, auto-train to go to bike-week and sit around and drink and LOOK at bikes while you could be riding? I don't get it.As a rider, it is far beyond me why I would want to go to any rally and sit around for a week and do hardly any riding and just drink and people watch. Everyone I talk to who does anything other than drink and people watch talks about some of the rides they go and do. Which tend to be poker run-esque cluster ####s only with a bunch of people they don't know at all of varying and unknown riding skill levels. My barber goes to OC bike week and is up and out before dawn with his handful of friends for a couple of rides during the week. The same thing he does any other time they ride. From home. Then, most of the rest of the time, it's drinking and people watching.
Bike rally's strike me as an awful lot like cruise ships; everyone I know says it's a blast; you eat and drink and people watch. Well, instead of cruise ships, I wanna go diving and walk beaches and sit in local bars. I don't wanna sit on no freaking boat most of the time. And I sure don't want to have to be BACK on the damn boat at such and such a time. As for riding, I wanna ride and when it's time to stop and have some cocktails, I don't wanna do it where 300,000 other people are doing it.
Rally; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey and..."
Cruise; "Oh, we had a GREAT time! We got sooo ####ed up! We saw titties! And drank! And there was this guy with a monkey...on a motorcycle...drinking...and..."
I do NOT get it. :shrug:
If I had a '47 pan head to show off, OK. That is something. I can see it if I had something to show off.
I had more fun riding the scoot to the shop today than I envision Sturgis or Daytona being. I was...riding.
IF I were to do Daytona or.Sturgis the biggest.part, and the best memories would be the ride down there and back.
Generally I try to scoot and rack up as many miles as I can. Daytona, or.Sturgis I think I'd take my time getting there, do more backroads then interstate because it's the ride, not the destination.
Daytona, do the entire BRP, Skyline Dr, then work your way back East, something along those lines.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Yup. Whenever I think I MIGHT wanna go, that's what I think about; riding there and back.
Your responses pretty much echo my thoughts/concerns I've had about attending over the years. I've had numerous friends that made it to Bike Week (most had a blast) and I've heard some of the stories from Sturgis (Wow..I'd already decided that Sturgis is not on my bucket list).
But I've never been, I'm not gettin' any younger, and yes, the '47 flathead is as much fun to 'show off' as it is to ride. Maybe more so...
And some warm Florida weather in March would be nice too.
But I've never been, I'm not gettin' any younger, and yes, the '47 flathead is as much fun to 'show off' as it is to ride. Maybe more so...
And some warm Florida weather in March would be nice too.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
And then there is that.
...plus, I'm planning on selling the flathead next year so I can get back on a late-model FLHTC*. Unless I find a wad of money enough that I could have both; doubtfull.
*BTW. A loaded low-mileage '08 FLHTCU in immaculate condition found its way in to Bubby Knott's last auction a month or so ago and went for a measly 8 grand. It killed me...as the bid got hung up in the 7 range, I was torturing myself trying to figure out what I could beg, steal or sell to cover a winning bid if I made one.
*BTW. A loaded low-mileage '08 FLHTCU in immaculate condition found its way in to Bubby Knott's last auction a month or so ago and went for a measly 8 grand. It killed me...as the bid got hung up in the 7 range, I was torturing myself trying to figure out what I could beg, steal or sell to cover a winning bid if I made one.
Foxhound
Finishing last
I'm toying with the idea. It's more about going down to Fla for a getaway than for the Bike week part. My folks have a place on the beach there and I haven't been down for several years now. The bike week part would just be a side note to the trip for me. More about getting down there on the bike, and enjoying the beach while I'm there. Maybe the flea market too.
RPMDAD
Well-Known Member
Have no interest in to going to either for the partying and possible debauchery. However i think the Sturgis area would provide much better rides, less than 50 miles from Mt. Rushmore, and a very scenic area. Have been to Fl. many times, all flat, beautiful coast, interesting around the Glades, but still all flat.Don't get me wrong love Fl. just more scenic riding out west.
