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, WI | I had a 2 gallon auxiliary fuel tank made by Tour-Tank on my Kingpin. Very well made and worked great. I needed it 4 times on the 49 state trip. Sold it after I traded in the Kingpin. 
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | jeffmack - 2012-01-14 1:22 PM
awesome intel....will be sure to get such a sign...by some means....to add to the tradition. Thanks
Here's a sign to add the mix:
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time.
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New York State | Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM
Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time.
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| Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM
Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time.
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, WI | jeffmack - 2012-01-25 5:46 PM Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time. guess ill keep my trip to myself LOL just kidding Any trip details? Destinations? |
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, WI | Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time. Thanks Jeff! I will be using a Spot Tracker. |
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, WI | Another thing I added to the Vision - floorboard footrests. I like them. Gives me another place to move my feet to and when it's hot I can move my feet away from the engine. They're made by Tri-City Polaris. 
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, WI | Today in Proudhoe Bay, Alaska. Wow!! I hope it warms up a little. 
Edited by Rollin' 2012-01-27 9:57 AM
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| Rollin - damn that is cold. |
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| Rollin' - 2012-01-25 10:45 PM
jeffmack - 2012-01-25 5:46 PM Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time. guess ill keep my trip to myself LOL just kidding ?Any trip details? Destinations?
Yeah man....Staging to Key West to depart on May 31st for Prudhoe Bay. Will be making the trip north somewhat of a Cannonball Run. Just making miles and getting there till we get to the Alcan where things will slow down as we get farther north. Planning on 10 day +/- 1 due to wx, mx, road condition. Once there its time to smell the roses. Gonna stroll home and take the Marine Highway from Haines to Prince Ruppert. Once in Prince ruppert he roll for Vancouver, Glacier NP, Yellow Stone NP, then back into Canada to hit Mont Tremblant and back into the US on the east side of the Great Lakes and get back into Georgia Via the Blue Ridge Parkway. Looking like a 12,000 trip. Will be back home for July the 4th! |
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New Bohemia, VA | okay, so I understand, Steve is starting at Prudhoe Bay and ending in Key West, and Jeff, you are starting at Key West and ending in Prudhoe Bay? Correct? Sounds like your trip will entail a little more travel, Jeff, than Steve as far as road goes. Can I ask you to start another thread and give us some details of your trip? If perhaps you are part of the Victory-Riders Network you can detail your trip there, the prep, route, etc, that would be nice. |
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, WI | jeffmack - 2012-01-28 8:58 AM Rollin' - 2012-01-25 10:45 PM jeffmack - 2012-01-25 5:46 PM Jedi Jeff - 2012-01-25 12:22 PM Steve - While I know you won't have internet access all the time, consider uploading photos and maybe keeping a travel blog as you go. Your account on Victory-Riders.com allows for uploading and/or emailing photos to your personal gallery as well as emailing blog posts. Also think about setting up a SPOT map. I can help you set up a map page on Victory-Riders (and this site) so all of us can follow you real-time. guess ill keep my trip to myself LOL just kidding ?Any trip details? Destinations? Yeah man....Staging to Key West to depart on May 31st for Prudhoe Bay. Will be making the trip north somewhat of a Cannonball Run. Just making miles and getting there till we get to the Alcan where things will slow down as we get farther north. Planning on 10 day +/- 1 due to wx, mx, road condition. Once there its time to smell the roses. Gonna stroll home and take the Marine Highway from Haines to Prince Ruppert. Once in Prince ruppert he roll for Vancouver, Glacier NP, Yellow Stone NP, then back into Canada to hit Mont Tremblant and back into the US on the east side of the Great Lakes and get back into Georgia Via the Blue Ridge Parkway. Looking like a 12,000 trip. Will be back home for July the 4th!Sounds like a great trip Jeff! Take a lot of pictures. My trip is going to be a lot quicker. I am also going to start in Key West, I was going to start in Prudhoe Bay but the reasons for doing that have changed. Quick trip from Key West to Prudhoe Bay and then a quick trip home. I think I will be on the road about 16 days, a little over 11,000 miles. I have a deal with my wife. I get to do my ride and then WE do a different trip, so I need to save some vacation. |
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, WI | The ride from Key West to Prudhoe Bay is an IBA ride. The Ultimate Coast to Coast. (you can go either way) If you complete the ride you get an 8.5 x 11 certificate and this pin - 
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| Cool, now it looks like Rollin and I will be traveling the same route. 122 more days till last off! I will be sure to take many pics and keep a journal of the ride. I am no the VRN, but visit thevmc.com and this website mostly. Would be happy about sharing the experiences of the ride. Its been almost 2 years in the planning! cant believe its almost go time. |
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | Have either of you installed a handlebar camera mount? that way you can ride and still push the PHD (Push Here Dummy) button to record your progress, just take lotsa SD cards. |
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, WI | SYNSTR - 2012-01-29 3:42 PM Have either of you installed a handlebar camera mount? that way you can ride and still push the PHD (Push Here Dummy) button to record your progress, just take lotsa SD cards. No handlebar camera but I do use a camera with a long neck strap - If I have any money left before the trip I might buy a GoPro camera. 
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, WI | Not that I'm excited but I started packing today. The first project was to make a first aid kit. On past rides I would bring a bottle of Advil but on this ride a good first aid kit may be very important. It could be a long way to the next Walgreens. I found a small zip bag and added everything I thought I could need. Next I packed the Happy Trails tour box. I wanted to see what I could put in and how much it would weigh. I added my insulated pants, all of my rain gear, my heated jacket liner and gloves and the CB. I think I will be adding a support bracket from the luggage rack to the license plate bracket. A lot of storage area - 
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| 'started packing' love your enthusiasm - I would be packed by now LOL |
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| Rollin - I know you like to spend as little time as possible getting fuel. Did you buy one of those 'mccuff' fuel nozzle filler device from one of the sponsors here? I just got mine - but have not had a chance to use it [broken ankle ] It's the 'no spill, etc' ad at the top - |
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, WI | 20 10 Vision - 2012-01-30 6:40 PM Rollin - I know you like to spend as little time as possible getting fuel. Did you buy one of those 'mccuff' fuel nozzle filler device from one of the sponsors here? I just got mine - but have not had a chance to use it [broken ankle ] It's the 'no spill, etc' ad at the top - I just need a match  - I really haven't had a problem fueling the Vision and I think looking for the McCuff would add more time. (broken ankle?!!) 
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | Love the cartoon! I used to reffer to ACME while teaching and always got a chuckle out of the class. Then I'd point out that EVERYTHING supplied by ACME worked as advertised, it was just misapplied by the coyote. |
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Best of luck for everyones big trips. I'm getting very excited about my "49 states in 10 days" ride starting on May 16th in Needles, CA. ending in Hyder, AK. during Hyder-Seek. Got most of my farkles in place, Using the ROTOPAX fuel cell and First Aid pax (pic below). I had the Tri-City pegs on, but traded them out for the jbhatch pegs so that I would have a backup set of shifter/brake pegs if something should happen ( lost a shift peg on my HD during a LD ride, really sucked). Got a bar mounted CB, with a hidden antenna under the dash (pic below), not the same range, but in an emergency, I can pull it out and stretch it up for better range. GPS is loaded with the full route, and also all the individual waypoints for each states entry point. The guys at work will be tracking me thru my rLink locator. It is cellphone based, so it will be interesting to see how well it does on a trip like this. I hope to use them as a 'dial-up-navigators' to let me know if anything on the route has changed. They will also be making my hotel reservations for me as I go depending on when I feel the need to stop. I will be doing a warmup ride at the end of March to work out any kinks in the system by running a 'Border to Border' run from Tijuana, Mexico to Coutts, Canada in 24 hrs. If all works out well, my theory about the Vision will be proven. . . IBA rides on a Vision is cheating!
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, WI | Nozzledog - 2012-01-31 1:43 AM Best of luck for everyones big trips. I'm getting very excited about my "49 states in 10 days" ride starting on May 16th in Needles, CA. ending in Hyder, AK. during Hyder-Seek. Got most of my farkles in place, Using the ROTOPAX fuel cell and First Aid pax (pic below). I had the Tri-City pegs on, but traded them out for the jbhatch pegs so that I would have a backup set of shifter/brake pegs if something should happen ( lost a shift peg on my HD during a LD ride, really sucked). Got a bar mounted CB, with a hidden antenna under the dash (pic below), not the same range, but in an emergency, I can pull it out and stretch it up for better range. GPS is loaded with the full route, and also all the individual waypoints for each states entry point. The guys at work will be tracking me thru my rLink locator. It is cellphone based, so it will be interesting to see how well it does on a trip like this. I hope to use them as a 'dial-up-navigators' to let me know if anything on the route has changed. They will also be making my hotel reservations for me as I go depending on when I feel the need to stop. I will be doing a warmup ride at the end of March to work out any kinks in the system by running a 'Border to Border' run from Tijuana, Mexico to Coutts, Canada in 24 hrs. If all works out well, my theory about the Vision will be proven. . . IBA rides on a Vision is cheating! Nice setup Darrel!! CB looks like it should work great. What's the capacity of the spare fuel tank? Good luck on the ride. I'm looking forward to the stories and pictures. |
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| nozzledog - do you have some type of 'hose' to get the fuel from the 'spare gas tank' into the main tank?
'warm up ride border to border' you know you and Rollin are killing us armchair bike driver's and wanna be IBA types, right? LOL
Rollin - the 'mccuff' comes with a nylon pouch and a 'belt type loop' so it can be mounted for e-z access.
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