GP Holiday

[Kermit]

I'm toying with the idea of doing a GP holiday, ie Laguna Seca & Indianapolis in 2014.

Anyone done this? If so, was there a mob you used that organised this type of tour or did you organise, hotels, car/bike hire, tickets yourself?

Ideally I would like to hire a bike, the tour from cali to indiana would be experience, but the length of stay, bike hire/insurance, distance, luggage and the need to factor additional hotels would make it optimistic to organise and expect it to go smoothly. This wouldn't be too much of an issue if you had a tour mob that organised and facilitated it.

Rough idea its about 4000km distance between Laguna Seca to Indianapolis, if you factor in rests, site seeing & non familiarity with roads (despite GPS) 300km day is not a fast road trip. 5 night stay at both GP cities would make it 13 days on the road. 23 days in total.

[mick_dundee]

A few here went to the ISLE of Mann TT this year, am sure Tim Graham or ZX Robyn can provide some valuable insight.

[smithy5]

Get Routed does the Isle of Man TT and heaps of other locations see here.... http://www.getrouted.com.au/

[Wattie]

Talk to disco, he hired a Harley while in US.

My dad hired Harley's too in the USA. But as Disco, returned it to the same place he picked it up from.
You would need one way hire

[Glen]

I drove past Laguna Seca when we were on our way from San Francisco to LA last Year.

Highway 1 down through Big Sur to San Simeon and on to LA would be awesome on a bike. Don't lose it on a left hander though, they're not big on anything to stop you going over cliffs... and they are big cliffs......saves on the tow trucks I guess

[Kermit]

I know Ron did isle of man, he was telling all about his adventure & got me thinking.

My bones don't exactly like winter, but you can kill two birds with stone with the northwest 200 & TT being around the same time.

It's on the bucket list along with doing the nurburgring & a GP tour.

I'll talk to dave when I see him next.

[Mazabuzz]

Interested

[MadKaw]

Do Europe, you'll get more races.
We did a SBK tour in 2000, Donnington, Hokenheim, BSB, italian sbk round...
Could have fitted in a GP or 2 but the misses wanted to see stupid stuff like some tower in fance and some shonky tower in italy and the like......

[Kermit]

Mario, your more then welcome; to have a group would be better.

I wont have a hard time pulling you away from Vegas?

$5 T-bones, $2 corona's, parties, show girls n the rest doesn't exactly make you want to leave.

Do Europe, you'll get more races.
We did a SBK tour in 2000, Donnington, Hokenheim, BSB, italian sbk round...
Could have fitted in a GP or 2 but the misses wanted to see stupid stuff like some tower in fance and some shonky tower in italy and the like......

Putting more ideas in my head and something else to add to the bucket list.

Bad man!

[red_dave]

I'd rather wait til 2015 and go to Texas!

[Glen]

I'd rather wait til 2015 and go to Texas!

I hear Patrice is waiting for you to return.....

[red_dave]

I'd rather wait til 2015 and go to Texas!

I hear Patrice is waiting for you to return.....

Ditto

[Dafuzz31]

or u can always do it on the cheap and do Sepang......myself and some buddies (7 in all)...flying over to sepang this october for 5 day weekend....
Return Flights (meals and 20KG luggage), transfers to hotel, accommodation and grannd stand tickets at end of main straight at the hair pin for like $800.....Food and brewskis are very cheap there to so if it wasnt for the missus giving me her wish list it would be a fairly cheap blokes weekend.

[Johnnyflash]

I can highly highly recommend both the TT and NW200 for a trip!

If your going that far tho, dont shy away from the non international road racing meetings, some of the best riders on the best circuits on the planet!

The UGP is the fastest road race in the world and has all the stars there (Dunlops/Martin/Anstey etc) and some of the southern races are unreal.

I met a couple of Ozzie lads in Silverstone a few years ago, they had just been to the IOM TT, were at the GP in Silverstone and were heading to Assen for the Dutch GP. Brought their own bikes over (at huge cost and 3 month shiping) but they had a ball!

Would be a better idea to buy a bike in the UK on ebay, pick it up on arrival, advertise it a week before you leave and you'll nearly / will break even.

[Kermit]

Looking into it further, route 66 appears to be the ideal route.

Thats taking into account a detour at st louis, for indianapolis and ending in chicago

From the observed searches one way bike hire doing route 66, end drop off would be chicago, Illinois.

Route 66 tours usually go for 16 days, adding an additional 3 nights each for Luguna, Indianapolis & vegas. Why an additional 3 night for vegas, because that's about as much time required to have those ever lasting experiences from previous experiences, excuse the pun.

Bike hire for 28 days with unlimmited k's? Wait for the specials starts from $49 a day, if your happy to ride HD road king, how about a kwaka concourse for $59 a day. no chain maintenance! Insurance & sales taxes excluded. Included Sadle/pillion bags, helmet, gloves and jacket.

Accommodation, tourist 66 link gives a rough cost, add an additional 9 nights to that cost.

So that leaves, flights, fuel, food, piss & kidnap kitty.