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Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:27 pm
by KEL10R
always popular:
http://www.getrouted.com.au/des_usa.html
if you were to take your own bike, he may have info on hirage
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:14 pm
by Kermit
I did look into it, it just doesn't seem worth it.
Organise and pay for you own temporary road registration, insurances, maintenance of your bike. Pay for haulage, pick up your bike from east coast (portland), travel almost as far as the west coast and than have to ride back to the east coast (portland) to ship it back to sydney.
Its roughly 4000km one way from LA to Chicago, I wasn't planning on riding 8k & don't have anything remotely that resembles a touring bike.
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:59 pm
by KEL10R
fair enough.
hireage probably better anyway as you don't have to worry if you drop your bike in another country.
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:48 pm
by Wattie
Road kings have belt drive to no chain maintenance.
When in Rome!
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:25 pm
by Kermit
Wattie wrote:Road kings have belt drive to no chain maintenance.
Didn't know, at least considering the concourse I don't feel like a total traitor.
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:01 am
by Mazabuzz
blackster wrote: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.
MadKaw wrote: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!
Mate, I was there in 2009 and I'm still paying off the debt
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:24 pm
by Kermit
Mazabuzz wrote:blackster wrote: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.
MadKaw wrote: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!
Mate, I was there in 2009 and I'm still paying off the debt
I hear ya, there's a place just south of the strip I hear that gives you cash advances for organs.
Re: GP Holiday
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:07 pm
by Dafuzz31
Dafuzz31 wrote: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.
Better make that 8 now