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[Jswerve]

I never understood this mentality?  If I can drive, I can ride. 

Perhaps you missed some important text in my original post? We have 7 days max for any vacation we take no matter what due to my wife's job. So, being that you are from Iowa I am a bit shocked that you wouldn't understand why we would want to spend 2 days riding 500 miles in unpredictable conditions only to spend 2 or 3 days in the destination area doing what I consider the real riding and then turning right back around and running 2 500+ mile days to get home. You know as well as any of us that when you drive through Iowa to Colorado there is absolutely NOTHING to look at until you are a solid 2-3 hours into western CO. Nebraska? Kansas? NO THANKS...

I have never owned a trailer or trailered to any event. With all of these G2G's coming up and most being at least 1K from Iowa I think it's a no brainer. I am letting it die now, as you said beating a dead horse.

Jesse

[porthole]

I have never owned a trailer or trailered to any event. With all of these G2G's coming up and most being at least 1K from Iowa I think it's a no brainer. I am letting it die now, as you said beating a dead horse.

Trailered to our first CVO GTG, the 06 MV GTG.
Trailered to the 1st New River Gorge GTG
And there are several other non CVO events that were trailered.

And that doesn't include any of the toy hauler camp trips.

When my wife wants to go - the trailer goes. She is only good for a hundred miles or so. And the high speed non stop highway riding just doesn't cut it with her.

When you have had multiple back and spine surgeries, your life changes.

BTW Jessee, I haven't been to a CVO event yet that didn't have a nice selection of trailers to ogle over. And not all of them were pulled behind the bikes.

[Jswerve]

Trailered to our first CVO GTG, the 06 MV GTG.
Trailered to the 1st New River Gorge GTG
And there are several other non CVO events that were trailered.

And that doesn't include any of the toy hauler camp trips.

When my wife wants to go - the trailer goes. She is only good for a hundred miles or so. And the high speed non stop highway riding just doesn't cut it with her.

When you have had multiple back and spine surgeries, your life changes.

BTW Jessee, I haven't been to a CVO event yet that didn't have a nice selection of trailers to ogle over. And not tall of them were pulled behind the bikes.

Well then, that settles that Duane lol. I'm a little sad about all the great riding I am missing the first 500 miles though 

[flibb]

lol I know i started it but how the h.. did this turn into a trailer or not trailer..   Im fine with it all I'm just laughing and thats why I'm here. i don't trailer anywhere but if i wanted to i could who cares.   I go to the ROT rally in Austin every year i don't even bring a bike lol.   just ride around in golf cart drinking cold ones.  very fun

[porthole]

I trailer my golf cart everywhere 

[DesertHOG]

lol I know i started it but how the h.. did this turn into a trailer or not trailer..   Im fine with it all I'm just laughing and thats why I'm here. i don't trailer anywhere but if i wanted to i could who cares.   I go to the ROT rally in Austin every year i don't even bring a bike lol.   just ride around in golf cart drinking cold ones.  very fun

I don't know, seems to be the hot topic these days. I was in another message thread and it got turned into a trailer debate too. Maybe we need a non-CVO section related to Motorcycle Trailers.
 

[Jswerve]

I trailer my golf cart everywhere 

Lmao

[fastfreddy]

for me...SHARK....and its been on a trailer twice...cause it was SNOWING 

[BigLew55]

My real point is: What's the difference between driving 1000 miles or riding 1000 miles?  Scenery is the same but my bike gets 40 mpg but a trailer rig gets 15.

[Jswerve]

My real point is: What's the difference between driving 1000 miles or riding 1000 miles?  Scenery is the same but my bike gets 40 mpg but a trailer rig gets 15.

I don't have to ride my bike 1000 miles straight through which requires night riding. We avoid riding at night unless we absolutely have to. Also my wife can drive and give me a break, that's the point. There in 1 day instead of 2. Home in 1 day instead of 2. That's 2 more days of riding the bike in the mountains vs Kansas or Nebraska.

Maybe you like riding in Kansas and Nebraska. I'd prefer the mountains myself.

At the end of the day I don't get why people care. I paid for the bike I'm going to do it my way just as I'd expect the rest of you to do.

[FLSTFI Dave]

Maybe it's old vs new frame? 16 vs 18 tires? The '05 lowered F&R from the factory vs the '09 just the rear? Maybe it's just me my size (center of gravity) on either of these particular bikes? The steering feel of the '05 Bat has always had a much lighter feel for me than the '09 Shark.

We all know how every HD has its "own little personality", even same year, same model...

US 1 in the Keys is probably my favorite! Even though 41 Tamiami Trail is pretty much straight as an arrow, we really enjoy the wildlife (gators).

Your Wife got miles

They do, as all three of my CVO Road glides have had a slightly different feel and the 15 is a lot different than the 12 was. 

Each year we ride to the Keys, we go across by the Tamiami trail.  My wife's very first long ride on a bike was to Key West.  She did it on a 07 883 low, 7 weeks after she got her Motorcycle enforcement and learned to ride.  We been down many times since.

She got her enforcement in April 2007.  She has over 210,000 miles under her now.  She has no issues ride 600~700 miles a day.  This year we road the 1500 plus miles home from Sturgis in two days.

[BigLew55]

In reading this through today, I may have gotten a little too serious.  Sorry for that.  I usually approach this with a "Bust your chops" approach because in the end, it's your money, time, and ride.

But I'm often misunderstood.

Hell, I rode 1500 miles in a day this summer because I didn't want to waste a whole weeks worth of vacation and not get any riding in.  Rationalize that!
 

[porthole]

Hell, I rode 1500 miles in a day this summer because I didn't want to waste a whole weeks worth of vacation and not get any riding in. 

With a passenger?

[Jswerve]

In reading this through today, I may have gotten a little too serious.  Sorry for that.  I usually approach this with a "Bust your chops" approach because in the end, it's your money, time, and ride.

But I'm often misunderstood.

Hell, I rode 1500 miles in a day this summer because I didn't want to waste a whole weeks worth of vacation and not get any riding in.  Rationalize that!
 

Understand.  Was your wife on the back seat though?

[BigLew55]

Understand.  Was your wife on the back seat though?

She's made >800 miles days.  I think she could do as much on a bike as you can in a car with a trailer.