Lamonster
SpyderLovers Founder
I've been waiting to do a trip like this before I even had the Spyder. I remember some of the guys on one of my other boards saying that the Spyder would be no good for the long haul and a 150 mile day is about all one could do on the Spyder. From that day on I wanted to prove them him wrong. I pretty much did that when I picked it up seeing I did 800 miles the first two days.:doorag:
Ever since then I've been doing things to make the Spyder better for the long haul. I've added a GPS, XM radio, Cruise Control, Highway boards and my latest mods was some 4" risers. I got to say this was the best mod to date. I use to get a numb right hand and my right shoulder would start to really hurt after about 200 to 300 miles. That is all gone now thanks to the risers.
I LEFT Greeneville/Mosheim TN at 4 am on Sunday. I had a low battery issue the day before when I left my GPS on for about 3 hours. I charged my battery and got it back up to speed and was ready to roll.
I didn't get much sleep the night before as I never do before a big ride. :sour: That week was one of those weeks that everything went belly up just before my trip so the time I would have spent working on the Spyder was taken up by working on pool pumps and valves and heat pumps. :sour:
So I get all loaded the night before ans at 4 am I fire up the GPS and route to Sioux Falls Iowa. It was over 1200 miles from my place. Now my GPS is a iway 600 and it's only acted up one time and that was on my trip to Valcourt Canada. Well guess what it started to act up again just as I was leaving. I kept playing with it and it finally fixed it's self. That's okay because I brought a spare that I had on my 109 just in case of a problem like this. So far I haven't needed to use it.
When I took off it was real foggy and I had a hard time seeing the road but after a couple of hours it broke and all was well.
I was stopping for fuel every 120 to 140 miles or so and the one thing nice about leaving so early is you don't have to stop to talk with people too much. That was good for making time.
The trip was pretty much uneventful and that was fine with me. It was kind of hot and at times I was wishing I would hit some rain just so I could cool off a bit. About 3:30 my sleepless night caught up with me and I had to pull into a rest stop to get about a hour nap.
I didn't see a whole lot of bikes on the road so I pretty much had the road to myself. I was blowing through state lines like some folks ride through county's. The Spyder did great and never gave me a lick of trouble. I did fine that my butt gets a little sore around 600 to 700 miles but I'm hoping the new Corbin I'm installing today or tomorrow will fix that as I have plenty of miles left to add to this trip. I'm over 15K now.
I didn't make to to Sioux Falls but I did pull into Sioux City around 11 pm and that turned out to be a 1170 mile day in 19 hours. The only reason I didn't make it all the way is there was a really bad storm up the road nd I was dry all day and didn't see any point in getting wet now.
Packed and ready to roll
Guess where :doorag:
My new friends.
Ever since then I've been doing things to make the Spyder better for the long haul. I've added a GPS, XM radio, Cruise Control, Highway boards and my latest mods was some 4" risers. I got to say this was the best mod to date. I use to get a numb right hand and my right shoulder would start to really hurt after about 200 to 300 miles. That is all gone now thanks to the risers.
I LEFT Greeneville/Mosheim TN at 4 am on Sunday. I had a low battery issue the day before when I left my GPS on for about 3 hours. I charged my battery and got it back up to speed and was ready to roll.
I didn't get much sleep the night before as I never do before a big ride. :sour: That week was one of those weeks that everything went belly up just before my trip so the time I would have spent working on the Spyder was taken up by working on pool pumps and valves and heat pumps. :sour:
So I get all loaded the night before ans at 4 am I fire up the GPS and route to Sioux Falls Iowa. It was over 1200 miles from my place. Now my GPS is a iway 600 and it's only acted up one time and that was on my trip to Valcourt Canada. Well guess what it started to act up again just as I was leaving. I kept playing with it and it finally fixed it's self. That's okay because I brought a spare that I had on my 109 just in case of a problem like this. So far I haven't needed to use it.
When I took off it was real foggy and I had a hard time seeing the road but after a couple of hours it broke and all was well.
I was stopping for fuel every 120 to 140 miles or so and the one thing nice about leaving so early is you don't have to stop to talk with people too much. That was good for making time.
The trip was pretty much uneventful and that was fine with me. It was kind of hot and at times I was wishing I would hit some rain just so I could cool off a bit. About 3:30 my sleepless night caught up with me and I had to pull into a rest stop to get about a hour nap.
I didn't see a whole lot of bikes on the road so I pretty much had the road to myself. I was blowing through state lines like some folks ride through county's. The Spyder did great and never gave me a lick of trouble. I did fine that my butt gets a little sore around 600 to 700 miles but I'm hoping the new Corbin I'm installing today or tomorrow will fix that as I have plenty of miles left to add to this trip. I'm over 15K now.
I didn't make to to Sioux Falls but I did pull into Sioux City around 11 pm and that turned out to be a 1170 mile day in 19 hours. The only reason I didn't make it all the way is there was a really bad storm up the road nd I was dry all day and didn't see any point in getting wet now.
Packed and ready to roll
Guess where :doorag:
My new friends.
