IRON BUTT

[Purple Guy]

Well we completed the IRON BUTT on Sunday May 4th. Kat and I left Springfiels MO at 2:30am Colorado time traveled 1130 miles in 20 hr's. Not sure why is called IRON BUTT, my butt was fine it's my arms and hands that took the beating fighting the wind all day just trying to stay on the spyder. One more thing too cross off my bucket list. :thumbup::clap::yes: jtpollock.

:congrats: on completing the Iron Butt, that is no small feat! :thumbup:

 

[SpyderMonkei]

Keep going

:congrats: on completing the Iron Butt, that is no small feat! :thumbup:

It won't be long before you will want to venture out more and complete these rides also. You can then get the license plate plaques and look for another adventure. Each one of these rides were hard, but the 1500 miles in 24 hours gives you very little chance if you get stuck in traffic or have some sort of mechanical problem. The coast to coast to coast was just a matter of pointing your bike west and ride, turn around and rid back.

The big banana of course is getting into the Iron Butt Rally itself. You have a better chance of getting in the space program. I got in the rally 7 or 8 years ago but unexpected back surgery 4 months before the rally took me out of the rally. I tried to get in a couple of times after that but never got accepted again.

You need to enter and be competitive in the various rally's they have to really have a chance.

i look forward to watching your progress. My LD riding days are pretty much over.

Congratulations on your outstanding achievement.

 

[jtpollock]

Congrats! We're giving the iron butt a shot in July. We plan on going from Northern NJ to New Orleans. Did you have any issues with the paperwork?

I just got my e-amil that all my paperwork was excepted and We are official menbers of the IRON BUTT Association. Just put everything they asked for in order and sent it in. All is good Hope you have a Safe Ride. We keep a notebook with milage and location for Start and each stop it made it easyer to put the paperwork in order when we got home :clap::clap:.jtpollock

 

[jtpollock]

It won't be long before you will want to venture out more and complete these rides also. You can then get the license plate plaques and look for another adventure. Each one of these rides were hard, but the 1500 miles in 24 hours gives you very little chance if you get stuck in traffic or have some sort of mechanical problem. The coast to coast to coast was just a matter of pointing your bike west and ride, turn around and rid back.

The big banana of course is getting into the Iron Butt Rally itself. You have a better chance of getting in the space program. I got in the rally 7 or 8 years ago but unexpected back surgery 4 months before the rally took me out of the rally. I tried to get in a couple of times after that but never got accepted again.

You need to enter and be competitive in the various rally's they have to really have a chance.

i look forward to watching your progress. My LD riding days are pretty much over.

Congratulations on your outstanding achievement.

Thanks for the encouragement but as we are both 60 plus not sure we will try another one and I know that the wife is defiantly out on the 1500 just happy we made it with no problems :yes::yes: jtpollockl.