Alaska-BRP & Yazz

[pitbull]

Yazz on your return trip Come by, Your service is on the house!...not Cowtown but me personaly.....I'll do the service at myself at my house, no charge, let me know if theres anything else you will need.

 

[Yazz]

Y'all are so nice! Just found this thread. I'm not doing my blog for fame or money. Just keeping a promise to a good friend that I would post every day so they would know everything is all right.

The fact that friends are enjoying the thread is payment enough for me.

 

[Eraser]

I try not to get involved in these discussions, but I can no longer contain myself, and have to chime in. Could it be that our expectations are just a bit high? :dontknow: I applaud the achievements of all the people who have set out on great adventures on their Spyders. Yazz, Murphy Brown, BMW, Dudley, Lamonster, Dltang & BJT, and many more. I sure wouldn't expect BRP to reward or specifically recognize them, however. I don't remember GMC acknowledging me when I turned over a quarter of a million miles on my old van. Why would we expect BRP to do something similar? While such recognition would be pleasing, it sure shouldn't be expected. It is nice that you are throwing Nerf balls instead of rocks at BRP, but it would have been nicer if you had thrown nothing at all. JMHO

:agree: Well put, Scotty.

 

[Lamonster]

Just sent my $20 off to help out :doorag:
Here's the PayPal address [email protected] :thumbup:

 

[dltang]

I try not to get involved in these discussions, but I can no longer contain myself, and have to chime in. Could it be that our expectations are just a bit high? :dontknow: I applaud the achievements of all the people who have set out on great adventures on their Spyders. Yazz, Murphy Brown, BMW, Dudley, Lamonster, Dltang & BJT, and many more. I sure wouldn't expect BRP to reward or specifically recognize them, however. I don't remember GMC acknowledging me when I turned over a quarter of a million miles on my old van. Why would we expect BRP to do something similar? While such recognition would be pleasing, it sure shouldn't be expected. It is nice that you are throwing Nerf balls instead of rocks at BRP, but it would have been nicer if you had thrown nothing at all. JMHO

IMHO, I agree with Scotty. After all, isn't touring what many of us bought our Spyder for. Why should we be recognized for something the product is designed to do. If you check out the trip reports on ADVrider, Alaska trips are a dime a dozen. This doesn't lesson the experience but I don't see BMW,HD,Suzuki or any other manufacturer giving out awards for trips far more challenging than riding the Alcan highway.
BTW, I love reading Yaz's reports and would also love to make a trip like that myself. But somehow, I just can't see BRP sponsoring or even recognizing my trip.

I am glad you guys spoke up because I was just getting ready too. We travel because we want to and because we love it. We chose the Spyder because it does what we want it to do and it is our ride of choice for safety, comfort and ability. I never once expected BRP to pick up any part of the tab for my recreational choices. I think they are pretty darned good at being involved with owners as a whole as it is. I have never owned any other motorcycles so I don't know how other manufacturers treat their owners as far as events and such go. But having been the owner of many automobiles and a scooter, other than an owners survey, I never got squat. So I will take BRP and applaud them for what they do and thank them for making a machine that is able to take these kinds of trips.

 

[dltang]

Just sent my $20 off to help out :doorag:
Here's the PayPal address [email protected] :thumbup:

Just made our donation.

 

[docdoru]

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[jedd]

opcorn:

I agreeopcorn: