spyderrock
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Well I got home this Saturday from my trip to Durango here is a bit about the trip.
Day 1...Edmonton to Kalispell
Day 2...Kalispell to Idaho Falls
Day 3...Kalispell to Salt Lake City(short day)
Day 4,5,6...Salt Lake City to Zion(stay 3 nights)
Day 7... Zion to Cortez,Co
Day 8...Spend day at Mesa Verde
Day 9.10,11...Cortez to Durango(Spend 3 nights)
Day 12,13...Durango to Denver(Spend 2 nights)
Day 14...Denver to Moab
Day 15...Moab to Salt Lake City
Day 16...Salt Lake City to Craters of the Moon to Idaho Falls
Day 17,18...Idaho Falls to Kalispell(2 nights)
Day 19...Kalispell to home
Total km 8560 or around 5200 miles
Visited 8 national parks drove over 30 some mountain passes, Longest tunnel on trip was 1.1 mile and that is the tunnel up in Zion National Park. Only had one minor problem with the RT Limited and they fixed that in Durango Purge Valve and Broken plug wire. Drove in 5 hours of rain in Montana and the rest of the trip was in very hot weather. Drank gallons of poweraid and water every day. Had two bandanas one in the ice chest and one around my neck switch them out every 3 hours to try and stay cool.
Met a few people at the owners event, I am really kind of shy as an artist I spend hours working alone in my studio, but I did get a chance to meet a few fellow canuks and a very nice couple out of Oklahoma and a few people out of New Mexico. I got to meet Faran and Lamont as well as Spyderpops(Harvey). Speaking of Harvey I walked up to his trailer to have the lower chrome vent installed and As soon as I saw him I shook his hand and said Thank You for the Bump Skid. On my way out of Zion I could see some thing in my lane ahead and there was oncoming traffic so I slowed to 60mi an hour and what was on the road was 2 pretty big rocks. I swerved to miss them and thought I had enough room on the road but the front left wheel fell of the shoulder. There was not really any shoulder and the skid plate to a massive hit. I got the rt stopped and checked the front end for damage:banghead: luckily there was none just a nasty scrape on the bottom side of the BumpSkid. Thank you again Harvey this thing is bullet proof.
This for me was a trip of a life time, I always wanted to do this trip on a bike and the RT was awesome. I did this trip a few years ago in the truck and fifth wheel but on the bike it was a totally different trip. Now back home time to finish the honey do list.
Picture of the bike on my way to Cedar Breaks National Monument, The window is the tunnel in Zion National Park, road up to Cedar Breaks 13% grade going up, Bike in Zion, And a shot of Arches National park.
Day 1...Edmonton to Kalispell
Day 2...Kalispell to Idaho Falls
Day 3...Kalispell to Salt Lake City(short day)
Day 4,5,6...Salt Lake City to Zion(stay 3 nights)
Day 7... Zion to Cortez,Co
Day 8...Spend day at Mesa Verde
Day 9.10,11...Cortez to Durango(Spend 3 nights)
Day 12,13...Durango to Denver(Spend 2 nights)
Day 14...Denver to Moab
Day 15...Moab to Salt Lake City
Day 16...Salt Lake City to Craters of the Moon to Idaho Falls
Day 17,18...Idaho Falls to Kalispell(2 nights)
Day 19...Kalispell to home
Total km 8560 or around 5200 miles
Visited 8 national parks drove over 30 some mountain passes, Longest tunnel on trip was 1.1 mile and that is the tunnel up in Zion National Park. Only had one minor problem with the RT Limited and they fixed that in Durango Purge Valve and Broken plug wire. Drove in 5 hours of rain in Montana and the rest of the trip was in very hot weather. Drank gallons of poweraid and water every day. Had two bandanas one in the ice chest and one around my neck switch them out every 3 hours to try and stay cool.
Met a few people at the owners event, I am really kind of shy as an artist I spend hours working alone in my studio, but I did get a chance to meet a few fellow canuks and a very nice couple out of Oklahoma and a few people out of New Mexico. I got to meet Faran and Lamont as well as Spyderpops(Harvey). Speaking of Harvey I walked up to his trailer to have the lower chrome vent installed and As soon as I saw him I shook his hand and said Thank You for the Bump Skid. On my way out of Zion I could see some thing in my lane ahead and there was oncoming traffic so I slowed to 60mi an hour and what was on the road was 2 pretty big rocks. I swerved to miss them and thought I had enough room on the road but the front left wheel fell of the shoulder. There was not really any shoulder and the skid plate to a massive hit. I got the rt stopped and checked the front end for damage:banghead: luckily there was none just a nasty scrape on the bottom side of the BumpSkid. Thank you again Harvey this thing is bullet proof.
This for me was a trip of a life time, I always wanted to do this trip on a bike and the RT was awesome. I did this trip a few years ago in the truck and fifth wheel but on the bike it was a totally different trip. Now back home time to finish the honey do list.
Picture of the bike on my way to Cedar Breaks National Monument, The window is the tunnel in Zion National Park, road up to Cedar Breaks 13% grade going up, Bike in Zion, And a shot of Arches National park.
