Miles you rode this year and special memorable trips

[ARtraveler]

I must say, it does me good to see that there are people who actually ride their bikes (trikes, spyders, or whatever). Being on the M109 forum, it kills me to see people with a 4-5 year old bike with under 5k miles on it. On the good side, it allows me to pick up a nearly new bike at a good used price. Keep riding people and enjoy life as it was meant to be be enjoyed.:2thumbs:

:agree: x 2. Many of the posters are also riders. We bought em to ride em--not just talk about em. I am glad for SL though. Gives me something to do for about six months of the year. The only bad thing about Alaska. The short and cool riding season. :yes::yes:

 

[ARtraveler]

Wow, 2017 had so many memorable trips for us, starting with the Southern States Emergency Room Tour which took us from the ER in Las Vegas to an ER in Pensacola, FL then on to Mobile, AL ER and surgery then on to Santa Rosa NM for a 5 night hospital stay for Joe. Along the way I turned 100,000 miles on my 14 RT and we attended Spyders on the Bayou and the Gathering of the Fools in Houston.

Spyderfest was was a blast, as it always is, and we went home via a side trip to North Carolina to see the grandkids. In May we headed out on a great adventure to Homecoming. June had us at the Heart of Washington event, July we caged it to the Deadwood Rally. I flew to Pitbull in late July to purchase my F3 T and enjoyed my solo ride back to Las Vegas. In August we attended the NISR Rally in Council Bluffs, IA then over Labor Day we flew to WA to ride two Spyders to Las Vegas for friends. We had the NorCal Rally in CA and Red Rocks in UT in September and in October we rode to Midland TX for a weekend of work followed up by the Texas Hill Country Rally the next weekend.

We will I’ll start the New Year with a trip to northern CA to get a Russell Day Long saddle.

Off topic a bit. Rider magazine has a review of the new GW. They like it a lot. I am not reading about a white color though? I am thinking you folks are going to have a great year coming up. :yes:

 

[Bob Denman]

2017 will probably go down as my most memorable Spyder year. Haven't figured out yet how many miles I did but the best trip was to Homecoming, not so much for the trip but for the very special lady I met on the way up. We're still together 6 months later and are going on a cruise over New Year's.

To say I'm looking forward to the 2018 season would be an understatement.

You meet the nicest people on a Spyder... :congrats:, and the best of luck with whatever the future may hold for you both. :thumbup:

 

[pegasus1300]

I must say, it does me good to see that there are people who actually ride their bikes (trikes, spyders, or whatever). Being on the M109 forum, it kills me to see people with a 4-5 year old bike with under 5k miles on it. On the good side, it allows me to pick up a nearly new bike at a good used price. Keep riding people and enjoy life as it was meant to be be enjoyed.:2thumbs:

I have never understood why, outside of illness or other catastrophe, people spend big bucks on a motorcycle and then there it sits several years later with only a few miles on it. For my sake I'm glad they do, cause it allows me to buy what I want still fairly new and with low miles.:yes:

 

[Kredab]

This was a great first year....

I got my 2016RT-S delivered to my garage on Jan 5 with snow on the ground, we had a very nice Feb, got to ride a couple of times, first time on a Spyder or motorcyle, lots to learn and got great info from SpyderLovers .
Went to my first Spyderfest, besides the crappy weather it was fun.
Hosted a Squared away event at my house, met great people it was a blast.
Lots of short little trips around Iowa.
Got invited to SpyderFever in Council Bluffs, met more great people, making good friends that live across the state.
Made a solo trip down to Lamonster Garage to Purl some new farkles, met great people over the three days. Great hospitality from the Lamonster , met new friends from Texas.
Total about 7,200 miles on my spyder "Purl"

2018 is going to bring more of the same, trip to spyderfest with friends from Nebraska, Spyder Fever again and hopefully another farkle trip to Lamonster. The best part is all my new Spyder family and friends, nice group of people. Attached a great photos of PURL

Thank you for this site......

 

[Copperman]

I have over 22,000 miles this season and I went to a few Spyder Rallies this year. I went to Spyders on the Bayou, Spyderfest, BRP 10th Anniversary Homecoming, E Tennessee Spyder Owners Rally, Deadwood 3 Wheeler Rally, Spyder Rendezvous, Spyders in the Ozarks, Red Rock Spyder Rally and I rode a little with the Road Warrior Foundation. It's been a pretty busy year.

 

[BigGuy66]

Compared to many ryders here...

...we didn't get many miles this season. Our 5000 miles on our 2010 RT included Spyderfest at Springfield (mostly in the hotel room - those of you there know why), Madison, IN via side roads, French Lick, IN and our CMA Rally in Mena/Hatfield, AR. Started in April with Spyderfest and ended in October with the CMA rally. Ryde is now at the dealer for repairs after something - engine, starter, whatchamacallit - or something seized up while at the gas station topping off the tank to put it in storage. Waiting for spring...