Originally Posted by ragtoplvr
Originally Posted by Linctex
"We host several rides, the most notable being the 11-day, 11,000+ mile Iron Butt Rally"
11,000 miles in 11 days on a motorcycle? Not in a year of Sundays.
I bought my '79 Shovelhead off a seller on Ebay in Seattle and drove it back to Waco in 2003.
I took the "scenic route" visiting friends in Idaho, Wyoming, family in Colorado, and a few in Kansas & Oklahoma.
All told was 2,682 miles over 5 days. It's a great memory now - but I wouldn't do it again anytime soon.
The "comfort" level a shovelhead is way less than an iron butt motorcycle. Custom seats special riding suits costing several thousand dollars are common.
Yes, in many cases. But there is also a guy running his third on a Sportster Roadster. Most are sport-tourers, I recall the most common make is BMW.