Yippee, leave of absence to travel...

Expect rain and clouds if you're on the coast road.

 

If you find anything at all for less than 100usd per day, it'll be a
shit Harley. If you want a big Harley, anything Japanese or German,
just keep going up from there.

 

There is a RoRo that goes from Liverpool, but that still will not give
guarantee dates,

I'm just saying I would not ship out, only back, too many horror stories.

, aye

 

Yep, thats a good option

 

Buy one & sell it before you leave.

 

Err, yer, what he says

North California can get cold and wet.

You will limit where you can go up north

We are heading over this time in Sept to catch some some decent weather
up north before following the season south.

Seriously, reconsider the time or go over to Arizona/New Mexico etc

 

Anyone got any thoughts on bikes? I like the look of the new Bonnie
but maybe a Versys would be more practicle. I havent ridden either,
Lozzo? Test ride? Anyone in the south got a Bonnie? I could get a test
ride Im sure at a local dealer.

 

Owen, I have a brand new 2010 model demo bike you can take out. Give me
a bell at work 01234 302677 to arrange something. Not many dealers have
put a Versys on as a demo, but for some reason we did.

http://www.supamoto.co.uk/

Got 0% finance on the Versys at the moment as well.

 

YTC.

 

Who in their right mind would buy a bike off Timo?

 

Finished reading your journal. Great stuff, just enthuses me more.
Maybe I need to ask for 3 months off. Now theres a thought...

Thank you.

 

Heh, you silver tongued old devil, you...

It must be in the one true colour, frame as well...

(they go faster)...

 

I'm a salesman, what can I say

The 2010 comes in totc, like our demo, but the frame and swing arms are
more gunmetal colour and silver respectively. Here's a link to what the
new model looks like.

http://www.kawasaki.co.uk/versys

You'll be very lucky to find an all black '09 model like mine, they
sold out ages ago and I was lucky to get mine when the only UK
allocation of 2009 first came off the boat last February.

 

BTDT.

A loop around LA, Death Valley, Yosemite, San Francisco, PCH, LA in a
week. Rental Harleys thobut.

The best bit for me was coming down from Yosemite, better than PCH, IMO.

Another place that is better than PCH is the Great Ocean Road[1],
although a tad further away, granted.


[1] I've only done this in a Toyota Camry.

 

Hell, yeah!

I borrowed one off a bloke I met in a pub when I was in Daytona in
1993. OK, it was a SO-Nighthawk, but better than my Nissan hire car.

 

I wouldn't, really I wouldn't. I only had one for day as a loaner but
i thought it was pretty crap. Of course, YMMV.

 

Pretty much any septic IWHT.

 

How about a nice pink Tiger with full hard luggage, touring Scottoiler,
heated grips & Vario screen? Wouldn't take a man of your talents long
to make the pink bits black to match the frame & engine.

 

I did SF to Pismo in '95. It was a nice run, but in a cage. There are
some very pleasant little stops.

 

We stopped near Big Sur at a fairly random looking services. We walked
in at around 10am, and cowboy walking into the bar style everybody
turned to see who had come in, they were all half pissed watching
football on a big screen. We stayed for a coke which took about 15
minutes to get served and then buggered off. I think we missed any big
tourist stops and we didn't see any signs. We stopped a lot in the
highway laybys to take pictures etc, very pleasant drive.

We didn't even find LA that bad, stopped in Hollywood so stayed out of
the main city, and when we left 3 days later we didn't get too held up.
bit of an eye opener doing 70ish on the freeway for about an hour and
still being in LA.

We were going to stop in Yosemite but got so pissed in Mammoth Lakes the
night before we drove straight through and back to SF, lucky we did
actually as I didn't realise how long that drive would take.