A friend is moving out to Palo Alto next year, and so we hatched a plan to rent some Harlys as a group and do a road trip... I've previously done Highway 1 from San Fran to LA (Big Sur, Monterey, etc). But that was in a car. Has anyone done this? Where should we go? Any good Harley Hire firms? Watchouts? We would probably have max 7 days, maybe less - since American firms don't give as much holiday as we get in europe, my mate will be shot by 'her indoors' (whoops, Is that Arthur Daily reference sexist these days?) if he uses too much holiday up!
it is 500 m from sanfran to the border,, on a harley that is a good 10 hours,, a looong day but hey the sun shines and it is easy,, i used to regularly go from LA down and it was just a few hours, san fran is a lot further ,, but mexico is ( was ) fantastic,,, beaches , mountains , tacos and beer,, luuuve it.
me and my bro hired a hd each in Vegas from the main dealer. Spanking ltd edition night rod special, 30 k bikes for about £80 a day. Great fun draging up and down the strip. they don't appreciate filtering over there though. Had a red neck try and put me into a barrier, he was not happy that I snuck to the front and as the lights changed green he turned at me and launched. Beware of red necks in monster trucks..
Thanks @chizel - good advice. Yes had forgotten about filtering being a no-no... I lived in Florida for a year in my teens, so I know all about red necks. I was in Florida again this year, and even saw pick-ups with Roman chariot-style blades sticking out of the wheel hubcaps. I can't believe that's legal, but if one of those decide to push you over it could get messy!
some hire companies don't appreciate their vehicles being taken into Mexico - might be advisable to check if they are ok with it.
19 years ago spent 1 1/2 weeks riding around the states on a Harley 13 states and about 18000 km great trip 12 of us shipped bikes to the states and back in a container still have the bike, sitting unloved and unwanted in a shed - its done 250000 kns and is valuless apart from being used as parts and its log book value planning to use it as a donor bike and build up a fxr out of it
