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In anticipation of our upcoming trip through West Virginia, I thought it appropriate to address some great travel tips provided by the American Motorcycle Association. I first saw these tips mentioned at Keep The Rubber Side Down. This will be our first 5-day tour (we have done several 3-day weekends), so it is shaping up to be quite an adventure!

Here are the “insider tips,” with a little commentary from Mrs RC on each:

1) Eat at weird times. Everyone and their dog eats around 8 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. To get in and out of restaurants in a hurry, don’t be hungry then.

Like you can control when you are hungry! LOL Seriously, this is great advice for avoiding long waits.

2) A short metal cable with loops on both ends (like those made to keep people from stealing bicycle seats) is perfect for securing a jacket and helmet to your bike’s helmet lock.

We have one of these. Jay put it together at Home Depot with help from one of the employees. It cost about $3 including the little Master pad lock, and it works great! You just pull the cable through your sleeve and hook the padlock around your helmet strap fastener.

3) Carry a spare key. Zip-tie or duct tape it somewhere hidden on your bike, or better yet, give it to a traveling companion.

Neither one of us even HAS a spare key to our bikes (they only came with one). Maybe we should look into that.

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Tags: Mrs Road Captain, Trips & Places To Go by Diana Green
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Get Your Sturgis Rally Map

68th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally & Races

August 4th - 10th, 2008

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Spaz, Motorcycle Nut or Skilled Rider?

My neighbors must think I’m from another planet! When it comes to riding my Harley Davidson Dyna Low Rider motorcycle I do some strange things.

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Milestones

It has been a big week for me. Saturday I cracked the 6000 mile mark on my bike when we went to the Harley Drag Races. Sunday I put in another 215 miles pre-riding part of the route for a ride Jay is leading next week. This was followed by Million Mile Monday, giving me a total of almost 700 miles in only 3 days! But that was only the beginning…

Troy’s Visit

My son Troy was visiting from Baltimore for a few days this week. He only lives an hour or so away, but his visits are always short-lived because of the girlfriend that he can’t bear to be away from for more than an hour and because he spends his weekends running the lawn service company he started when he was 12. I always try to make the most of the time that I have with Troy, and this week was no exception. Jay took some personal time from work on Wednesday, and the three of us went for a motorcycle ride.

Di and Troy at Watermans