RIDE COMPLETED:Scooters only Saddlesore 1000, Southwestrn BC

This is just an idea right now, but I'm running it up the proverbial flagpole:

On July 8, the sun rises in Vancouver at 5:20, and sets at 9:20.

I am proposing that we get as many Majesties, Burgmans, Silver Wings, Reflexes, Atlantics, X9s, etc as we can find. Gather at a meeting point in Vancouver from 5:30 to 6:00 am. Head north on the Sea to Sky Highway and Duffy Lake Road (Hwy 99) to Clinton; north on Hwy 97 to Prince George; southeast on the Yellowhead Highway (Hwy 16) to Valemount; south on the Yellowhead South and Coquihalla Highways (Hwy 5) to Kamloops, Merrit and Hope, and west on the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy 1) back to Vancouver. Ideally, we would get to Hope at sunset, and back to Vancouver at about midnight.

It would be a long day, of course. The best riding would be in the early morning - the Duffy Lake Road has some serious climbs and great corners. The entire trip is very scenic - mountain passes, high cattle country, spectacular valleys. The final stretch - 225 miles from Kamloops to Vancouver is on freeway - scenic freeway. By the time we get to Kamloops, we will be glad to see freeway, I can assure you.

I have plenty of floor space for out-of-towners to sleep before and after. I can assure you that you will sleep after the ride.

We would arrange witnesses, and earn the Iron Butt Association's Saddlesore 1000 (or Saddlesore 1600 km) certificates. Not many scooters have Iron Butt license plate frames. You could be one of very few.

For Iron Butt information, see these links.

Home Page: http://www.ironbutt.com/about/default.cfm
SS1000 Rules: http://www.ironbutt.com/ridecerts/getdo ... fm?DocID=1
List of all the people and bikes that have completed Iron Butt rides: http://www.ironbutt.com/rides/rideslogin.cfm (look for me under July 9 2005)

Over the next few days, I will be posting this on other forums.