43 Day, 11,000 Mile SxS Overland Loop
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Arizona to Maine and back in SxS’s on the Trans America Trail, Backcountry Discovery Routes, Kentucky Adventure Trail, Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail, and the Great Western Trail.
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Simply amazing trip! Can’t wait to get onboard with this.
Last year I did a 2 day 400 mile across the Mojave and thought that was something. Took me about 6 week prep of the car and mapping. I can’t imagine the prep that went into your trip. Hoping to do the Arizona Peace Trail next.
Thanks for sharing. Your winning brother.
Think I’m several HUNDRED hours into planning and plotting the upcoming loop in August.
@@alroden6802 share your plans. Lol, shave us the time.
Or send out invites!
On my bucket list !
Awesome video of an awesome trip!! What kind of gas mileage did you get on the trip and did you carry extra fuel?
THANKS! Got around 14 mpg and I had extra fuel in an auxiliary fuel/transfer tank, but didn’t need it - had the route mapped out so fuel stops were all known and within range.
Man, I want to do this!
Al are you one of the only people to do so many miles around the country? I know a few others who do some long rides. But it ses like you're the only one who regularly does them and for as many miles
Seems so…thought it would be fun to do 10,000 mile/month+ long trips…lots of people do this on motorcycles/adventure bikes, but I wanted to take my hounds with me, so…
Such an amazing journey. What trail did you like the most?
The Great Western Trail up through Utah is my FAVORITE- never gets old.
The Northeast Backcountry Discovery Route was NICE too - never seen rural Vermont like that!
And the Michigan UP was good too - LOTS of waterfalls.
@@alroden6802 thank you for the response. I am adding these to the bucket list!
Did you run into any issues with Local Law Enforcement, especially once you started to get into the Northeast? I was talking to my wife about doing something similar to this but all my research turned up is that SXS's are not street legal in most states and as a result be prepared to have constant issues with the Law. Any insight you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
No issues at all on this trip - we did get pulled over a few times, but no problems…troopers and deputies were nice…just checked registration, and insurance, then apologized our wasting my time.
Last year we ran into a couple that just asked that we leave the area, which is what we were in the process of doing anyway, so…
Got REAL sneaky in Colorado though…avoided it completely last year.
i watched as many videos a i could but found nothing ....were you street legal and did you encounter any police resistance either way.
The SxS is street-legal - plated in Arizona with an “On-Highway” registration. And it had turn signals, mirrors…
Had numerous encounters with law enforcement and a FEW with civilian vigilantes - no real negative outcomes, but I was especially sneaky going through Colorado and have avoided and bypassed Colorado on other trips.
I was asked to leave town by one local policeman, but others just stopped to say hello - all were kinda non-events that didn’t impede the trip(s).
Goals
I would love to make a trip like this on a much smaller scale. Anyway you could send me the directions or way points on how you went from US canada boarder to Tennessee. We are from N.Y. and want to ride to Tennessee and Hatfield
Fairly simple route - it’s the Northeast BDR to Calicoon, NY, then backroads to connect with the Mid-Atlantic BDR, which connects with the Trans America Trail into Ripley, WV.
From Ripley, it’s down to New River Gorge and through Thurmond to the New River OHV trail, which comes out within 25 miles or so of the edge of the Hatfield & McCoy trail system.
On the other side of Hatfield and McCoy is the Kentucky Adventure Tour/Trail that goes into Tennessee.
@@alroden6802 awesome thanks I will be looking into it
What GPS routes did you use?
Started on the Arizona Peace Trail, then some Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR’s) to and across New Mexico to the Trans-America Trail (TAT) on the Oklahoma panhandle. Then it was the TAT into Tennessee and up to the Kentucky Adventure Tour (KAT) to the Hatfield and McCoy trails in West Virginia. Then it was the New River Gorge OHV trails up through Thurmond and on to Ripley to join the TAT again. Rode the TAT to Virginia to join the Mid-Atlantic BDR going north to the Northeastern BDR to Maine.
Coming back, we took a BDR across Pennsylvania to Erie and then backroads through Ohio and up into Michigan. Ran old rail beds across the upper peninsula of Michigan to the Trans-Wisconsin Adventure Trail (TWAT) to connect with the upper TAT for the ride back west. Then rode the Great Western Trail (GWT) back down to Phoenix.
So you meet up with friends to trailer? Because I've never found a way through Connecticut into Massachusetts through the ride the wilds. Maine is hard enough to connect. Jumping to VT is tough
@@lauramurray6690 - No trailering was necessary - rode the NEBDR through Maine…we didn’t go far into Maine, but we DID get to the Canadian Border near the Maine/New Hampshire state line.