Get OFF the Fence and Ride!!

The office will be accepting applications up to the day of departure!!

Challengers: We will be scheduling time slots to in-process riders on the 3rd and 4th so watch your email for your appointed time. If you do not have your tracking unit already, please contact US Fleet Tracking to be sure that a unit is waiting for you in Mesa when you arrive. You will need to be trackable by the time you show up for registration.

There is still time to join us for the ride or to come out and see the riders off!! as they embark on the trip of a life time!

Riding the Tail!!

Leaving Columbus, we will ride south through Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. The hills of West Virginia and Kentucky are exceptional riding. Going further south into North Carolina we will enter the Great Smoky Mountains where we will encounter the Blue Ridge Parkway. We will ride the parkway south to its southern terminus at Cherokee, North Carolina. The parkway is really a great motorcycle road, however, it is a federally supervised, speed restricted road which may be a burden as we will want to move along. Like CA 1 along the California coast, the Blue Ridge Parkway can be a test of high density tourist traffic endurance during August, but, this isn't supposed to be easy!

Riding through Cherokee, North Carolina we go deeper into the Smoky Mountains where we will encounter generally great riding and an over the top motorcycle road called the “Tail of the Dragon”. Three hundred and eighteen curves in eleven miles. Hang on to your hat! Also, don't expect to see many highway signs indicating the route you are riding. This road is so infamous, that the road signs are removed by cyclists for souvenirs. The state abandoned replacing them long ago.

Departing the Smoky Mountains, we will go into Tennessee and on west through to Franklin a suburb of Nashville, and Bumpus Harley-Davidson, our eleventh check point.

Traveling through Michigan to the Oldest H.D. in the country!

Departing Milwaukee, we will ride north on a short stretch of interstate to get out of town and then around the western shore of Lake Michigan. We will then ride south across the Mackinac Bridge, one of the Nation’s largest and most storied bridges, and on its south end, enter Michigan.

Michigan's lower section has impressive native forests not at all in keeping with its industrial reputation. We will ride the east shore of Lake Michigan through several storied summer vacation home locations.

Riding out of Michigan to the south, we will again be a short stretch of interstate to clear a couple of large cities. We will then ride through the north east corner of Indiana into Ohio where we will ride to Columbus, Ohio and the A. D. Farrow Company Harley-Davidson at Northstar, the countries oldest Harley-Davidson dealership and our tenth check point.

The Harley Museum is our 9th Checkpoint!

Departing Kansas City, we will go east across the Mississippi River to pick up Illinois. We go north briefly on the eastern shore of the river and then back west across the River to ride the Great River Road north into Iowa. Crossing Iowa, we continue north to cross the southeast corner of Minnesota and then on into Wisconsin. At this point we head east to Milwaukee, the home of Harley-Davidson and the impressive Harley-Davidson Museum, our ninth check point.

We Welcome our 6th Check Point!

Grand Junction Harley-Davidson was established February 20, 1996. It is located on the Western Slope of Colorado in the heart of the most beautiful motorcycle touring region in the States. Situated between Aspen, Telluride and Moab, Utah (Arches National Park) you will experience some of the most beautiful scenic byways Colorado has to offer. Come explore the rich mining history Colorado is known for on your new Harley-Davidson® bike that you just purchased from GJHD. After your tour, we will ship your new bike back home.
Grand Junction Harley-Davidson is the largest supplier of Police Motorcycles in Colorado and six-time winner of Harley-Davidson's most prestigious award - The Bar and Shield. Our customer satisfaction is unparalleled and rated one of the top 50 dealerships in the nation. Let our award winning service department treat your Harley-Davidson to servicing like it has never experienced before.

Come visit Grand Junction Harley-Davidson or our Montrose location, Black Canyon Harley-Davidson for all your new, Pre-owned, Financing, Insurance, Service, Parts, MotorClothes® Apparel, Rentals, Rider Training (Riders' Edge) and Accessory Motorcycle needs.

Experience the difference at Grand Junction Harley-Davidson!

Sincerely,
Scott Lindsay
Dealer

Santa Fe Harley Davidson Here we Come!!

Leaving Grand Junction we go south a short distance to Whitewater Junction where we will turn on a remarkable motorcycle road, the Gateway Canyon or Delores River road, whichever name you prefer. This magnificent motorcycle road goes south along the Delores River, past Gateway to Naturita, Colorado. The Gateway road is one hundred miles of truly great technical motorcycle riding.

At Naturita, we will turn west and go into Utah. On this ride we will pass the Bedrock Store. This turn of the century, the last century, store is frozen in time. It is truly an old rural store with glass counter cases and wood floors, long since worn through, which sells parched peanuts from a big barrel as you walk in. If it is open, stop. We will then turn south at La Salle Junction, south of Moab, Utah.

Riding south we will pass the original Hole in the Wall store which was the inspiration for the motel carved out of the rock wall in the movie Cars. Shortly we will come to Monticello where we again turn east back into Colorado. Riding east we ride past Telluride and go on to Ridgeway where we turn south to Ouray and ride over the Red Mountain Pass. At the top of Red Mountain Pass is Silverthorne, an incredible old mining town served from Durango by one of the last existing narrow gage railroads in the United States. Continuing on over the pass we come to Durango where we turn east to ride over Wolf Creek Pass, our forth crossing of the continental divide. Both Red Mountain and Wolf Creek Passes offer over the top motorcycle riding, literally.

Further east we arrive in Alamosa where we will turn south into New Mexico and Santa Fe. Our seventh checkpoint, Santa Fe Harley-Davidson, is right in the middle of this historic old, really old, Mexican trading town. The oldest church in the United States is located in Santa Fe. At this point we have crossed the Continental Divide four times!

Riding through Sturgis during the rally!!

Departing the Broken Spoke Campground, everyone will ride right down the middle of Main Street with all the parade experience of passing hundreds of bikes parked along the street.  Passing through Sturgis in this manner may relieve the tension between deciding whether to go to Sturgis or Ride the Hoka Hey.  

We will do both!

Departing Sturgis, we will ride some truly great roads going south to Grand Junction, Colorado.  We will go from the Broken Spoke Campground, down the main street of Sturgis, and on to Deadwood, South Dakota.  Departing Deadwood, we will go south past Mount Rushmore and on down the Iron Mountain Road riding in front of Mount Rushmore, through Keystone and on into the Black Hills.  Following the Iron Mountain Road, we will proceed south through Custer State Park with its Buffalo and Elk herds and then south through Hot Springs, South Dakota and on south through the northwest corner of Nebraska where we turn west to Lusk, Wyoming. 

Departing Lusk, we will ride south on a great back road to Wheatland.  We will then ride the Bossler Road, a great high speed motorcycle road.  Following the Bossler Road, we will go on to Laramie and southwest into Colorado and the southern approach to Rabbit Ears Pass.  We will then ride down US 40 to the Gore Pass for our third trip over the Continental Divide. 

On the west side of Gore Pass, we will ride over Red Dirt and Wolcott Passes and on down the Colorado River road into the Vail, Valley.  Following the Vail Valley to the west, we will continue through Glenwood Canyon on a short distance of interstate and down the Colorado River to Glenwood Springs, Colorado.  Glenwood Canyon was the last segment of the original interstate highway system to be constructed and is one of the most spectacular scenic roadways in the otherwise spectacular Colorado Mountains.

At Glenwood Springs, we will turn south and proceed through Redstone and over McClure Pass to Grand Junction, Colorado and Grand Junction Harley-Davidson, our sixth check point.