CP2Oh Captain, My CaptainThe Iron Butt Rally is designed to be a test of the rider and machine. In the early days of of the rally simply getting a motorcycle to the finish with three mandatory stops along the way was was an achievement worthy of being a...
The Second Leg The Leg 2 book was distributed at 06:00 on Friday the 5th of July.We had until 20:00 hrs PST on Sunday July 7th to present ourselves at a Marriott hotel in Rancho Cordova, California. If you left the hotel the second you got the book and took the...
While there is no replacement for experience (Unless you’re a guy named Josh Mountain) what counts the most is recent experience of which I had little. This bit me at the first checkpoint. In 2007 the defining issue of the rally was the use of...
Thursday evening before the rally I found myself in the second row for a David Byrne concert in New Bedford. David Byrne went to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence where he founded the Talking Heads so a show in NB was almost a homecoming of...
On June 30 I posted the following status update on my Facebook page. Friends, Tomorrow I start my fourth Iron Butt Rally. I’m looking forward to a great time on two wheels and seeing my sweetheart at the finish. I’m not in it to win it but I figure I have...
Last year I had the opportunity to attend Daytona Bike Week for a few days as a new contractor for Yamaha Motorcycles, helping with the demo rides. This led to other opportunities and this year I returned to Daytona for the entire week. The demo rides are...
Our plan after Moab was to take it easy continue west. We had only camped one night and we were looking forward to camping. Our destination was the Great Basin National Park which is just west of the Utah / Nevada border.It was to be a short day so I...
As we rolled into Moab I spotted a BMW R1200 GS Adventure heading the other way. I noticed he had a European license plate and mentioned this to Dillon, telling him that this guy was serious to go through the expense and hassle of shipping a bike over.Continuing north...
Moab is a cool place.I’ve had a special place for Moab since the 2003 Iron Butt Rally, when I hit an oil spill a few miles out of town and had a nasty crash. Starting with the tow truck driver to the great folks at Moab Off Road I managed to get the bike all...
According to the sign there are 1201 residents and a couple of soreheads living in Howard.Fortunately the owners of the Sugarbush campground are not soreheads, plus they have wireless. We had considered going further west and camping at 10,000 feet but we don’t...