Texas Trip (or any other USA state!)

[sniper]

Originally Posted by Springersoftinthehead

Greetings one & all.

Trying to arrange a trip to the USA where 6 of us can rent bikes, & plod around to our hearts content, joining in with the locals on things like:-

Drag Racing
Rod Runs
Bike runs
Water parks
Rodeos (we are Tourists after all!)

Currently looking at basing us in San Antonio, Texas, as it has a Speedway, Six flags theme park, a Speedway, and a cowboy town nearby, (Bandera), but we're happy to go elsewhere. don't want to be involved in the BIG ones though, like Sturgis or Daytone.

Anyone out there done anything like this or have any ideas that might assist?

recently returned from 2nd bike tour in the usa....

we used eaglerider bike rentals both times....and we

were happy with the service both times..

just plan where you want to go....plan how many miles

all of your group are happy to do daily .book your

hotels / motels in advance on internet...its really easy to

do once you start planning ...everything will fall into

place...

[Trevor]

These come highly recommended Welcome to the H-C Travel Home Page - The World's Best Motorcycle Holidays

[Springersoftinthehead]

One & all,
Thanks as ever for the great tips, ideas, and links. The hard part is that one of my mates is about 4 feet and a fag paper tall, and he’s only got back into biking after a 23 year break so he’s a tad concerned about the weight of a Harley. My other mate is 6 feet 3, and is definitely not a Harley man, Honda GoldWing seems to be his weapon of choice. I ride a Springer Softail over here but will probably go for a Heritage or Electra Glide in the States.
We’ve done a couple of trips in cars, (went to Tupelo, Memphis, across Tennessee to Nashville, on to Dollywood, and out via Atlanta so quite happy to travel & pick up Hotels/Motels en route).
Spider, we also did much of your trip from San Fran to Vegas via Yosemite & Death Valley, if I’m not mistaken your (excellent) pictures are:-

1. Vegas H-D
2. Mandalay Bay?
3. Road to Death Valley
4. Same
5. Death Valley (which I LOVED by the way)
6. Death Valley
7. Glacier Point Yosemite?
8. Yosemite Valley?
9. Not sure but it’s still in Yosemite I think
10. Tioga Pass?
11. Looks lie the Rainbow (Gay!!!) Quarter of San Francisco
12. Golden Gate Bridge
13. And again
14. Lombard Street, (the twistiest street in the world)
15. Big Sur ?
16. Big Sur again?
17. Man on a Mission ( or is that Mission on a Man?)

Thanks again for the tips, will try to take a pic that Spider would be proud to have in his collection !!!
Charlie

[Simon_Y]

Originally Posted by Trevor

Before you set off you now need to fill in an ESTA, we used to fill in a form on the plane. If you Google ESTA the first site is www.ESTA-online.co.uk , this will cost you £20.00 each. Go to the US Embassy site and it is free. Rip off UK Government in action once again.

Trevor

I don't think this is a bona fide government website, that would have a .gov address this is just a scam company who release the unsuspecting joes of 20 GBP who don't look into how the ESTA should be obtained. 10 minutes on the US embassy website

Maybe Google should be advised or are they getting a cut to have this company pop up first?

R

S

[sniper]

Originally Posted by Springersoftinthehead

One & all,
Thanks as ever for the great tips, ideas, and links. The hard part is that one of my mates is about 4 feet and a fag paper tall, and he’s only got back into biking after a 23 year break so he’s a tad concerned about the weight of a Harley. My other mate is 6 feet 3, and is definitely not a Harley man, Honda GoldWing seems to be his weapon of choice. I ride a Springer Softail over here but will probably go for a Heritage or Electra Glide in the States.
We’ve done a couple of trips in cars, (went to Tupelo, Memphis, across Tennessee to Nashville, on to Dollywood, and out via Atlanta so quite happy to travel & pick up Hotels/Motels en route).

Spider, we also did much of your trip from San Fran to Vegas via Yosemite & Death Valley, if I’m not mistaken your (excellent) pictures are:-

1. Vegas H-D
2. Mandalay Bay?
3. Road to Death Valley
4. Same
5. Death Valley (which I LOVED by the way)
6. Death Valley
7. Glacier Point Yosemite?
8. Yosemite Valley?
9. Not sure but it’s still in Yosemite I think
10. Tioga Pass?
11. Looks lie the Rainbow (Gay!!!) Quarter of San Francisco
12. Golden Gate Bridge
13. And again
14. Lombard Street, (the twistiest street in the world)
15. Big Sur ?
16. Big Sur again?
17. Man on a Mission ( or is that Mission on a Man?)

Thanks again for the tips, will try to take a pic that Spider would be proud to have in his collection !!!
Charlie

your correct on all of the above..except for..

2. hooters..(vegas)

11. coulterville

[PeteJ]

Originally Posted by Trevor

Before you set off you now need to fill in an ESTA, we used to fill in a form on the plane. If you Google ESTA the first site is www.ESTA-online.co.uk , this will cost you £20.00 each. Go to the US Embassy site and it is free. Rip off UK Government in action once again.

The US Dept of Homeland Security web site for ESTA registration is at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/esta.h...5-892E180E2127
You should not pay a penny for registration. Its free.

[Jonno]

San Antonio is a great choise. I lived in Houston for a couple of years and regularly visited San Antonio and the surrounding areas. Don't forget the River Walk and the Alamo. Also, travel down the coast and you'll finally get to a real undescovered pearl of place called South Padre Island where there is a great beach (you can drive along the beach and I once went for 5 miles without seeing anyone else) cheap hotels and great food.