We are going to run a trip report for this epic adventure on an as it happens basis with a few of the guys chipping in as we go along. Seems a better bet than everone loading the same pics.
As a brief overview, we will be spending a few days in Tennessee before heading across the Trans America Trail to Albuquerque NM. This will take us 3 weeks to do with a couple of rest days. I've shipped 12 bikes across and Paul took off on day one to join some of his US buddies and 3 other guys set off on their own to run some of the trail and see other places.They will meet us back in ABQ for shipping home. That leaves 8 of us to do the trip in one group of gentlemen tossers.
Anyhow, on to the good bit. The bikes arrived last week at GSM Motorent in Townsend TN and I for one breathed a huge sigh of relief as the doors opened and all the bikes were exactly were they were loaded. I use some great wheel chocks from Bumpstop along with 4 straps per bike and they did there job superbly.
The weather was brutally hot at way over 100 and around 80% humidity. You can see I was slightly sweating during the unloading. The driver was a real character and had driven down the Dragon to get to us and he had no idea he had driven down one of the most famous biking roads in the US with a load of bikes in the container
As a brief overview, we will be spending a few days in Tennessee before heading across the Trans America Trail to Albuquerque NM. This will take us 3 weeks to do with a couple of rest days. I've shipped 12 bikes across and Paul took off on day one to join some of his US buddies and 3 other guys set off on their own to run some of the trail and see other places.They will meet us back in ABQ for shipping home. That leaves 8 of us to do the trip in one group of gentlemen tossers.
Anyhow, on to the good bit. The bikes arrived last week at GSM Motorent in Townsend TN and I for one breathed a huge sigh of relief as the doors opened and all the bikes were exactly were they were loaded. I use some great wheel chocks from Bumpstop along with 4 straps per bike and they did there job superbly.
The weather was brutally hot at way over 100 and around 80% humidity. You can see I was slightly sweating during the unloading. The driver was a real character and had driven down the Dragon to get to us and he had no idea he had driven down one of the most famous biking roads in the US with a load of bikes in the container