Vince and Patty's Cross Country Ride!

Several months ago, Vince, a customer of mine came in to visit me. We started talking about new motorcycles and he expressed some concerns he had about a month long road trip him and his wife were planning on taking. He was thinking about moving to some kind of trike for longer trips. I told him about the Voyager kits that we have installed on several other customers bikes and that we had a mechanic at Laidlaw’s Harley-Davidson that could install one of these kits for him. I introduced him to Lee and Daniel that day and they ordered the conversion kit to match his Ultra Classic. After a couple weeks the conversion we completed and Vince was able to head out on his month long adventure across the United States. After his trip Vince was nice enough to send me an E-mail about how his trip was and some pictures!
-Rose

As to the trip, for the first leg of the trip we headed over to Laughlin, NV and spent the night there. We then headed south to Holbrook, Arizona. While we were in Arizona we visited an old part of the original route 66. I included a picture with a pretty interesting bridge in Winona, Arizona. It was considered a marvel when it was first constructed. The next morning we awoke to a dead battery but after a jump start we got into Albuquerque, New Mexico were we spent two days having the battery replaced and visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico. We then went on to Tucumcari, New Mexico and then Dalhart, Texas, Liberal, Kansas and Kansas City, then Saint Louis, MO. We then rode the bike to Decatur, Illinois where we spent a week. We then headed to Detroit, MI to visit a friend for another few days. We returned home through Oklahoma on Highway 40 and followed it home.

All in all we traveled over 5000 miles and were gone exactly one month. The Voyager was a big help in the high winds we encountered along the way and some rain. However except for the battery replacement the trip was a lot of fun. My wife really loves the Voyager, especially in bad weather. Packing double and pulling the trailer, we averaged 34-38 mpg on 91 octane. As to the Harley, it ran as all Harleys do - perfectly!

Best regards, Vince & Patty