It's been quite a while since updating this thread and don't know if it matters at this point but will go ahead with it anyway.
Upon leaving Couer D'Alene Idaho I took the scenic route down to Caldwell, ID for a dealer open house at Bad Ass Bikes. What a beautiful trip. I did have a little problem with an Idaho DOT officer who got his panties all bunched up because I'm too long to travel that route without a special permit but we argued through it and after coughing up a hat and t-shirt I was on my way again.
Once I got to Caldwell to our dealer I was unloading my personal bike which is (was) a crotch rocket. The owner of the dealership was giving me all kinds of static for riding a jap bike. I told him that I had been looking for a Harley Raod Glide for 4 years and some day I will come across one at the right price and I will give up the 150+ mph wheelies. He walked over to a Road Glide he had sitting there for sale and told me he would sell it to me for what he ad in it. I asked him the price and was shocked. That was Wednesday afternoon. Thursday morning I rolled in and he walked up and asked if we were going to do the deal on the Harley so I told him I had to get rid of the Suzuki first. He asked what I had to have out of it so I gave him a number. He asked for the keys, took it for a spin then told me it was sold! Well I'm now the proud owner of a 2007 Harley Davidson FLTR Road Glide
After Caldwell, ID I made my way out to Cherry Hill, NJ to Rockstar for an open house and party. Well it rained all weekend so that was a complete bust.
Left Cherry Hill on Monday morning and rolled back to Kansas to swap out a couple of bikes then headed to Colorado Springs for another dealer open house and demo rides plus the Tejon Street bike fest. I picked up the dealer rep from the factory and we rolled into CO Springs late on Friday. We spent the next 3 hours setting up the awning and getting ready. Saturday was a great day, well over 1000 people in attendance. Saturday evening was spent putting all 23 bikes back in the trailer and tearing the awning down. We finally got back to the hotel about 10:30pm. Back up at 4:00am and headed downtown to set up for the street fest. We were allowed to begin setting up at 5:30am and finally got finished about 8:30am just in time for all the people to start rolling through. The day went really good till around 3:30 when it began to hail and pour rain. Now there were 1000's of people and as soon as the storm hit they went running for cover. I have 1000 sq feet of awning so they were trying to crowd under it at the same time we were trying to get bikes in out of the hail. There was some name calling and I was called an ******* a few dozen times as I was kicking people out to get bikes in. The rain finally passed by about 5:00 but it had already run almost all the people off so we began tearing down early. Made it back to the room by about 9:00pm and crashed. Monday was spent sleeping!
Got back home on Tuesday night then went to the office Wednesday morning to check in and took the rest of the week/weekend off. Spent the 4th of July holiday fishing. Lost track of how many catfish we caught but it was somewhere around 150 (between 10 of us).
Tuesday morning I rolled back into the office, loaded 1 more bike then headed back to Bergen County, NJ for a dealer open house. That was this past Friday and Saturday and went very well, lots of traffic and sold a couple of bikes.
Left there yesterday morning, swung through Cherry Hill, NJ to drop off a bike and made my way to the Homestead Suites here in Erie, PA late last night. I'm going to spend today polishing aluminum. Did I mention that the Blue Beacon in Hubbard, OH burned all the aluminum on my truck and trailer on my way to Bergen County? I told them as I always have at every BB that I wanted absolutely no acid on any of the wheels or tanks. Well I was in the bay that couldn't be seen from the viewing window and when the bay manager came to tell me my truck was ready I walked into the bay and went off the deep end, the wheels, tanks, fender flairs and door trim on the trailer where WHITE. They acted like it was no big deal and thought an appology was all it would take to get me to go away. I guess the non-english speaking guy running the buttons didn't understand my english explination of what I wanted. Anyway, water under the bridge and now I'm going spend the entire day doing it all again!
I'll be setting up Wednesday morning here in Erie for the Raor-On-The-Shore rally then blasting off Sunday morning headed to Pocatello, ID for the POW-MIA Rally next weekend and then to Sturgis to Monkey Rock for 2 weeks then to Salt Lake City, UT