Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas, 2025 edition.

[p6x]

This year, the tour organizer made a little video about what the tour is, the rules, and some other aspects; for those of you who are not familiar with it.

The tour as an option B for this year, a separate list of stops in States that previously were part of the Texas State.

@PJPR01 Are you going to try for the Option B? I am going to produce the maps at a later time, and will check what kind of mileage we are lookin at.

 

 

Edited December 15 by p6x

[PJPR01]

Hi P6X...

I'm going to review the video today and take a look...the territorial expansion of the Tour sounds intriguing!  There's a chance of a Colorado rally in September next year that might play nicely into this expanded Tour.  

Time to take a look at the tour stops, I hope there are a number of new ones!

 

Edited:  I see 5 stops outside today's Texas borders for Option B.  Although not necessarily stops I'd normally make having been to Rawlins and Roswell and the Colorado one before very nearby, but if I'm on an extended trip somewhere else, I'll detour to get them.  The new patch looks cool though, so who knows...I must just make an excuse for a ride anyway!

Edited Monday at 11:05 PM by PJPR01

[p6x]

7 hours ago, PJPR01 said:

Hi P6X...

I'm going to review the video today and take a look...the territorial expansion of the Tour sounds intriguing!  There's a chance of a Colorado rally in September next year that might play nicely into this expanded Tour.  

Time to take a look at the tour stops, I hope there are a number of new ones!

 

Edited:  I see 5 stops outside today's Texas borders for Option B.  Although not necessarily stops I'd normally make having been to Rawlins and Roswell and the Colorado one before very nearby, but if I'm on an extended trip somewhere else, I'll detour to get them.  The new patch looks cool though, so who knows...I must just make an excuse for a ride anyway!

I have not yet mapped the stops outside of the current Texas state frontiers, to check how they tally milleage wise.

I think he is testing the waters. As he said in the news letter, for the first time this year, he ran out of 50 stops tour finisher rockers. Up to now, the people that completed the 50 stops were always below 100 out of 1000+ participants. I am guessing the tour is getting more exposure? although the number of participants seem to always be around the same.

[PJPR01]

Indeed...that was great to see in fact so many 50 stop finishers!   I'm sure we'll see most of them again in Bandera next year to pick up flags early again!  Let's hope it's not as cold this time around!

The 5 stops are quite dispersed, there's 2 that might make sense to grab in May on the way from or to the Cedar Vale Guzzi rally, while the other 3 would have to be a separate trip or maybe combined with a small National Park tour of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming...but to make it fun would need to be at least 1 week to not just pound out miles and actually enjoy the trip up and back.  Colorado is worth a whole week in and of itself, I hate just rushing thru scenic places.

[p6x]

On 12/16/2024 at 8:06 PM, PJPR01 said:

but to make it fun would need to be at least 1 week to not just pound out miles and actually enjoy the trip up and back.

This is my current issue. I am squeezing too many stops within a very narrow time window. This year, if possible, I will attempt to spend more time in between rides.

[Pressureangle]

I'll register this year, as my bike is in Michigan and I have to get it back to El Paso. I may take a week, or two, and see how many stops I can pick up. April or May, most likely.

[PJPR01]

The stops are up now!  May have another participant recruited to join this years adventure on a newly acquired K1600 GT…

Edited 15 hours ago by PJPR01