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Q. Or at the beach. Is the law different in different states? im in california. I see the homeless selling little handmade items on the pier...is it legal for them? i just want to set up a table and sell necklaces that I learned to make from a class i took. any advice?
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You want to set up shop to compete with homeless people. How kindhearted.
You want to set up shop to compete with homeless people. How kindhearted.
Motorcycle Riders--What are some good tips for going cross-country on a bike?
Jayne
My boyfriend and I are thinking about riding his Harley from Mass to Daytona Beach. We have never rode across states let alone down the eastern border. Just looking to find some good tips out there that I might not have thought about.
To Bill- I said states as in multiple states. We have rode together plenty of times for a couple hours on end, highways, etc, up through New Hampshire and Maine. I just meant like through mulitple states across country. I also own my own bike, but it is an 883 sportster with a small gas tank, and think it would be much better to be on the back of my bf's and take everything in without paying attention to the rode. :-) Before I learned to ride, I rode on his bike for more than ten years, so we are entirely comfortable with each other...
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Byron made a very good point about packing light and washing your clothes along the way. Something else, if you find you need something unexpected like extra shirts or something, don't overlook thrift stores. Wear a couple of $3 T shirts and when you're done, toss them in the trash.
If you can ride 500 miles a day alone, better figure 350 two up. 200 miles at a time is a long stretch on a bike, even with a comfortable dresser. Two up, it feels even longer. I suggest riding 120-150 miles, gas up, stretch, pee, get a drink and so on. You will be a lot better off making a lot of short rides with short rest stops rather than long tiring rides and long rest stops trying to rest up.
Take a camera, especially something like a better point and shoot with 10-15X zoom (compact size) or what's called a bridge camera, the point and shoots that look more like a large DSLR. Many of them has 24-40X zooms. Have a couple of memory cards, take plenty of photos of everything and delete those you don't want when you get home. Take shots over your bfs shoulder while riding, if things go wrong, take photos of those times as well. My motto is whatever doesn't kill you makes for a good story later, which is true. When at rest areas, if your camera has a self timer, perch it safely on a picnic table and get a shot of both of you. If there are other photographers there, ask them to take your photo. If they are carrying a camera, especially an expensive DSLR, you have nothing to worry about asking them to handle your camera. Shady looking, drugged out characters are not ones to hand your camera to.
In case you don't already have one, get the HD road atlas because it has the locations and numbers of HD shops, which may come in handy in case of a flat tire, etc. Put sticky things like shampoo bottles inside a zip lock bag should the bottle decide to pop open in the saddlebag or backpack. Stuff a plastic trash bag somewhere just in case it is needed during rain. One of the little, cheap LED mini flashlights is good to have on hand. If the weather turns cold and you don't have a warm enough jacket, buy a newspaper and place several layers between your chest and jacket. Amazingly effective.
And most important, ride safely, don't take chances, expect delays or something to happen and when it does, remain calm and keep in mind that regardless of what happens, you will get there and you will get back. Maybe a bit late, but so what. And keep in mind, whatever doesn't kill you makes for a good story later. I've been touring all over the US for over 35 years and the trips where the weather is perfect, nothing breaks down, no cops stop you, you don't get diarrhea from road side food and no aprts fall off are soon forgotten. The trips you remember forever and revel in recounting is where you must go to the motel front desk three times for more toilet paper, a huge lady cop mistakes you for a vandal and comes within a hairsbreath of stuffing you into the back seat of her cruiser and you get caught in a rainstorm so severe that when you put your foot down at a stop sign, water runs over the top of your cowboy boot. That's just a few of the more "memorable" times I remember. Good luck.
Byron made a very good point about packing light and washing your clothes along the way. Something else, if you find you need something unexpected like extra shirts or something, don't overlook thrift stores. Wear a couple of $3 T shirts and when you're done, toss them in the trash.
If you can ride 500 miles a day alone, better figure 350 two up. 200 miles at a time is a long stretch on a bike, even with a comfortable dresser. Two up, it feels even longer. I suggest riding 120-150 miles, gas up, stretch, pee, get a drink and so on. You will be a lot better off making a lot of short rides with short rest stops rather than long tiring rides and long rest stops trying to rest up.
Take a camera, especially something like a better point and shoot with 10-15X zoom (compact size) or what's called a bridge camera, the point and shoots that look more like a large DSLR. Many of them has 24-40X zooms. Have a couple of memory cards, take plenty of photos of everything and delete those you don't want when you get home. Take shots over your bfs shoulder while riding, if things go wrong, take photos of those times as well. My motto is whatever doesn't kill you makes for a good story later, which is true. When at rest areas, if your camera has a self timer, perch it safely on a picnic table and get a shot of both of you. If there are other photographers there, ask them to take your photo. If they are carrying a camera, especially an expensive DSLR, you have nothing to worry about asking them to handle your camera. Shady looking, drugged out characters are not ones to hand your camera to.
In case you don't already have one, get the HD road atlas because it has the locations and numbers of HD shops, which may come in handy in case of a flat tire, etc. Put sticky things like shampoo bottles inside a zip lock bag should the bottle decide to pop open in the saddlebag or backpack. Stuff a plastic trash bag somewhere just in case it is needed during rain. One of the little, cheap LED mini flashlights is good to have on hand. If the weather turns cold and you don't have a warm enough jacket, buy a newspaper and place several layers between your chest and jacket. Amazingly effective.
And most important, ride safely, don't take chances, expect delays or something to happen and when it does, remain calm and keep in mind that regardless of what happens, you will get there and you will get back. Maybe a bit late, but so what. And keep in mind, whatever doesn't kill you makes for a good story later. I've been touring all over the US for over 35 years and the trips where the weather is perfect, nothing breaks down, no cops stop you, you don't get diarrhea from road side food and no aprts fall off are soon forgotten. The trips you remember forever and revel in recounting is where you must go to the motel front desk three times for more toilet paper, a huge lady cop mistakes you for a vandal and comes within a hairsbreath of stuffing you into the back seat of her cruiser and you get caught in a rainstorm so severe that when you put your foot down at a stop sign, water runs over the top of your cowboy boot. That's just a few of the more "memorable" times I remember. Good luck.
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