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So 3 rd time to Alaska by motorcycle. Took 25 days 9451 miles about $500 gas $1961 motel rooms another $500 misc. I wanted to go to Deadhorse this time. I waited around in Fairbanks for better weather to run up to Deadhorse , it only got worse. Everyone hangs out at University of Alaska they let motorcyclist stay for $40 a night. Lot of guys had turned around said it couldn't be done. So me on my little 700 with street tires took off early on a Thursday, 14 1/2 hours later I was in Deadhorse . I think I was the only one that got to Deadhorse that day, besides the other 2 bikes that had left from Coldfoot. Turned around the next day and came back. Now right out of Deadhorse is the worse part of road took 2 1/2 hours for me to do the first 50 miles. It is so rough I set throttle lock at about 15 miles an hour I could not hold throttle steady. So another 14 1/2 hour ride back to university. The bike needs a new tire new brakes sprockets and chain, it got me home. I could not get the sidebags released I had to take then apart from inside to get them off and then I could clean mud dirt gravel out of latches. from inside. Here is a link for pictures.
https://picasaweb.google.com/114294...&authkey=Gv1sRgCMLki8Dh3LHuQQ&feat=directlink
So road conditions change constantly , the week before it was dry and and dusty they warned me I better have a spare air cleaner because of dust. In my ride I had pouring rain and slop mud to drying packing down mud . The semi trucks just run this road every day on street tires all summer long, the road has a hard bottom. The stories I heard guys camping in Coldfoot waiting out the weather ,one old guy camped along the road just out of Deadhorse for 3 days , he rode up in dust then the rain hit he ended up taking 4 days to get back. He had the large KTM with what looked like street tires. A guy from CA on a 400 Suzuki 2 tires and some gas strapped to bike and a backpack on his back rode up , hard going up and worse coming back he said but he did it it like 10 hours each way.
So I have done it , don't think I need to do it again. But then you never know.
https://picasaweb.google.com/114294...&authkey=Gv1sRgCMLki8Dh3LHuQQ&feat=directlink
So road conditions change constantly , the week before it was dry and and dusty they warned me I better have a spare air cleaner because of dust. In my ride I had pouring rain and slop mud to drying packing down mud . The semi trucks just run this road every day on street tires all summer long, the road has a hard bottom. The stories I heard guys camping in Coldfoot waiting out the weather ,one old guy camped along the road just out of Deadhorse for 3 days , he rode up in dust then the rain hit he ended up taking 4 days to get back. He had the large KTM with what looked like street tires. A guy from CA on a 400 Suzuki 2 tires and some gas strapped to bike and a backpack on his back rode up , hard going up and worse coming back he said but he did it it like 10 hours each way.
So I have done it , don't think I need to do it again. But then you never know.