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USA Sturgis Guided Tour

Once a year all the reincarnated warriors, kings and cowboys gather for a peaceful party on ancient American Indian land of the Sioux warrior tribe. Sturgis is a quarter million gleaming Harley-Davidsons of every model and year in one place at one time in an atmosphere of great fun and revelry. And our tour is the perfect way to enjoy the party and ride some fantastic roads through the Old West and the Rockies. We want to show you a little bit of America, to offer an experience beyond compare. Spectacular mountains, open grasslands, historic monuments, pioneer trails - we’ll take you through the unmistakeable cattle country of the Old West, the amazingly beautiful Rocky Mountains, Mt Rushmore National Monument and many more sights and sounds to remember. And what better way to enjoy this than with a group of like-minded Harley lovers – a holiday you’ll never forget!

Highlights

• Stanley Hotel
• Sturgis Rally
• Mt Rushmore
• Baldands NP
• Deadwood
• Devil’s Tower
• Rocky Mountain NP

Itinerary

DAY 1  Arrive Denver. We’ll meet you at the airport and escorted to our tour hotel, one of Denver’s finest, in the early evening. At the welcome dinner you will meet your road crew.

DAY 2 Denver – Cheyenne (175 miles. After breakfast we go to collect our Harleys, and then head north-west out of Denver to get a taste of excellent motorcycle riding possibilities in the Rocky Mountains. Past the famous Flat Irons of Boulder and into the mountains, lovely sweeping roads rising to over 2000 m for the next 75 or so miles until our lunch stop. This is no ordinary lunch stop, it is the 5* hotel that inspired Stephen King to write ‘The Shining.

We then change direction and head north-east, down and out of the mountains to our destination, Cheyenne. The mountain vistas make way to open grassland this afternoon - the land west of Cheyenne was the setting for the original ‘Virginian’ stories. With a fair wind there should be time to see the golden domed State Capitol, and the Frontier Days Old West Museum, a must for those of you interested in the days of the Old West with its collection of horse-drawn vehicles, Indian costumes, rodeo mementoes and even a rustic saloon.

DAY 3 Cheyenne – Rapid City (240 miles). Today’s ride will lead us to Black Hills National Park on back roads. We’ll stop at Fort Laramie, founded in 1854 and the oldest and most important garrisoned outpost in Wyoming. Now a national historic site, 22 original structures remain. Nearby is Register Cliff, a day’s hike down the trail, where pioneers ‘signed in’ on the sandstone walls of the cliff; and the Oregon Trail Ruts, where the pioneer wagons have carved deep ruts for several hundred yards in the soft sandstone above the North Platte River. We then continue north towards Thunder Basin National Grassland, following the old stagecoach route, and then head into South Dakota and pick up the interstate for our ride into Rapid City in the early evening.

DAYS 4-7 Rapid City. For the next 4 days we have time to get into the sights, sounds and feel of the world’s biggest Harley event in all its glory. You can come on organised ride-outs with our knowledgeable crew to Deadwood, Spearfish Canyon, Mt Rushmore and through the Black Hills. And we’ll also take you to some of the events happening like Thunder Road or the drag racing. Or you can do exactly as you please and find your own way around. The choice is yours!.

DAY 8 Rapid City – Casper (300 miles). We leave Sturgis behind and ride the pioneer trails of General Custer and his men in 1874. We’ll detour to the Devil’s Tower, important in the legends of native Americans and a landmark for the pioneers, rising 1280 ft above the valley floor, and the first ever national monument in the USA. And if it looks familiar, it was used as the site where the spaceships landed in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’. We then head southwest past the largest coal mining region in the USA and across the plains to Casper. If we’re lucky we can follow Custer’s footsteps (not too closely!) and find a little gold here, watch out for some Sioux warriors! Casper, our stop for the night, was a major settlement in the 19^th century. This is the crossroads of the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail and the Pony Express. Casper’s wealth is founded on uranium, bentonite (used as drilling mud in oil and gas wells, but also as a health drink!) and oil and the city has a mineralogical museum with some fascinating fossils, and the famous Nicolaysen Art Museum. We’ll also hopefully have time to visit Deluxe Harley-Davidson, Wyoming’s largest dealership.

DAY 9 Casper - Steamboat Springs (285 miles). As we head south to Rawlins the Rocky Mountains Massif looms ever larger. Rawlins is a once-infamous cattle town, 120 years ago the locals lynched and skinned the region’s most notorious outlaw, ‘Big Nose’ George Parrot. So don’t get caught speeding! Views and scenery don’t seem to end today, and our final hour or so along the Snowy Range Scenic Byway with curve after curve gets us to our destination, the winter ski resort of Steamboat Springs in the heart of the mountains.

DAY 10 Steamboat Springs – Denver (215 miles). Our final leg of this tour presents us with fantastic motorcycle roads through the mountains. The Colorado River Headwaters Scenic Byway takes us to the unspoilt town of Kremmling, where the Moose café will give you a real slice of hometown Colorado. We can then either head south along a great, empty road to Interstate 70 at the ‘new town’ of Silverthorne, which is quite a strange sight after the great emptiness of the Rockies. Or we continue up the Colorado River valley to Hot Sulphur Springs, with its 22 thermal pools and quaint local museum, and then head south to Idaho Springs. If you thought Interstates are boring, the mountain section of the I-70 will dispel that idea. If weather allows, we can take a ride to Mt Evans, at 14,126 ft the highest paved road in America. The road starts at Idaho Springs and climbs to the park entrance at Echo Lake at over 10,000’. If the weather isn’t clear (and it often isn’t), there’s time for a drink at the lodge, where you will see hummingbirds feeding. If the road is open, be prepared for some spectacular riding on very twisting roads to the top. The air is very thin here, so remember to breathe deep. The ride down into Denver via Squaw Pass offers great views of the vast flatness of eastern Colorado before we return to ‘civilisation’ and the city traffic.

As an alternative we can head north from Hot Sulphur Springs past Great Lake and over Trail Ridge Pass, at over 12,000 ft the highest pass in America, with some great roads and spectacular views.

And should the weather not be perfect, we can visit the Buffalo Bill Museum in Golden, or head straight into Denver with more time to sightsee.

Whatever the route, today’s ride is a fitting end to a great holiday. And after returning our motorcycles, tonight we’ll have a farewell dinner and the rest of the evening is yours to enjoy.

DAY 11 Depart Denver. There’s time for some last minute shopping and relaxing. Denver’s 16^th St Mall, just a block from the hotel, is a must. The Oxford offers a complimentary limo service around town, so if there’s anywhere else you want to go, just ask the concierge. Then it is off to the airport and the flight back home.

Total mileage  c. 1600 miles

Our tour price includes

• Authorized Harley-Davidson® motorcycle (low mileage, under 18,000) or other makes and models as listed
• Standard motorcycle insurance package: CDW with $5000 excess, theft insurance with $5000 excess, state minimum liability cover of typically $10,000-$50,000
• American licensed tour guide on motorcycle and assistant in support vehicle
• Support/luggage vehicle with coolbox/drinks
• Spare motorcycle for emergencies
• Trauma / First Aid kit
• Unlimited mileage
• All taxes
• Helmets (if requested). We strongly recommend you bring your own
• Detailed tourbook including maps
• Accommodation in 3-4* hotels
• Welcome Breakfast & Farewell Dinner
• All breakfasts
• National Park, State Park and National Monument entrance fees
• Hotel parking fees
• Luggage storage at depot
• Airport transfers

Our tour price does not include

• Meals except where specified (allow c. £20/person/day)
• Fuel and oil (allow c. £10/day)
• Riding gear
• Additional activities
• Personal expenses, souvenirs, tips

Optional prebookable items

(for details of our optional extras, please see the details on the Guided Tour page)

• Flights
• UK airport hotels and parking
• Airport-hotel transfers
• Travel insurance
• Optional CDW & SLI motorcycle insurance
• Pre and post-tour accommodation
• Pre-and post-tour motorcycle hire

Motorcycle selection

(Please indicate 1^st and 2^nd choice, all bikes are subject to availability at the time of booking and all are the same price)

• Mile High H-D
• Sportster Nightster
• Sportster Superlow
• V-Rod Muscle
• Nightrod Special
• Fat Boy
• Fat Bob
• Street Bob
• Wide Glide
• Softail Crossbones
• Heritage Softail Classic
• Road King Standard
• Road King Classic
• Street Glide
• Road Glide Custom
• Road Glide Ultra
• Electraglide Classic
• Electraglide Ultra Classic
• Streetglide trike (surcharge applies)
• Triglide trike (surcharge applies)
• Or
• BMW R1200GS
• BMW R1200RT
• Ducati Multistrada
• Honda VT750 Shadow
• Honda GL1800 Goldwing

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Includes direct return economy flights from London and local transfers in Denver. Flight upgrades and regional airport flight connections within the UK are available. If you wish to make your own flight arrangements, please deduct £750/p from the tour price, but please note our airport transfers in Denver are timed to meet our flights.

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Sturgis and the Old West         Prices Rider + passenger (per person in twin or double room) 2 riders       (per person in twin or double room) Rider,  single room Passenger, single room 05 Aug - 15 Aug 2012 £2,925.00 £4,525.00 £5,475.00 £2,275.00 04 Aug - 14 Aug 2013 £2,925.00 £4,525.00 £5,475.00 £2,275.00

Prebookable extras Basis Price CDW ($2000 excess), per bike Per bike £153.00 CDW ($0 excess), per bike Per bike £207.00 SLI ($1 million), per bike Per bike £108.00 Flights Per person POA Travel insurance (EU residents only) Per person POA Airport hotel/parking (UK only) Per room/car POA Denver hotel pretour, per night Per room per night £0.00 Denver hotel post tour, per night Per room per night £0.00

Sturgis & the Old West accommodation list Denver, Oxford Hotel Cheyenne, Holiday Inn Rapid City, Country Inn & Suites (5 nts) Casper, Holiday Inn Steamboat Springs, Sheraton Resort Denver, Oxford Hotel

| Wild West | Route 66 | California Dreamin’ | Daytona Bike Week |
| Sturgis and the Old West | High Chaparral | Cowboys & Indians |
| PCH All the Way | Self-Guided Tours | Rental |

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