Wow very nice!

 

I love the BRP too! I wish I lived closer.....A LOT closer. A few pics from my trip.

 

Nice write-up and pics. I have ridden parts of the area (Skyline Drive, southern Virginia into Tennessee) and it is beautiful.

I am fairly new to motorcycling but have taken a few longer trips, and ran into the same issue with temps. My last trip temps ranged from mid-20s to upper 70s/low 80s in the same day. What worked well for me is a combination of layers and heated gear.

Base layer of Freeze-Out (from Cycle Gear) or Cold Gear top and bottoms.
Jeans and long-sleeve T-shirt, +/- thin hoodie
Heated jacket liner (Hot-wired from Cycle Gear)
Tourmaster Jacket (Air intake 4) and overpants.
The overpants liner is waterproof so no need for additional rain pants
Gerbing heated gloves + leather gloves + mesh gloves
Frog Toggs rain jacket and HD overboots for wet weather
3/4 or modular helmet

 

I use it sometimes traveling to and from my Mothers house on health checks etc.
There was an editorial submitted to the local paper recently from a lady stating motorbikes should be banned from the Parkway.
Her argument was the excessive noise takes away from other people's ability to enjoy a positive experience.

 

And also not to brag --- I live 14 mi from the other end ( north , Front Royal Va ) And it's great to be close

 

Now that's some funny **** there...lmfao. Apparently she needs to take a ride on a nice bagger on a cool sunny day to change her mind.

 

She plugs her car in, I'm sure...

 

A far left lib for sure she is
BLACK BIKES MATTER -- and mine HAS the right to speak out LOUD

 

Great pics!! Thank you for sharing. I'm hoping some day to ride the Parkway. It looks beautiful.

 

Great pix. The BRP is a great ride, we've done it twice. it's one of those roads we could ride every single year and never get tired of it, plus the area is great too. That area can be tough for clothing planning. As you found out, you need to be ready for anything from near freezing to hot.

Here's what we do for luggage space on trips :

Right saddle bag : dedicated to rain gear, small tool kit, and small tire kit.
left saddle bag : we use one of the saddle bag luggage to store spare clothes. Every couple of days, we swap out clean clothes with dirty clothes to the tour pak bag.
Tour pak : the junk trunk (phones, wallet, purse, sunscreen, etc), leather jackets, hats, etc.
Tour Pak rack : I got one of the HD expandable bags and we use this as an overnight bag. We keep clean clothes, bathroom items, etc in here and we take it in the hotel each night. it has everything we need each night. we swap out dirty clothes with clean clothes from the left saddle bag.

This has worked for us on several trips so far. Our longest trip has been a week. We have a decent system now and everything is easily accessible.

This is the bag I have :
http://www.harley-davidson.com/store...sible-rack-bag