Not on my Harley.

 

In 3 years I rode my Electra Glide to all the lower 48 states. The next year I checked Alaska off my list. After that I kept traveling to states I've already been to.
I now have 215,000 miles on my Harley.

 

It's not really too bad on the battery. I bring a battery pack when I ride. I make sure to use airplane mode. Especially when in the west away from cell phone coverage the phone will use a lot of battery power looking for a cell signal.

Spotwalla now charges you. It's not much, even for someone like me that rides alot. I just add a few bucks to my account before going on a long ride. Just make sure you have SWTracker off when you don't want to be tracked. They charge you whenever it's on, even if you don't map it out on Spotwalla.

The app runs in the background. Back when it was free I had problems when SWTracker would die. I wouldn't know about it for a long time. Then when I'd start it back up it, the map looked like I was suddenly transported hundreds of miles. I don't have that problem anymore with the paid version. You get what you pay for.

 

I forgot to mention: my Harley has never left me stranded away from home in all it's 215,000 miles.

There was one time that I left home and immediately knew something was wrong so I turned around. I was extremely careful with the throttle. I got to my driveway and could not go further. The engine would run but I wasn't going anywhere. My neighbor helped me push it into my garage. I stripped every bump off my drive belt. Luckily I was home.

I was never stranded even from running out of gas. In Alaska I took the Dalton Highway to the Arctic circle. I had to make it to Dead Horse Alaska on the Arctic Ocean and that was further than the range of my Harley. So I carried spare gas on my seat. I road until I ran out and stopped right in the middle of the road because their was absolutely no where to pull over. No one came from either direction as I filled up my tank. I then continued on my way.

 

Thanks for posting up. I went and looked at your Alaska Trip. Epic.

Brought back lots of great memories of our ride to the Arctic Circle.

Wishing you many more miles of smiles!

 

Pretty cool you made it to Deadhorse… when I was in Fairbanks I considered it… But… It was going to rain for several days in a row… So I headed east to Ontario instead… the rain was always about a day or so behind me until I got to Sarnia… two days later it cleared up, and I headed south of the border and through the heartland…. On my way to Cody Wyoming.

 

This is on my list, ride from Southernmost point in US to Deadhorse.

 

… in 45,000 miles my 2017 has been on the hook 5 times… rear flat tire, rear wheel bearings blew up, Clutch wouldn’t clutch, & 2 dead batterys ( could have done that myself, but chose not to)… HOG towing plan did the first 3, Harley dealer did one… and a buddy did one… I have limped her in a few times, but small easy fixes…

 

I lied! I just remembered my Harley let me down once. When I got on my bike at a motel in Needles California the engine wouldn't start. Someone gave me a jump and I rode to an Auto Zone. I bought a new battery and was on my way soon.
I forgot it because it wasn't much of an inconvenience.

Who am I kidding? I forgot it because I'm fricken old and can't remember anything.

 

One 4 th of July my battery on my 2011 Road King died while we were in Laconia for a ( 3 day)weekend concert trip and was lucky Autozone was opened , only time this bike let me down. I rolled down the driveway of the hotel parking lot and jumped it then went immediately to autozone about 3 miles away. Didn’t really interrupt our day , just an hr or so of inconvenience