2019 Motorcycle Rallies and Trips Dates/Locations

Hey fellow riders. Today I wanted to talk about motorcycle trips and rallies coming up in 2019. Starting right now on Motor Travel USA. I'm riding here in downtown Orlando today and I wanted to just talk about motorcycle vacations and some 2019 rallies that I know of coming up. I don't know about the rest of you but this is the time of year that I start dreaming of motorcycle trips. You know what I'm talking about? Just that desire to go out and find something new and exciting. Explore something different than the day in and day out. Well anyway as always I have a million ideas right now of where I want to go and obviously you can only pick one or two. Just have to whittle them down. I mean one thought is I do want to do an iron butt sometime and is this the year I do that. Maybe take go a thousand miles somewhere and take my time going back but that's not what I'm here to talk about today. What I did want to talk about because usually when I start thinking of trips what I'll do is I'll go out on the internet and look at what kind of motorcycle rallies, more specifically for sport touring, what rallies are going on out there and as I was writing those down I thought why don't I go for a ride and share those with viewers so they know of these rallies too because there are some really cool ones out there this year and definitely if you know of others that I'm not even mentioning because I'm only going to mention a handful here please do in the comments or email me. I'd be glad to share that with other viewers and would love to hear about other events going on around the country and that's the other thing too. Most of these are east coast. There's one central United States just because that's where I am living in Florida. I'm willing to go up and down the east coast and possibly do this central one I found but west coast would definitely be harder and would take a lot more time to plan. So of course in March is one of the bigger ones, Daytona Bike Week. Obviously this is dominated by Harleys but every type of bike is represented there. It's typically warmer than most of the U.S. and there's tons of things going on from cabbage wrestling to test rides. It's definitely an interesting time for sure. Now on to the more sport touring oriented rallies and the ones I'm going to mention are like FJR groups and concourse groups and just because they're that specific motorcycle group the rallies typically welcome anyone. You can show up to a Connie group with an FJR or vice versa typically. Definitely check the information on their websites and just to make sure but I've never heard of anybody having a bad experience just because they rode their concourse to a FJR group. You might get your balls busted a little bit but beyond that you'll have a great time and it's typically the same minded people at these rallies. So I saw that the central FJR owners group is having a rally in June in Iowa. I believe the Buick Iowa. I'll put the information on the screen in case that's incorrect but I believe that is. It sounds cool. I would love to go there. I saw that the Field of Dreams filming site is only a few hours away and there's a couple other great rides and routes and destinations up in that area. In July I noticed the concourse owner group is having their national rally in central Pennsylvania. Now if you've never ridden in central Pennsylvania it's awesome. It's a great place to ride. There's so many great routes, so many great destinations and the the routes can be so varied from mountainous to curvy to farmland. I highly recommend it if you can go to this. Then in September the eastern FJR group they're meeting in Maggie Valley this year. I got a little taste of Maggie Valley during my last trip along the Blue Ridge and it's as fun as everybody has told me it is. I most certainly will be back. I don't know if I'll be able to make this particular one and then the other one that I found was again the concourse owners group. They're having their northeast fall rally in the Thousand Lakes area of New York. That's kind of northern northwestern New York on the border with Canada and I visited there and that's also awesome. You can go to Canada, you can explore New York. It's just a really nice area. There's nature and castles, great places to eat and the hotel they're staying at that's where I stayed too and that hotel was really great. I could totally see a rally taking place there. Easy to walk to restaurants so you can have a couple beers and not worry about riding back to the hotel. So if you can get up to that one definitely go. So those are the ones that I personally found. Definitely if you know of any please put them in the comments or email them to me. I'll definitely share them with other viewers and other people just to get an idea of what is out there. I'd love to hear what type of motorcycle trips you're planning or dreaming of this year and definitely if you know of any rallies that I didn't mention or didn't find please put them in the comments or email me. I'll be glad to share them with everybody. Well as always I really appreciate everybody watching. If you like this video and it helped you and you're thinking of going to some of these rallies now please give the video a thumbs up and also subscribe to the channel. Motor Travel USA is all about touring, sport touring, and finding new and interesting places to go and explore. So definitely subscribe to the channel if you are also interested in that. It means a lot and helps build this channel. I'm going to keep riding for a little bit. Definitely check out those rallies I mentioned and let's go explore!