coming to alaska !

[eyepecka]

a mate has a bike rental firm in achorage and im over to help out in may, cant wait.......... gonna be running some bikes in for him before the season starts.............. was there in 2003 and loved it................ whats the weather like end of april start of may over there ?? ....coming from england by the way

[aar0ncee]

Weather should be awesome... the roads will finally be all cleaned up. The snow usually starts melting at about the end of February and in early March... it stays cold through March and the roads are dry... but there is a lot of gravel here and there within the city. Toward the middle of March they bring out the street sweepers when they know there is no more threat of snow. By the end of March and beginning of April it is beautiful and warm again with the roads in awesome shape. They will be having a bike blessing and some stunt shows around that time in Anchorage so you shouldnt miss out on it! If you are here long enuff you could go up to Tanacross with us for the summer road races that I compete in.

hit me up when u get here and ill show you around.

aaron.grinnell@gmail.com

[eyepecka]

superb aaron !

thanks loads for the detailed info mate ! excatly what i needed to see

will hopefully be intouch nearer the time

cheers, simon

[aar0ncee]

keep in touch

[eyepecka]

just had a look on the net about the tanacross racing you mentioned aaron, looks like i`ll be long gone by then, unless i meet a gorgeous alaskan lass who doesnt let me leave (doubt it though).shame coz i wouldve loved to have watched the races up there !! ........have you got any old photos of previous races there mate ??

phil (my buddy) wants us to do around 500 miles a day on his bikes to get them ready, looks like we`ll have to shoot off to places like homer and back to girdwood in day sessions, but i imagine after a week of that i`ll be knackered and want a day off, which would be superb to spend in anchorage watching some stunt shows !!

cant wait mate !

[aar0ncee]

you should take the bikes up north... head to king mountain, which is past palmer... some awesome riding up there. either that or through hatchers pass. when exactly are you here? they have many tok races, and they usually get started pretty early so im not sure how you would miss the early ones.

[eyepecka]

at the moment it looks like we are there at the end of april, start of may.............. nothings definate yet apart from my mate and i are definatly up for it...we are just waiting on the alaskan to tell us when the best time is.................... hope there is some racing at that time !.............. i remember hatchers pass from the last time and palmer rings a few bells.................. it would be nice to ride some roads i didnt ride, but what the fak, i was blown away by everywhere last time !.............. i remember a superb strip club in anchorage aswell, that im sure i`ll stray into again !!

[aar0ncee]

...your probably referring to the great alaska BUSH company

[Aresixxer]

or fantacies ;)

[vra02]

Originally Posted by aar0ncee

...your probably referring to the great alaska BUSH company

or another strip bar next to a restaurant. not sure of the name but that restaurant had some good food.