With my schedule (14 days on, 14 days off) I can make a little road trip and ride it during the week. Since I'd like to enjoy the least amount of traffic and will probably taking one of my Harley buddies with me, I'm looking at going during the week. Is this a bad idea (i.e. more "regular" traffic)?
Hard to say, used to be all you would see on mondays is bike shop guys cause they were all closed on monday now thats not the case, years ago you go up on a mon,tues, wed, you may or may not see another vehicle the whole trip, now is a crap shoot go during the week you may or may not be alone, just be carefull, don't bust blind curves, and most important stay on your side of the road, this may not always help cause the dudes coming the other way dont, I'm sorry if I did not help much, but there really is no cut and dryed as to when the traffic is the least, also if you have never run it before, absolutly DO NOT anticipate how the road will curve, or how tight it is, what you will see is on a lot of roads you will see a sign saying curve speed 20 mph, on that road IF you see a sign saying 20 you better go 10 or 15 maybe, just dont ride over your head, and if you shoul find your butt really puckering up and you cant make a curve, just pitch it over and trust your tires, even if you fall its better to lowside that lock up the rear tire and get the trees, and tell your Harley buddy just what I said to you, and another thing he really needs to keep in mind, depending on what Harley he has, they have very little ground clearance, and if they get on the footpegs hard enough they WILL crash, I personaly found that a Harley geezer wont corner like a sportbike even if the sportbike has flat tires