My two friends and I are headed out next thursday for a road trip on our bikes with our respective girlfriends. We're leaving from Burlington, Vermont and headed to Bar Harbor Maine. Mapquest says its in the 7-8 hour range. We're camping there for two nights so the tank bags will be stuffed and all 6 of us will have packs.

I'm on my 00 6r, my one buddy on his 01 R6 and third on a 99 VFR. The one with the VFR is obviously ergonomitally better suited for the trip but we're generally in a similar boat.

My buddy is in the guard and is turning 21 on july 5th and headed off to training for a month a day or two later so we wanted to send him off in prime fasion. The trip is gunna be brutal but fun too.


My bike has over 30k on it and I just wanted to know if anyone has advice to make sure she's mechanically tip top before the trip. It would REALLY suck to have any of us break down. 4th of july weekend would probably leave us without access to parts or service and we're taking the kankamangus highway through NH so we'd be without anyway for that remote section of the trip.

I'm going to change the oil and take a can of chain lube with me, tighten the chain and replace the headlight bulb that is out ,but is there anything else one can really do to prepare for a trip like that besides knocking on wood???