I road up from Utah for the handoff from Wyoming on March 24th 2004. here is a little write up I found in my files.
Thor’s Hammer Relay through UtahMarch 25, 2004
Riders Gary “Borto” Bortolussi, Sam Sanders, “Big John” Bristol, Walter Bresnahan and Dennis Holm met at the Fred Myers parking lot in Salt Lake City, Utah at 02:30pm to ready for the short ride up the canyon to Evanston Wyoming.
Gary rides a classic Valkyrie Serial Number 9, Yes; that is what you see, the 9th Valkyrie off the assembly line. More information about this motorcycle hang in there. Some stuff will be coming soon.
Sam rides a 1999 black interstate. “If only I would put that trigger wheel in, I might get a wheelie out of this baby”
John rides a 2000 Silver and Blue Interstate. “I seem to be able to pull a wheelie, Oh, I did put a trigger wheel in”.
Walter rides a Red 1996 BMW R1100 RSL
Dennis Rides a Blue 2000 BMW R1100 R
(at least they could keep up and we had to have somebody take pictures for us)
With a beautiful 58 degree, partly cloudy day we headed up the Interstate 80 through some high-speed canyon roads and got to Wyoming in record time to meet with “Sixguns” Larry Floud for the handoff.
We meet at the Maverik gas and fart promptly at 4pm and proceeded with all the ceremonial hoopla then we settled down to a lovely 12 course meal at the famous Le Maverik Café.
Around an hour later we all finished up with Larry heading back to Little America for a luxurious stay in the presidential suite and us for a ride back down to Salt Lake.
We did get a chance to stop for a view of the mountain snow at sunset in Park City. Nothing like riding through the curves at 90+
We are going to pass the hammer around until our ride to Nevada for the hand off April 3 at Mesquite. Weather should be very unstable for us, but we got BIG bikes and the HAMMER!!!
