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THE 2003 IRON BUTT RALLY
"11 Thousand Miles in 11 Days - The World's Toughest Motorcycle Rally"

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Voni and Paul both completed the 2003 IRON BUTT RALLY sponsored by the Iron Butt Association.  Paul rode "Old Smokey", his 1986 BMW K75T, which he rode over 369,000 miles, and Voni rode "Big Red", her original 1994 BMW R1100RS. which turned the odometer past 300,000 miles during the Iron Butt Rally.  Paul previously finished the rally in 1999.

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Voni with her R1100RS on the way to Missoula.	Paul puts the finishing touches on the K75 at Missoula.

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A Few Rally Highlights

We got our rally flags at the opening banquet on Sunday night.  We were not in the "hopeless" class.  We were placed in the "married couples riding together and maybe about to get divorced" class.	Voni at the hotel in Missoula - ready and eager to start.	The Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada was Voni's favorite bonus.  A few riders got stuck in the mud at the edge of the playa.  With luck, we didn't.

Paul's odometer turned over one-third million miles in Arizona on Leg 2 of the rally.	So we stopped and took a picture.

The view from the top of Mt. Evans in Colorado.  The highest paved road in the United States.	The Wheels of Time museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina was where we went right after riding through Deals Gap at sunrise - 318 curves in 11 miles of a silver ribbon of asphalt.

Paul changed oil at the Maine checkpoint.  Harry Pendexter brought the oil and drain pan for us and then made it all magically disappear..	Big Red parked at the checkpoint in Maine.	Paul pitched in to help replace a broken throttle cable on fellow rally rider Joe DeRyke's BMW RT.

The temporary memorial at the site of the crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania on September 11 was a moving and somber bonus location.	Voni rides in to the finish!

The sky really is bigger, after you've finished the Iron Butt Rally!

"Old Smokey"

Photo by Phil Kopp at the Kennewick, Washington checkpoint in 1999.

1986 K75T

1986 BMW K75T purchased new February, 1986
750 cc fuel injected 3 cylinder motorcycle, retired (by an accident) with 369,647 miles on the odometer.

• 8.5 gallon fuel tank by the late Ray Randolph.
  
• Bosch 100w H-3 BMW driving light accessory kit
• Motolight fork-mounted driving lights, courtesy of Motolights.
• 130/90 H4 headlight
• 700 Watt Alternator Conversion - Replaced 450 Watt Original
• Solo Saddle courtesy of Bill Mayer Sr., Mayer's Saddles
• BMW K100 32:11 (2.91) Final Drive and Disk Brake conversion
• Dual BMW /5 Taillight conversion
• Cargo capacity: Tour Pack courtesy of the late Richard Wildauer, Liberty, MO
• 4-Way Flashers, Heated Grips, Switched Accessory Outlet
• Dunlop K491 Tires courtesy of Cyclops Motorsports, Merriam, Kansas and the Two Rivers, Wisconsin BMW Riders, Club #111 in 1999.
• Metzeler ME880 Tires in 2003.

"Big Red"	Fuel Cell and Water Cooler on Rear Seat Pan	Parked in Missoula

•  Three Gallon Gravity Feed Jaz Fuel Cell.
•  One Gallon Drinking Water Supply with Electric Pump.
•  Motolight fork-mounted driving lights, courtesy of Motolights.
•  4-Way Flashers, Heated Grips.
•  BMW Navigator GPS by Garmin.