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Prudhoe Bay fuel Range
Hi,I would Just like an idea of fuel range required for a trip from Montana to Prudhoe bay,also is it gravel after Fairbanks,the fun part of the trip.Thanks Ron.
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Hi,I would Just like an idea of fuel range required for a trip from Montana to Prudhoe bay,also is it gravel after Fairbanks,the fun part of the trip.Thanks Ron.
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If you ride a bike with 150-180 miles/tank, you'll be fine all the way to Fairbanks when staying on main roads, i.e. Alaska Hwy. The Dalton Hwy is 414 miles mostly gravel with gas stops at the Yukon River Bridge (30 miles from southend of Dalton), Coldfoot (midway) and Prudhoe Bay. I was going with a friend on a BMW R1150GS. He needed his spare gas 30 miles outside of Prudhoe Bay going up.
http://11000milesin22days-alaska2008.blogspot.com/
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I was on a DL650 Suzuki and with a fellow rider on a GS1150, both of us took 1 gallon fuel containers and used them, we maybe could have gone without, but we felt more comfortable with them.
If you book rooms at the Fairbanks Uni, you can ask if anyone has left behind some containers, it does happen.
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Fuel range
Thanks a lot for your help,exactly what i was after
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Just a quick note on visiting the the actual sea to dip your toes. The only way to do it is to book into a tour to get the final 320 miles from Deadhorse itself.
No issue there, but when I was there, they want 24 hour notice, so they can do a background check to make sure you won't blow it up, but the only tours available were early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
This made for crap planning as it is very expensive to stay there overnight to get on the tour.
We rode from Coldfoot to PB to CF in one day, it took about 12 hours with a few hours at lunchtime to be a tourist and buy a Tshirt
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