The 2013 Las Vegas Vetter Challenge has been cancelled
 

Craig Vetter, designer and inventor of the Windjammer fairing,Triumph Hurricane Motorcycle and fuel economy motorcycles

Craig posted this on his homepage:

I hope Craig feels better soon.

That's a bummer.

Hopefully Craig will heal up quick and be back at it shortly.


Jay

Yes, its disappointing but it's most important that Craig recover well from his surgery. I'll see if I can visit with him this next week.

Please give him my regards.

I'll do that Jeff.

That's too bad.

What is the most flabergasting to me is that it is apparently more a money issue more than health issue.
For that matter, I am very happy to live in France where we can not go bankrupt on top of a sickness ...

:confused:

My hip operation turned out to be far more extensive.

Soory about that

I hope the concept of the high efficiency, streamlined luggage carrying motorcycle will grow to the point where there will be regional events on a more regular basis and that Craig Vetter will appoint other ride chaperones to administrate for him so he doesn't have to travel so much anymore.

The concept is there already.
Has been there for quite a while.
The solution is there too.
It wins the challenge time and again.

It's just not (made) available, not even in its basic naked form ...
Just maybe, you might find one @ a surplus dump.


Why even bother about the time it takes to load them grocery bags ?

While I personally have no horse in this race, I think that those of you who are ready to ride should go ahead with the event in Craig's honor. I know it wouldn't be the same without him, but it should still be fun and maybe new riders would compete. It could be called something along the lines of "The 2013 Craig Vetter Commemorative Las Vegas Ride". Might need a different word for commemorative. Just a thought.
JJ

Since the Las Vegas Vetter Challenge was cancelled due to Craig Vetter’s issues with recovering from his recent hip surgery , Alan and I decided to ride out on our streamliners and visit him at home in Carmel. We also decided to have an unofficial Challenge of our own by comparing our fuel economy for the 240 mile+ round trip. We met at the Cycle Gear parking lot in Pleasanton and headed for Carmel in the brutal commute traffic between Pleasanton and San Jose. We moved through the traffic with some frequent lane sharing and then rode for a while on the 680 HOV lane. The weather was a bit cool at the start but warmed up to the 70s by the time we reached Carmel. Once we broke through the traffic congestion it was a nice ride to the beautiful Monterey coastline.
It was great to see Craig doing so well after his major surgery. He had been in constant pain previously and now the surgery had relieved it for the first time in many years. He has to avoid putting too much load on his newly repaired hip for the first 6 weeks after his surgery so he has to spend most of his time in bed or sitting. However we did get a hall pass to take him to lunch. Terry Hershner of cross-country electric motorcycle record-breaking fame and Craig’s son Zak joined us. We talked about lots of things: the rapid progress with electric motorcycles, some new aerodynamic refinements proposed by our new friend Tom Finch and Terry’s upcoming attempt to recapture his electric motorcycle coast to coast record. We enjoyed a great lunch and then reported back to Craig’s shop to do some work on Terry’s new long tail.
Initially the plan was to just apply some vinyl wrap to the treated paper skin of the tail extension but we ended up removing the skin, adding some frame members and re-skinning the tail. Alan and I had to head back home before the job was completed.
Traffic was bad in spots but we made steady progress back home. I stopped at the gas station to refuel and found that I had used 2.32 gallons to go the 246.9 miles for 106.42 mpg. I still have to see what Alan got. It was a great day all in all.

Update: Alan beat me: he got 115 mpg to my 106 mpg. I knew I shouldn't have let him set the pace!

Here is a nice pic of Craig, Terry , Alan and me Craig Vetter, designer and inventor of the Windjammer fairing,Triumph Hurricane Motorcycle and fuel economy motorcycles

Do you happen to know which headlights those are that Terry is running?

Scott, I'll ask him and let you know.

Terry told me that they are from Baja Designs - The leader in Off Road LED Lights, HID Lights and LED Light Bars

Do not know which model.