Day 2a Fri Jun 1 - Our Bike ... "DEMO"

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Breakfast was very good, tasty and excellent selections.
The van was soon loaded, and we waited for our transport to take us to the H-D shop, which was a, er, well I don't know what you'd call it - a party bus maybe ? - it was like a small coach on the outside but a limo on the inside with lasers dancing about all over the place. It was comfortable enough though.
We had a couple of couples who had opted to use trikes rather than bikes, and these guys already had taken delivery of their trikes at the hotel, so while we went off by the, er, party bus, Gary the the tour guide, the trikers, and the support vehicle followed along behind.

The journey to Chicago H-|D tok about 30 minutes and when we arrived there the staff quickly and efficiently sorted out the final details for our bike rentals. The paperwork that we completed at the hotel yesterday certainly sped up the process considerably.

above: The rental bikes lined up outside the bike shop

I was first in line to get the bike paperwork sorted, and after going through the, lets call an induction, into what does what on the bike, I has the keys and I was good to go - I just had to wait for everybody else, so had plenty of time to have a good look around the motorcycle shop.
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So, our bike for the next two weeks, is , as requested, a Harley-Davidson Hertiage Softail Classic, in "White Hot Pearl", with,er, 1 mile on the clock from new, and the registration no on what they call 'the license plate' is  DEMO. I'm not sure how that works, but that's definitely what it is.
You can just see the support vehicle in the background

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