Check out our blog at http://thefivefivefive.blogspot.com for live updates from the road.

The 2008 555 was an incredible success! Thanks to all who supported us along the way. Please check out our 2008 trip log with details from the 2008 trip.

A group of like-minded Portland folks completed the 555 in reverse from Portland to Knoxville in 2009. They arrived in Knoxville on July 4th. Here's a link to their website.Check it out! Portland 555!

Plans for the next 555 in the fall of 2010 are already in the works. Our current plan has us leaving sometime in October and riding very interesting machines. Stay tuned.

Double Ringer...henceforth known as Erock or "World's Tallest 6th Grader" handing over payment for a Honda XL250...a former contender for the 2010 555.

The 555 rules are simple:

1. 1975 or older motorcycle
2. can only spend $500 TOTAL on purchase and restoration of bike
3. 500cc or less engine size

A quote from Sneaky Pistol's friend from PA...

“It’s always nice to know that you are entrusting your life to a royal piece of shit, right? There is something that they have up here that we don’t have in TN, and that’s an annual safety inspection sticker to go along with the emissions sticker (welcome to the over-regulated, over-litigated NorthEast). The safety sticker is a way of them making sure that a bunch of idiots don’t buy a bunch of unreliable motorcycles and ride them all over the country…”