TERMS AND CONDITIONS for 16 day Wing Ding Tour:

Safety and enjoyment are top priorities at Vineyardriders and Twin Wheel Adventures.
Our tours are designed so that everyone can ride at their own speed for safety and comfort.

Riders must be at least 21 years old and have solid riding ability.

We ask that all riders and drivers abstain from alcohol consumption when riding a motorcycle or driving a car. Vineyardriders.com will arrange restaurants within walking distance to hotels and provide transportation for excursions that include alcohol.

Riders will be required to carry a valid or similar international driver’s license with a valid motorcycle license endorsement.

“DOT” approved helmets are required at all times when riding in California. If you do not bring a helmet, one will be provided with the motorcycle rental.

BOOKING REQUIREMENTS:

Vineyardriders.com will provide the motorcycle rental arrangement, hotels reservations, transfers from airport to and from hotel, transfers to and from hotel to motorcycle rental stores(s), maps, guides, and chase vehicle from California to Tulsa.

All tours:

Payments for the tour can be made by phone using most major credit cards,through PayPal, or by sending check, money order, or wire transfer to vineyardriders.com.

You must provide funds (credit card or cash) for all lodging, fuel, lunches, tips, film, souvenirs, optional insurance, optional excursions, alcohol, incidentals, and any extensions to the planned tour.

All tours require a $250 deposit, with full payment due at least 30 days prior to the tour start date, unless other arrangements are made at the time of booking. This is necessary to secure the rental motorcycle of your choice and to confirm hotels in high demand areas during high use seasons.

If the trip is cancelled for any reason by vineryardriders.com and/or Twin Wheel Adventures or you decide to cancel prior to 60 days before the tour departure date, 100% of your payment(s) will be refunded or you may choose to apply the funds to another vineyardriders.com or Twin Wheel Adventures tour.

If you cancel less than 60 days but more than 30 days before the tour departure date, there will be a $250 cancellation fee, unless we can re-sell your spot on the tour. If you cancel in less than 30 days before the tour departure date, there will be no refund. Therefore, we recommend trip cancelation insurance (available on our website - link) should some emergency force you to cancel within 30 days of the tour departure date.

Vineyardriders.com does their best to pre-view and choose the best vendors and suppliers possible for your tour. Vineyardriders.com is not responsible for losses due to services provided by suppliers, including hotels, restaurants, motorcycle rentals stores, shuttle services, and excursion providers.

Changes to Tour Routes:

Vineyardriders.com and Twin Wheel Adventures reserve the right to make minor changes to tour itinerary, hotels, or restaurants due to conditions outside of our control or in order to provide a better tour.

Luggage:

Vineyardriders.com will provide a chase vehicle with trailer to haul your luggage, if desired for the first 7 days from California to Tulsa.
The chase vehicle trailer will not be used for the return trip.
Vineyardriders.com agrees to provide a weather tight, locked trailer and/or vehicle for your luggage and all necessary care in handling. Vineyardriders.com is not liable for damaged or lost luggage.

Lodging:

The owners of Vineyardriders.com are also travel agents who are able to book above average hotels at competitive prices, providing a quality experience for you.
Although the lodging for the final night of the tour is not included, vineyardriders.com is able to book the same hotel by the airport at a substantial discount. This includes free shuttle back to the airport. Please let us know if you need to book additional lodging to extend your vacation in anyway.

Gear:

We will be riding over a wide range of countryside with elevation changes from sea level to as much as 10,000 feet. We have timed this tour to coinside with the Wing Ding event. This means we can experience fog along the coast, rain and even snow in the high mountains, and over 100 degrees F along parts of Route 66. We recommend you bring or rent helmet (supplied with rental), goggles or sunglasses, motorcycle gloves, boots, jacket, pants or chaps, hot weather gear and raingear. It is best to ride with gear you know and are comfortable with. Please let us know at the time of booking if you need to rent any gear.

Tour Safety:

DOT Approved helmets are required by law in some states.
Alcohol or drug consumption during the course of the tour is not permitted under any circumstances. Once you park your bike at night, please leave it parked until morning if you choose to drink.
Vineyardriders.com has planned all tours on paved roads. However we are not responsible for road construction or non-paved road shoulders or parking lots.

Motorcycle Rental term and conditions:

Motorcycle rentals must be paid in full in advance, non-refundable. This will be taken care of by vineyardriders.com as part of your trip payment.

Fuel – the motorcycle must be returned with the same or higher fuel level as when rented, unless you pay a $25 fee to have the rental company re-fuel the motorcycle.

You may have 1 additional rider included in the rental at no additional cost.

The rider must check oil level and air tire pressure daily, follow maintenance instructions provided at pick up, as well as report any maintenance issues. Customers may be held responsible for mechanical damage caused by negligence or failure to perform required maintenance.

The motorcycle rental store may substitute an equal or better motorcycle depending on model availability. This will be minimized with advance reservations.

A security deposit of $1000 to $3000 (credit card authorization only) will be required at the time of pick up.

Rented motorcycles may not be driven off road, in Mexico, or through Death Valley (none of which is apart of a vineyardriders.com tour).

Insurance and deductable options may be purchased at the time of pick up.

Vineyardriders.com will provide all reasonable service in support of your rental motorcycle. Vineyardriders.com is not liable for any harm, claim, or loss of service related to the rental motorcycle.

Bringing your own motorcycle:

Although vineyardriders.com and Twin Wheel Adventures tours are designed to accommodate travelers from far away, local riders are welcome and may choose to join the tours with their own motorcycle. In some cases, customers may choose to ride from great distances or have their motorcycles shipped Cheap Motorcycle Shipping to California for the Wing Ding tour.
v If you bring your own motorcycle, please be sure it has been recently serviced, has good tires, and is ready for a 4200 mile ride through all types of roads.

Vineyardriders.com and Twin Wheel Adventures are not responsible for repairs or transportation of the motorcycle should it break down. We will do our best to get you to a repair shop, up to and including possibly hauling the motorcycle in the vineyardrider.com trailer if possible.

Optional Insurances:

Minimum insurance required = liability and medical.
Motorcycle - Vineyardriders.com works wit rental companies that include insurance for the motorcycle and liability insurance for you as a rider. You can purchase additional insurance from the motorcycle rental company to reduce replacement costs levels, at the time of rental.

If you bring your own motorcycle you are responsible for providing the appropriate motorcycle and liability insurance.

Vineyardriders.com does not provide medical insurance as part of the tour costs. Click here to purchase travel medical insurance if you need itAIG Travel Guard.

We travel many back country, remote mountain, and difficult to access roads. You may wish to purchase Emergency Airlift Evacuation insurance AIG Travel Guard.

Non-U.S. Residents

You must have your passport with you at all times when renting or touring if you are not a permanent resident of the United States or Canada.

Flight Arrangements:

The costs of air flights are not included in the vineyardriders.com tour prices, but you can purchase airfare online through out travel booking engine.

 

VineyardRiders.com Waiver and Release Agreement

Please read and click “Accept” to proceed to reservations. A printed copy will be provided at the orientation meeting at the beginning of the tour for your signature. Please contact us if you have any questions.

INTRODUCTION

Motorcycle Tours guided by VineyardRiders.com and TwinWheelAdventures.com are intended to cover some of the most breath taking scenery the West Coast has to offer. They may encompass long distances on moderate to challenging roads. Add the possibility of inclement weather and potential for various road hazards and you have all the inherent risks that are normally associated with motorcycle riding. You will be exposed to a wide variety of riding conditions that can include narrow twisty mountain roads, gravel, sand, potholes, debris, rain, fog, snow, animals or other hazards in the roadway. The tour may include change in elevation from sea level to 9000 feet and drastic variations in temperature. It is important that you have sufficient riding experience and health to spend 3 to 7 days and approximately 300 miles per day, possibly with a passenger, riding a motorcycle in these conditions. This is not the place for new or inexperienced riders.

WAIVER & RELEASE AGREEMENT

WAIVER & RELEASE AGREEMENT
EACH OPERATOR AND PASSENGER WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN THE FOLLOWING RELEASE FORM AT THE TOUR ORIENTATION MEETING. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DOCUMENT AND AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING.

In consideration for being permitted to participate in the motorcycle tours (hereinafter referred to as "TOURS") operated by the VineYardRiders.com and TwinWheelAdventures.com (hereinafter referred to collectively as "COMPANY"), the motorcycle driver and its passenger (hereinafter collectively referred to as "PARTICIPANTS") for themselves and their respective heirs, assigns, next of kin and legal representatives, hereby:
UNDERSTANDS that operating a motorcycle is an activity that contains considerable risk of serious personal injury, paralysis, dismemberment, property damage or loss, or death. PARTICIPANT hereby knowingly and freely accepts all such risks, whether known or unknown, arising in any way, from participation in a TOUR led by the COMPANY, to the fullest extent allowed by law. ASSUMES ANY AND ALL RISKS, known and unknown, and assumes all responsibility for the losses, costs and/or damages resulting from injury, disability, paralysis or death, involved in or arising from PARTICIPANTS' involvement in the TOUR, including, but not limited to, collision between PARTICIPANTS' motorcycle and another vehicle, a person or stationary object, skidding, overturning, sudden stops, equipment failure, motorcycle failure, braking or acceleration, flying objects, fire, explosion, the unavailability of emergency care or the negligent or deliberate acts of another person, whether or not caused by the negligence or fault of the COMPANY, its members, managers, employees, agents and legal representatives and other participants in the TOUR.

AGREES to ride within PARTICIPANT'S abilities and agrees not to be influenced by any other rider to ride faster than is within PARTICPANTS' abilities or the limits of what is considered safe riding conditions. Nor will PARTICIPANT be influenced by riding displays of other riders or tour guides that could be considered unsafe. PARTICIPANT fully understands that PARTICPANT may encounter roads and riding conditions that PARTICIPANT has not experienced before, and has no prior knowledge of, and will therefore ride in a manner that is considered safe for those riding conditions. Furthermore, PARTICIPANT agrees that PARTICIPANT will not ride the motorcycle, be it owned by PARTICIPANT or a rental, on a COMPANY TOUR, beyond what is commonly considered a safe manner.

AGREES TO RELEASE AND DISCHARGE the COMPANY, its officers, owners, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, successors and assigns from any and all liability to the PARTICIPANT and PARTICIPANT'S spouses, personal representatives, assigns, heirs and next-of-kin, on account of, arising out of or in connection with any and all injuries, death, losses, damages, and any claims or demands for any injuries, death, losses or damage, to the person or property of the PARTICIPANT, whether or not caused by the negligence or fault of the COMPANY, its members, managers, employees, agents and legal representatives and other participants, while the PARTICIPANT is participating in the TOUR.

CERTIFIES that PARTICIPANT does not have any physical or mental condition or disability that would create a hazard for PARTICIPANT or other TOUR participants. PARTICIPANT certifies that PARTICIPANT is over 21 years of age and in possession of a valid motorcycle operator's permit endorsement on PARTICIPANTS valid driver's license.

CERTIFY that PARTICIPANT has read Tour Descriptions, Frequently Asked Questions, Terms and Conditions, and this Waiver and Release Agreement and will abide by the terms as stated herein or published within the COMPANY printed material. PARTICIPANT hereby agrees that this Waiver and Release Agreement shall be binding on PARTICIPANT and enforceable against PARTICIPANT, PARTICIPANT'S personal representatives, spouse, assigns, heirs, and next of kin without limitation.

GRANT COMPANY the irrevocable right, including artistic, proprietary, and commercial, to reproduce, publish, exhibit, and otherwise use the images of PARTICIPANTS, in all forms and media, including composite or artistic representations, for advertising, trade, or any other lawful purpose. PARTICIPANT agrees that COMPANY may, but is not obligated to, specifically identify the PARTICIPANT depicted in any such image. PARTICIPANT waives any right to inspect or approve the finished version(s), including written copy, that may be created or appear in connection therewith.

FURTHER agrees that, if PARTICIPANT books any "excursions" provided by third party providers through COMPANY, this Waiver and Release shall apply to any alleged liability of COMPANY for any injury or loss of any type or nature that PARTICIPANT may suffer relating from participation in such excursions, to the fullest extent allowable by law.

AFFIRMS that PARTICIPANT has not received or relied on any oral or written representation of COMPANY as a basis for executing this Waiver and Release. PARTICIPANT has read and understands the terms of the Waiver and Release and further understands that COMPANY cannot accept any tour participant, be it operator or passenger, without a duly signed Waiver and Release form. PARTICIPANT has signed this Waiver and Release freely and voluntarily without any inducement, assurance, or guarantee being made and intend PARTICIPANT'S signature to be a complete and unconditional release of all liability to the greatest extent allowed by law.

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