This a copy and paste from a post I made on another Alaska thread......
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My ride to AK was the first week of June and we didn't know how far we could go each day, so we didn't make any room reservations. As it turned out we stayed in motels in Revelstroke, Jasper, Ft. Nelson, Whitehorse, Fairbanks, Deadhorse and Dawson City. It was early June and we never had a problem finding a room. Rooms averaged about $125/night.
The roads will be better than what you hear about them.
Buy a GOOD rainsuit, you will need it. Waterproof boots and gloves too.
95% of my expenses were for food, gas and lodging. 22 days, 10,500 miles = $3300.
Don't settle for seeing the Artic Circle sign, go to Deadhorse.
Try to time your ride so as to be in Dawson City for the D2D ride. This is BIG. (see the Alaska section at ADVRider.com)
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=918710
Don't over pack with clothes. It's a lot easier to grab a six pack every 4-5 days and guard the washer/dryer while doing a load.
We shipped some TKC80's to Fairbanks and changed tires before heading North. The Dalton can be rode on regular dual sport tire,
but it was wet and I was very happy to have the knobbies on. We left the street tires at the motel in Fairbanks and carried them South and
changed tire back when the TKC's wore out.
The Dalton has it's bad places that need to be shown a lot of respect, but if the road is dry you can run 60mph on a lot of it. We left Fairbanks at 4 am and made it to Coldfoot in about 6 hours. The road North of CF was wet for the next 100 miles and then it was smooth sailing into DH. The trip up took 12 hours and the trip back South was 11 hours.
The main thing to watch on the Dalton is the color of the road. The hard packed part is a lighter color than the freshly graded part. They will take a section of road for a few miles and rip it up with those large graders with the big spikes in the rear. This produces a gravel surface with large chunks of rock that is almost impossible to ride on. Next they smooth out the large gravel part and they have long dump trucks that dump a long berm with a mixture of sand, chat gravel and calcium cloride down the side of the road. Next the grader will grade the berm out across the road and you have a surface that is a couple of inches deep in sand. Picture riding down a thick sandy beach. Hard to steer straight.
There is the wet Dalton and there is the dry Dalton, they are two totaly different roads. Be careful and don't ride over your head and Deadhorse and the Attic Ocean are worth the trip.
We had heard a lot of horror stories about the trucks on the Dalton, but our experience was all positive. I'm going to guess that we met a total of 70 trucks on the way up and back and all but two slowed down and gave us plenty of room. The two trucks that didn't slow down for us were both coming up steep inclines and it is understandable why they didn't let off the gas. We moved to the side of the road and gave them all the room we could.
As far as the Alcan goes, it's a nice big wide open highway. You will hit construction sites, but they aren't nothing you can't handle. If you can ride 500 miles a day across Kansas, you can do 500 a day on the Alcan.
#1 thing to me is good rain gear. If you stay dry and warm, you will have the trip of a lifetime.