Another Saturday, another ride.
Meet: Shell, 26804 Main St, Ardmore, AL 35739
Time: 8:00
KSU : 8:30
We'll meet at the Shell Station in Ardmore. Be ready to depart, gassed up, by 8:30. We will Zig Zag our way to The Old Delina Country Stor on a bunch of twisty and sometimes narrow and bumpy back roads. We will stay on the pavement.
As always, ride your own pace. We'll wait at turns. Hopefully I'll do a better job at this than the last ride ::)
Lunch will be at the Old Delina Country Stor. It will be an early lunch to try to beat the rush and also beat the heat. We'll ride some more after lunch but be be finished back in Ardmore by around 1:30 or 2.
Early lunch will work. Continuing up to the house just south of the Kentucky line.
Do you have a map of the route planed to be taken?
What's your ETA at the Old Delina Country Store?
I'm trying to decide what bike to ride Saturday: the Star Venture Transcontinental with Aly riding pillion or ride solo on the Kawasaki W800 Cafe we recently bought at Allsport.
The SVTC is fine on bumpy, twisty back roads, but I avoid gravel roads like the plague when riding that almost 1000 pound Yamaha.
Quote from: Timbo64 on June 18, 2020, 11:40:20 PM
Do you have a map of the route planed to be taken?
What's your ETA at the Old Delina Country Store?
I'm trying to decide what bike to ride Saturday: the Star Venture Transcontinental with Aly riding pillion or ride solo on the Kawasaki W800 Cafe we recently bought at Allsport.
The SVTC is fine on bumpy, twisty back roads, but I avoid gravel roads like the plague when riding that almost 1000 pound Yamaha.
I do not have a map. If I did it would look like a baby playing with a crayon. I expect to get to Delina between 10:15 and 10:30.
I'm going to miss this one. Too many home projects. One being that I messed up the fuel gauge sending unit on the CB. Have to pull it out and reinstall it the correct way. Y'all be safe!
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Hate that I have to miss this one. I really enjoy riding in that area.
Aly and I are gonna have to miss the ride today. Have a safe one!
Enjoyed the chat and riding folks! See ya at the next ride.
Here's my one picture.
After I posted this ride I didn't get a lot of response. I expected 3 or 4 people to show up.
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Well we ended up with 1i riders on 10 bikes.
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We zigged and zagged on our way to Delina.
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Last year half of the road was washed out here.
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Some over the shoulder shots.
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Taking a break.
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Nice Goat was taking pics on the go as well.
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We got to the Old Delina Country Stor around 10:15
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The staff was hanging around on the front porch because they had no customers. We timed it well. They gave us the room in the back. Not long after we got there a bunch more people including a biker group showed up and filled the place up.
I didn't get any pics inside. Hopefully someone else did. The food and service was great as usual.
Afterwards most of the group headed off but a few followed me for more riding.
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Towards the end of the ride Stephen took the lead to show me some new (to me) roads.
Natalee on her DR200 in front of me.
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We went through a couple of tunnels.
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Thanks everyone who came out for this ride. I enjoyed riding and talking to you. Hopefully we can do this again before too long.
Quote from: klaviator on June 20, 2020, 06:27:02 PM
Nice Goat was taking pics on the go as well.
I did take a few photos, but in that moment, I was actually shooting video! Enjoy!
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Wait! You're "nice goat?" :D
I can be so disconnected. :(
Quote from: Nice Goat on June 20, 2020, 07:13:38 PM
I did take a few photos, but in that moment, I was actually shooting video! Enjoy!
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I enjoyed the ride! Great roads and excellent food.
I'm out of practice with my camera, so I'll have to work on that. My photos are below:
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Some more:
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Last couple
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Klaviator, in reference to the picture after your exterior Delina Stor picture.
I don't remember seing this nor where it is located, but I am hereby dubbing this "The Richard Nixon Tree".
Quote from: thinwater on June 20, 2020, 08:58:25 PM
Klaviator, in reference to the picture after your exterior Delina Stor picture.
I don't remember seing this nor where it is located, but I am hereby dubbing this "The Richard Nixon Tree".
:D :D
I don't remember exactly where it was either but I remember snapping the pic because I thought it was an interesting tree.
Great pics Glenn!! It's nice having someone else on the ride that takes pics.
I hate I could not make this one looks like y'all had a good time.
What did everyone think of the early meetup time and early lunch? I know that several people needed to be home or had places to go. It definitely got hotter after lunch. Is this something you would like to see in the future, at least while it's hot?
I liked it!
You guys had fun. Next time.
Don't want a pickle...
Check out this site. If you have a little interest, watch the video.
https://motorcyclestudies.org/volume-14-2018/a-cultural-history-of-the-motorcycle-song-by-arlo-guthrie-misao-dean/