Do you want to go somewhere for the end of the year?
Do you want good Food?
Do you like bikes?
Do you want to meet other MA members?
Here is your chance!
If you are in the Bham area and want to ride and hang out at Chef Troys on the 28th I will lead a ride out rain or shine.
9am.
Chevron at Moody crossroads. (County 10 and HWy 411)
We will ride to Chef Troys in Huston AL.
The pace will be +5 ish. We will not take the interstate. We will not be pushing hard because it's supposed to rain.
We will be meeting up with a couple other people from MA to eat.
In!
The rain is out of the forecast for Saturday.
Barring something unexpected coming up, I'll see you at Chevron, ready to roll at 9:00 am.
* Friday update - I plan to be there for the ride and eat. But it will pretty much be a dine-and-dash for me. Gotta head out of town as soon as I get back home.
I'll be there, maybe with another friend.
Any idea on a route yet? I may try and intercept y'all on your way norrh.
ETA to Chef Troy's? We have a group of 3 joining from the Jasper area.
If anyone else wants to join us from Jasper area, post up!
@Chitza the Eta is 12 O'clock High Noon.
@KevinB we are headed to Cleveland (on 231) to meet MotoGuzzi and someone else. Then I plan to possibly do a couple interesting looking roads on the map.
Probably try the adventurous routing on my new GPS and see what we get.
O the meeting spot in Cleveland is the Gas station at the intersection of 231 and 79.
@KevinB FIFY
"Any idea on a route yet? I am going to intercept y'all on your way north."
Sandy and I may be there. Final decision will be made at 9:30 am.
We'll meet everyone at Chef Troy's
So north to Cleveland for Moody.
@KevinB I will take 174 to Springville. Keep going north all the way to 29. The a couple mile over to 231 just south of Oneonta. Then Continue up 231 to the Cleveland meeting point. Should be at the meeting point by 9:45 of things go well.
I have been playing with the new GPS I'm not sure exactly we're we will go from Cleveland other than end at Chef Troys.
One road I plan to try out is Bub Mountain Rd. This one is just a few miles outside of Cleveland. It ends out on 37/Joy rd. Possible go west on Skyball Rd after that to Adams rd which ends into 26. After that I really don't know. I haven't figured out how to make tracks and add them to this new GPS unit.
Quote from: LawnmowerRG on December 27, 2019, 06:51:12 PM
@Chitza the Eta is 12 O'clock High Noon.
@KevinB we are headed to Cleveland (on 231) to meet MotoGuzzi and someone else. Then I plan to possibly do a couple interesting looking roads on the map.
Probably try the adventurous routing on my new GPS and see what we get.
Lawny I'm out. Sent you a PM earlier today. Duty calls, have to work tomorrow. Other rider who was going to ride with me is out as well.
Quote from: Moto Guzzi on December 27, 2019, 11:11:38 PM
Lawny I'm out. Sent you a PM earlier today. Duty calls, have to work tomorrow. Other rider who was going to ride with me is out as well.
Dang! I will miss you!
@Moto Guzzi Sorry to hear that. I never showed a new message from you. Even this morning. The message was there though. Have a good day hope to get to hang out with you soon.
Quote from: Moto Guzzi on December 27, 2019, 11:11:38 PM
Lawny I'm out. Sent you a PM earlier today. Duty calls, have to work tomorrow. Other rider who was going to ride with me is out as well.
well, nuts.
I'll see you guys at the original meeting point in Cleveland.
Quote from: LawnmowerRG on December 27, 2019, 07:54:36 PM
O the meeting spot in Cleveland is the Gas station at the intersection of 231 and 79.
I hope that's the Marathon. I'm here. Looking forward to seeing many good friends.
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I had a great time! I think that we had over 20 bikes there!
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I cut through Bankhead Forest on the way home.
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Thanks to everyone that showed up. It was a great day! I hope everyone made it home safe.
If we want to do this annually let me know and I will figure out a place to go, Or maybe we just do Chef Troys every year.
I didn't get any pictures, but man did I have a great time. What a fantastic turnout! Riders from all over, and we even had a couple who came in the CAR. :D
I'm for making it an annual Motorcycle Alabama event. Rodney is a great ride leader.... mostly :D
I made lots of new friends today and saw people I haven't seen in six years. I'm walking on air.
Great day!
Awesome to meet old and new friends. Big Thanks to Rodney and Win for leading the rides.
I only took a couple pics,
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As for making this an annual event, I vote yes and think Chef Troy's is a good choice, decent roads and good access for most of us here on the boards.
Quote from: LawnmowerRG on December 28, 2019, 05:04:40 PM
If we want to do this annually let me know and I will figure out a place to go, Or maybe we just do Chef Troys every year.
Annually? How about weekly? Bi-weekly? Monthly? We shouldn't have to wait a whole year to do it again!
I had a great time. The ride was good and so was the food. Seeing everyone was fantastic. Yes we should do something like this more often.
As usual, I took a bunch of pics.
We had 9 riders meet in Hartselle. 8 did the ride to Chef Troys.
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On the road out of Hartselle. A over the shoulder shot. David DoubleEX on his V-strom right behind us.
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Chef Troys after the first two groups arrived.
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David making a new friend.
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Lawnmower leading in the Birmingham area group.
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There were a few bikes in the parking lot.
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Some pics inside.
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It was great hanging out in the parking lot after lunch.
Rich heading out.
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Looks like it was great! I had a commitment at 1:30pm that I had to stay closer for or I would've been with yall. I took a shorter radius ride wandering around to be back in time.
I had a great time as well and enjoyed meeting a lot of riders.
Current TW200 owner and possible future Van Van Owner.
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Another picture of the resident dog.
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Good times!
Thanks to Win and Rodney for getting this rolling...definitely need to do this more often.
What a good time getting everyone together. It was great meeting all these people. Plus the dog was sweet♡
Good time. Good company. Good ride. WOT at 50mph on the VanVan. And it got some test rides 😁
Absolutely want to see a repeat performance.
I hate that I missed the ride and I hate that I missed Chef Troy's!!
I am with
@maydaymike and think this should be a monthly ride!!