Savannah Rally XIV on Tybee Island Dec 5-6-7

[Ga-Bandit]

Forecast is looking good....http://www.myforecast.com/bin/expanded_forecast.m?city=14079&metric=false




I just ordered some heat gear and it might be here by then. The gloves should be here Wednesday so I'm good with just that if I have too. Valuecycle in Conyers has a cost + 10% for BSB members until tomorrow - SAT 11-29-08.

http://www.mightyeighth.org/word/index.php

http://www.tybeeisland.com/

http://www.tybeevisit.com/

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December 6th, 2008
Grab a map and a hot tottie…and hit the streets to visit some of Tybee’s best shopping hot spots! Walk, run, ride your bike or hop in one of the Island’s cool electric buggies – there’s fun and fabulous holiday frivolities for all! Gift ideas for everyone on your list! Find the “clue” at each establishment and at the end of the rainbow (or when you’ve visited all of the shops) enjoy complimentary hotdogs and marshmallows by the campfire!! Heck, you can sing holiday carols if you like…sorry, no karaoke!


The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
175 Bourne Ave.,Pooler, GA 31322
912.748.8888; Fax: 912.748.0209

The Museum is conveniently located on I-95 at exit 102, Pooler, GA–just 2 miles south of the Savannah International Airport exit, and minutes from the heart of downtown Savannah, GA.




Too bad this is the same day as the ride....

FREE Book reading and signing with Annette Laing
December 6, 2008; 10 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.; Ages 8 and up
 
Christmas on the BRITISH Home Front
How did British kids enjoy Christmas during World War Two without toys and with strict wartime food rations? How did American soldiers liven up Christmas for English kids separated from their families? And what exactly do the Brits mean by “pantomime” and “Christmas cracker”? Historian Dr. Annette Laing, author of the exciting and educational novel Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When, about three Georgia kids who time-travel to World War II England,gives a fun interactive presentation that will have kids leaving singing.

[Stixx]

Hey man you got mail

[Ga-Bandit]

Hey man you got mail

Answered.

Anyone else beside me committed to going down there on two?

I need the break from work BAD!!!! Anyone want tyo join me & family on Friday night dinner (dutch)? I'd like to show my mom and aunt what a responsible group I ride with....or WE can just act the part...LOL!

I think Stixx is talking himself into it more each day...LOL

[Stixx]

I'm definitely riding down on two ..........got the new front tire today and rode all day in the rain just to remember how to do it . LOL So far at the end of the day , and I mean all day except the hour he was putting the tire on, was on the road and in the wet.

I forgot how much fun rain riding was. I can not tell you how many times some female person with a cell phone in her driver side ear took my lane away and tried to kill me. How much fun can one guy have on a rainy day. Finally after dark I was headed for a martooni and a steak and sure enough an SUV full of Asia's finest ladies with, you guessed it , the driver talking on the phone. Just came right over like I wasn't there. Now when she was in back of me there is NO WAY she could miss this Beemer and when I get down there you all will see what I mean.

So I couldn't take it anymore got off the dang thing at the next light and went up to her door and explained the facts of life to her in plain terms. I assured her that my lane is not for sale either and she should go home and stop driving if she needs to talk that bad. LOL I could have said worse but she had a fish on the back and we Christians gotta stick together even when one of us clearing needs driving lessons. LOL

Anyway it was a hoot driving all day in Atlanta's madness and practicing the skills I will need if we get washed on coming back on Sunday. Either way I'm looking forward to making faces with the other entire Sport Touring crowd and with some serious shrimp who will give their all for me and my voracious appetite.

Later

[Stixx]

PS, I'm bringing down some serious cameras and planning on shooting as much cool Sport Touring machines and their goofy owners as possible. Hey I repasent that remark..............yuk yuk

[cognosticator]

Just a head up for Saturday:

Savannah is having their annual BRIDGE RUN Saturday morning that goes across the Talmadge Bridge then come back across it.

STAY VERY FAR AWAY FROM THAT BRIDGE AND DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH SATURDAY MORNING,unless you like getting stuck in traffic.

If you need direction to get around this Saturday morning mess just let me know.

[ertman110]

Just a head up for Saturday:

Savannah is having their annual BRIDGE RUN Saturday morning that goes across the Talmadge Bridge then come back across it.

STAY VERY FAR AWAY FROM THAT BRIDGE AND DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH SATURDAY MORNING,unless you like getting stuck in traffic.

If you need direction to get around this Saturday morning mess just let me know.

I wonder if the organizers for the Saturday morning ride have any idea

[Ga-Bandit]

Just a head up for Saturday:Savannah is having their annual BRIDGE RUN Saturday morning that goes across the Talmadge Bridge then come back across it. STAY VERY FAR AWAY FROM THAT BRIDGE AND DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH SATURDAY MORNING,unless you like getting stuck in traffic. If you need direction to get around this Saturday morning mess just let me know.

Hey cognosticator, aren't you riding Sat? If so, then you can show the way....????

Starts at 8am?


http://www.savannahvisit.com/bridge-run.asp
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Race EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday, December 5; 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Packet Pick-Up and EXPO at Savannah Civic Center located at the corner of Liberty and Montgomery Streets

Saturday, December 6 - 6:30 a.m. – 7:45 a.m.
5K Packet Pick-Up at Savannah International Trade & Convention Center on Hutchison Island
6:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
10K Packet Pick-Up at Savannah Civic Center

Race Start Times
8:00 a.m. - ¼ Kids Run
8:15 a.m. – 5K Starts
9:00 a.m. – 10K Starts

[ertman110]

Doesn't look like I will be able to ride up to Macon on Friday morning to ride down with the folks from ATL! I have to take a final sometime this week and the only time I can schedule it is Friday morning. But I will meet up with everybody on Friday night!

[Ga-Bandit]

Doesn't look like I will be able to ride up to Macon on Friday morning to ride down with the folks from ATL! I have to take a final sometime this week and the only time I can schedule it is Friday morning. But I will meet up with everybody on Friday night!

Lucky you, my final is monday.


I was told the bridge event won't stop us from getting to Tybee since we'd go down 80.

[Stixx]

Glad you guys got this all figured out. LOL  

[Ga-Bandit]

Huh? What? Where? When? I'm so lost I gotta check checking the board to make sure I'm still going...LOL

LOOKING GOOD!!!

FRI
 More sun than clouds. Cool. 57°F 45°F 9 mph / N 58% 43°F Low 13%    
Sat
 Scattered clouds. Cool. 58°F 33°F 7 mph / W 58% 43°F Low 16%    
Sun
 Afternoon clouds. Cool. 62°F 38°F 7 mph / S 74% 48°F Minimal 21%
http://www.myforecast.com/bin/expanded_forecast.m?city=14079&metric=false

[Stixx]

You sure it ain't mild partly cloudy , followed by a HIMACANE ???  LOL . MY 72 hour reserve cutoff for Friday is Tuesday at Six PM so if snow is not on the ground here in Atlanta Thursday night I"m going to be at that QT on the QT at nine thirty and we're outa here. My buddy in Florida is getting antsy about the cold . Heck he's riding a Trumpet ST . I rode one last summer. Had a built in Heater. All you need with  them radiator bikes in winter is a pair of gloves and some leather britches. LOL

I'm having way too much fun being anal about my carry ons and fooling with all the gear for what will be the longest trip for me so far. That ain't saying much as this ain't no long trip but atlanta to asheville has been about the longest for me so far. I got a sis down in Brunswick, might have to make a pass by there Sunday for I head home. But we should ride back together as well if it works out for bofus.  Now that's unless I get lucky and some Savannah old money lovely ladie ropes me in and wants me to hang out for a few weeks with her. LOL

I know pipe down , pipe dreamer.  

[Stixx]

Well I don' know 'bout de res of you cats, but I is X - Sighted about the Tybee run. Not that I have NOT had my challenges. First there are the ever changing weather reports then I needed a tire then today ASIF I needed any more encouragement, Some Alien ran in the back of my semi brandy new RT and had no driver’s license. That is in itself a good bar room or martini night story. Lovely child and one decent enough prevaricator and almost convinced me to not call the fuzz.

Well no accident reports no replacement parts and Beemer parts being what they art, the providential took charge and the local constabulary came by with the inevitable question. "Is there a problem here". LOL

So Imp over at ATL BMW and learning that bent muffler is only about a 1300 dollar project and the skinned up cases are not a problem since I just got done mixing the paint to paint the top box to match the now somewhat less than pristine factory jobbies.

OK I’m' going to spare you guys the drawn out story only because I'm two martini's into a recovery program from having bent my new baby and from being ever so thankful that in spite of being slammed a half dozen feet at zero to sixty in ten feet  with no scratches or broken bones, , what can I say.

Try THANKFULL< BLESSED, as it grateful NOT dead. So anyway, I don't mean to make more of this than it is except to say the Beige Beast is still able to drive the twenty miles for the check up. and the second time I was cross town at that dealer in one day as I’d already done a preflight for the weekend activities and had a couple of minor concerns I'll save for the Beemer forum

Whew. Now that is why I had a martini on a week night and why I'll stop for now and see if you guys are as pumped for the wet dry always interesting rally at Tybee. All I can say is them shrimp better be as advertised. LOL


Looking forward to faces

[cognosticator]

All I can say is them shrimp better be as advertised. LOL


Looking forward to faces

Man what an ordeal, glad to see you are ok...Oh, btw these are the best canned shrimp you can find    Never frozen, vacuumed sealed for freshness  

[ertman110]

Hopefully I will hear sometime tonight about my leave request. Nothing like waiting til the last minute, huh?

[Stixx]

Don't feel bad I'm not going to know for sure now until Friday morning. Got a deadline I'm working on and it's got to be done by Thursday night if I'm going to leave fri morn. I had to cancel my room so I'm planning on calling her back Thursday if it looks like I'll be finished in time. That is if my Bike will start LOL .............

[Ga-Bandit]

I had to get a tire today. Saw white little stips and went oh, oh, all my money just went towards heated gear. Oh well. I'm not riding alone so if no one can make it I geuss I will ahve to reevaluate it. I know if I go alone I'll end up with a ticket, so that's a big no no.

[ertman110]

Supervisor just let me know that I have Friday and Saturday off!! Now if I can get done with my final on Friday morning...

At least I will be there for the libations on Friday night. Looks like HH6 won't be on the pillion this weekend, she's got a function she has to attend on Saturday.

[JamesG]

Ironically, I will be making the traverse of Georgia to Savannah that(this) weekend, but for Nat. Guard drill.  Remote chance I might make an appearance Sat. night...