Any Interest in a New England Meet & Greet This Year?

[BHazz]

Is anyone starting in Windsor, Day Hill Road?

Bruce

[Hulked Up]

Yup, will be a number of us there.  Just not posting as much.  

[tomballos]

Is anyone starting in Windsor, Day Hill Road?

Bruce

I plan to meet up there.  I'm coming from Hyde Park, NY.

[STalker]

Is anyone starting in Windsor, Day Hill Road?

Bruce

 Check your PM's

[STalker]

Helloooo... anybody out there?

[knobby]

Yup.....We're here, but won't be attending the ride this time.  Sure hope to meet a bunch of you guys another time. Hope you all have a safe ride, and don't run into to many dumb cagers.

[gforce]

I'm planning on seeing y'all in GB for lunch.  What time?

[BHazz]

I'm up.  Just checked tire pressure and greased the chain.
Ready to go.

Looks like a beautiful day

See You All Soon.

[ChR1s]

Cool to see so many bikes make it out today. That was some cold-ass riding, with the sun hiding most of the time. The Gerbing jacket liner was toasty enough but my fingers grew painfully cold. Not much sand/salt at all though, considering the recent spate of inclimate wx. Rt.20/23 in MA were surprisingly clean.

Paige was nice enough to let me borrow one of her street bikes today, her new 650R. Nifty bike. Revs eagerly w/o any annoying vibration. Kawi put some work into making it produce a bit of a growl, too. Dammit. I need a street bike.

re: MotoTown
I forgot to ask, how'd that meeting spot work out?

[theothersean]

Definately a chilly windy day for sure. I had a good time on my route from ringe NH to G Barrington. A few sandy spots , frost heaves and tar snakes to deal with , but this is april in New England after all. Rt 116 was clear , only a couple wet spots, and the majority of 112 was nice, except for the section from rt 9 up over the hill and by the farms, but thats even sandy in the summer time.
Apparantly some of the 10 people that followed me didn't like the route I picked out at the very last minute. Being that I was not planning to be a leader today and I was asked to lead a group 5 minutes before we left for the ride, and I had absolutely no idea how long the route would take , I thought I did pretty good. We made it to G barrington for 1:30 ish and there were still bikes in the parking lot when we pulled in.
So for anyone that followed me  and enjoyed them selves, I'm glad you had fun today. For those of you that would like there money back from todays ride, just post up your address, and I will even refund you double your money back, which comes out to be $00.00 I can send check or money order.


Hope everyone made it home safely

[NHFZ1]

Sean, You did a great job a tour guide today.  I had a super time following along.  No problems here.

Like you said "this is April in New England after all".  I know I heard some comments about the sand.  IMHO the only "sand problems" were on a couple of the more secondary roads. 

Were people actually complaining?  If you can fix the sand then maybe next time you can try to make it a few degrees warmer.

Chuck

[negruber]

Definately a chilly windy day for sure. I had a good time on my route from ringe NH to G Barrington. A few sandy spots , frost heaves and tar snakes to deal with , but this is april in New England after all. Rt 116 was clear , only a couple wet spots, and the majority of 112 was nice, except for the section from rt 9 up over the hill and by the farms, but thats even sandy in the summer time.
Apparantly some of the 10 people that followed me didn't like the route I picked out at the very last minute. Being that I was not planning to be a leader today and I was asked to lead a group 5 minutes before we left for the ride, and I had absolutely no idea how long the route would take , I thought I did pretty good. We made it to G barrington for 1:30 ish and there were still bikes in the parking lot when we pulled in.
So for anyone that followed me  and enjoyed them selves, I'm glad you had fun today. For those of you that would like there money back from todays ride, just post up your address, and I will even refund you double your money back, which comes out to be $00.00 I can send check or money order.


Hope everyone made it home safely

Hey TOS,

I thought you did a great job of leading.     Thanks.  And thanks for showing some nice roads off 202.  Always fun to see new things

My $.02

-Cheers

[Leebo]

Definately a chilly windy day for sure. I had a good time on my route from ringe NH to G Barrington. A few sandy spots , frost heaves and tar snakes to deal with , but this is april in New England after all. Rt 116 was clear , only a couple wet spots, and the majority of 112 was nice, except for the section from rt 9 up over the hill and by the farms, but thats even sandy in the summer time.
Apparantly some of the 10 people that followed me didn't like the route I picked out at the very last minute. Being that I was not planning to be a leader today and I was asked to lead a group 5 minutes before we left for the ride, and I had absolutely no idea how long the route would take , I thought I did pretty good. We made it to G barrington for 1:30 ish and there were still bikes in the parking lot when we pulled in.
So for anyone that followed me  and enjoyed them selves, I'm glad you had fun today. For those of you that would like there money back from todays ride, just post up your address, and I will even refund you double your money back, which comes out to be $00.00 I can send check or money order.


Hope everyone made it home safely

 .....Sean,
 Thanks for leading the group, I didn't think it would be all but two bikes but it worked out.
 When I turned on to rt 2 and you went straight I though "I didn’t know that went straight through" Then talking to Pat he said it doesn’t..
 See you next time.
Lee

 

[Hulked Up]

Sean, hey you got your group there without getting split up, lost or crashed.  That's a success.  I led all day yesterday and it's work to keep a large group together.  That's why no one wants to lead.  

[Malber]

Sean: As a new rider I enjoyed the challenge of the roads you picked! The only downside was the cold; damn weather.com forecasting 50 degree weather and it turns out to be in the 30s.  

[theothersean]

As for the rt 2 mishap we were on rt 2a  and it woul dhave connected a bit further down with 202, so I should have stayed on it but I was day dreaming . So instead of a quick look at a map,   I turned the group around to head back on rt 2 to pick 202 back up.   If the weather was nicer and the roads a bit more clear there was a back road I could have taken off 2a and avoided a large stretch of 202. But this time of year it is definately much sandier than the other roads.

As for leading groups,  I know its a lot of work which is why no one wants to to do it.  I have found over the years that if I want to ride in a group, it usually means that I am going to be leading it.
But its nice sometmes to just sit back and follow, not having to worry about finding the happy balance between too much or too little seat time between breaks,  finding gas , food and bathroom breaks, all coordinated with the groups needs.  


As long as people with in the group follow a simple rule , there should NEVER be a split up group.

I know its hard to do this when you are ripping along twisties and are having so much fun you don't want to look back, but.

As long as you always look for the guy behind you at a change in road direction, fork in the road, intersection, etc.  There should always be someone waiting for you at the next one.
If the group goes through an intersection and the guy behind you isn't there, you stop and wait for him. Then when the couple of you get to the next road change there should be 1 person there for you , and so on up the line until the group is finally back together somewhere on down the road.

Hopefully this weather won't produce tooo much white crap , and we can be out on the road again soon.

[Hoss]

No complaints here from me Sean. Sure the occasional comment on how 112 was a bit of a beach, but if your on a bike in New England and it's April...it's sand or nothing  

I enjoyed the route, pace, and the company. As I said I've never been out that way and now have some great roads to check out later in the year. Thanks for leading!

And thanks to Lee and Hulked Up getting this setup!

[BHazz]

Hi Everyone,
I have placed all the photos on the following url:
http://haslam.smugmug.com/gallery/2712565#143759466

From this site you can download and/or order any pictures the you would like. This site offers online editing tools like cropping, special effects, etc.

Keep in mind that these are huge (10.3 megapixel) pictures.  You can crop quite a bit and still have a very nice picture.

I will be working on the video and hope to have it ready in a week or so.  It's tuff making all of you riders look good.  

Thanks to all the friendly faces.  For a first-timer with this group, I really enjoyed the ride.


Ride Safe Everyone!

Bruce

[Hulked Up]

Great pictures Bruce, you pretty much documented everything that happened.  I'm really looking forward to seeing the video.  Hope we can all do it again soon.

[gforce]

Nice, Bruce.  Thanks for posting 'em up.  

Good to meet you at lunch.  And welcome.