Re: reeky / rec.motorcycles - NART

[sleazy rider]

One is at Jack's place in Tellico Plains.  I dropped it off a few years ago to him and Lori for display on the office wall.  That was a good adventure.  I met Tim, Ari and Steve Tuttle with shadowfax on his first longer ride on a sport bike.  Good times!

I ran them over to South Bend, Indiana for another low profile member here to get to Cobbler's Mom and Mark.



Otis and Shadowfax



Motown Moto aka Luke



Ari, Scott, Tim and me



At my handoff headed west with HankB (!) from Chicago

[sleazy rider]

Naw, I never met that Hank from Corning.  Tim and Ari had lunch with him on the way out to meet up with us, though.  HankB actually hangs out a bit here in Region 4.  Obviously, I've met Don(Calgary) Mark and a bunch of the other reeky folks when we did Moab in 2007 and again in 2009 at Jack and Lori's campground.  Chuck Rhodes, BryanUT, Thumper, Turby and Lyle made Utah.  Tim, Snag, and Mark made the trek to Tellico.  Hell, Mark and I ran into Bob Mann on our way to Utah in Sioux City, IA where we stopped for the night going to Utah.  He was on his way back from a HD rally somewhere else. 

My wife refers to all y'all as my Internet motorcycle gang buddies.     I've had a great time with everyone I've ever met on reeky and these forums.

[JimWilliamson]

This is still going on?  Cool!

Some pix from way too many years back...
www.JimWilliamson.net/motorcycle/2004-08-15-nart-il-wi/

[sleazy rider]

   Calgary is instigating another group gathering for 2013.  He's trying to set up a meet in Puerto Vallarta and I'm seriously considering it. 

http://actualriders.ca/crucerodelacruz.htm

There's been an annual group meet every year since, but I've only been fortunate enough to make the two I mentioned above and the one in LaCrosse, WI for 2005.  I met John up there, along with Tim, Mark, Don and Bob Mann for 3 days of hooliganism on the spaghetti roads.

Reeky is pretty much left to the trolls and cross posting racists at this point.  I still post once in a while to UKRM.

[sleazy rider]

See that name in the middle back?  Mr. RC-45 hisself!   

[olsonm3915]

This is still going on?  Cool!

Some pix from way too many years back...
www.JimWilliamson.net/motorcycle/2004-08-15-nart-il-wi/

Hi there Jim, I still have some of my NART photos up on my own server, too.

From the Wisconsin meetup in Stevens Point:
http://olsonm.dsl.visi.com/~olsonm/hhbs/NART/nart_wisconsin/html/IM000030.html

And the Minnesota meet at my F-I-L's cabin near Walker MN (actually Laporte but no one knows where that is)

http://olsonm.dsl.visi.com/~olsonm/hhbs/NART/nart_minnesota

Thanks again to Don for kicking the whole thing off.

[JimWilliamson]

I took a look - dang nabit - there's my name on that thar shirt  

8/15/2004!

Much like STN's "where's Chili", who's been holding on to those shirts / how many people have they passed to since `04?