ESTN 2010 - I'm Home Thread

[motodog650]

Rolled in at 5pm. 7 hours in the saddle. Only stopped twice. Awesome time. Good meeting those of you I did. Looking forward to doing it again    

[chornbe]

I'm NOT home. I'm at a small motel in Martinsburg. Wife's bringing the trailer tomorrow. Rear tire gave up the ghost.

Good times! Awesome ride on Saturday led by JJ! we hit it all; twisties, mud, gravel, and all at a nice pace in the rain. Kick ass time!!! Thanks again Jammin for leading a great day of riding!

[HappyRiding]

Made it home about 2:30 after a nice 157 miles.  I'm looking forward to the next one already!

Sorry about the tire Chris but you know we're going to give you hell about the trailer.

[Mike-H]

Nice pics Fred....& great meeting you  .....if only I knew what a camera was...... ....in winchester VA tonight & duc pond ducati tomorrow ....maybe a new toy to join those other lonely ones in my garage (hope the wife isn't reading this)....then back to the
gwn (great white north)....great meeting everyone....had a blast.....later gators....(hope everyone gets home safe....

[Cablebandit]

 Rear tire gave up the ghost.

I told David that tire wasn't going to make it home.  Sorry I was right.

Be sure to take pics of the trailer / bike reunion.  I'm sure they missed each other these past few days.  

[garry]

I rolled into the garage at 6pm, 11 hours and roughly 500 very twisty miles from Sparta. Good times this weekend!

[chornbe]

Fred, cords all the way around it. Misjudged how much life was left in it by a few hundred miles. This is my first set of these; Angel STs sitting just a hair under 8k miles. Guess j can't complain. I looked at it before heading down and said to myself, "I'll need to replace that in about 1500 miles". I'm 1200 into this trip. Woops :-)


Sara, I expect nothing less of course :-)

[chornbe]

Cable, the Nike will be really happy: the trailers been at my brother's house for about a month or slightly more. Hrs got a Harley so, ya know... LOL

[chornbe]

Forgive the typos: teeeeeeny little touch screen keyboard :-)

[rfulcher]

I got home around 5PM today. The bad harness connector that I repaired in the parking lot Saturday evening stayed fixed. Thanks for the help guys.  Great event. Garry thanks for showing me roads.

Ross

[garry]

I got home around 5PM today. The bad harness connector that I repaired in the parking lot Saturday evening stayed fixed. Thanks for the help guys.  Great event. Garry thanks for showing me roads.

Ross

Good riding with you too Ross. You know how to make that big girl dance :-) Glad you made it home without incident.

[Smoker]

Who is that ugly dude?

Made it home to Ephrata, PA at 8:15, JamminJere, Mustang and I took 16 to Marion, 61 to 219, then 39 from Marlinton to 250 where Jere went his own way, Mustang and I took 42 to Harrisonburg and hopped on 81 to make some time. Both my low beams went out so I was running high beams the whole way home. Also picked up a horseshoe nail in my rear tire, some sticky rope thanks to Jere took care of that. Didn't lose a pound of pressure the whole way home.

Just under 1300 miles on the weekend, all but about 300 of them twisty goodness! Nice meeting all the folks I never met before, Andrea and I had a great time. Hope to see some of you at the winter meet in Berkeley Springs in January!

[Max Wedge]

HOME! 650 miles, 12 hours. Mrs. Wedge is giving me a massage on my shoulders as I type this.  

[MK96xj]

Pulled in at about 5:45pm after getting in some good riding today too. Yesterday turned out better than Friday

I was able to piece the Multi back together and got some good riding in with Matt (natahala) John (falcofred) and today with Ed (Mattel on Multistrada.net)

Here's the damage report pics

The pic of the bike Saturday morning after sleeping off the lowside exiting the BRP. Long story but in short, I hate rocky exits at speed



The rash:


Ed had stopped by in the morning and we used his garage to fix my yard sale. A few drilled holes, bolts and zipties, mascara and blush and the Italian beauty cleaned right up




A little Sunday action on 58 in VA


We head over to the Snake and Matt Whom has become jealous about my crash ballet abilities decides to try one too!




First time that bike has been down in over 50K miles.

And for those counting,,, He scored a 9.8 on the dismount

[Smoker]

Wow, glad you guys are ok, we saw a nasty one on 39 this afternoon.

[googus]

I am glad everyone is alright and had a great time. Had to bail on the day trip-sorry next time:)
Greg

[JamminJere]

Leisa and I were home by 11pm.  We stayed off the Interstates completely and after leaving Smoker,Andrea and Mustang on 250 we headed back to  220 and made blistering time to Petersburg, Took 55 to 259 to Mooresfield, and then old 55 over the mountain and then sat for 20 minutes in stopped traffic for something bad ahead that was letting nothing thru in either direction that we never got a look at.

Finally doubled back 10 miles and shot up to 50 and picked and choosed my way until I hit 15 above Clarks Ferry and headed north from there. Stopped for a late snack and to zip all are gear back together it was getting damp and cool. We had about 605 miles for the day had a great romp up 61 from Tazewell to 219 to Marlinton for lunch at the Greenbriar with great company.

Saturday was a great ride in the rain!  We left Sparta and went over and stomped the Snake from Mountain City to Shady Valley TN. and back. Then shot up to Damascus and Took 58 back thru the State Forest to Mouth of Wilson and then "across country" back to 93 to 21 and back to the hotel again.. almost 200 miles of "very spirited" riding on wet roads.. Kudos to all the riders for running that pace on wet roads without incident..  We had Smoker/Andrea, DAK0716, JustCallmeChris, Mustang, 4Power, HappyRiding, Cablebandit/eacatwork in tow behind Leisa and I and I hope everyone had as good a time as I did.

Today's ride home with Smoker and Mustang was just an epic ride of twisties.. I'm glad we had the day all together, I enjoyed the route and comraderie.


It was great seeing everyone again, and meeting new people and putting faces to screen names that I've seen on here now for years..
Thanks to everyone putting this together and I look foward to seeing you all again soon.

JJ

[Scratch33]

Tammy, Rue & I bugged out from Sparta at 7 am and made it home at 6:45 pm.   We wanted to avoid slab and cities so I plotted a 425 mile, not-too-boring backroads diagonal route northeast across Virginia to Route 301 above Fredericksburg.  Weather was cooperative all the way to Maryland.  

Great to see everyone again; looking forward to next year's meet.

[02VFR]

Made it home by 2pm on Sunday.  We slabbed it home Doug (he ride the Black V-Strom) had to work Sunday night.  We had a great time, just under 1200 miles for the long weekend.

[maddjack]

Was home by 6PM yesterday, had a great ride home, had a great time, thanks to all who attended