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Americade
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rnet
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I'd love for her to enter. If a spyder walks away top dog that would be great. I would only enter to have fun as it should be. Roger remember to bring the can of mud.:roflblack:
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Roger
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But what about the tar and feathers
Hang on dave we will be their tomorrow.:yes::yes::yes::yes::yes:Just got off the phone with peoriafirefighter Dave and he made it into Lake George Ok. Now :2excited:, be leaving in the morning.hyea::yes:
Magic Man
Registered User
While i was having esi install my 8000k hid headlights i was in a jam and had to ride bitch with rnet.
Good thing we knew it was you on the back. :shocked:
For a minute I was thinkibng "boy that's one UGLY girlfriend" that guy has on back. :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:
WizardMaster
Registered User
Thanks buddy i'am not just another preety face ya know.
Ya we heard that about you!:yikes::roflblack:
kentompkins
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Americade Spyder Gathering - 2010
First of all, many, many thanks to rnet and Roger for organizing a great ride on Thurs, June 10 at Americade. Both men plotted the ride, rode on the loop on May to reconnoiter, found great places for breakfast and lunch and had all of the bases covered. We couldn't ask for more -- unless they could have controlled the weather.
Americade was very rainy this year and the Thurs. weather report wasn't good. I feared that the ride would be cancelled but got up by 5:30AM so we could ride to Fort Ann and be at the meet-up by 7. When we got there, the parking lot was empty so we thought that, maybe, the ride had been cancelled but, somehow, we had missed the memo. Being hungry we decided to have breakfast -- the place was called Sally's Hen House -- and it was one of the best and least expensive I've had in a long time.
Soon, folks started arriving on Spyders so we were delighted the ride was still on. What's a little rain, anyway? Eventually, fastfraser and his wife, rnet and his passenger - Anne, Roger, Spyderdude, Spyderman990, vtrider, starcruiser, and peoriafirefighter made up the group (mike3069 joined us at Mt. Equinox). As always, it is good to see friends we'd met before and to make new friends.
We left Fort Ann and rode down Rt 22 towards Bennington, Vt. Arriving there we stopped at the Bennington Monument. It commemorates a Revolutionary War battle nearby. The monument is over 300' high. Riding to near the top allowed us to see spectacular views of the surrounding country.
We also saw three covered bridges in the Bennington area. The Henry Bridge is typical but still very impressive.
Leaving Bennington we made our way towards Manchester, Vt. rnet had been up to Mt. Equinox before but the top was clouded in so he hoped this time he might have a clear view. Unfortunately, though the sky was clearing a bit, we couldn't see the valleys below. It was here that we took a group picture. How to describe the ascent? Hmmmm...take a Tennesee twisty and add a really steep incline. The mt is 3850' in elevation and, according to Wikipedia, was once a site for cryogenically frozen, high IQ persons to be preserved. During the descent, the sky cleared and the sun broke through revealing a view of many mts in the Taconic range stretching out for probably 100 miles. It was a great sight.
We had lunch (one of the biggest sandwiches I've ever seen) at Manchester. Very light rain had dogged us all morning but it unleashed while we were eating. We decided, unfortunately, to return to Lake George at that point.
The return trip was rainy including lightning, small hail, and drenching rain -- so heavy that I couldn't see the bike ahead of me. It did not deter us, however.
When we first met in the morning, someone called us the "die hards"; the day gave ample proof of that name. If we hadn't have gone, we would have missed the camaraderie, the ride, the views, the food and, best of all, riding a Spyder with friends. What could be better?
Thanks, again, to everyone who rode with us and to rnet and Roger for planning a great trip.
If you'd like to see my few, modest photos, they're here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22209901@N05/sets/72157624264644576/
I'm sure better ones will appear shortly.
ken tompkins
First of all, many, many thanks to rnet and Roger for organizing a great ride on Thurs, June 10 at Americade. Both men plotted the ride, rode on the loop on May to reconnoiter, found great places for breakfast and lunch and had all of the bases covered. We couldn't ask for more -- unless they could have controlled the weather.
Americade was very rainy this year and the Thurs. weather report wasn't good. I feared that the ride would be cancelled but got up by 5:30AM so we could ride to Fort Ann and be at the meet-up by 7. When we got there, the parking lot was empty so we thought that, maybe, the ride had been cancelled but, somehow, we had missed the memo. Being hungry we decided to have breakfast -- the place was called Sally's Hen House -- and it was one of the best and least expensive I've had in a long time.
Soon, folks started arriving on Spyders so we were delighted the ride was still on. What's a little rain, anyway? Eventually, fastfraser and his wife, rnet and his passenger - Anne, Roger, Spyderdude, Spyderman990, vtrider, starcruiser, and peoriafirefighter made up the group (mike3069 joined us at Mt. Equinox). As always, it is good to see friends we'd met before and to make new friends.
We left Fort Ann and rode down Rt 22 towards Bennington, Vt. Arriving there we stopped at the Bennington Monument. It commemorates a Revolutionary War battle nearby. The monument is over 300' high. Riding to near the top allowed us to see spectacular views of the surrounding country.
We also saw three covered bridges in the Bennington area. The Henry Bridge is typical but still very impressive.
Leaving Bennington we made our way towards Manchester, Vt. rnet had been up to Mt. Equinox before but the top was clouded in so he hoped this time he might have a clear view. Unfortunately, though the sky was clearing a bit, we couldn't see the valleys below. It was here that we took a group picture. How to describe the ascent? Hmmmm...take a Tennesee twisty and add a really steep incline. The mt is 3850' in elevation and, according to Wikipedia, was once a site for cryogenically frozen, high IQ persons to be preserved. During the descent, the sky cleared and the sun broke through revealing a view of many mts in the Taconic range stretching out for probably 100 miles. It was a great sight.
We had lunch (one of the biggest sandwiches I've ever seen) at Manchester. Very light rain had dogged us all morning but it unleashed while we were eating. We decided, unfortunately, to return to Lake George at that point.
The return trip was rainy including lightning, small hail, and drenching rain -- so heavy that I couldn't see the bike ahead of me. It did not deter us, however.
When we first met in the morning, someone called us the "die hards"; the day gave ample proof of that name. If we hadn't have gone, we would have missed the camaraderie, the ride, the views, the food and, best of all, riding a Spyder with friends. What could be better?
Thanks, again, to everyone who rode with us and to rnet and Roger for planning a great trip.
If you'd like to see my few, modest photos, they're here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22209901@N05/sets/72157624264644576/
I'm sure better ones will appear shortly.
ken tompkins
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Peoriafirefighter
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Rnet, I made it back to Peoria, if you thought the rain was bad on our ride the day we toured Bebbington, you should have seen the storm I hit in Columbus, Ohio, the trucks were even pulled over and a lot of downed trees. That was after I had ridden 800 miles that day so I finally called it a day and got a hotel room, finished the last 300 miles today and made it safely home. It was a great time even with the rain. Thanks again buddy!
Spyderman1330
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Here is the link to the 100 pics I took from Americade in Lake George, New York for June 7th thru June 11th. The weather went from one extreme to another with hail and downpours of rain to sunshine.
http://rides.webshots.com/album/577935424HNnNNl
http://rides.webshots.com/album/577935424HNnNNl
rnet
New member
Thanks for some great pictures guys as I didn't get a chance to take many. I also want to give a big thanks to ISCI, for there hand brake saved me from some probable injury had I not had it. I'm sure some of you guys saw what happened when the truck that was turning left decided to turn into the next entry at the gas station. Anyways, I had a great time with everyone and was fun setting it up. I know Roger's got some pictures also, and he hasn't posted them yet. Roger's got friends with the media and think he's trying to do a documentary of the ride. I think Anne may help him. By the way here's a correction to kt post. Anne is not my wife ,but a good friend of say 10 years. She is a newbie on two wheels and since rain was likely, she preferred riding with me. Any ideas for next year, I know some of you guys have already done the ferry crossing. I have a few. so we will see how it plays out.
Peoriafirefighter
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rnet
New member
You mean I've got a hole year to get my spyder pretty enough to knock you off the throne. Oh did anybody post you got first place in the spyder class at Americade. Congrats Dave
