Maggie Valley Rally Advertisement on Spyderlovers Forum

[Daddyray]

My wife and I setup going to Maggie Valley back in April or so. When I ordered items online and had a question I called the vendor. When I was on the phone with the vendor I asked them if they were going to be at Maggie Valley and most said yes. They also told me about some of the problems with the last sponsor that wasn't there this year. I looked at the website and found some info and thought great there will be more vendors than I thought. We didn't do any of the rides with the other Spyders as we took off on our own before daylight. We had things installed on Saturday and then went on a 5 hours ride. We still got to meet some other riders and have a good time.

 

[blacklightning]

We will be taking over the lead in this event, with help from multiple people. Regina does not have the time to coordinate this event, but will be helping. Also the dealer that sponsored it went out of business. The event had to be moved to a different location because of a pretty big expense in renting the Festival grounds and also having to stay into Sunday for grounds inspection and getting the $1500 deposit back.
It will be held again next year at the same location as this year at the Elevated Mountain Distillery, 2nd weekend in October.
We will have a page up in the next month or so with information. We will see about improving a few things including some signage up front.
We will have rides every day like this year along with a dinner ride and door prizes on Friday night.
If anyone would like to help please contact us.
Rick

Thank you for taking this over and helping out. I have been going for the past 3 years in Maggie Valley and my first year was in Fontana Village. We go to that area and ride at least 3 times a year. This year we decided to stay in Boone and just rode down to Maggie Valley for Friday. In previous years I have lead a small group through the area, but this year I had the wife along and needed to go at a much slower pace. I hope to be able to make it next year and will post up and let you know if I am able to volunteer to help lead rides, or in any other way. Thanks again for getting this going, and your hard work is not going unnoticed or unappreciated. Thank you very much.

 

[BajaRon]

We will be taking over the lead in this event, with help from multiple people. Regina does not have the time to coordinate this event, but will be helping. Also the dealer that sponsored it went out of business. The event had to be moved to a different location because of a pretty big expense in renting the Festival grounds and also having to stay into Sunday for grounds inspection and getting the $1500 deposit back.
It will be held again next year at the same location as this year at the Elevated Mountain Distillery, 2nd weekend in October.
We will have a page up in the next month or so with information. We will see about improving a few things including some signage up front.
We will have rides every day like this year along with a dinner ride and door prizes on Friday night.
If anyone would like to help please contact us.
Rick

It was a great event this year. I'd say the best Maggie Valley event I've been to yet. Good attendance, great weather and everyone I spoke to seemed to be very happy with everything.

I am sorry that some had so much difficulty getting information. Though not as promoted as other events, information did not seem to be all that difficult to obtain. Transitions from one sponsor to another can have their issues. Most people do not comprehend the level of commitment, effort and expense required for these events to happen. Under the circumstances, I think an incredible job was done with this year's Maggie Valley event.

 

[al0vely]

We will be taking over the lead in this event, with help from multiple people. Regina does not have the time to coordinate this event, but will be helping. Also the dealer that sponsored it went out of business. The event had to be moved to a different location because of a pretty big expense in renting the Festival grounds and also having to stay into Sunday for grounds inspection and getting the $1500 deposit back.
It will be held again next year at the same location as this year at the Elevated Mountain Distillery, 2nd weekend in October.
We will have a page up in the next month or so with information. We will see about improving a few things including some signage up front.
We will have rides every day like this year along with a dinner ride and door prizes on Friday night.
If anyone would like to help please contact us.
Rick

Thank you Rick !

Will you still be having your Ohio event?

 

[al0vely]

Hard to believe the OP couldn't find the events link on this forum - the information was there for the entire year.

 

[rick_w]

Thank you Rick !

Will you still be having your Ohio event?

Yes we are still having the SE Ohio Spyder Event next Fathers Day Weekend as normal. We have all of the information posted and the Motel is totally blocked, make your reservations any time.
We will be putting up more information for a couple more vendors as we get it.
http://www.valueaccessories.net/SEOhioSpyderRyde.htm

 

[foxtail1]

My husband and I had a great time at Maggie Valley. It was my first Spyder event, and it was great to see all the other riders. I didn't have any trouble finding a list of vendors and even communicated with several ahead of the rally to determine what services they would be offering. I do agree that the rally website was not particularly friendly, but what I know about website design wouldn't fill a thimble, so I guess I shouldn't criticize. I liked the rally location in the middle of town, and had no trouble with parking there.

 

[Hecam17]

To the OP, it was a fun event. We were all in a much smaller area than the fairgrounds, but it made for a buzz in the vendor area.
I know of 4 rallies in the South East: Thibodeaux, LA in April, Columbia SC in May, Maggie Valley NC in Oct, and DeLand FL Halloween. Two of them are fund raising events for Road Warriors. They all have FB pages but better info is on their actual web pages.