Lets see, last year I was going to go but the fickle finger of fate said otherwise. This year sounds good as long as they get a bike out I can live with and get it broken in before the event and my PO says I can go.
Sidecar Flip
Living Legend
"Trailer Queen"........Ya need one of those trailers that hook to your odometer on the bike to rack up the miles. When you get close, you unload the bike, dust your face with a dirty rag, and ride in.....victoriously. Come on.
scowherd
Top Fuel
Maggie Valley
Count me in for the Maggie Valley area. I am planing a trip there april 25th -28th already.
2 Bike Meets going on that weekend (See links below) I have visited this area on several occasions very biker friendly and great riding.
http://www.handlebarcorral.com/Spring Thunder in the Smomkys.htm
http://www.cherokeerally.com/
Count me in for the Maggie Valley area. I am planing a trip there april 25th -28th already.
2 Bike Meets going on that weekend (See links below) I have visited this area on several occasions very biker friendly and great riding.
http://www.handlebarcorral.com/Spring Thunder in the Smomkys.htm
http://www.cherokeerally.com/
scowherd
Top Fuel
Additional Ride
I am also planning a ride on the KY bourbon trail march 22nd and 23rd. If any one can make it to Kentucky. We will ride the winding back roads of KY and visit 7 of the most popular bourbon Distilleries. Let me know if any one is intrerested. Complete with cookout and party after the ride.
http://www.kentuckybourbontrail.com/#
I am also planning a ride on the KY bourbon trail march 22nd and 23rd. If any one can make it to Kentucky. We will ride the winding back roads of KY and visit 7 of the most popular bourbon Distilleries. Let me know if any one is intrerested. Complete with cookout and party after the ride.
http://www.kentuckybourbontrail.com/#
Silver Bullet
Supercharged
Please inform...
You southern gentlemen and going to have to keep us geographically challenged "yanks" informed as to where the "Maggie Valley" is at???...SB..
You southern gentlemen and going to have to keep us geographically challenged "yanks" informed as to where the "Maggie Valley" is at???...SB..
Sidecar Flip
Living Legend
I don't drink so distilleries, other than smelly casks, leave no promise of enjoyment for me. I'm sure there a number of lovely lasses working there to tantalize my senses though. Remember, this is all about lodging too. Last years Nashville ride was nice but the Taliban 8 left a little to be desired. At least the AC worked. That's why I'm for a more rural setting like Maggie Valley which brings me to......
You southern gentlemen and going to have to keep us geographically challenged "yanks" informed as to where the "Maggie Valley" is at???...SB..
SB: I'm a 'Yank' too. I don't have no 'onion bag' on my windshield either. Maggie Valley is right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, just north of the Dragon and a little east of the Skyway and a little southwest of Pigeon Forge and Dollywood. It's a good, solid 2 day ride from here but on a scale of 10, I give it a 9+ and they are biker friendly. Lots of good beaneries, lots to do, have a motorcycle museum (which is about 100 yards from where I stayed last year on the way to Nashville), lots of very pretty girls (a plus) and good riding roads. If you go to my photo album, you'll find lots of pictures of the Parkway and there is a couple of pictures I took right in the motel parking lot so you can easily see what the surroundings look like.
I'm thinking out loud, that just maybe we can get our Webmaster to attend too. I'll have to check into that. He don't live too far from Maggie Valley but he won't be riding a Rocket, at least I don't think he will be, that is.
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Paul Hyland
Turbocharged
Well
If it's going to be Maggie Valley it looks like a 6 day drip for us Texans. 2 days to get there to day's there and 2 home.
I'm am South of Houston my mom is east of Carthage (AL Gores Home town) and it takes me 12 to 14 in a cage with Kids.
If it's going to be Maggie Valley it looks like a 6 day drip for us Texans. 2 days to get there to day's there and 2 home.
I'm am South of Houston my mom is east of Carthage (AL Gores Home town) and it takes me 12 to 14 in a cage with Kids.
Sidecar Flip
Living Legend
Paul:
Like I said at the start, it don't matter to me at all. I can come to Texas just as easily. I've always wanted to explore Texas Hill Country around Austin. That's where we are planning on retiring someday anyway. It could be in Wyoming or even California. I don't care. It could be New Hampshire or Vermont. I'm just inputing Maggie Valley because I've been there on the bike and it's a nice place. I'm sure there are many nice spots all over the country to go to. However, wherever we end up going, I'd like for it to be somewhere where there is a local Captain or two that are familiar with whatever destination we wind up choosing. That way, we have a 'one up' on what's good and what's bad concerning lodging, eats, things to do and the quality of riding on the local roads.
Obviously, if it's The Lone Star, it's closer for you and farther for me. If it was here in Michigan (God help us), it would be close for me and far for you. I don't want anyone to come here. We have a helmet law, the cops suck, the roads suck, the Governor sucks but in defense of Michigan (a little), northern Michigan around the Traverse City area is not only beautiful but has fantastic secondary roads just made for bikes. They have casino's, good beaneries, plenty of camera ready scenery and lots of babes, mostly scantily clad. Every destination is good, just some of them are going to be some miles. Look at it this way.......
Half the adventure is getting there. That's what motorcycling is all about. I did Nashville last summer via York, PA, Norfolk, VA, Kitty Hawk, NC, Maggie Valley and on to Nashville. I made it a 2500 mile adventure and 90% secondary roads. I had the time of my life, met great folks everywhere I stopped and I'll never forget the wonderful time I had on the whole trip, not just in Nashville.
Of course I can do that stuff. I'm retired (retarded by some folks perspective around here), fiddle with teaching, farming and the bling business but I can easily partition my time to allow for a bike trip. That's not an easy thing for you 9-5ers, especially when the man demands your prescience at the salt mine.
In retrospect however, I should have told the man I was going to 'take off' more often than I did when I worked a regular job. Looking back, I've missed some grand opportunities to enjoy the great country I live in from the perspective of a motorcycle seat. Sadly, it's too late to do it over again. You only get one shot. You can never retrace your footsteps.
We are all getting older at the same rate of speed, well, maybe Jack is accelerating a little bit more. Some of us started sooner than others, but the progress toward St. Peter is an eventuality. Whenever it comes about, try to make it, even if you have to make some compromises. After all, life is all about compromises. I'm sure you'll never regret taking that trip to wherever it may be.
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boogerdave
Nitrous
I'd love to be able to go but Memorial Day - Labor Day I'm chained to a dive operation.
Paul Hyland
Turbocharged
dam Sidecar
That was deep. I was just saying if coming from TX It will be a 6 dayer at least. If it is Maggie I can stop by my mom's and pick here up on the way. If The timing is right and I can go I don't care where it is. Well I do but You know.
That was deep. I was just saying if coming from TX It will be a 6 dayer at least. If it is Maggie I can stop by my mom's and pick here up on the way. If The timing is right and I can go I don't care where it is. Well I do but You know.
