The format we took last time was to collect on Friday the 26th at Granite Falls, ride up to the Gap on Saturday the 27th, crash gloriously w/ multiple occurrances on the way up, got totally rained out once we got patched back together into a rolling format again and then we beat back to Granite Falls just one raindrop ahead of the nastiest black thundercloud that ever pursued a group of fast riding bikers.
That's our past performance.
What is supposed to happen this time is we gather on Friday, ride sanely up on Saturday, spend Saturday night at the Gap hotel/campground complexes doing little side rides, ride sanely back to Granite Falls on Sunday and then disperse on Monday.
Routes up and back have not yet been determined yet -- depends on who is going and how much rubber side up risk they are willing to take. We promised Ed if he comes we will put him up front on the group ride sections for safety's sake (or somebody else, if they are obviously the most conservative rider in the group).
Since we have never ever been able to hold to an announced plan yet, we reserve all judgments on this particularly nebulous "plan" until it actually takes place.
That way nobody can accuse us of not following the plan ..... our only plan is to group ride up and back in a fairly sane fashion.
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And for sweet Jesus's totally holy sake -- if you get invited to go off "fun riding" separately once we get there in a little sub-group with Lancer, Toymaker or me please think about that a little bit.
Lancer LIKES to ride fast (he proved that last time), Toymaker LIVES up in the mountains and rides 20,000 miles a year in them thar hills. And me, I likes to grind my foot pegs to the point Toymaker didn't even think they were stock Suzuki pegs because they were all "shaped funny" on the ends . We did some of that nonsense on the way back with Toymaker and me sparking & dicing it hard on some of his home area roads.
We got no sense and we can kill you daid daid daid while we is jest out having us a little giggle ride. Consider carefully going off on those little side excursion rides with the suicide crew.
All of you think you can ride with some skill. Surprise!! This trip can and will take you out to the very edges of what you feel comfortable doing. And the 6" by 4" dark scar on my left leg says it can take you one step beyond that without giving you a heck of a lot of prior notice. This is the mountains, and it is the Dragon fer goodness sakes !!
Don't make Doodle the Safety Dog have to look like this at you for going off with the suicide crew doing something stupid just because we are doing it ....