mick wrote on 11/29/08 at 22:28:14:

I'd rather ride it like I own it.  

Too hard -- requires real knowledge of latin.   What would that be in false latin?  Or how about

"Lividicus Scooterius"          (live to ride)

This is supposed to be useless knowledge now, and fairly insulting once you figure it out.   We got standards to maintain, you know.  Very low ones.

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Now Sluggo, we all took all sorts of pictures and video film last time but quickly realized that they all constituted "hard legal evidence", especially in the courts of wifely justice.  

We might not be permitted to go play again, in other words.

So to protect the innocent we got all clumsy and couldn't figure out how to post the the majority of the stuff that conflicted with the official story.  For example Toymaker never did figure out how to post all the candid shots he took with his daughter's camera.  I'm sure she got a chuckle out of them when she found them later on the data stick though.

And what are the odds of postable pics if the same crew plus even more go off for an overnight in a campground full of drunk biker chicks?  

"hey,would it be a good idea to bring the leather??? You don't want to be out after dark without it."  

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Now, as you pull up to pass a line of bikers wearing colors you see they have something emblazoned on their backs.  Envision a very large bold flowing curved script over the top of a really big cracked skull with one of these sets of latinized words going from shoulder to shoulder in a big curve.

Splattus Epoxicus Crancasius       (crash hard, then epoxy your cracked cases)

Peggius Snapicus Replacicus        (replace your busted off foot pegs)

Eventius Mountainus Mori              (what goes on in the mountains stays in the mountains  -- I like this one best)


or that perennial classic ...

Illegitimati Non Corburundum       (don't let the bastards grind you down, or "never confess what really went on")

Here is the prelim T-shirt.

Eventius Remaindo Mountanicus=

What happens in the Mountains...stays in the mountains!

Are you gonna put in on the front, so people won't notice our faces?

Or are you going to put it on the back so they can study on it real good as we pull away from them?

And are you going to ship them out again to them girlie girls who don't show but want you to buy them a stuffed dragon while you are there and then ship it to them when you get back?

Or are the real Dragon shirts reserved for those with the gumption to show and go?

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My 2008 Dragon shirt has Ed's blood, oil and yellowish epoxy smeared on it, complete with bike wrasslin' grass stains, mountain blackberry smears and McDonald's coffee spills.  It has some rain fade, some butterfly wing dust on the color printing and it still smells like mountain laurel.  

Mine is a real Dragon shirt ...  I can look at it and remember clearly.

Ed's shirt has this funny black tire track mark on the back of it --- plus red clay dirt, embedded fern fronds, blood, oil, epoxy and grass stains.  Ed can look at his shirt and remember even better than I can.

Toymaker's shirt has burn marks and bigger grass stains in addition to the other goodies.

Lancer's shirt has long blond hairs on it (very long wind whipped blond hairs) in addition to his other goodies.


Only them with the gumption to show and go get to wear the real Dragon shirts ...

If it were August  
and I could rent/borrow a bike,  
I could be convinced to fly out and join in on the fun.  

verslagen1 wrote on 12/01/08 at 18:20:22:


If I can actually get some stuff done this year I could have 2 functional bikes, but I definitely need prayer support to do it.  
If I can get everything done, you are certainly welcome to ride one of them.

Michael

So far folks seem content to plan for "the week of the 4th" as that is a general enough target.  We already know that some of the core group has flexability during that week, Toymaker because he is off from teaching and me because of an annual plant shutdown week.

Some are going to want to overnight at a local place in the high mountains so as to do more running around in the area and cut down on the unholy 14 hour trip stress thing.  Some working folks are going to be tempted to blow up, do it and drive back in time to go back to work (it ain't the best way to do it, trust me).  

So I propose we tentatively aim the start date for a Thursday (2nd) afternoon arrival at Toymaker's , Friday (3rd) ride upcountry by a leisurely route and then overnight in high mountains at a known camp/hotel complex (secondary gathering point) then Saturday (4th) cruise surrounding areas, then meander back to Toymaker's for Sat night for the ritual pool soaking and drive back home on Sunday (5th).  

This lays out a generalized very tentative plan that can be changed, of course.  It's advantage is that it splits all the riding up into 5-6 hour chunks.

Once we get some more concrete plans laid in, then we can talk about finding enough bikes for the fly in folks, etc.  If I were to fly in from far away, I'd want to land near Toymaker's as that is the logical place for the bikes to be trailered in to since nobody is going to be able to ride in multiple bikes.  

(PS, having an empty follow trailer tag along behind the group isn't a bad thing -- if the group is big enough to warrant it)

Comments please, this is the early stuff that allows folks to plan to attend so we need to get it ironed out fairly early well enough so that reservations can be made for the high mountain overnight place.

And trust me, if we don't make those reservations soon we won't be able to find any openings in the high mountains.