THESE EVENTS ARE IN PLANNING AND DISCUSSION RIGHT UP TO THE GO DAY -- THE CONCRETE HAS NOT SET COMPLETELY YET UNTIL IT IS OVER.     I am still plugging in names as people show interest, this gives us a tool for seeing who is really going plus the folks who are going can start the refinement process on dates and activities.

So far we got the following in the rough order of doing them.   Adding something is easy, talk it up some, put a firm date to it and we will see if folks are interested by if they sign up for it.



Santeetlah Lake Exploratory Trip   April 23, 24, 26   Charles,  Kent,  Jeb,  MM,  Oldfeller

This is a free trip.    Six Man Cabin has been reserved by prepaying for two nights.    We still have some floor space open in the cabin.   Bring bed roll pillow and air mattress.  Trip is now open to CMA riders and "other group" riders that you can personally vouch for.   We are staying in a six man log cabin on the lake itself kinda near the junction of Tapco Rd (Dragon road) and the Cherohola Skyway -- north of Robbinsville, NC.

Sign up here:   http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1487825218/50

DIRECTIONS
From Robbinsville, North Carolina, continue on Highway 129 north for approximately 6 miles. Turn left on SR # 1145 - then bear right on Thunderbird Mountain Road. Continue approximately 1.3 miles on Thunderbird Mountain Road to the Cheoah Point Campground. The cabin is located in the Cheoah Point Campground.



Lancer Oklahoma trip    extended to 19-28 May   Lancer,  Kenny G,  MM,  Springman,  Verslagen,  Justin



Kickstand Lodge   June 13-18    Dave,  Oldfeller,  MM,  Stewmills,  RaleighGuy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZGNOB5m5Ro&t=166s
http://kickstandlodge.com/rates.html
From here it is a short hop up to the Dragon, and to all the really neat surrounding roads we love to ride.    For East Coast beginners, this is one of the closest (and the BEST) Southeastern trip possible.   Some have argued the area is the BEST BIKING IN AMERICA and I might have to agree with them.  



Indian Paintbrush Campground in Ty Denver  Late July  NEED FIRM DATES   Verslagen,  Springman,  old.indian, Thumperclone



MM's farm     Sept 8, 9 & 10    MM,  Oldfeller,  Dave,  Lancer,  StewMills



And here is a tool to use in locating some no cost camping when travelling to get to the rides:

https://freecampsites.net

I thought that was me, echo magnifying the chainsaw sounds inside Dave's trailer.

Don't forget the recovery-back-to-Lynchburg vehicle and them lawn chairs ......   If we have places to sit down a campfire becomes much more interesting to do in the evenings .....  bring some charcoal, starter and matches too.

MMRanch wrote on 03/21/17 at 09:18:26:


I betcha' Jed hasn't lost his sweet tooth yet.

You fellas better stuff a banana in his tailpipe and get him down to 50 HP or less!

Oh , he definitely still has a sweet tooth !   I don't know what a GSX-R750 cost but I suspect it was upward toward $8,000.oo .    

Its probably a good bet he don't want to follow around a bunch of "sight-seers on cruisers anyway.    

All he knows so far is that we'll be in the Santeetlah lake area Monday and Tuesday the 24th and 25th.   He has a regular job (welder) and just bought his first house , etc .   His crazy cousin on his moms side is the sport bike influence in his life , I tried to direct him toward a LS-650 ...  

Well , I hope I don't have a serving of Banana pudding before April is over , but I didn't want to "Story" to the young feller and say "  We-ain't going NO-Where--- Why do you ask   "     Could be he's looking to blow the wheels off a 1100 cc Honda that he didn't/couldn't catch last time ... I'll tell him it is SOLD and see if he looks disappointed ?  

So far I'm bringing :
a sleeping bag
a chair in a bag
a over night bag
cooking tweezers
a bag of charcoal
a big pack of boneless , skinless chicken breast
BBQ sauce
maybe a cot and a tent (just in case).  I don't want to be homeless ...  
The back seat is about full , but  I usually forget something  ... ?

Another week goes by ...... we are now inside the real 30 days out now so the detail levels shown on the forecasts are beginning to develop now.

Forecast accuracy isn't very good this far out, so expect it to change some as we get closer in.

Past years have occasionally shown a shift to the left, generally speaking, that takes about 5-6 days to roll the forecast to the left one day's worth.   Plus the weather patterns strengthen or wane, causing severity of predicted weather to shift.

Hard experience says it rains at least once on every trip, and most times we can avoid localized rain by heading away from it.

But getting wet isn't fatal, really.


..... remember you can click on the screenshot line immediately below this to see an enlarged version of the weather map

     .... I'm melting .....  I'm melting .....  Auuuugh !!!!    You are a wicked wicked little Justin .......   oooooooh ......



That was used mop water, which is known to be toxic even in Oz .....

Oh , Yea

Things to bring list :
A rainsuit  ,  Double check that I have a good one !  

I tend to get really slow on wet roads.   Even more so on the heavy bike , so I think if we find rain in one direction we should go the other direction.
    Even to the point of Pulling a "U" turn  , or declaring "it must be dinner time" .  

This is the first day I haven't got a long ride in (rain all afternoon), did get a trip to town this morning  .