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These are pix of a recent ride to a small Moto Guzzi gathering — the South’n Spine Raid (“SSR”) — at Tellico Plains, Tennessee, earlier this month.
This was the 20th SSR, and, as with the previous events, great fun. I did not search, but pretty sure I have posted about this event before...
FWIW, I and AJ Howard -- another Guardia guy -- will be riding through or near Bridgewater next week en route to a Guzzi gathering at Tellico Plains, Tennessee, with an overnight in Princeton, W.V. We use SR 42 for much of that annual run.
If you have the time and inclination, happy to buy you...
The “Bottom Line Up Front” is that the pix in this post are about a12-day, 3000-mile motorcycle ride with buds in a (successful) search for mutton and fried cheese curds (and beer, bourbon, & BS) in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa...
Good morning.
I had warned @1Danedaddy (Larry) in a PM that I would be violating his airspace on my ride from our home at the top of Virginia to Wendell (vic. Raleigh), North Carolina.
I launched in cold and windy weather, but had a fine c.180-mile ride down to Burkeville.
Larry met me...
Good morning from the Moto Grappa at the top of Virginia!
Here is the slideshow I made of last weekend’s Moto Grappa Tech Days 2024 [MGTD ’24], the seventh in the MGTD series.
Inasmuch as Scott is a “star” in this slideshow, it seemed fitting to post this here.
So, I took 800+ pix; yes...
Howdy from the Moto Grappa at the top of Virginia.
My ’98 EV has been hors de combat with unspecified “don’t run right” issues for almost a year. The right cylinder ran when it felt like and it didn’t feel like it much. The left ran, but was hardly perfect. This, despite a recent VA, TB...
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WARNING! if you detest “TLDR,” skim & scan … or just run away now. Paid by the word for 50+ years, I won’t change those spots any time soon. ;)
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Twice a year, I and others ride to Daviess County in western Kentucky.
Why?
Mutton.
Yes, that’s an acquired taste that not...
Every February for the past several years, I have invited Guzzisti — and, now and then, even a worthy Other Brander ;) — to “Moto Grappa Tech Days” here at the top of Virginia.
This year’s event was last weekend, tho the run-up started before that, and shooting the wounded extended it until...
Kathi told me some weeks ago — in that charming way the best of wives have in their bag of tricks for herding men — that we would be going down to Wendell (vic. Raleigh), North Carolina. One of our granddaughters had gotten a role in a high-school play, Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing,”...
Kathi and I recently got back from Atlanta after my brother — who had just had triple-bypass surgery — fired me as a nurse.
Seriously, he returned home within days and then had a remarkably rapid recovery. I thought I’d be down there as a CNA, gofer, and more for a month. Nope. “Get outta...
This is about the latest "Mutton Run" to Daviess County in western Kentucky, and includes -- at no extra cost — (a very few) pix of a Hagan family reunion.
As longtime readers of this forum know, for several years, I and others similarly afflicted with a love of motorcycles and willingness to...
I will post this elsewhere, too, but as Scott Mastrocinque was a key player, I thought it only right to put it here first.
And, the “Yet More” is because this is about (yet another but always great fun) “Mutton Run” to Daviess County in western Kentucky. This one was from 26 - 31 May 2022...
This didn't seem to me to fit neatly into this or the "general chat" subforums, so here it is. The mods can move it if misplaced.
So, I suppose the slideshow and its captions tell the story without more, so I'll just post the link with the only intro being that Moto Grappa Tech Days has been...
Today, 4 February 2022, would have been Dennis Kristof’s 79th birthday.
I am sure he would have celebrated with a ride, as he loved motorcycles.
But, sadly, Dennis was killed on 8 January 2022 while riding with a motorcycle touring group in Thailand. His wife and pillion, Taew, was severely...
Here is a photo-show ride report of a just-competed run from the top of Virginia to Owensboro, in western Kentucky and back for — yes, really — mutton. :clap:
Oh, and for bourbon, beer, and more. ;)
Why? Just because, of course.
On Tuesday, 21 September, Larry flew in from Ormond Beach...
Kathi and I have been attending the South’n Spine Raid — a small Moto Guzzi gathering of great folks — for quite a few years. This was the 17th iteration, nearly all HQ’d at the Lodge at Tellico in Tellico Plains, Tennessee.
I rode the Norge and took four days to get there and back, all on...
[This is posted this elsewhere, so, obviously, apologies if you are or will get sick of seeing it. Still, I thought it might be interesting to CARC'ers, if not others. It's about an 8v 2014 Norge, but is, I think, applicable to other CARC's (and more).]
Here's the short version. Wait...
Just saw the banner about that. If you mentioned it before, missed it.
Best wishes on a rapid return to normal -- well, unless surgery was to tie off any "tubing." :giggle: And, even then, to all except the unexpected "expected" in the form of a new diaper wearer! ;)
Bill
...me know if you are interested in joining me on all, part, or meeting me along the way of this motorcycle curve-carving, culinary, and corn-sipping* trek.
Bill
404.EIGHTZEROEIGHT.8486
wrhagan-AT-earthlink-DOT-net
* Yes, it is possible that some a-maizing liquid will be tested, tasted, &...
Many of you have told me how you and others have been near distraught at the delay in getting pix posted of the recently concluded Moto Grappa Tech & Tire Days, 2021 [abbreviated confusingly and saving only few letters as "MGTTD MMXXI."]
OK, OK, maybe only person has, and he was being...