Looks like we're just not garnering interest in rallies much anymore. No national rally last year or this year, fewer standard rallies, and just a waning perhaps in the rally-by-a-campfire interest. I do see still good numbers in the MSTA/BMWRA/BMWMOA rallies I attend. Still, numbers of people buying Guzzis seem up...they're just not campers/rallygoers.
https://www.mgnoc.com/rally_calendar.html
Well, ask someone like bobrebos1 how easy or difficult it is to get people to show up for a lunch, let alone a rally.
As has already been posted, it’s a thankless, tiring, sometimes depressing experience I’m sure.
Motorcycle camping rallies, and certainly single brand rallies seem to be on a diminishing trend.
I personally haven’t been to a Moto Guzzi rally since the early 2000’s in Minnesota. I woke up to 4” of water in
my tent. That was almost 25 years ago and I haven’t seen the inside of a tent since. In the late 1980’s and 1990’s
when I lived in Southern California, I attended a bunch of Moto Guzzi rallies all over the western US.
But, nowadays, my ‘camping’ is a Holiday Inn Express. That, and my work and personal schedule seldom allow for a weekend or more to attend a rally.
Though I attend a huge rally at least once a year. Something like Daytona or Panama City Beach. 1,000’s of bikes, maybe a few dozen campers. Such is life nowadays.
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