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Title: WV National photo
Post by: 21SC on March 09, 2025, 09:58:13 AM
I was still relatively new to Guzzi when this photo was taken, I believe it was the National early 2000's. In all my years riding since I was 16 years old, I never experienced a sense of community as strong as this. I'm now a tic over 70 and still feel that way. If you see yourself here, feel free to chime in and say hi

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Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: Joliet Jim on March 09, 2025, 10:50:57 AM
Back when my knees still let me get in and out of that position. Lower right
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: 21SC on March 09, 2025, 11:10:41 AM
Back when my knees still let me get in and out of that position. Lower right
I'm the guy next to you, and I feel your pain!
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: PeteS on March 09, 2025, 11:33:47 AM
I'm the guy next to you, and I feel your pain!

That was my first Guzzi Rally but not in that photo. Now or ever did you live in Livonia?

Pete
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: 21SC on March 09, 2025, 01:03:34 PM
That was my first Guzzi Rally but not in that photo. Now or ever did you live in Livonia?

Pete
Yup, still do, 23 years now. I've been organizing old photos and found some when we met at, if I recall, the Genesee Hotel with the Norton (or was it BSA) club.
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: PeteS on March 09, 2025, 01:49:35 PM
Yup, still do, 23 years now. I've been organizing old photos and found some when we met at, if I recall, the Genesee Hotel with the Norton (or was it BSA) club.

Its been a few years. That would be the Norton club likely on our Polar Bear ride. I miss that place.
This was taken a few years later at WV by Barb Nowell.


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Pete
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: Kev m on March 09, 2025, 07:11:35 PM
Ha ha, that was fun, minus the wet tent and the hangover. I stood in the laundromat across the street in my boxers and boots trying to dry enough clothing for the ride home.

I did like the "all the beer you can drink" part of the rally... And the people.

I think I have a copy of that photo with everyone's names labeled.
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: PeteS on March 09, 2025, 07:37:19 PM
Still have the mug.


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Pete
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: Cam3512 on March 10, 2025, 07:43:21 AM
I’m not in the photo, but that was also my first Guzzi rally. Hooked ever since.

Cam
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: Joliet Jim on March 10, 2025, 08:44:35 AM

I think I have a copy of that photo with everyone's names labeled.

From top left and memory Bob Dentico, Kev M, Dean Rose, Bill, ?, Zoom zoom/john henry. Bottom row names escape me except for mine.
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: Kev m on March 10, 2025, 08:59:42 AM
From top left and memory Bob Dentico, Kev M, Dean Rose, Bill, ?, Zoom zoom/john henry. Bottom row names escape me except for mine.

IIRC ? was DamnYankee/Nelson we rode back to the Philly area together in the rain the next day.

EDIT - middle bottom is Joe A right? He started this thread.

EDIT - PS I can't find the labelled version of that photo.

EDIT, EDIT - FOUND IT (well another version):

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczMSnfZ9mq6aRjWkH34_xZIW9S187E2caKtwTf6bMdZuN413p4Vg_Co61i-qfmRdudE9PL5B6o90VvOI5tW8h-D5DVoi2bnp0XNpXpIzlkWt9cSCrVqwLSCbj24XMUPf8-f-mfhrBIfcgao09Qnwuqn_FQ=w576-h406-s-no-gm?authuser=0)

Cam - funny you were there too, this was a couple of years before I met you I believe right?
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: kingoffleece on March 10, 2025, 09:58:11 AM
I bought Joe A's red Jackal-twice!  bet he rode it to that event.
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: 21SC on March 10, 2025, 01:21:40 PM
I bought Joe A's red Jackal-twice!  bet he rode it to that event.
More than once!
Title: Re: WV National photo
Post by: guzziart on March 13, 2025, 06:40:42 AM
My first WV rally was in '05 or '06.  I enjoyed them, the saturday parade, the fire dept, the friendly New Cumberland residents, etc.  Good times!