Yo buddy, good to see you back in the mix!
Cam -
Thanks. I do like to keep up with how people are doing and where and when we meet. I enjoyed Bill�s photos of your July 4th Pennsylvania ride-out and wondered out loud why no one had a patch kit for your drywall screw until I realized that that neat old bike has tubed tires. One word for tubes � Slime!
Opportunities for discussion here being a bit limited in the current environment, I do have a few pics of the last ride to the Virginia rally �.
Including my favorite tent, the Redverz:
At a lovely spot by the stream at Willville:
Pat W. and partner come riding in from Wilmington NC � Pat got �Oldest Rider� award, beating some stiff competition from Dean Rose �
Still early, just a few folks setting up �
Pat Gailbraith had this nice old Tonti up for sale; don�t know if it sold or not but it was at a buyable price:
Several Loops ridden in from afar:
And the perpetual Dead Horse Memorial Rat Bike Award Winner.
Mike Jones� old Convert road warrior � E Tremble, note the lack of normal passenger pegs, they�re made into the rear crash bar ..
My Stelvio, newly recovered from tappet surgery:
Two more Stelvios parked up right next to my place:
Stelvios owned by the two folks in the center, Johannes and Christine, faithful ralliers all up and down the east coast, with Tom Farley (beret) and David Phillips chatting �
It�s my job to make the campground smell like bacon frying on Saturday mornings:
on my way to making an omelet �
Off for a ride to the local sights on Saturday with Mike and Nate Jones � Philpott Lake and Dam -
Then a lunch stop � Nate�s 750 Breva, Mike�s Convert, my Stelvio at a place with a lot of local �color� and decent food to boot �
Everyone gathers after dinner Saturday for Awards Time:
Sunday, Mark Tenney and I took a brisk ride across the top of North Carolina from Meadows of Dan to Raleigh to see �Eurobike Day� at Moore Square in Raleigh -
There�s quite a �Young Folks� group around there with the goal of �Put together a bike for < $500�; they have fun with it!
Altogether a very nice three-day weekend, and happy to see so many old friends and compatriots �
Ron K., our rally host, has let us know well in advance that this is really really really the last rally that he and Alice are doing, they�ve given megawatts of life energy to the Va rally over the last decades and this is it, so we�re waiting for the legions to raise the next Caesar on their shields �
Lannis
