I am interested in setting up or joining a weekend ride up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. I have seen other rides to the peak but am interested in a late August or September one day trek with some gravel roads and the like thrown in.
Mudhen, you listening? Mechanologist? Echoyankee? Used2jeep?
I won't be on my 05 Silver Tiger. Triumph decided to replace it with an 06 Blue Tiger after the engine ate itself and sent me onto the deck. The broken kneecap is healing and I am anxious to get back on board.
Let's try to avoid suicidal horses and psychotic dogs this time.
Great to hear from you! I am glad that everything seems to have turn out well. Count me in.
Scott
I PM'd Mudhen. He is on board too. I think he's still got the list of NE Tigers so we might be able to put together several riders.
Yes, things seem to be turning out OK for me with the wrecked Tiger.
Glad you are interested--and I am also interested in some of the additions you've made to your Tiger.
As far as a date for this ride--how about choosing among Aug. 26, Sept. 2, and Sept. 9. There's sure to be conflicts with some of those dates, but we should be able to find a good time for all.
I'm most likely not in.
9/8-10 is the Advrider CroMag campout. Which equals a 3 day kitchen pass for me...camping, drinking, dirt-ing. My once a year get away from the family and break my bike ride. No way would I get a pass for any day close to that...
I'll try to get that email out to the Tiger group, though. And maybe if you do it on 9/9 you could make a weekend of it and attend CroMags!
Pat
Where is everyone gone?
Not committing because of an erratic work schedule however, I'd love to come down from Nova Scotia...
need to have a dealer service prior to that, but having trouble getting it done.
I've a new front tire, and chain and sprockets..... Good excuse for me to order the cee-baileys and try it long distance.
DEFINATLEY wont be going with just the Triumph tall screen!
September is better for me, in fact the later the better and I can try my heated vest.
I might be able to scrounge up a couple of D/S riders from up this way too. :D
Erwin
Quote from: "Mechanoligist"Where is everyone gone?
Last I heard everyone got GSs and sold off their Tigers...it's just us guys left...
Ah, Hell. Join us on your new GS and bring the new owner of your old Tiger along. He or she probably needs the experience.
Looks like later in September might be the best time. If there's more interest in the 16th, 23rd, or 30th of September, let's go then. This isn't an assault on Alaska: it's just a good day ride with some NE altitude.
Bring your Gerbing, though.
:smt116
(http://freethebeast.smugmug.com/photos/3798902-L.jpg)
:lol:
Just got the email - strong possibilty.
8-10, out - at Cromag's. 16-17, out - moose hunting.
...but it depends on these items. 1 - new baby, 2 - I would like to do the Cromag as well since I missed the Hot Springs Rendezvous.
I think it would be a great ideaa to combine it with the Cromag. I don't believe that it is too distant. :D
Nice old school pic Patrick!
BTW - If anyone has a spare mirror head (left side but I think they are identical) - how much for it? Or maybe one that has the same threads? Something tipped over when the GPS "road" I was on turned into an ATV trail... :oops:
Looks as if we should go on Sept. 23rd. That's two weeks sobering up time after CroMag and before the serious snow flies on the mountain.
A rider on the yahoo tiger forum has in mind a nice curvy gravel road in the vicinity of Mt. Washington for a bit more fun.
How many are in for September 23rd?
Count me in. Rather ride in 45 degrees than 90!
I think the Sept. 23 is a strong possibility.
I have NOT gone and bought a GS.
Thanks to Mudhen for the email.
I plead 'fog of work.' Big deadline recently met and now have about 3 days before a trip overseas.
Still Tiger-ing back and forth to work.
This whole 955i autodigesting itself thing blows me away. I can't believe that this actually happened and ended up causing a fairly serious injury.
Maybe this bike was the proverbial black cat that also attracted odd animals. Or did these animals, with their sharpened sense of hearing, know in advance that the bike was going to autodigest itself. Were they trying to warn us....
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Uh, nevermind.
I'll try to find some layers and catch up with you for the Sep23 ride.
Best,
echoyankee
I have 4 or 5 people interested in September 23rd for a MT. Washington ride. We are still a go.
Keep checking this thread and I will post a meeting place and time.
I'm Jazzd
Depends on my broken wrist. Probably 75% no but I will check back.
Alas. The calendar has bitten me in the behind. I'm going to have to miss out on the Mt. Wash ride.
Regrets,
echoyankee
Quote from: "used2jeep"Depends on my broken wrist. Probably 75% no but I will check back.
Uh oh...what happened? I thought you were going up to CroMags - or did it happen up there?
Quote from: "Mudhen"Uh oh...what happened? I thought you were going up to CroMags - or did it happen up there?
Nope, I was going to go CroMag but I broke my wrist in several places playing softball. Out of work, no driving, for 4 more weeks. http://picasaweb.google.com/used2jeep
What is up gentlemen?
I will be leaving Bedford MA at about 7:00 AM (Rte 3 and 128) on Saturday for Mt. Washington. I hope to meet as many of you as possible at the visitor's Center at Mt. Washington at 10:30 AM.
I was at Mt. Washington a week and a half ago and wasn't allowed to ride my Tiger on the Mountain because of ice on the road. So I don't know whether we will be able to ride up the mountain or not. But that area has some great roads (Kankamankus [sp] highway, the Hurricane Mtn road, other roads.) So even if the mountain is closed to us, we will have some great riding.
If I am the only one there by 10:45, I will ride alone.
If you can join me in Bedford MA at about 7:00 am or Manchester NH about 8:00 AM send me a PM and let me know.
Otherwise, I will see you at the visitor's center.
This Saturday may be the last great Saturday for riding the roads of New Hampshire before the leaf peepers and the cold makes it intolerable. I hope to see you there.
Tallerman
Well, at least I tried. I left Bedford MA as planned at 0700 and rode into four hours of solid rain. At two and a half hours in, just about to rte 153, I gave up and sped home. Even if I had made it to MT. Washington, the road would have been closed to motorcycles and there would have been no view at all.
Miserable weather but, perversely, a nice ride. My rain gear kept me mostly dry, the Tiger held the road very well on the Anakees (if anyone should make a bike that works well in the rain, it should be the Brits). There wasn't much traffic and I found some fine back roads.
My apologies to any martyr who got the the visitor's center and found me not there. Who sat waiting, miserable and damp, cold, alone, and bereft.
:roll:
I will wait until June 07 to set up another ride in July 07.
I was there...waiting...
(you don't know any different now, do you...)
There's still the Bayley Hazen ride - anyone interested in riding some dirt in the Northeast Kingdom of VT???? 10/7-8. It's posted over on advrider for anyone interested.
New England Tiger riders.
In.
Quote from: "Mudhen"I was there...waiting...
(you don't know any different now, do you...)
There's still the Bayley Hazen ride - anyone interested in riding some dirt in the Northeast Kingdom of VT???? 10/7-8. It's posted over on advrider for anyone interested.
New England Tiger riders.
In.
I may actually be able to physically ride by then! :D
Geez, Mudhen,
That sounds pathetic. Now I feel terrible, picturing you there at the visitor's center waiting, hoping, looking at your watch, studying the underside of the old steam car that was the first motorized vehicle to drive to the top, looking outside cheerfully any time a motorcycle passes by, even smiling at the three surly Harley dudes that filed out of the bathroom.
Then sighing, cursing softly, slowly donning your wet gear, looking once more at the clouded in mountain. Riding home, disappointed, damp, and depressed.
:smt022 :oops:
I would ride the 10/7 ride but I will be in NM for a wedding.
Anything else cooking for a leaf peeper season ride?
We peeped some leaves up in VT...
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So that's a wrap, huh? The end of '06?
You guys that are close should come up to Redhook on 11/7 for the RAT get together...
Mudhen,
Great photos. I rode through snow flurries this morning just west of Keene. The leaves were all blowing around like senile dervishes having a deadly second childhood.
This is the first I've heard about a 11/7 RAT in Redhook. On a Tuesday? I would be game if it were a weekend, but I will be working with the IRS in DC on the 7th. RATS!
I have decided to keep riding and get at least one ride in every month year round.
Tallerman
Quote from: "Tallerman"Mudhen,
Great photos. I rode through snow flurries this morning just west of Keene. The leaves were all blowing around like senile dervishes having a deadly second childhood.
This is the first I've heard about a 11/7 RAT in Redhook. On a Tuesday? I would be game if it were a weekend, but I will be working with the IRS in DC on the 7th. RATS!
I have decided to keep riding and get at least one ride in every month year round.
Tallerman
You rode
yesterday?Psycho. Did you have to jump any fallen trees?
I'm up to 43 months in a row...but this could be it for me. Our new driveway is a pretty steep dirt hill - once it gets some snow on it, it'll be there until spring :cry:
Mudhen,
43 months straight is impressive.
With that new tractor you should be able to clear a path all the way into the dirt/gravel. Your Tiger should be able to make it fine.
Yep, rode yesterday through all those 50 knot gusts. The Tiger sits tall and I sit taller, but it's a heavy bike and surprisingly stable in the wind.
I didn't have to dodge falling limbs, but I did have to swerve to avoid some erratic birds and I took a large plastic garbage bag directly into the face. An exciting moment as I rode blind for about a tenth of a mile while I got the plastic away from me. (I think it would have been hilarious to have a video of me trying to clear that garbage bag off my face. It got hung up on the windscreen so it kept blowing back into my face as fast as I could sweep it away.)
The new 06 Tiger is running fine. It still has a hard vibration above 5000 rpm but it's not as bad as it was 2000 miles ago. Above 7000 rpm the vibration is very harsh so I keep the revs down--Damn, above 7 grand is where the fun starts.
I hope I don't have to prove their worth, but I just received some custom air mesh Kevlar pants. Now I need some warm weather to try them out.
I made another trip to Mt. Washington a few weeks ago but I just didn't have enough time/daylight to ride to the top. I am still jazzed to make that ride happen. I will suggest it to Second Wind as an outreach ride for June. They are looking for ways to be a center for the NH riding community (I sound like a marketing geek).
What's this about a RAT ride in November?
Quote from: "Tallerman"What's this about a RAT ride in November?
Not a ride...just a get together. Some people were asking about trying to get together once a month and this is the first installment.
It's this coming Tuesday 11/7, 6pm.
Actually, I've been thinking about blowing off work one day and riding somewhere....like Lubec, or Fort Kent. Maybe Tuesday would be a good day - then finish at RedHook.
Anyone interested in having lunch in the Easternmost town in the US? Or chancing the predicted 'snow showers' and trying to hit Fort Kent?
Anyone...anyone...Buellor...
As normal, I'm a day late and a dollar short.
I'll catch most of you next spring anyway, hopefully. Anyone using Pelican cases on their rides here? Interested in mounting options, it seems the SW-Motech is the best way to go.
Any New England riders thinking about doing the Tiger ride in in Penn. this June?
I'll have to look it up. Is it on the RAT site?
I'm considering it. I just need to wait until it gets closer to make definite plans.
U2J, the website is here: http://www.nittanyroadriders.com/TRIn/PA2007.htm (http://www.nittanyroadriders.com/TRIn/PA2007.htm)
Pat
Thanks for the Link Pat. Let me know when you decide.
Tallerman...you coming?
Oh ya...sorry...forgot... :lol:
Sure would be great having a big northeast contingent for the ride down!
Hey Pat! It's me, Notmike. How have you been? I'm thinking about heading down to this gathering. Maybe we can ride down together.
Thanks folks! I may be in. the "may" comes into place because a cross country ride is the hopeful target for this year. If it doesn't work out then I should be able to sneak out for a long weekend.