Home safe thread

[Billbikes19810]

I made it home at 4:20, left around 9:30(I waited until the heavy stuff passed over Bennington). I started with rain gear on, took it off somewhere on the Thruway, Put it back on entering Pennsylvania, Took it off an hour later, I had another rain storm an hour from home, said screw it, I'm NOT STOPPING. The leathers did a better job of shedding rain than I figured, The only somewhat close call was about 20 miles from home when some idiot stopped suddenly without brake lights, I lived, not really that close a call, but it raised the pulse anyway....
Then the GF had errands for me to run....

Can't Wait Til Next Year!!!!

[KingOfFleece]

1325 miles of happy boy-that's me. We had huge rain and 50 mph crosswinds-so what did we do? HAMMER DOWN to 85-Jeff sure sets the pace on that Tiger!

Thanks to ALL for another fantastic event. I'm really gald we were able to contribute in a small way to the Bash.

Brian, the "strive for 5" is ON for next year!

[b_mason]

Well as expected I rode home in the rain but that is the joy of riding in new england in the spring.

The biggest problem I had besides the driving rain and winds was the asshole in the ford contour that relized he had no ezpass moved sideways and came with in a foot of side swiping me! The toll booth operator even said something about it! I also had the biggest scare beyond the car further up the highway. There was about 2 feet of standing water in the fastlane. Jen was leading(thank god) the way. I saw a wall of water coming down on me as I was going thru the path she made. PUCKER factor 50!!!

I was a great riding weekend regardless of the weather. I'm glad I came this year and a thanks to Mark for being anti-social with me thursady night. Sadly I only put 900 miles on the bike so I pale in comparision to Brian's 1300!!

[BIKER]

what a great rally...me and my wife had a great time all the people were great and made our first BTB a rally to rember ...will post pic's later thanks every one for a great time we had..

Ed & Vicki ....

[mark]

thanks to Mark for being anti-social with me thursady night.

Any time, Brett!

We definitely had a great little campground crew. Lots of fun hanging with you, Mike, Kevin, Grisha, and Vanya. Apologies to the Rockers though for not hanging out with them more!

--mark

[Boosted Thrills]

Left Bennington at about 10:30am, was home by 2:30. Stopped for breakfast and also at the hairpin on Route 2 in MA for some pictures. Got rained on from Williamstown, MA leaving the breakfast place until about Drury, MA and we were fine until we stopped for a drink in Amherst, then the rain caught up to us. We got back on as soon as we could and out ran the storm from Belchertown the rest of the way home. I guess the storm was moving at about 50-55mph! We only really put distance on it when we got on the Mass Pike, and it started a maelstrom at my house about a half hour after I pulled in.

Thanks again to everyone who helps put on this awesome event!

the "strive for 5" is ON for next year!

Can't wait for this.

[GerryP]

Thanks to all who organized this event. It was my first moto rally too.

Had a great ride up on Thursday with ricster and skidplate. Good rides on Friday and a safe and DRY ride home today.

looking forward to next year.

Thanks again everyone.

Gerry

[trophy900]

Left Bennington at about 10:30am, was home by 2:30. Stopped for breakfast and also at the hairpin on Route 2 in MA for some pictures. Got rained on from Williamstown, MA leaving the breakfast place until about Drury, MA and we were fine until we stopped for a drink in Amherst, then the rain caught up to us. We got back on as soon as we could and out ran the storm from Belchertown the rest of the way home. I guess the storm was moving at about 50-55mph! We only really put distance on it when we got on the Mass Pike, and it started a maelstrom at my house about a half hour after I pulled in.

Thanks again to everyone who helps put on this awesome event!

the "strive for 5" is ON for next year!

Can't wait for this.

We took a similar route and stayed in the one spot of non-rain. Took 7 down to 2 and then took route 2 to central MA. Didn't stop at the hairpin too fogged in when we got there. Stopped in Shelbourne falls for lunch (ran into the tail end of the rain in front of us) and then a straight line for home - started raining, thunder, lightning, branches falling - 20 minutes after we parked the bikes.

We made it safe and sound, but the bikes are still caked with the grey clay crap from the Route 9 construction zone we unfortunately hit on the way to the BBQ on Friday. That stuff is nasty sticky - I cleaned it off the chain on Saturday but the rest of the bike still carries the badge of honor from BTB2010!

[matts1050]

Rain all the way to northern CT then it cleared the rest of the way. Whatever, as long as we had good weather for the rides!

[AtticaTiger]

GREAT TIME!!!!!!!! great scenery, roads and people who I now call friends...road home with the WNY gang in hard rain and cross winds but lots of fun in a sick and dimented sort of way! Thanks to all! Glad to meet two more crazy Wyoming Countiers in Jeff & Chris. We hauled arse home, but my triumph Acton drawers were soaked right through!

[b_mason]

but my triumph Acton drawers were soaked right through!

Attica Tiger,

My acton pants were water tight with the only exception being my ass was wet from setting on my soaking wet seat! I do agree that the rain was fun in a sick and demented way, I enjoy the looks from the american twin riders parked under the overpasses as I scream by!

[mark]

I must have looked pretty pathetic on the way home -- I stopped at the Maplefield's on Rt 7 in New Haven to pee and warm up a bit, and the cashier didn't charge me for the cup of coffee I got.

--mark

[amrehm]

funny. On the way home it was raining so hard visibiltiy was zero. I went real slow while Mark & Dave stopped along the road & parked under a tree. The man from the house they were parked in front of came out & asked them if they wanted to come in & wait for a while.

They didn't go in.

[b_mason]

It did rain extremely hard in Maine, I luckily had to stop to use the bathroom, I hung my helmet on my handlebars but left the visor slightly open allowing the down pour to enter my helmet. natures revenge for my rain attitude!

[schuitz]

Kevin & I rode all the way up to Ottawa. We stopped for a bathroom break near Granville, I said "maybe we'll get lucky with the rain", and Kevin could have shot me. Not one mile later, there were cats and dogs hailing out of the sky. Whoops.

We rode up 22 to Ticonderoga, cut up to 9 and over to Lake Placid. Kevin is as snug as anything, but I'm freezing my azz off due to the shitty gloves I swore I was going to burn at *last year's* BTB. I force him to pull into the Lake Placid HoJo so I can grab a tea and make love to the hand dryer in the men's room. That HoJo smelled like (in Kevin's words ) "hot dog water" and (in mine) toilet pucks. Blech. We scrammed out of there. We passed 1,000,000 bikes going the other way to Americade, and we were not sad.

In Canton, a raging debate ensues when Kevin gets a bunch of USD out of an ATM to spend while he is *in Canada*. My brain can't deal with the effrontery of this, less so as it is demonstrated over the next two days that any number of Canadian retailers happily accept US money. Well hell. You learn something now and again.

I think Kevin had his own pucker moment going over the wet grated bridge at Ogdensburg NY. It's exciting enough when it is dry and calm. Meanwhile my shitty gloves are soaked and take 5 minutes to put on, so I leave the throttle hand off after paying the bridge toll, and I am going over this thing one-gloved. But I've done this bridge a few times, so I don't get that oh-shit feeling anymore.

We cross into canada, and the edge of this shit weather. Near the St. Lawrence we hit our first dry pavement all day. As we rolled into Ottawa around 6pm, the sun broke through the lower edge of the clouds. Ahhhhh...

Yesterday was so awesome, I repacked my tent and led Kevin out through some of the nicer roads, and we capped things off by staying overnight at a friend's idyllic lake home in the Muskokas. Kev & I parted ways in Huntsville, and I rolled in today with about 1500 miles on the clock.

A selection of moments from the weekend:
http://mokzone.smugmug.com/Travel/Benni ... gVy#P-1-10

Thanks everyone for a great time.
mike