Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Re: Re:National next year?

Author: mike skaggs

Date: Aug 24, 2000, 6:11 AM

Post ID: 1702062532


Sounds like a plan!!!.......or at least the start.....so when is next years
meet?

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: David Otis <dot-@v-one.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Re:National next year?


 I am in, I was planning to do it anyway, I will have a truck with trailer,
and
 a 100% tool and part inventory, I hope to have my wife drive it, but I'll
hire
 someone to if I have to, I will of course be on a loop frame. We need to
start
 planning just as Mike said. I think we should plan on several days there
and
 back so we don't have to kill ourselves. (I want to enjoy not Ironize my
butt).
 
I will provide a complete rolling shop with everything possible to fix a
loopframe, even spare engines and transmissions, tires, tubes, air
comperssor,
 generator, power tools etc.

CA or Bust! (IF BUST WE FIX) 2001!

ANYONE KNOW THE DATE AND LOCATION YET?



On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
 Hi Charlie,

I enjoyed meeting you too.

Where abouts do you live? I have been thinking about riding to the
National
 
 next year. I called my run to Virginia a pilgrimage this year. I don't
see
 
 why I can't run across the country next year under the same pretense.
This
 
 year's experience was truly enlightening.

OK...so how would we do this? Assuming that I can get the time off....I
would like to plan this as an event to enjoy. So that means no 1000 mile
iron butts. Nice rides through the country with manageble distances. I
guess
 
 that maybe I am not being realistic in this regard. After all we would
be
 
 riding over 2000 miles and amny can't get the time off.

What I would like to do is to have the route preplanned so that people
could
 
 join in with us as we made our way across the country. Can you imagine
the
 
 group growing as we moved across the continent (army music playing in
the
 
 backgroud :-)). We could even have a supply truck follow us. We could
all
 
 chip in an pay for the gas. I would happily chip in just to have the
bike
 
 without its load of gear not to mention the spare parts and fuel.

Of course we are a long way away from the event but I think it is good
to
 
 start talking (dreaming) about it now. Maybe instead of having a
Loopframe
 
 meet we could have a Loopframe "tour"? What do you think O'Master Guzzi
Guru?

Keep dreaming....now I really have something to look forward to :-)

Ian

p.s. I posted this to the Loopframe list so that we could get some
preliminary suggestions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Mullendore <C.D.Mul-@worldnet.att.net>
To: Ian Adkins <adk-@gte.net>
Date: August 23, 2000 11:38 PM
Subject: Re:National next year?


 Hi Ian,
Yes, I started thinking about this even before the National. A friend
writes for
 the Martinsburg (WV) Journal and is on a "one-lap" of the USA on his
'74
 
 Eldo (4
 shoe front brake, Amal carbs). His column is in every Sunday titled
"National
 Rambler" by Dan Friend. He mentions the Guzzi quite a lot, such as the
time
 
 he
 hauled fire wood stacked on the seat higher than him seated on the
bike -
 
 other
 campers at Yellowstone looking on in amazement. In the last column, he
has
 
 just
 replaced the timing chain in his motel parking lot and headed east
through
 
 AZ.
 His exploits have encouraged me to go west, as I have been no farther
west
 
 than
 Cincinnati,OH. At this point the plan is if I can build up a fresh
engine
 
 and
 tranny by then I'll go (if not may still go but by BMW R100RS or
train). It
 
 
 would be great to get a group of Loopers together and ride enmass!
Imagine
 
 the
 looks we would get! Anywho, it was very nice meeting you and hope to
see
 
 you
 again. Later!

Charlie

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