Lunch, Ray's in Rye, Sunday

Looks like Catskills will be all rained out (as usual) and I'll be going elsewhere. (not really wanting to get all wet again, like almost every year)

Three of us are meeting early in the morning, Sunday 10/5 for a street ride. Looks like we will be making our way towards Rye, NH for some lobsta at Ray's.

0700 at Parker's Maple Barn in Mason, NH. Breakfast, leisure chatter, then kickstands up.

Unfortunately, Mr. Martin, I will not be able to make it all the way to lunch, so will have to do Ray's another time. BUT, I'll see you FF's at 0700 sharp!

What?

Are you planning to leave me with the mad Russian all by myself?

Yes, yes I am.

Anyone wants to join in, now that CJ is gone you don't have to be afraid

The idea is:

Breakfast at Parker's

ride
ride
ride
ride
ride

Lunch (late lunch) at Ray's in Rye.

Start with maple, and end with lobstah, with a few miles in between. Street only this time.

I'm on a B12, Andrei is on a FJR.

HMMM, I may be down for some maple sunday AM see you guys at 7

The pressure - I may have to actually plan a route.

It will be good to see you again.

According to rays website ,
if coming from the north , head south
if coming from the south , head north
if coming from the west , head east

how can you go wrong .

And if you are coming from the east, you'd better be in a boat

After looking for dirt roads only for the past several years, I just realized that I'm no longer familiar with interesting paved roads in the area.

Take a look at the two gpx routes, and let me know if either one of them appeal to you - both take about 4 hrs from Parkers to Rays, and go the long way round (101 is no fun).

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=25211194#post25211194

Map linky no worky

Well, the gpx is up, but gdb is not possible to upload.

The route, anyway, is just a long way around the cities, north/east/south, about 4hrs.

But we can either wing it, or decide on a route over breakfast.

I'm easy , its nice to not be the ride leader for a change .

This is just an option. If the route sucks, we can just wing it:

Parker's Maple Barn
668 Brookline Rd
449 Depot Rd
39 Mason Rd
57 Greenville Rd
524 Gibbons Hwy
377 Gibbons Hwy
Gibbons Hwy and E Intervale Rd
Forest Rd and Pleasant St
527 Forest Rd
876 Forest Rd
Francestown Rd
483 New Boston Rd
149 River Rd
677 River Rd
371 Pattee Hill Rd
645 Jewett Rd
368 Hopkinton Rd
53 Lake View Dr
112 Hoit Rd
254 Hwy 129
865 Hwy 129
172 Webster Mills Rd
Hwy 107 and North Rd
84 Nottingham Rd
58 Harvey Mill Rd
300 Portsmouth Ave
Ray's Seafood Restaurant


Essentially, heading from Parkers to Wilton, Francestown, Dunbarton, Henniker, Contoocook, Loudon, Epsom, Nottingham, Newmarket, to Rye.

as long as you can avoid the interstate , I'm sure we will have fun.

No interstate at all. There is only one very short stretch of 101, but the rest is all secondary roads.

Should be fun.

Just got home , 340miles for the day , Henry , thanks for leading me around , nice selection .

SO , here is the big story .

This morning heading north , Henry spotted the cop on the side of the road and slowed down before he hit us with radar .( not that we were going super fast ) . Then less than 2 miles up the road we came upon a motorcycle accident that had just happened , people attending to the rider laying in the road , and others slowing traffic at both ends of the corner . Henry and I make a U turn to go back to get the cop . Henry explains the situation up the road , and the cops response was " the town line is right there , and that is in a different town, but thanks for letting me know , oh and by the way how is the guy doing ?" Henry responded I don't know , it just happened and the guy is laying in the road way .
We turn around to go back toward the scene, and about 1/2 way back , I see the cop coming up behind me , either his conscious kicked in and didn't want to be responsible if he didn't respond to another human being in need , or dispatch ordered him to go , either way , he responded to the scene . We wait a minute , and see that there are many people there tending to the rider .

We have our lunch , say our good byes , Henry heads off to run an errand , and I head off back tracking the route .
I get back to that road a few miles before the crash scene and get stuck behind 2 horse trailers going under the speed limit , I see a long straight and pass them , shortly after , I have blue lights behind me .
Cop was nice , acknowledged that the horse trailers were going slow , but pointed out that it is still not legal to pass them on a double yellow .
After we exchange papers , I give him my info , he comes back with it and a warning on memo paper ( not an official one) . He says " we already had 1 accident today " I explained the story about it .
He let me know the rider is okay , but has a few broken ribs .
I still can't figure how the guy went down, the corner wasn't much to speak about and the road surface was pretty clear .

Henry thanks again for leading today

Sean, you backtracked all the way?

I ran the errand (yes, daddy) and headed home the long way south/eastward. Along the way, my neutral light kept flickering, and finally lit up for the last 80 or so miles. But I must have been in gear because I kept moving.

I thought the morning roads were nice.

Thanks for riding with me, and bah humbug to the two others with excuses.

I back tracked to 106 near louden , then hopped on 393 to 89 1 exit to RT 13 down into Fitchburg and 31 to back roads home .
My boney ass is sore after spending the full day in the saddle .

thanks again

367 miles for me, and yes, my ass is feeling it. The funny thing is, I did not feel sore after 16 hrs on the WRR

I'll need to work on the Bandit's seat.