Charlotte: Ride Planning, 3rd Thursday Pizza-Meet and General Hooliganism

Not sure if I can make dinner tomorrow, but I will meet you guys for lunch and the show Saturday. Guy is supposed to be coming all the way from Indiana to buy my V-Strom around 3pm, guess i'll cage it out so I don't wreck the bike I'm about to get cash for.

And for anyone who cares to know, I'm getting my '07 Bandit 1250 back, again. Love the Wee, but need the $$$.

Hope to see you Thursday and Saturday. Sorry about the Wee - I know you loved that bike. But..... now that you have the Bandit back (again) maybe we'll talk you into an Iron Butt ride or something...

My meeting conflict for tonight has been rescheduled, so I'll see you guys at Hawthorne's.

As for the Wee, yep, it's definitely a great bike and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Listed it here in the FM on a whim, and found a buyer willing to pay my asking price, so I couldn't pass it up. Thankfully there's plenty out there if I ever want one again.

I sure am looking forward to twisting the throttle on my B1250 with almost double the HP of the Wee.

See y'all tonight. Anybody else coming?

OK ...managed to stay in town after work...have killed a little over 1/2 of the 3 hrs between work and dinner. I'm all shopped out though so now I'm just hanging out in Independence park across the street from Hawthorns having a cigar...this smoke will be dead before 6 tho....then what should I do?

CMPD just buzzed through on one of their dualsport Suzukis....ripping right across the grass! :huh Maybe the neighbors reported a funny lookin guy in the park! oser

I'm heading that way now, let me know if you need to be bailed out.

So far so good....he just blasted through once....

Couldn't find ya, so now I'm just hangin out at the patio at Hawthornes.

I'm about a block away sitting at a picnic table with my netbook.....gonna power down and pull the truck around now...see ya soon.

Enjoyed seeing everyone. Think we had 8 maybe 9 total. Looking forward to the show Saturday.

Tentative now at best as I have to go out of town on Sunday.

Jon

Looks like I will have to bail on tomorrow due to work-related commitments. Have fun; I'll catch you all later.

BluRidgeRider

OK - looks like the gray will be moving away by tomorrow. Who's up for riding rendezvous?

btw - anyone been to this place for eats?:

http://www.macspeedshop.com/

any good?

MACs is very good!

+1 great eats


The Strom is officially sold.

So, how was the show, guys?

What kind of ride? I may have a couple hours today.

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the Tilted Kilt (there were 9 or 10 of us?). Snapped a sneak peek of our waitress - she was actually not a very good waitress but in ADV tradition I post the picture here..



The show itself I found disappointing - there were a lot fewer vendors than last year and I struggled to spend more than an hour wandering around.

Joe, give the girl credit...with a name like Columbiana (not sure if that is the common spelling) she is destined to be a waitress or stripper. Of course, stripper might work better for her!

I found the show a little "blah" myself. I'm thinking about 30% smaller then last year.

I did have a good time shooting the shit with everyone though so I found it to be a day well spent!

. had a great time listening to the tat trip tales at tilted kit.