First Ride 2011 – Vanilla Bean
I want to thank everyone for a great day of good fun and riding. What a turn out for our first ride of the season. I think almost eveyone in the chapter made it for the ride today. The weather was pretty good for most of the day. I was sunny and warm all the way to the VB and it rained while we ate, indoors. By the time we were done the rain had stopped and we started home. We hit some wet roads and a brief shower but we out ran that one as well. I did not hit rain again until Hopington by the State Park but it was just a brief shower. Sorry there were not any rainbows.
Jack, thanks for helping me out and bing the Road Captain for most of the day.
I would like all the tail gunners, Munds, Bob B. and Danny to send me an email to let me know what they observed from the back of the ride. I am interested in ways to improve our ride so things like hand signals being or not being used would be of interest to me. How did we did we do as a group, intervals, stagger, things like that as well.
I thought having Manny up front with his CB and Munds in the back with his CB worked out well but I would be interested in what others thought of the idea.
Again, thanks to everyone for a great day and for making our chapter one of the best in Star.
Wayne
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Hey Everyone,
We had a good turnout for our first ride of the season. It was a warm, sunny day to start out. The weather was nice all the was down to Connecticut. The way home was a different story. We had it all thrown at us today. The only thing missing was the rainbow. I think those were more than just sun showers on the way home. We certainly lucked out by choosing to eat indoors at the Vanilla Bean. What was it, maybe ten minutes after we sat down and the sky opened up and by the time we finished it had stopped. Most of us decided to “rainpant up ” before leaving. Good choice considering we had blue skies, with clouds, and sunshine and RAIN ! By the time we reached Rendezvous it had stopped. After saying good byes I made it home in time to get the lawn mowed before it started raining here. My wife said it had not rained here all day. But it followed me home enough where I had just about finished and it started to rain.
Anyway, THANKS EVERYONE for what was still a GREAT day with GREAT friends !
Danny
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We also had a great time today. Thanks, Jack for a real nice route to the Vanilla Bean. After we left the Rendezvous, Ray & I got caught in the rain on Rt 146. We ducked in to the Xtra Mart to wait out the heavy downpour, thunder and lightning. Peter was there, too and waited inside for a while with us. We left together once it looked to be pretty much over. It did still rain on and off for the rest of our ride home. Sterling was dry and didn’t get the rain until after we pulled into our garage. Glad we kept our rain suits on!
Fran
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It was nice to shake off the cob webs with our first Chapter ride of the season.Wayne and Jack did a great job leading us through some nice roads even with the rain I enjoyed the ride.I would like to thank Danny for helping me out with Tailgunning duty.Danny I’ll ride in the back of the group with you any day.I think we have a tailgunner in the making.I also would like to thank Manny for being my eyes and ears in the front of the pack I thought it worked out great with the C.B.”S.
Bob Edmunds
