Group Ride - Saturday, August 10th...

[JJ]

Sounds like a plan, maybe we can hook up before Sat.So I can find out where you live or just meet somewhere on Saturday if we are heading over Alton way.Any idea on where we are going on Saturday yet??

[bnld2]

sup JJ glad to see you found the site... These guys are good so any questions that you may have you can ask them...

Originally posted by CBR600GER

get the OK from my wife

I hear ya CBR600GER, Im a married man myself and know what its like to look rude in the eyes of the wife.LOL.. Maybe I'll be able to do some riding this sat.. If so I'll meet up with you JJ.

[Stoneman]

No idea where we're heading to yet. Depends on who's going, really. I'll give it a coupla more days before I start suggesting routes...

I'm also interested in letting some others lead for part of this ride. I've lead far too many rides, which is part of the reason that I don't do group runs like I used to. Don't get me wrong, I'd just like to hand the reigns to someone else for part of the ride. But I guess that'll depend on which way we head, eh?

[snowborder]

Stones;

We could show em some of the backcountry yeehaw rides around hea?

[Stoneman]

Ayup, could do that tooooo....

We'll wait & see who's gonna show before we decide that up though. But it's definitely in the running. Besides, who wantsta share the roads up here with these clowns?

[beet]

i resemble that remark

[Stoneman]

Can we get a list of definites going here? I'd like to know who's DEFINITELY going on this ride, and where you're coming from so we can start mapping something out. Do the cut & paste thing, and add your name & location. You may hafta open a new window to do it, but I'd like to avoid all the unnecessary garbly-gook...

Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)

[Stoneman]

Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)

[twrayinma]

Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)

[Stoneman]

Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)
JJ & Tami (Ashland, NH)

[oreo_n2]

Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)
JJ & Tami (Ashland, NH)
Brent and Christina (Arlington, MA) Maybe... wevmight have company this weekend.. then we would have to bail.

[oreo_n2]

never mind, we have to bail.
here is the edited list for cutty pasty operations.


Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)
JJ & Tami (Ashland, NH)
JC (Haverhill, MA)

[Rabid1]

Bill & Jessica(Northfield, NH)
Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)
JJ & Tami (Ashland, NH)
JC (Haverhill, MA)

[PinHead]

Bill & Jessica(Northfield, NH)
Jay & Cheryl (Center Barnstead, NH)
Taylor (Waltham, MA)
JJ & Tami (Ashland, NH)
JC (Haverhill, MA)
ED(Walpole,MA)

[Degsy]

Degsy possibly, my parents are coming in from London on thursday and I have to make sure that they are entertained before I commit. I am about 70% sure of going on the irde though.

degsy

[Stoneman]

This is it so far???

[Stoneman]

A'ight, lemme ax you dis...

How long'll take ya'll to get to ManchAngeles?

[twrayinma]

if i slab it, prolly ~1 hour.

i can generally be outta the house on any given day by about 7am.

-t

ps. brent, you bastard! get my hopes up that we'll actually be able to ride together further than around the block. BAH!

[Stoneman]

How's 10:00 AM at the Mall of New Hampster sound to everyone? Meet at the TGI Friday's parking lot, just at the entrance to the mall?

[twrayinma]

can-do, big man.

can't wait to meet some o' da peeps.
-t

[oreo_n2]

well t, keep it in your pants... you shouldn't be getting that excited about "riding" with another guy... hmmm. maybe you should hang with stoner more.
anyways, the story may change by the time the weekend gets here. my mom is supposed to come visit, but i am wagering she wont show, she doesn't usually ( we have a great relationship.) if no show, then i ride, if she shows, then i dont ride. i know where to meet up with everyone if i can go, but dont bother waiting for me.

[twrayinma]

but you're such a *SEXY* bitch...

oh, wait, no you're not.

[Stoneman]

Okay, here's what I've come up with so far. (I have no problem discussing routes for this as summa us are gonna have pillions, thus making it a ride on the mellow side. Also, I've thrown in a coupla scenic routes too for those looking for photo opp's...)

Meet at the Mall at 10:00...

Take some local roads around Lake Massabesic to get to route 107...

Take 107 north to route 28...

28 north for a coupla miles to route 126...

126 to route 202A, which will take us to route 11. There's a Burger King at that junction...

11 West for a coupla miles to route 153...

153 up to the Conway area, back track a few miles and hit Bear Notch Road off of the Kanc. Bear Notch's road surface sucks, but the views are outrageous...

Take 302 west up through Nawford's Crotch, er....Crawford's Notch to route 3...

Take 3 down to route 93, passing through Franconia Notch, and get off at exit 32. I realize the whole slab thing, but it's only for a few miles. And those that want to, we can stop for some pix of The Bloke On The Bump (Old Man Of The Mountain)...

From exit 32, we have a few really nice options. We can take route 118 south, we can take the Kanc from west to east, or we can take 175 south...

At that point, summa us are gonna hafta decide what we need to do. I know there's a few of us that have plans for later on, and I gotta be back at my place by 4:00 or so...

Word to the wise: The 'notches' we'll be passing through have weather systems of their own. It's bad enough the weather geeks can't get shit right, but shit's ALWAYS changing up through there. Take it as you may...

I'd like to hear from snowboarder about routes once we get back over to 93...

[snowborder]

Jay,

What I would suggest is rather than go through Franconia Notch, slide down 116 to 112. (we could still slide over to the bloke on the bump for a break) Take 112 to 118. Take 118 to 25. Take 25 to Hxxx'x Bxxxx Rd. Take that over to 3a to my shortcut over to 132. Take 132 south to Concord and part from there.

I was thinking of meeting youz when you head up in this neck of the woods. Ie in Ossipee?

[Stoneman]

Sounds good to me. We'll see if anyone's looking to check out The Bloke to see if we even need to head down to Franconia. Would you mind leading the 'downside' part of the ride then?

We're not really going through Ossippee. But we could meet just west of the junction of 153 & 25, on 25. If I remember, there's a little Mobil station there. Not sure how long it'll take us to get there though. I believe JJ and Bill are meeting early and either riding to my place or just meeting us in Manch. If ya wanna just slab it down to Manch, I could meet you at the NH Park & Ride at the 93/89 interchange around 9:30 or so...