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Lets RALLY!
Debbie and I brought our camper to this one, no bike! and being this MOA Rally was basically in our backyard, we figured we had rode these roads so much that we needed to do a different twist for this one. yep! So, we arrived Weds nite about 7pm, plenty enough time to setup camp before darkness... then it was happy hours...n hours, n days, n nights.. well you catch the drift. hehe
Thursday we decided to wander about the sprawling grounds at the Erie County Fairgrounds (Huge place!). We finally come across the general camping and where our ying-yang groupies were to be. Yes... they're doing what they do best, BS and drink...
Checking out our groups accommodations... one looks a little more out of bounds than most.... and yes, it's a trailer slash sleeping quarters for the K16 rider.
Telling us that he dumped her out prior to making the trip (mainly to save fuel), he invites Debbie in for a pre-fitting,,,, yikes!
Being the "local" at this Rally, I pre-arranged 2 pub crawls (1 Fri, 1 Sat) for folks that wanted to experience a micro-pub/brewery flavor of Buffalo. I had 2 3-seat vans and a truck lined up w drivers w DD's, so basically?... we could DRINK away!!!
Started out with a Chipawah Street pub crawl, 2 stops here, peeps were getting hungry!
The famous Perl Street Grille was our lunch stop (we're missing a few in this pic?)
Next stop, was at 'the harbor' and "716" (connected to the Buffalo Sabres Hockey Stadium).
The ice bar was a big hit, and who doesn't want their beer to stay cold when you set it down to talk with your hands?
We were at the upstairs bar, but looking down, you can see the lower one with my future TV in my living room. Debbie told me to keep dreaming... so I will! (and, it WILL happen!)
The new besties... Vicki and Debbie (with our Canadian whacko Gary photobombing them) lmao... he's one funny ass mofo!
Matt, Steve and Gary on the other side of the bar trying to figure out the beer list. (w/ Tim in the b/g being a photographer also)
Our womanz of the Pub Crawl...
Debbie, Jennifer, Carolyn, Vicki, Wendy
After 716 (which the name comes from the Area Code for Buffalo) we proceed to the elevators for another bar a few floors up, We were very loud getting off the elevators and we made our presence known to everyone (cough cough). Yikes. Here, Gary immediately makes himself at home, we haven't even got up to the bar yet!
Awesome views of the Buffalo harbor, drinks now in hand.... what a great day!
We ended this days Pub crawl by going down to Flor-Level 6, where there were 2 full inside hockey stadiums (rinks) and . some players practicing in gear, in-which they entertained us behind the goal by hitting slap-shots at the glass in front of us..... damn, that was pretty fun! I also did the pounding w both hands on the glass like so many other frozen turd fans do at games when fights break out. hehe
Saturdays Pub Crawl; I had originally planned for a solo to Ellicotteville Brewery (EBC), but we had 2 for 1 tickets at the West-end bar (right in Hamburg) to take advantage of prior (and also after EBC as it came to be... bunch of drunks!) lmao
One of our tour guides and DD's "Jim" checks everything out, and I find he's never been here!?!? I was floored, but being only 38 miles south of Hamburg, I guess it's too "local" so to speak, but afterwards he admitted he has missed out on a true gem of a place!
So many places now try to cash in calling themselves a Brewery of some sort with actually no brewing even being done on the premises. Well people, this is not the case here, all beers on tap were brewed right here, and there were also tours going on while we were there (I asked, but our group said they did not want the tour).
Our Saturday lunch at EBC, minus me the photo jerk. I had the Brisket, one of the best ever! (and I enjoyed it so much I forgot to snap some food porn pics).... dumb ass!
Sat nite, after closing ceremonies where it seemed like everyone won an all expenses bike tour to the Swiss Alps ....except us knuckheads, I put on an after party at my camper. Hey!. the party never ends till the fat lady can't sing anymore!
Dan (Dusack) was my camper neighbor, here he gets in a midnight shit-face pic shot
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Debbie and I had a simply wonderful time with everyone. Since this was like our (almost) backyard, it only goes to prove one thing.....
It's all about the people! ...and this Rally proved this once again. Thank you to all who attended and made this such a wonderful event. Announced at the closing ceremonies that we had over 6,000 bikes, and more than 1400 vendors!, damn, what an epic event for sure. The weather was simply awesome, beer was ice-cold and I'm not sure if we could of asked for anything much more. And, ya gotta give hats off to MOA for not pocket-booking us to death... ever! Keeping $2 for 16oz beers (and) at my last 3 consecutive MOA rally's just goes to show you it truly is about the people and not making money for the bottom line! AWESOME! and many thanks to the more than 400 volunteers that made this mega event come to life! Our K1600 Groups special thanks goes out to our pub crawl designated drivers; Jim, Jen & Carolyn!... you guys rocked the house and we couldn't of asked for any better guides and drivers, Mucho Thanks to you 3 Hamburger-ins
2017 MOA? Really looking forward to Utah! The 5 National Parks? YES!!. Debbie says she wants to go also, so I may be 2-up.
Speaking of Debbie, she couldn't stop talking about all of the great times we had with you guys, more and more 'brain refreshers' were brought up, one right after another... and, the whole trip home!. She truly loved the event and you guys (and gals!). I caught her texting Vicki (or facebooking maybe) and asked her who she was typing all this info to? She said "my new new bestie!"... guess since Vicki (and Matt) are from Iowa, it's a long distance best-teee lol.
So keep riding, be safe, and after your rides.... don't forget to drink like 'K1600-Group-Rockstars'
Cheers everyone!
KJ & Debbie
Debbie and I brought our camper to this one, no bike! and being this MOA Rally was basically in our backyard, we figured we had rode these roads so much that we needed to do a different twist for this one. yep! So, we arrived Weds nite about 7pm, plenty enough time to setup camp before darkness... then it was happy hours...n hours, n days, n nights.. well you catch the drift. hehe
Thursday we decided to wander about the sprawling grounds at the Erie County Fairgrounds (Huge place!). We finally come across the general camping and where our ying-yang groupies were to be. Yes... they're doing what they do best, BS and drink...
Checking out our groups accommodations... one looks a little more out of bounds than most.... and yes, it's a trailer slash sleeping quarters for the K16 rider.
Telling us that he dumped her out prior to making the trip (mainly to save fuel), he invites Debbie in for a pre-fitting,,,, yikes!
Being the "local" at this Rally, I pre-arranged 2 pub crawls (1 Fri, 1 Sat) for folks that wanted to experience a micro-pub/brewery flavor of Buffalo. I had 2 3-seat vans and a truck lined up w drivers w DD's, so basically?... we could DRINK away!!!
Started out with a Chipawah Street pub crawl, 2 stops here, peeps were getting hungry!
The famous Perl Street Grille was our lunch stop (we're missing a few in this pic?)
Next stop, was at 'the harbor' and "716" (connected to the Buffalo Sabres Hockey Stadium).
The ice bar was a big hit, and who doesn't want their beer to stay cold when you set it down to talk with your hands?
We were at the upstairs bar, but looking down, you can see the lower one with my future TV in my living room. Debbie told me to keep dreaming... so I will! (and, it WILL happen!)
The new besties... Vicki and Debbie (with our Canadian whacko Gary photobombing them) lmao... he's one funny ass mofo!
Matt, Steve and Gary on the other side of the bar trying to figure out the beer list. (w/ Tim in the b/g being a photographer also)
Our womanz of the Pub Crawl...
Debbie, Jennifer, Carolyn, Vicki, Wendy
After 716 (which the name comes from the Area Code for Buffalo) we proceed to the elevators for another bar a few floors up, We were very loud getting off the elevators and we made our presence known to everyone (cough cough). Yikes. Here, Gary immediately makes himself at home, we haven't even got up to the bar yet!
Awesome views of the Buffalo harbor, drinks now in hand.... what a great day!
We ended this days Pub crawl by going down to Flor-Level 6, where there were 2 full inside hockey stadiums (rinks) and . some players practicing in gear, in-which they entertained us behind the goal by hitting slap-shots at the glass in front of us..... damn, that was pretty fun! I also did the pounding w both hands on the glass like so many other frozen turd fans do at games when fights break out. hehe
Saturdays Pub Crawl; I had originally planned for a solo to Ellicotteville Brewery (EBC), but we had 2 for 1 tickets at the West-end bar (right in Hamburg) to take advantage of prior (and also after EBC as it came to be... bunch of drunks!) lmao
One of our tour guides and DD's "Jim" checks everything out, and I find he's never been here!?!? I was floored, but being only 38 miles south of Hamburg, I guess it's too "local" so to speak, but afterwards he admitted he has missed out on a true gem of a place!
So many places now try to cash in calling themselves a Brewery of some sort with actually no brewing even being done on the premises. Well people, this is not the case here, all beers on tap were brewed right here, and there were also tours going on while we were there (I asked, but our group said they did not want the tour).
Our Saturday lunch at EBC, minus me the photo jerk. I had the Brisket, one of the best ever! (and I enjoyed it so much I forgot to snap some food porn pics).... dumb ass!
Sat nite, after closing ceremonies where it seemed like everyone won an all expenses bike tour to the Swiss Alps ....except us knuckheads, I put on an after party at my camper. Hey!. the party never ends till the fat lady can't sing anymore!
Dan (Dusack) was my camper neighbor, here he gets in a midnight shit-face pic shot
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debbie and I had a simply wonderful time with everyone. Since this was like our (almost) backyard, it only goes to prove one thing.....
It's all about the people! ...and this Rally proved this once again. Thank you to all who attended and made this such a wonderful event. Announced at the closing ceremonies that we had over 6,000 bikes, and more than 1400 vendors!, damn, what an epic event for sure. The weather was simply awesome, beer was ice-cold and I'm not sure if we could of asked for anything much more. And, ya gotta give hats off to MOA for not pocket-booking us to death... ever! Keeping $2 for 16oz beers (and) at my last 3 consecutive MOA rally's just goes to show you it truly is about the people and not making money for the bottom line! AWESOME! and many thanks to the more than 400 volunteers that made this mega event come to life! Our K1600 Groups special thanks goes out to our pub crawl designated drivers; Jim, Jen & Carolyn!... you guys rocked the house and we couldn't of asked for any better guides and drivers, Mucho Thanks to you 3 Hamburger-ins
2017 MOA? Really looking forward to Utah! The 5 National Parks? YES!!. Debbie says she wants to go also, so I may be 2-up.
Speaking of Debbie, she couldn't stop talking about all of the great times we had with you guys, more and more 'brain refreshers' were brought up, one right after another... and, the whole trip home!. She truly loved the event and you guys (and gals!). I caught her texting Vicki (or facebooking maybe) and asked her who she was typing all this info to? She said "my new new bestie!"... guess since Vicki (and Matt) are from Iowa, it's a long distance best-teee lol.
So keep riding, be safe, and after your rides.... don't forget to drink like 'K1600-Group-Rockstars'
Cheers everyone!
KJ & Debbie
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