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Started by rushes , May 16 2010 02:34 PM

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#1 rushes

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 02:34 PM

Rode in and out of rain, but stayed dry...thumbsup.gif
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 03:13 PM

Ya, the same for me....had a nice wet ride home. unsure.gif yahoo.gif
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 03:22 PM

Home in one piece. Took a twisty detour that added an hour to my wet ride but it was fun. No performance awards yahoo.gif
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 03:23 PM

QUOTE (petey @ May 16 2010, 06:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ya, the same for me....had a nice wet ride home. unsure.gif yahoo.gif


Glad to hear you made it home with nothing worse than soggy gear!

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 04:33 PM

We made it home about 90 minutes ago. It was clear until I-44 and it only rained for about a mile. Overcast skies. Plenty of opportunities to get performance awards, but thankfully the presenters were already busy handing them out to others.
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 05:40 PM

A wonderful, relaxing long weekend with like-minded people in a twisty town like no other. Truly a gift. Thank you everyone.

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 05:41 PM

Home safe and mostly dry this year between ES and south MS.
Great time and hope to see all at NAFO.
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 05:49 PM

Home safe! Wet start.

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Posted 16 May 2010 - 05:54 PM

I made it fine, got rained on while I was on a twisty detour for a bit. I did fully test the fuel reserve in eastern Kansas though, I can vouch for at least 44.7 miles after the flashing starts.
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 06:56 PM

Got home about 6pm tonight - no performance awards to stack into the house-of-cards that is my 101-deferred-adjudications.
It was sunny and 82 in Ft Smith so I took off the raingear.... only to experience 66 degree torential once in Oklahoma, not 30 minutes later. Flora, fauna & fungi! Woohoo!
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 07:02 PM

Rode through a nice cooling shower after crossing the big Red into Texas. Thanks M&M for another
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 07:12 PM

Great to hear, my Southern peeps! Now get to posting them pix and RR's, I want to hear stories..

Especially from Petey! laugh.gif
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Posted 16 May 2010 - 07:12 PM

I arrived home at 4:00 pm.
Rain first hour and 1/2.
Dry roads the rest of the way. yahoo.gif
Checked the radar when I got home and it was still raining in Eureka!
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 04:58 AM

QUOTE (dcarver @ May 17 2010, 12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Great to hear, my Southern peeps! Now get to posting them pix and RR's, I want to hear stories..

Especially from Petey! laugh.gif


dcarver, well don't have much of a story.....didn't get a lot of riding in during SFO, in case you didn't hear....IT RAINED A LOT... but then again I do spend a good amount of time/miles in the "Natural State" thru out the year LOL.
On my way home I did have a run in with Fayettville's, AR finest, that accused me of not coming to complete stop...he only gave me a warning...sigh
Make sure you attend SFO next year...surely, it CAN'T rain at SFO three years in the row... blink.gif
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 08:45 AM

Ran into constant Rain 20 miles before Lebanon, MO till Kirksville, MO. The increased traffic on the 4 lanes didn't help much but I managed to make it home safe. I pulled in around 8:45PM last night.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 09:20 AM

I will get the signature logo done tonight for everyone.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 09:27 AM

QUOTE (fjrchik @ May 17 2010, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I will get the signature logo done tonight for everyone.


I improvised...smile.gif
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 11:54 AM

QUOTE (rushes @ May 17 2010, 12:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (fjrchik @ May 17 2010, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I will get the signature logo done tonight for everyone.


I improvised... smile.gif


That's not what it will look like but you can always switch later. There's no point in keeping the copy at the bottom of the logo since it's unreadable. I have several versions of the logo to choose from, but I'm thinking it will look similar to the name tags.

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Posted 17 May 2010 - 01:14 PM

Bambi and I arrived home about 3;30 PM, safe but STILL WET. We did a detour with GPRider to route 123 yesterday, it cleared up for the run and was brilliant!!! Thanks Russ! Poured on us thru the forest and into Hot Springs, finally cleared up into Texarkana. At least we remembered a couple of bottles of wine after last years adventure.

Clear today until we cut across Sam Houston forest, then we almost found another tornado. Drenched until Conroe, clear the last 5 miles! Oh well.....

Looking forward to next year, had a great time despite the rain!!!!
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 03:38 PM

QUOTE (fjrchik @ May 17 2010, 02:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (rushes @ May 17 2010, 12:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (fjrchik @ May 17 2010, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I will get the signature logo done tonight for everyone.


I improvised... smile.gif


That's not what it will look like but you can always switch later. There's no point in keeping the copy at the bottom of the logo since it's unreadable. I have several versions of the logo to choose from, but I'm thinking it will look similar to the name tags.


I didn't think the copy at the bottom was any more unreadable than the 08 or 09 sig logo....

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