Return-Path: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:25:09 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: east@dnrc.bell-labs.com Sender: east@dnrc.bell-labs.com From: Tom Biggs To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Midwest "RCR"??? X-Comment: East Coast Motorcyclists Mailing List A former RCR organizer chimes in: >> Can anyone >> explain to me just how western Kentucky, just a short hop from the >> Mississippi River, relates to the east coast? > >Yeah, it's east of the Mississippi and west of the Atlantic. >If you'd been paying attention, you'd know those have been >the ground rules for 5 years. I be payin' attention. Sure, it's within the guidelines, but practically swimming in the Mississip. >> I realize Martyn has some sort of elitist idea of >> keeping the newbies out to reduce the size of the event > >What bullshit. The RCR is as open as it's ever been. It's >just that until this year, there hasn't been any whining by >posers because it isn't in their back yard. I should have said "discouraging the newbies". And it certainly does do that. Martyn said that was his goal last year. I don't care if it's in my back yard, but I still don't see how riding to the midwest has much to do with the Right Coast, guidelines or no. (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Tom Biggs '77 KZ650 "Kawaski" DoD #1146 "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one" - Thomas Paine ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))