Subject: Re: Right Coast Ride - Saturday Lunch ride
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:26:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William J. Penschow" <billp@lucent.com>
Reply-To: east@dnrc.bell-labs.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <east@dnrc.bell-labs.com>

Mr. Bill wrote:
>
> Mark Cervi <cervi@dt.navy.mil> writes:
> > This is designed as a easy "tourist" ride.  For the foot peg scraping
> > ride, contact Mr Bill.
>
> Huh?  Did I get volunteered for something somewhere along the way?
> <grin>

Of course.  Don't you remember back last year in K....tucky.  God I
thought I was suffering from CRS. :-)

> I'm sure somebody will be putting together a peg scraper, but it probably
> won't be me.  Being this close to home I'll probably bring out one of the
> "toy" bikes, probably the RE-5 rotary again.  It's not a good peg scraper.
> About the time you're getting up to speed it's time to stop and buy more
> oil.

You could always rig up that tank trailer with automatic in-flight
oil replenishment.  Or a 20 gal. NASCAR fuel cell mounted on the luggage
rack may give you about 500 mile range.  Or at least enough to run fuel
fill up to fuel fill up. :-)

> I might bring the H2 if the bodywork is back from the paint shop in
> time.  But they usually do their peg scraping while sliding on their sides,
> so I don't think I'd be too ambitious with it.

Aw, come on.  Just think of when you were a kid.  You did have a
"Flexible Flyer" sled didn't you? :-)

> I *was* planning to bring
> the CBX which is pretty competent as a peg scraper.  But I wadded it
> about three weeks ago and it probably won't be ready in time. :-(   The
> rest of the projects are... well... still projects.
>
> Decisions, decisions...

Well, you could always use Nick & Beverly's R90S if it gets East in
time. :-) or you could borrow a scraper from a friend.

If anyone has read this far I'll now get serious.  I will not have time
to scope out the area prior to the RCR but I will search my archives
and I think that I can come up with both Jon Kadis' ride of three years
ago, and the "Covered Bridges" ride as it was supposed to be of two
years ago.  In addition I believe that Martyn had a ride from the
first Wetmar RCR that he may be talked into reprising.

None of this, however, should in any way stop Mark from putting together
a route.  We usually have such good attendance at Wetmar that the rides
turn out to be too big.  Thus, the more the merrier.

PoPs