Ghost who rides wrote:Hey Jim and all you guys near him, what he (Jim) is suggesting is the best thing you can imagine.
Ask the Irish guys.
Like minded in K s, politics , religion any walk of life, no matter, I have met some of the nicest folk
IN PERSON in meets.
Meets? on the internet? Almost a contradiction these days eh?
Ask the Irish guys!
Anyway, we kind of got chatting on line and it was when I had a problem with my K a fellow Irishman offered me some assistance in swapping an ECU. The only reason it wasn't taken up was that I figured 4 sets of postage would come close to buying one and I was about 80% sure it was the cause of the problem anyway. It led to us saying that we should meet for a run when I got the bike sorted and 88KE suggested we throw it open. I happened to know a nice place to meet not far off the motorway for long distance travellers and with perfect bike parking right outside. A little publicity on the forum and we hade about 12 K bikes for our first meet and a truly great day.
We are a very diverse bunch, all walks of life and probably all sorts of beliefs and life experiences. But without fail everyone is great to get on with, we enjoy nice meets and while everything is completely informal everyone puts in something.
The ideal for us meeting is a breakfast about 9.30 or so and then move out for 11, with time to gas up etc before we leave [gas station beside the breakfast venue helps]. Comberjohn has the longest trip just to get his breakfast at 140 miles but most of us don't exceed 2 hours travel time.
It sort of seems to have landed in my lap to post up dates and explore ideas, whatever dates come up wont suit everyone and also people have preferences so we don't get upset if not everyone comes along. In truth its the person missing out is usually the more affected. We found its a case of cant come rather than not interested.!!
Saturdays seem to work best for us, someone will have planned a route but an informal one with some nice scenic spots, curves, taking into account somewhere to stop for a coffee and lunch and also a coffee stop where we part.
K bike riders are generally not into mad riding so we don't kill ourselves trying to go fast or get in as many miles as possible. Some of us are 'more mature' and it is important to rest the body with reasonable stops factored in -photo points in particular.
Inevitably you will find some have different interests and that might lead to other things. A few of us, myself included, have a liking of camping, where others would prefer creature comforts. Once a group hits 8 it tends to subdivide anyway.
The topics of conversation can be anything, we are diverse bunch with lots of different interests but we all enjoy a nice day out.
You could suss out a breakfast venue and some possible routs and post it up. Buyers privilege, set up something you know is nice so if you go along and only one person shows up then at least you have a plan. A few good photos up here and you will soon get more faces.
Best of luck with it., its a great idea.
K100 (and K75) owners near Illinois speak up. Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:31 pm
1986 k75, 1985 K100rt, 
