The GRRR does Rapid_Roy.

[Rapid_Roy]

I went last weekend. It's thrown by the Madison, WI BMW Club in Soldiers Grove, WI, and they are a great bunch of people. I met my buddies at a gas station. I filled up and I did not see them, and it was almost 8:15. I went inside to pay, and I asked if she had seen to motorcycle riders. She replied "They are on the other side of the gas station." :lol3
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Scotty and Whiskey.
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Some rolling shots. I can't believe Whiskey is a Motorcycle Safety Instructor.
:rofl
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Here is what most of the East side of the state looked like.
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[Rapid_Roy]

We stopped at Cedar Grove Cheese Factory, where I purchased some Kurds with Garlic and Dill, and some smoked String Cheese.
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Now that we have passed Madison, WI, the riding gets better and better.
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[Rapid_Roy]

Ok, so we made it to the rally. Friday night was fun, and a lot of our friends were there already.
Here is my good friend Captain Ron.
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Ron's wife Rae and my friend Bob, who was instrumental in Rachael's Fund Raiser Poker Run.
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Drunken self portrait.
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My brother.
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Scotty, a family friend.
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No rain at all. Saturday, turned out to be different. It looked cloudy when we got up, and nobody was sure if they were riding or not. I ate breakfast on site, provided for a fee by a local church. It was 8 bucks for all you can eat pancakes, fruit, sausage, bacon , and well worth it.
I left for a ride, and about 2 miles into it, it started to rain.
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I tested out my new pants and the rain liner in my coat, all worked as expected. I met a ADV buddy at a gas station, Sideshow, who was at a different rally.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a345/RapidR/GR3_2011/P5200060.jpg I returned with supplies, and we waited out the rain until about 3:00 pm

[Rapid_Roy]

Ok, so Saturday was great after the rain stopped. We walked down to Registration to see if we had won anything.
This was down there.
:scratch
An air cooled 4 cylinder?
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I didn't win anything so we headed back to the campsite and took pictures.

I didn't win any announced door prizes, so we wandered down to the Festivities, due to start at 6.
It was packed, so we sat under a Gazebo quite comfortably.
Andy's new trailer he got for 700 bucks.
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Andy
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Scotty
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Jay
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Darin
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My other friend Scotty
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We walked up at 6pm for the awards, and it was crowded, so we sat in the Gazebo.
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Another good person Tina, also the RA rally Chair for the National this year.
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I won the small gloves, but that is it. We had a good dinner of Ribs, and back to the camp site.
Ron and Bob, about to give me a whoopin for taking flash pictures in the dark and blinding everybody.
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There it is, I didn't take many pics on the way home. I was too worried.
In Richland Center, a kind young man pointed out I had cords showing on my tire. Eap!
We babied it home 120 miles, and I made it!
:clap

[Visian]

that's a nice bike you got there Roy.

some day i really hope to get up to that rally ya got up dere, eh? :ha

ian

[sudani]

Thanks for sharing, Roy. Looks like you had a good time! :wave

[Rapid_Roy]

that's a nice bike you got there Roy.

some day i really hope to get up to that rally ya got up dere, eh? :ha

ian

That would be great, Hopefully, it would be the year it doesn't rain. :lol3

[Rapid_Roy]

Thanks for sharing, Roy. Looks like you had a good time! :wave

:wave
Yep. pretty darn good.

[kewlmoose]

Thanks for the pics Roy. Those shots of the road past Madison sure had me wishing I could have made it this year. See ya at the Hiawatha! :drink

[Rapid_Roy]

Thanks for the pics Roy. Those shots of the road past Madison sure had me wishing I could have made it this year. See ya at the Hiawatha! :drink

I fibbed a bit. There are nice roads on this side, but you have to look a bit.
As soon as you hit the country outside of Madison, it gets nice.
19 through Black Earth is very pretty.

[brewmeister]

Roy here is where I went after leaveing the GR3 rally. It was real nice until the weather went real bad,tornato and all. I still made it home before the sky let loose.