Hi,Originally Posted by rjzinc
What poll?
Ride Safe,
Robert
Hi,
What poll?
Ride Safe,
Robert
Ride Safe,
Robert Rehkopf
I ask for your vote and support in the upcoming BOD elections.
Can't someone/anyone put this thread out of its misery?
Salty Fog Rally 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
-Tom (KA1TOX)
Memphis City School dates: begin 8AUG, end 18MAY. Nothing to do with MOA mid-JUN thru JULY dates. Using summer vacation as a criteria the MOA should include mid-MAY thru AUG. Correct?Yet they set it up so the primary event of the organization (ergo the Rally) would take place during school vacation.
Game, set and match.
Ride Safe,
Robert
Ride Safe,
Robert Rehkopf
I ask for your vote and support in the upcoming BOD elections.
would love to
May has some serious storms in most locations...I guess then we can gripe about the floods,tornadoes and lightning tearing my tent down, destroying my bike and muddying up the fairgrounds.
Some folks are just finding their garage under the snowpack in May.
And school here let's out the day AFTER Memorial Day weekend . Graduations are Memorial Day weekend.
Steve Henson
EX-Prez SABMWRA MOA Club#62/ current forum moderator
It's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away-D.Dillon/G. Strait
Right. School is out from Mid MAY through AUG. This means rally is during summer vacation yes?
Paul
Retired and riding my RTs, the '87 K100 & the '98 R1100 !
I'd like it in the spring or fall, but with the people who are now running the rally, that isn't an option, and they send out polls that have predetermined results. (I got one.) The point is that it doesn't matter what is said about it here or in the polls, the forum doesn't count when it comes to club bizznizz. We're windbags.
If you want the rally changed, you have to change the people who are running it. That may or may not be a good idea, I don't know, but to argue it here year after year is pointless and tiring.
Salty Fog Rally 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
-Tom (KA1TOX)
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Dick
R1200GS '08
"Hey, where you goin'?" "Nowhere in particular." "Man, I wish I was you." "Well, Hang in there..."
People have been trying for years but questions keep coming up about when and how the rally is put together.
http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131
Pass the mustard and UP THE REVOLUTION!
Just how many people do you see at a mc rally with small children? If you've got em they probably wont go & futhermore , if they're out of school & you attend that puts even more supervision of the kids on your wife-I don't get this school vacation idea?
I've done registration for several days @ TN & saw young adults,middle age adults & old guys like me & a very few couples-next to zero kids there or on the rally grounds-except Camp Gears and that's only a few people & rallies "are mostly on the weekend" after all!
i am happy to see this thread as I have strong feelings about when and where this rally is held.
I thoroughly enjoy the rally but do not enjoy riding in high temperatures to get there and enduring the heat while attending.
I have wondered why such a great event is held at a hot/warm location in the middle of the summer. I think the administrators of the rally should make better decisions as to the time and place. It is easier to endure some cooler riding weather than hot/warm riding weather. Threrefore; if it is so important to have the rally in the summer, pick a more northerely location (or with more elevation). If the rally can be held in early fall, (spring is generally the rainey time of the year) it would be fine to pick a more southerly and lower location.
Also, in my instance, travel on a lot of interstate highways and high traffic areas are things I avoid.
Think about this: The big Sturgis, SD rally is held in mid summer at a more northerly and higher elevation site without maximum congested interestates to get there.
That's all I've got to say about it. Thanks for the opportunity.
In many places, school does not end in mid May. Here in the mountains, it depends on how much school was missed due to bad weather. It may not end until mid June if it was a severe winter and it starts in mid August.
I once lived in a place with year round school with 3 week vacations throughout the year................................
'You can say what you want about the South, but I almost never hear of anyone wanting to retire to the North.
Black 86 R80RT Brown 03 R1200CLC
I'm disappointed to hear that.
I would think the forum would be a good tool for the BODs to get a feel for what MOA members want.
Lee 2011 K1300S
MOA # 30878
Past BMW Bikes, 2003 K1200RS, 1991 K75S, 1987 K75T(bought new in 1988), 1984 R100RT
Quite the opposite. It quickly turns into a pi**ing contest.
Salty Fog Rally 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
-Tom (KA1TOX)
I didn't mean they need to reply. I was just surprised they do not monitor the site.
Lee 2011 K1300S
MOA # 30878
Past BMW Bikes, 2003 K1200RS, 1991 K75S, 1987 K75T(bought new in 1988), 1984 R100RT
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