TOR in Gunnison Ride

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sfr4201

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Jul 17, 2024, 9:41:21 PMJul 17
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Everyone

If anyone of you want to ride with me to Gunnison on Friday July 26th,l will be launching from the following:

Launch Expresso
18455 W.Colfax Ave #101
Golden Co.80401

Apart from coffee and pastry goods there is a gas station close by (next door to Avalanche Harley Davidson).

I will be on the road at 10 o'clock.Determined the start and end of the route,still on the fence regarding the middle parts of the ride!

This still gives me 8 and a bit days to figure this out,the same if you would like to join me on the 26th.Let me know so no one gets left behind.Have a good evening..........


                       E-Steve


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Tavis Aitken

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Jul 17, 2024, 11:52:55 PMJul 17
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Sounds good to me. Tentatively count me in. 


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peltz.chris

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Jul 18, 2024, 12:04:13 AMJul 18
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Me. Too. 


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Sounds good to me. Tentatively count me in. 


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Jim Baker

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Jul 18, 2024, 11:25:19 AMJul 18
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What's your route, Steve?  Cottonwood?  I could meet you in Buena Vista ...

Cheers,

Jim



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sfr4201

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Jul 18, 2024, 11:38:29 AMJul 18
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Jim

Cottonwood is one route,but also thinking Rt.42 out of Divide to 1 then 9 to Hwy.50 into Salida,but need to research the time that will take.Will have a definite answer by the middle of next week

                        E-Steve



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Jim Baker

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Jul 18, 2024, 2:18:42 PMJul 18
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Cool, either works. Just let me know where/when to meet you 👍 

sfr4201

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Jul 18, 2024, 3:09:09 PMJul 18
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Sounds good Jim

Martin Richard

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Jul 18, 2024, 4:07:02 PMJul 18
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Jim if you guys choose to go through the Highway 50 route I can meet you at Parkdale (that's just West of the CO-9/US-50 intersection where US-50 crosses the Arkansas River.)  

Martin

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WAYNE EVERMAN

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Jul 18, 2024, 4:22:20 PMJul 18
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Martin; you realize that if you ride your Harley, you automatically win the RMRAT rat bike award? EWB (not going, again)
 

WAYNE EVERMAN

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Jul 18, 2024, 4:24:00 PMJul 18
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'GO WEST, YOUNG MAN'....(but further than Greeley)  EWB
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Richard Hansen

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Jul 19, 2024, 6:08:33 PMJul 19
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Steve,

I will plan on riding with you on Friday'

Rich Hansen

sfr4201

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Jul 19, 2024, 8:12:49 PMJul 19
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You are on the list Rich

Vince M Lane

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Jul 20, 2024, 1:00:42 PMJul 20
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E Steve 
I too will join you et all Friday morning at Launch Ex.
Vince 
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sfr4201

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Jul 20, 2024, 2:42:46 PMJul 20
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Sounds good Vince,see you next Friday

DAN PILCHER

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Jul 20, 2024, 3:13:41 PMJul 20
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Hello, everyone.  At long last, I break "radio silence."
 
First, I want to thank those of you who mailed me sympathy/condolence cards after my wife, Madie, died on March 16th following a one and one-half year terrible battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer.  I will reply in writing to each of you.  I have yet to open up the cards, along with dozens upon dozens of other cards that I have received from family and friends.  Opening such card is like taking a tiny grief-arrow to the heart, and I just have not been able to do it yet.
 
Second, I want to thank those  of you who attended Madie's Celebration of Life at her church on May 3rd.  Again, I  will write each of you a letter of appreciation.  That day remains a blur for me.  I cannot decide if I was the proverbial "deer in the headlights" or "drinking from a fire hydrant," or both.  It meant the world to me to have you attend and come up to me at the reception, even though there was little time to talk.
 
Although I am back in Denver after a month on Vashon Island, I will not be attending the Gunnison rally for two reasons.  The first is that my knees are shot, and I'm hoping to have the left one replaced in November and the right one early next year, depending on what the orthopedic surgeon has to say next week when I go in for the pre-op meeting.  Riding any distance is just not in the cards for me now.
 
The second reason is that it is just very difficult for me to socialize and be in groups now as I travel down my unwanted and uncertain road of Deep Grief, a grief unlike any that I have ever known in my life.  I came across a book that has been a life raft for me:  "It's OK if You're Not OK," by Megan Devine, a psychotherapist who watched her partner drown in a river and who could not save him.  What she writes about her experience with grieving and how people treated her has resonated with me tremendously.  Nothing in her twenty years of being a social worker and a counseling psychologist prepared her for what happened to her after her partner died.
 
Finally, a bit of good news.  The legendary Peter Sharp, who now lives in the Phoenix area, is planning on riding up to attend the rally.  He has made his room reservation.  He now has, for travel purposes, as I understand him, a vintage (four carburetors) 1200 Triumph Trophy,  He is having work done on it and hopes to depart Friday morning.  For those of you who do not know him, he was a member of the club back in the 2000s and rode a gorgeous T595.  He  still has the bike and has continually customized it so that it is now a beautiful show bike.  It is truly a work of art.  I talked with him today and he says he does not ride as fast as he did "Back in the Day" with such fast riders as  Trip Miller, Keith Houghton, "Wild Bill" (I forget his last name) and Bullet Bob Linden, the guys who never let the Speed Limit or the Double Yellow Line intimidate them.
 
So, in closing, have a great rally and safe rides.  I may see you again down the road, sometime, somewhere.  With new knees!  😉
 
Cheers,
Dan
 
 
 

peltz.chris

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Jul 20, 2024, 5:05:54 PMJul 20
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Steve - are you planning to grab breakfast at Espresso before taking off? 


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Sounds good Vince,see you next Friday

                         E-Steve



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Date: 7/20/24 11:00 AM (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Re: [emrat:14672] TOR in Gunnison Ride


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sfr4201

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Jul 20, 2024, 6:31:26 PMJul 20
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That is an affirmative,gas,coffee and a pastry in that order.l plan to arrive around 9.15 Chris

DAVID WARFIELD

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Jul 21, 2024, 12:33:41 PMJul 21
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Hi Dan, 
Thanks for opening up with the group regarding your whereabouts, and your situation. Again, so sorry about Madie's struggle, final journey, and the pain for everyone involved. God bless her. 
 
I didn't know your knees were going bad, that even makes every-day activities difficult. (my right knee ain't so great)
Glad to hear about our friend Peter. I would like to visit with him, but won't be going to Gunnison either. 
 
Take care, 
-Warf
 

sfr4201

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Jul 21, 2024, 10:38:11 PMJul 21
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Dan

Welcome back to Denver,a daughter,twin sons and numerous Grand children!

To clear things up in your e-mail,the last name of our " terrible" trouble making RATS is Windsor,Bill Windsor that is........Took me a hour to figure that one out!

Hope Peter Sharp makes it up to Gunnison next weekend.May possibly haǰve a 2003 Roulette Green Speed Triple that needs detailing plus Denise Wendl's BONNEVILLE SE in 1977 Silver Jubilee colors.

Be unable to ride to Sturgis with Norm and Vince next month.Need to go to Nevada to meet up with friends and family.It is a get together for my late Mother,who should have/would have turned 84 that weekend!

Sorry to hear about your knee issues.Turns out Tomas has to have replacement knee surgery as well,maybe the two of you can negotiate a "2 for 1" deal with Medi-care?

Good to hear from you Dan,l am still open to meet you for a coffee,but only when the time is appropriate.Take care.......

Bullet Bob

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Jul 22, 2024, 2:01:31 PMJul 22
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RATs,

I am tentatively planning to go the Independence/McClure/92 Black Canyon route.  Tentative based on the Rt 50 bridge status, which will be updated via a local meeting on 7/23.  Current info says open for light vehicles from 4:30-6:30 pm, but will advise.  Leaving from Launch Espresso also, likely at 9:30, again, final deets after 7/23 meeting update.

Bullet Bob 

Jim Baker

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Jul 22, 2024, 2:47:19 PMJul 22
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Black Canyon route puts you on the west side of the bridge work. Unless you're planning to hit one of the windows for the dirt route back to 149, that's not gonna work. 

Honestly, if you don't mind dirt, Kebler Pass will get you to Crested Butte with no waiting. 

Cheers,

Jim

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Norman Wright

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Jul 22, 2024, 9:26:16 PMJul 22
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We had our Top O the Rockies Rally last weekend. Reports from those doing Crested Butte over Kebler were not good, very chewed up do to excess traffic. One of our Board members on a GS crashed and was badly injured. Granted it was raining then and turned it into a slime ball but I'd advise against that route.

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Bullet Bob

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Jul 22, 2024, 10:25:31 PMJul 22
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Intending to hit the late afternoon window (4:30-6:30) going across the bridge on 50, if the 7/23 update info confirms that to be a reliable option.  So will plan on an update on 7/24, fingers crossed!

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