Routes

[mi...@slbservicesgroup.com]

There will be a 23, 50, 66 and 100 mile route. All going to the south with the 100-mile route turning around just before Manasota Key.

 

Here is the link to the route info page on the MS Website. You can download the route maps, cue sheets and appropriate GPS files for your device.

Event Bike MS: Suncoast Challenge Ride Details - National MS Society

 

 

See you all in 13 days.

 

Brandon, thank you for your hard work helping to pull this event together this year.

 

Mike

[Bill Aten]

Are vehicle identification “decals” (Rover-1, SAG-1, etc.) available somewhere for downloading?

Bill

K4JZ

On Mar 16, 2025, at 19:18, mi...@slbservicesgroup.com wrote:



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Thanks, I knew I forgot to include something!

 

Brandon G. Watson, N4BGW

 

RACES Officer,

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Miami-Dade County RACES

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Bike MS: Breakaway to the Palm Beaches

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We’ll work on producing them. Unfortunately, the website previously used by this group is no longer in service, so we don’t have that to upload information anymore.

 

Brandon G. Watson, N4BGW

 

RACES Officer,

City of Coral Gables RACES

http://www.gablesraces.com

 

Club Secretary,

Dade Radio Club of Miami

http://www.w4nvu.org

 

Net Manager,

Miami-Dade County RACES

http://www.miamidaderaces.org/

 

Communications Chair,

Bike MS: Breakaway to the Palm Beaches

http://bikefls.nationalmssociety.org/

 

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[mi...@slbservicesgroup.com]

I’ll update the ones form last year and post them shortly.

 

Mike

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Okay, this has a fill in field to enter your unit number.

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[Rob Jacobson]

Howdy Brandon and Mike,

* I'm having trouble finding good maps

--- I can't find any with the rest stops marked, including the maps
accompanying the cue sheets.  The rest stops are only mentioned in the
cue sheet verbiage.

--- Except for the 23 mile, the maps have routes but no details, that
is, no street names and rest stops - not very helpful to us non-locals

--- The cue sheets appear to have errors, PRECO is RS6, New Life Church
is RS5, etc

--- The cue sheets appear to have routing errors - the 66 mile seems to
completely skip a turn onto Packinghouse or Cattlemen about entry #8. 
The 52 mile shows correctly: rt on Palmer, lt on Cattlemen, rt on Bahia
Vista, left on Honore.  The 66 mile has: rt on Palmer, rt on Bahia
Vista, lt on Honore.  And this is with only a cursory examination of a
bit of the routing - worries me how many other errors there may be.

* The MS site (Galaxydigital) still shows RS1&7 at HarborChase, your
emails indicate the Good Shepard church farther north up Honore - a much
better location by the way, much more space.  RS1&7 appears to be used
both ways by the 52, 66, and 100 mile rides, potentially considerably
more activity than some of the other rest stops.

* I'm currently scheduled at RS8, New Life church, which is only
handling 100 miler activity, after 80.5 miles through the route, so
probably nothing until after noon.  If you want, I'm happy to be shifted
to RS1&7 instead.  I'd like to be somewhere I can be working, helpful.

Rob Jacobson, KJ4TSP
KJ4...@gmail.com

On 3/16/2025 7:17 PM, mi...@slbservicesgroup.com wrote:
> There will be a 23, 50, 66 and 100 mile route. All going to the south with
> the 100-mile route turning around just before Manasota Key.
>
>
>
> Here is the link to the route info page on the MS Website. You can download
> the route maps, cue sheets and appropriate GPS files for your device.
>
> Event Bike MS: Suncoast Challenge Ride Details - National MS Society

> <https://events.nationalmssociety.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.page&id=8499&
> eventID=2048#accordion-tab-2-active>

[n4b...@gmail.com]

Hi Rob, I'll forward your email regarding the maps to the Society staff. The "pretty maps" we all know and love were made by someone who isn't available this year, so we'll have to stick with Society provided maps. But, I will ask them about the discrepancies.

The rest stop list I used for assignments was provided by Society staff. I will ask them to verify. According to the staff, you had signed up on the Galaxy Digital site for the rest stop listed on my list, which is why I put you down there. Let's see if we get any other operators and then we can play around with assignments.

Thanks again for your willingness to participate.

73,

Brandon G. Watson, N4BGW

RACES Officer,
City of Coral Gables RACES
http://www.gablesraces.com

Club Secretary,
Dade Radio Club of Miami
http://www.w4nvu.org

Net Manager,
Miami-Dade County RACES
http://www.miamidaderaces.org/

Communications Chair,
Bike MS: Breakaway to the Palm Beaches
http://bikefls.nationalmssociety.org/

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[Dana Rodakis]

I will be updating the pretty maps I created in previous years.

Dana Rodakis, K4LK
bikeMS Suncoast Challenge
SAG4 Sweep

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> On Mar 17, 2025, at 07:52, n4b...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi Rob, I'll forward your email regarding the maps to the Society staff. The "pretty maps" we all know and love were made by someone who isn't available this year, so we'll have to stick with Society provided maps. But, I will ask them about the discrepancies.

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[Rob Jacobson]

Thank you for responding Brandon!

As to the society's maps, in my opinion they aren't usable, but I'll
defer to the SAG's, perhaps they have figured out a way to use them?  If
Net control asks a SAG to go somewhere, and that road or rest stop isn't
on their map (and it looks to me over 90% of roads aren't labeled on
their maps, unless they print a lot of map pages out) - what do they
do?  We don't want Net control spending half their time trying to give
directions.  Perhaps they could try following the cue sheets, but I
think most of us will be VERY happy to see Dana's work!  This has made
me appreciate how much work Dana has had to do, to make usable maps. 
Thank you!

I'll work wherever you put me.  The Galaxy Digital web site demanded
selection of a rest stop, even though there was no routing info yet.  I
wanted to only put in that I'm available for any rest stop, but
preferred one that was busy.

Rob Jacobson, KJ4TSP
KJ4...@gmail.com

[Brandon Watson]

It sounds like Dana will be making the maps we all know and love! So that’s a good start. The cue sheets I have asked the society to look into and as soon as I get a response I will let you know. Unfortunately I don’t have the luxury of knowledge of the area enough to know if anything is really wrong.

As far as assignment goes, I may take you up on your offer to move because you’re right, the traffic is definitely busier and more crucial at 1 rather than the other stop for 100 only. I’ll look when I get home and let you know. 

Brandon G. Watson, N4BGW

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[n4b...@gmail.com]

Rob, I moved you to the RS on Honore. A new roster will be sent out over the weekend after any other changes are made.

All, we are still searching for another rest stop operator and a few more SAGs. We're down to 5 SAGs and a rover. Ideally, we would have more. Please pass it around your clubs and nets locally. Unfortunately, I'm a bit far away to do that myself.

73,

Brandon G. Watson, N4BGW

RACES Officer,
City of Coral Gables RACES
http://www.gablesraces.com

Club Secretary,
Dade Radio Club of Miami
http://www.w4nvu.org

Net Manager,
Miami-Dade County RACES
http://www.miamidaderaces.org/

Communications Chair,
Bike MS: Breakaway to the Palm Beaches
http://bikefls.nationalmssociety.org/

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[Bill Aten, K4JZ]

Any chance we can get Rest Stop Lat/Long added to the final listing (with enough time to program my Garmin before Saturday)?  See example below from last year.  This is extremely helpful when we need to "proceed direct" to a specific rest stop.

Thanks,
Bill Aten, K4JZ
SAG-4

[Dana Rodakis]

I have programmed my Garmin dash GPS with the street addresses of the rest stops.  Makes is easy to get to a rest stop directly.  Here are the coordinates and addresses:

REST STOP	LOCATION	Address	Address
Start/Finish	Lakewood Ranch Main Street	8100 Lakewood Ranch Main St, Lakewood Ranch 34202	8100 Lakewood Ranch Main St, Lakewood Ranch 34202
A	Good Shepherd Lutheran Church	27.273603, -82.464517	5659 Honore Ave, Sarasota  34233
B	Osprey Junction Trailhead	27.196420, -82.463802	939 Bay St, Osprey 34229
C	Venice Train Depot	27.102200, -82.440653	303 E Venice Ave, Venice 34285
D	Manasota Key Beach	27.010827, -82.412228	8570 Manasota Key Rd, Englewood 34223
E	New Life Lutheran Church	27.337515, -82.407330	8010 Fruitville Road, Sarasota 34240
F	PRECO	27.418216, -82.353362	6975 Bourneside Blvd (Fire station across the street)

Dana Rodakis, K4LK

bikeMS Suncoast Challenge

SAG 1 Sweep

On Mar 22, 2025, at 15:56, Bill Aten, K4JZ <bi...@aten.net> wrote:

Any chance we can get Rest Stop Lat/Long added to the final listing (with enough time to program my Garmin before Saturday)?  See example below from last year.  This is extremely helpful when we need to "proceed direct" to a specific rest stop.

Thanks,
Bill Aten, K4JZ
SAG-4

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