On Tue, January 24, 2006 3:20 pm, Jason Bleazard wrote:
>
> On Tue, January 24, 2006 3:53 pm, Josh Battles said:
>>
>> True enough. If the road becomes prohibitive we could always attempt a 2wd
>> only photo somewhere flat. (we should do a group photo on flat land too
>> anyway)
>
> That's a good idea. We can do flat (eastern Colorado is Kansas flat) with
> the
> front range in the background, and we can take paved mountain roads up in to
> the hills to get pictures of all the trucks together. Just a matter of
> finding a spot.
That would be really cool. It would certainly be a great cover picture for
the calendar next year.
> Another cool idea would be to set someone on a corner with a video camera and
> film everyone driving past. I know Tom wanted to do this at the BBQ one year
> on the ice cream run, but we all sort of made a last-instant decision to go
> for ice cream and didn't give him time to get set up. If we could find a
> nice
> blind corner and film the whole string of trucks as we come around it, that
> would be pretty cool.
I've always liked those types of videos. They're really only worth it if
there's over 20 vehicles though. (IMHO) How many people are planning on
attending the meet thusfar? Initial turnout for the campsites yielded the
"usual suspects" plus a couple more...
>> This is a vacation. I'm all for lolligaggin' about. We don't have to pack
>> every day full of activities. I'm sure some other free time would be
>> appreciated. I've heard fishing in the Denver area is quite good....
>
> I usually agree with you that vacation = lazy time. However, I've kind of
> been operating in the mindset of trying to see and do as much as possible to
> make the trip worthwhile. IMHO, lolligaggin' can be done anywhere without
> driving that far. But it's all a matter of preference, everyone is of course
> welcome to bow out of any activities that don't sound interesting, or figure
> out alternate stuff to do. Nothing says we all have to stay together as a
> group, which is a good thing to keep in mind as we're doing this planning.
True enough, but there should definately be some time to lollygag. While
activities are important to feel that the trip wasn't wasted, I don't feel
that we should try and pack as much stuff in as possible. Maybe I'm reading
into this too far but you gave me the impression that there would always be
something planned going on. That's too structured for my tastes.
>> Let's make sure to get some twisties in there for us lowered trucks too.
>> Mountain roads make for some of the best technical driving. I love to
>> carve
>> corners.
>
> Good idea. Any idea where to find reports or suggestions on what the best
> roads are, other than just trying to pick some on a map that look
> sufficiently
> twisty? We can look around and see if anyone has a site about "Top 10 twisty
> roads of Colorado" or anything like that.
I'd be willing to bet that any of the sportbike forums local to that area
would be able to tell us exactly what roads are best to take. Those guys
really like the twisties, and since road surface quality is important to them
I'm sure we'll get some nice smooth fun roads to travel on.
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