2008-06-14 WI, Richland Center

[forgitaboutut]

We will meet at Vetesnik's (Kickstands up around 11:50)
and ride to Fiesta Fe:eat1:

Vetesnik's: 27475 US hwy 14 East, Richland Center,53581

Fiesta Fe: 130 S Main St, Richland Center, WI 53581

CURT HAS ADDED ROUTES!:bow1:

[Kevin_56]

I will be making the reservations at Fiesta Fe. Please post if you are planning on making this one and how many so I can warn them how many hungry riders there will be.

I am one, and counting.

Kevin

[MNwing]

Gonna try and make it

[STeve1300]

I'm in!!

[Viggo]

I'm a firm maybe. I've got a lot of things going on in June but I'm hoping I can work it out.

[upnorthdad]

Rich,
Thanks much for organizing this but on the 14th I will be on my 2nd day of 11 hiking in the mountains of northern New Mexico otherwise I would come....
Thanks Dave

[forgitaboutut]

Rich,
Thanks much for organizing this but on the 14th I will be on my 2nd day of 11 hiking in the mountains of northern New Mexico otherwise I would come....
Thanks Dave

Thanks goes to Kevin!!
but I'm sure we'll have another one ...maybee aug!?....
enjoy the Mtns!!! sounds like an unforgitable trip!!!

[bbrauck]

I'll have to check the calendar and mapquest to see how early I would have to get up in Rochester but it sounds like fun

[Kevin_56]

I'll have to check the calendar and mapquest to see how early I would have to get up in Rochester but it sounds like fun

It was nice to meet you today at the ERC in St. Paul. Hope you can make it to this RTE. From the center or Rochester to Vetesnik's is about 146 miles. Vetesnik's is located SE of Richland Center on US 14 and the intersection of Sawmill Road.

Kevin

[Dave Tracy]

Kevin,

So what is this? Your doing..

Dave

[Kevin_56]

Kevin,

So what is this? Your doing..

Dave

Dave

I planted a seed to forgitaboutut. He posted the seed and now I am watering it to see it grow. :D

Kevin

[crazykz]

Do we need a route to ride?

I'm pretty sure I'm in.

Curt

[Kevin_56]

Do we need a route to ride?

I'm pretty sure I'm in.

Curt

Are you volunteering?

Kevin

[irish]

Steve and I are camping near Potosi that weekend and planning on a stop in Richland Center on Saturday. Please add 2 to the list :)

If anyone feels like camping, we'd be happy to share the campfire on Friday night! If you like trains, this is a neat campground. If you don't like trains, you'll hate the campground!!

http://www.reserveamerica.com/campgroundDetails.do?subTabIndex=0&&contractCode=nrso&parkCode=grar

[crazykz]

Are you volunteering?

Kevin

I have a route and I'm sure I can find another. How many miles do you think are good?

Curt

[Kevin_56]

Your guess is as good as mine. Eat at noon, done about 1. Plan on a 1:30 departure for an escorted ride by Curt. Sounds as good of a plan as any if you ask me :D

Kevin

[KURT44]

:06biker: Hello from Durand il.
I am a maybe at this point. Run my own business. A lot of the
time it runs me when there are break downs.
Kurt

[crazykz]

Your guess is as good as mine. Eat at noon, done about 1. Plan on a 1:30 departure for an escorted ride by Curt. Sounds as good of a plan as any if you ask me :D

Kevin

I think I have a route we can use but I need to get home and plan it. I'm Laramie, WY on my way back from the WORD! Rally that was in Ely, NV.

Curt

[Kevin_56]

Sounds great Curt.

Kevin

[crazykz]

Ok I'm planning on going out there possibly this weekend to scope out the route. I may (gulp) be in a cage. :( We'll see. If I can't get out there we'll just wing it.

Curt

[Rich R]

Steve and I are camping near Potosi that weekend and planning on a stop in Richland Center on Saturday. Please add 2 to the list :)

If anyone feels like camping, we'd be happy to share the campfire on Friday night! If you like trains, this is a neat campground. If you don't like trains, you'll hate the campground!!

http://www.reserveamerica.com/campgroundDetails.do?subTabIndex=0&&contractCode=nrso&parkCode=grar

Give the big beer bottle a hug for me :)

[forgitaboutut]

Give the big beer bottle a hug for me :)

One for me too!
I tried to get Sally to go...but no dice...I think it might be the trains!:shrug1:

[Putt]

Steve and I are camping near Potosi that weekend and planning on a stop in Richland Center on Saturday. Please add 2 to the list :)

If anyone feels like camping, we'd be happy to share the campfire on Friday night! If you like trains, this is a neat campground. If you don't like trains, you'll hate the campground!!

http://www.reserveamerica.com/campgroundDetails.do?subTabIndex=0&&contractCode=nrso&parkCode=grar

Don't forget to run Indian Creek Road while you are in that area...

Putt...

[irish]

We've had a change of plans. Instead of going down to Potosi for the weekend, we'll be going up to Green Bay. I'm not sure where we'll be on Saturday. However. . . if anyone's in the GREEN BAY area on Friday night, we plan on being at the BayShore campground and still willing to share the campfire :)

Putt, I pulled out the map when I got home last night and found Indian Creek road, but not Ruff road. If this rain lets up I might have to go exploring later today :D

[Putt]

We've had a change of plans. Instead of going down to Potosi for the weekend, we'll be going up to Green Bay. I'm not sure where we'll be on Saturday. However. . . if anyone's in the GREEN BAY area on Friday night, we plan on being at the BayShore campground and still willing to share the campfire :)

Putt, I pulled out the map when I got home last night and found Indian Creek road, but not Ruff road. If this rain lets up I might have to go exploring later today :D

You have MS Streets and Trips?? I'll send you the file...

Putt...

[crazykz]

As promised I would come up with a couple routes that are possibilities for Saturday if people want to ride after eating. There's a 54 mile route and a 135 mile route. We can do either one depending on what people want. We can even split up and each can do their own.

Curt

[Kevin_56]

So - did you cage it or brave the storms? Oh thats right, this is not Moonshine.

All jokes aside, thanks for doing this. I will have to wait till I get home to see the routes as I do not have the software at work (YET).

Kevin

[EASt]

I've got relatives in town this weekend... dang it.

Sorry I can't make this one. Mmmm. Ol' Potosi. :beer2:

[STPaulK]

You guys should probably start making alternative route plans. There was alot of flooding in that area this weekend and most roads are closed today.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42787

[crazykz]

You guys should probably start making alternative route plans. There was alot of flooding in that area this weekend and most roads are closed today.

http://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42787

I was wondering about that. Thanks.

Curt

[crazykz]

Well hopefully people can still get there. Maybe there won't be a ride afterwards but we'll see.

Curt

[Kevin_56]

No problem getting to Richland Center from US 14. There was flooding in town. Ball diamonds under 3 foot of water on Monday. Water is receding but more on the way. The roads south and east are fine and can be fun to run. Spring Green has flooding in some residential areas.

I say lets meet and eat and then wing it.

Great routes you have Curt. Mother nature says "Next time".

Kevin

[MNwing]

Don't think I'm going to be able to make it down. Too much to get done before heading out next Wed for my month? long trip out west.

[crazykz]

Don't think I'm going to be able to make it down. Too much to get done before heading out next Wed for my month? long trip out west.

Have fun then on your trip. We'll miss seeing you there.

Curt

[MNwing]

Curt....Thanks, was planning on being there, but after riding in that area last Sat in the down pour, I have a really dirty bike that needs to be cleaned and getting ready for the trip I need both Sat and Sunday to get a lot done.

Tues, 6/17/08 is my last day to work and its retirement time and the trip is a gift to myself after 50+ years of working.

I too will miss seeing many ofyou there, but hope our paths cross on the road this summer.

[Kevin_56]

Congratulations on retirement. Will you become the next Motomac?

Have a safe trip and hope to see you later in the year.

Kevin

[crazykz]

Congratulations on retirement. Will you become the next Motomac?

Have a safe trip and hope to see you later in the year.

Kevin

Speaking of Motomac I think I saw him at a wayside off I-80 in Iowa when I was coming back from Nevada last Tuesday. I'll have to ping him.

Congrats on retirement. Go out and enjoy the hell out of the ride.

I may go and see the empty Lake Delton on my way over there for the RTE on Saturday.

Curt

[Kevin_56]

[QUOTE=crazykz;472651]Speaking of Motomac I think I saw him at a wayside off I-80 in Iowa when I was coming back from Nevada last Tuesday. I'll have to ping him.

Check out his thread on the trip to AK. It might have been his twin.

Kevin

[John OoSTerhuis]

<snip> Tues, 6/17/08 is my last day to work and its retirement time and the trip is a gift to myself after 50+ years of working.


Congratulations, Robert!

Regards, John

-- Retired: six Saturdays and one Sunday, every week! --

[Putt]

Retirement is a wonderful thing...
I recommend it highly..
See you out West, Bob!!

Putt...

[Kevin_56]

Who is building an Ark?

Reservations made for noon on Saturday. Weather guesser are saying it may be dry. At least from above.

I will be at Vetesnik's around 11 to swap tales and what ever else might be tossed out.

See the brave on Saturday.

Kevin

[crazykz]

I'll be there also. I may try and get out and run the small route I've posted to see if it's good to go before I head to Vetesnik's.

Curt

[dano1946]

I’ll be on my way to the canoe fest in Darlington (what a time for a canoe fest), with a short stop in New Diggins. I plan to stop by the restaurant around noon to meet you all.

See ya then.
Dan

[Scooterb]

I should be there sometime between 11:00 and 11:30. I'll need to find a place to try my new pontoons. ;)

[crazykz]

I should be there sometime between 11:00 and 11:30. I'll need to find a place to try my new pontoons. ;)

Sweet. We'll see you there.

Curt

[tlartist]

I am planning on coming as well. Hwy 14 still open as far as you know?

[crazykz]

I am planning on coming as well. Hwy 14 still open as far as you know?

As far as I know it is.

Curt

[Highrider]

I may be coming, I need a test ride before I take off for Westoc.

[BadgerFan]

I'm hoping to make it as well.

Here is a link to the WI DOT google map listing road closings
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106714907945366530639.00044f3ec972fee85471d&ll=43.189158,-89.500122&spn=1.874356,3.383789&z=8

[bobwendy]

I plan on making this rte.
Bob

[Allen K]

I'll give it a go. Be great to meet you all, and hopefully to say hi to Curt again who introduced me to this site.

Allen K.

[forgitaboutut]

Sally and I are in!:popcorn

[irish]

Steve and I are planning on it. Going to have to allow extra time for closed roads. We took a ride tonight and it's just sad :(

[Kevin_56]

Rich - You had better be in, you starrted this RTE. Course I had a little to do with it.

See you all there.

Kevin

[forgitaboutut]

Rich - You had better be in, you starrted this RTE. Course I had a little to do with it.

See you all there.

Kevin
I'm just the messenger...Don't shoot the messenger!:D

[Kevin_56]

It was nice to see a few familiar faces and lots of new faces. We had 11 make it for lunch. Curt had a nice route to ride with plenty of twisties to hone our skills on after lunch. Thanks Curt for the guided tour. I am glad to see so many people from the Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay way make it around all the road closures just to have lunch.

Hope every one got home OK.

Till we meet again.

Kevin

[tlartist]

Thank you everyone. It was my first ride to eat and it was good to put faces to the online personas. Just reinforced that ST owners are a good group of people.

[crazykz]

Good to see everyone and good to see some new faces showing up.

Curt

[forgitaboutut]

That was the wierdest ride home!! EVERY County Road I tried to turn on eventually turned out to be flooded out,and we had to make a dtour!!!!
Wi. is in terrable shape right now!!!
I'm sure glad WiSTOC wasnt this weekend! It is THAT bad!!!and I hope we get to somewhat normal weather soon!

[irish]

Thank you Rich and/or Kevin for hosting the RTE :) It sure is fun putting faces to names and meeting new people. We had a GREAT time.

We decided to take a chance and see if we could get home by going through Baraboo and Portage. The water and road damage we saw was amazing. We went through a number of road closed signs and when we left Baraboo we were feeling pretty good about taking the gamble that we would make it. We were just 20 miles from home when we hit the interstate area. There was NO WAY we could continue. The National Guard had Portage closed off.

So . . . go south or the shorter route, north to the Dells? We HATE the Dells this time of year!!

We talked to someone who had just come from the Dells. He told us the traffic was not bad at all. He suggested a couple of county roads that were in good condition and then a small section of road construction that the bikes wouldn't have any trouble getting through. Tom and I both heard him say the road construction was 50 - 60 yards of hard packed gravel.

Well . . . we made it . . . but his road construction turned out to be well over a mile of wash board gravel, hard packed dirt, sand and more sand.

After getting across the river we figured we had a clear shot home. I knew what roads were closed on Wednesday and the way to get around them. We ended up hitting 3 new road closed signs!! We now feel like experts at reading the signs. We were lucky at deciding which ones to ignore and only went through standing water a couple of times.

Tom still had a 100 miles to go before getting home to Green Bay. I'm guessing he's going to have some pretty good memories of this RTE and the ride :D

Who's hosting the next RTE???

[Kevin_56]

Hosting one of these is easy. Look at a calendar, pick a date, post in the RTE Forum and they we come. It is even easier if you can con someone else to post in the first place. Thanks Rich.

Kevin

[BadgerFan]

Rich/Kevin thanks for hosting this RTE, I had an absolute blast and it was great to get to meet everyone. Sorry I didn't go on the group ride, I have this fear/phobia of group rides I need get over.

The ride there and back were great but it is just so sad seeing all the flooding. We did get very lucky at reading road signs. If it said road closed bridge out they weren't kidding. But if it was road closed high water we had pretty good odds of making it. It was very strange crossing over the interstate and not seeing a single car on it.

Thanks again and when is the next one!!!!

[Kevin_56]

Rich/Kevin thanks for hosting this RTE, I had an absolute blast and it was great to get to meet everyone. Sorry I didn't go on the group ride, I have this fear/phobia of group rides I need get over.

The ride there and back were great but it is just so sad seeing all the flooding. We did get very lucky at reading road signs. If it said road closed bridge out they weren't kidding. But if it was road closed high water we had pretty good odds of making it. It was very strange crossing over the interstate and not seeing a single car on it.

Thanks again and when is the next one!!!!

Group rides can be fun. You sometimes get to see an attack goose charge a fellow rider (Curt), have not laughed that hard in a long time. Share ride experiences, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The main thing that you have heard and must do is ride your ride. The most important thing is you have to be comfortable and only you know what that is. If was a pleasure to meet you also. Next RTE? Watch the board and attend. How about one in your neck of the woods, or a spot in between. Pick a restaurant and you will be surprised how many will come. Can you feel the cattle prod?

Have a good summer and many rides.

Kevin

[Allen K]

Let me add my thanks to Rich and Kevin for setting up a wonderful RTE. Also thanks to all who were there for letting me join you. I don't know how you did it, but we even had goood weather. Must be all the clean livin'. Hit a little rain just west of Madison, but that just kept it interesting. Hope that the rest of you avoided it. But that's why God gave us Gore-Tex.

Thanks again,
Allen K.

[Scooterb]

Good food, good people, good fun! It was a pleasure meeting with you guys and gals once again and also seeing some new faces. Enjoy the summer!

[bobwendy]

Hi all
I had a good time ,well to tell the truth 98% good time.Food was good and inexpensive.great to see famaliar faces as well as new ones.Thanks to the help I recieved during the ride after lunch, I and the bike made it home without any problems . You guys are awesome!
The flooding was sad to see, the wosrt I saw was in SPRING GREEN. I rode thru about 1.5 hrs of rain from Evansville to Elkhorn.
On a side note:
I was suprised when I got home to have my jeans wet in the crotch.....
come on guys and girls , I'm questioning the ability of my firstgear riding pants to repel rain. I thought those wear waterproof ?
Bob

[forgitaboutut]

Hi all
I had a good time ,well to tell the truth 98% good time.Food was good and inexpensive.great to see famaliar faces as well as new ones.Thanks to the help I recieved during the ride after lunch, I and the bike made it home without any problems . You guys are awesome!
The flooding was sad to see, the wosrt I saw was in SPRING GREEN. I rode thru about 1.5 hrs of rain from Evansville to Elkhorn.
On a side note:
I was suprised when I got home to have my jeans wet in the crotch.....
come on guys and girls , I'm questioning the ability of my firstgear riding pants to repel rain. I thought those wear waterproof ?
Bob

It comes and goes for me Bob...the last time I was really wet....the time before that I was really dry!
I think it has to do with how the water runs down the jacket...Im' not quite sure how to explain this...is the water possibly running down the front and dropping into the pant?......my shirt was wet too last time...???
I think next time it rains...I'm going to make sure ALL the velcro flaps are tightly closed...maybee that's the problem!

[irish]

I've had the same problem :(

FWIW . . . someone told me it was water running down the gas tank and pooling. He suggested taking a small (kitchen type) towel, rolling it up and putting it between the gas tank and me. The water is suppossed to soak the towel and drip down the ends, which are hanging down either side of the gas tank. It did work the one time I remembered to pack a towel AND use it!

I need to try it again in a really heavy rain. I'm thinking once the towel is soaked, you could squeeze some of the water out with your legs and the towel could then absorb more water . . .

Wonder if it'll rain again, anytime soon?

[crazykz]

I've had that issue too and I tucked my sheepskin down between the tank and the seat. It seems to give the water a place to trickle down the sides of the tank.

I usually try and snug up against my tank bag to keep the rain out of there but that doesn't always work.

Curt