Have a reservation @ Bells but will not know if I can make it until the last min. If I make it I will be in on Thursday. It would be great to see my NT friends again.
7th Nat'l NT Rally - July 5-8, 2017 - Spearfish, SD
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We hope you can make it!
Frosty
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Coyote Chris and I are leaving Mon morning. Yellowstone, Beartooth, Big Horns, Cody and hope to see all on Thurs. Be safe.
So if I can make it what do I bring? Should I bring, this
, this 
, or this 
? Decisions, Decision.
Or maybe this.
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Life is tough, Chuck. Hope you can stand the strain.
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Ride safe Mike, see you in a couple of days.
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Guess that my 5 MPH over the limit does not apply in SD on the 4th of July weekend. Got tagged outside of Mitchell doing 85 in an 80. The fine is $85.00. Wote a check and sent it in from my motel in Sturgis. This is my first- and hopefully last ticket ever. The State Trooper was very nice. Had to do what he had to do. See you all soon
Not very funny, but I can't help but laugh a little. Mitchell was where I gave up on my first attempt at a BBG. I had gotten 45 minutes behind my time line in the first 86 miles and was too ignorant to restart the clock in Limon. Then I made a routing error and decided north of Des Moines that I could save time by taking US-20 to Sioux City. Wrong. There was construction that led to detours before I got to Sioux City and then even more construction through Sioux City. At Mitchell, my GPS indicated I'd make it with ten minutes to spare, but I needed one gas stop just to have enough fuel to make it, plus two more -- one in Beaulah, WY, to mark my turnaround point to give me a few miles over 1500 on my way to Spearfish and then one there to stop the clock.
I just settled down into an 80mph cruise and, after making the stop for enough fuel to get me to Spearfish, I had a rabbit running 85-90. We were pounding along in the 103F temperature and the 25-35mph crosswind out of the south. I saw a maroon Ford coming up from behind and didn't think anything about it until it was alongside and I saw the Highway Patrol insignia on the door and the patrolman behind the wheel. He just nodded at me as he cruised past me. When he got aside my rabbit, I thought that poor guy was going to have a stroke when the patrolman waved at him.
The cop just kept rolling at between 95-100 and we tucked in behind him all the way to Rapid City where he got off the interstate. Then we slowed down a bit the rest of the way to Spearfish.
I guess you met a different officer.
I just settled down into an 80mph cruise and, after making the stop for enough fuel to get me to Spearfish, I had a rabbit running 85-90. We were pounding along in the 103F temperature and the 25-35mph crosswind out of the south. I saw a maroon Ford coming up from behind and didn't think anything about it until it was alongside and I saw the Highway Patrol insignia on the door and the patrolman behind the wheel. He just nodded at me as he cruised past me. When he got aside my rabbit, I thought that poor guy was going to have a stroke when the patrolman waved at him.
The cop just kept rolling at between 95-100 and we tucked in behind him all the way to Rapid City where he got off the interstate. Then we slowed down a bit the rest of the way to Spearfish.
I guess you met a different officer.
junglejim
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I usually use the same rule, but I've had 2 failures. Got written for 60 in a 55 zone twice, both by the state patrol. And in WI you can add another $100 to your ticket price. I don't know what tips the scale because there were faster people on the road than me, but I really was doing 60 so I had no excuse. I know a lot of people who add 7 - 10 mph to the speed limit and do just fine. I guess when it is not your day you will get the ticket.
mikesim
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Holed up at the Motel 6 in Sioux Falls, SD. Almost got nailed by a thunder-boomer but I outran it by a few minutes. Traveller likes the 80 mph speed limit in SD. He got a little frisky and I caught him doing 90 a time or two. I gotta warn him about the Troopers, but maybe Alex was the sacrificial lamb for the group ��
Mike
Mike
junglejim
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Leaving in the morning for Spearfish. I'll ride to somewhere ND east of the Missouri River. Finish the trip on Wednesday.
See you folks in a couple days. Good to be on the road again.
See you folks in a couple days. Good to be on the road again.
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Leaving in the morning, hope to be there in the afternoon.... but, we'll see with holiday traffic.
artemedes (Kevin Jones) is at my house after riding from Great Bend, KS. We'll leave in the morning and meet Jim Moore in Crawford, NE. We should be to Spearfish by 4 or so.
Bear
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Will see you guys at Bell's. Not even the 4th yet and people are shooting off firecrackers like crazy. Sounds like a firefight out there.
junglejim
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Ya, here too. Started 2 days ago.
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Great day!
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Enjoy guys!! - If I wasn't 4,448 miles away (thank you Google), I may very well have popped down to say hello.
Cheers
Graham
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Graham
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The party had started.
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Bear
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Great pictures, Joe