1st Nat'l NT Rally - Jun 27-Jul 1, 2011 - Hill City, SD

Yes. There will be both options. I think the hotel will be the Golden Spike Inn and if that falls into place their parking lot will be "Rally Central." There is a really good campground just a few miles south of town that was very motorcycle freindly during the COG rally a few years ago. I'll be getting all that cleared up in the next couple of weeks. I hope.
 
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I will be there from Spokane with bells on.

Roger
 
Ahh. I've got a backpacking trip in April and a cruise to Mexico in October. My two weeks are spent. I'm circling the western US on the NT during that time frame next year.
 
I have all permissions and have alloted time to go!!! Lord willing I will there. I plan on riding in. It is 888 miles one way so it will be a nice run. I may go on from there to San Diego after the rally to visit some relatives. I'm very excited!

When this even gets closer, I think that all that are registered should have a "sticky" on the forum stating our location, time of departure, planned route and whether we would meet up with others and ride in together!!! It is safer and in many instances a lot more fun to ride in small groups.

Sam:)
 
I'll see what I can do. Will be a nearly 1200 mile jaunt for me, but might be doable. I haven't done any distance on my bike yet but I hope to get some break in time soon. That's breaking ME in, not the bike.
 
Tim,

You can do it! I rode to my first national rally in 2000. I'd had my Concours a bit over a year. I left here, rode to Brian Head, UT (spending nights with my son in Montrose, and my folks in Grand Junction), then left Brian Head, rode to Vegas to put a Swedish friend's wife on a plane heading for Stockholm, then came across country to Mountain Home, Arkansas, in four days. When I left Mountain Home, I spent a night with friends in Bella Vista, AR, then went on to visit an aunt and uncle in Kansas and made it home after two great weeks.

I've found that I can do 500 mile days easily in the summer. I eat breakfast and try to be riding by 8:30 to 9:00, then ride till 6:30-7:00, which gives me plenty of time to rest, eat, sleep.

Expand your horizons! Like the Iron Butt Association says, when you realize you can ride 1000 miles in a day, it makes the country a lot smaller!
 
Alright - I'm in for sure. Got it approved at work and by the wife - . I'll be there.

Now, I'm a planner. I need to know things in advance most of the time. So... when are people planning to arrive? Sunday or Monday? I'm thinking of coming down in two 600 mile day rides on Saturday and Sunday (so arriving late in the afternoon or early evening) - but if others aren't going to arrive until Monday evening I'll arrive Monday evening as well.

What hotel should I make reservations at? Want to be in the same hotel with everyone else. Is there a group rate I can still get - or are we just too small a group?

And who all is coming? How many "for-sure" are there?
 
Tim,

It ain't gonna' be a huge rally: there are 3-4 "Definitelies" and 5-6 "Maybes." The hotel is the Golden Spike Inn in Hill City. Go to the "Home" page on this Forum and you'll find a link to the hotel for booking on the left side of the page.

I don't know what other people will do, but I plan on riding up after church on Sunday. That'll probably put me there sometime around 7:30-8:00.

I hope we can get the group rate still. We aren't very many of us and hotels in the Black Hills ain't cheap -- even a month before the BIG rally up the street at Sturgis

I look forward meeting you and riding with you!
 
Rick,

I'm going to call them again about the Group Rate. She quoted me $170/night for the group rate. I just got $153/night through Expedia. I'm going to see if I can talk her down to $140. If I can I'll cancel my Expedia reservations.

I don't think it would hurt to go ahead and book -- you can cancel w/ no penalty up to 15 days ahead of arrival. I plan on leaving on Friday morning, BTW. I also plan on sharing a room with a (shudder) BMW-ridin' buddy from here in FM.
 
I will be on my way home from the annual WESTOC gathering(a week before NTOC) in Nelson BC, Canada. Don't know when I will get to the NTOC but I will stop in for a couple of days. I hope you all will let me, as I plan on riding the ST for this trip, with the NT in reserve in case the ST is not ready by then.
 
I checked and I think I can probably make this; would be a good midsummer ride, and finally get to meet some other NT owners.. It's about 1500 miles from here, more or less. I like back roads, interstates are kind of boring, so it may be a little farther in time and miles. I see that a couple of you are coming from WA state, maybe meet up in Missoula or ??

I just went to BestWestern.com and booked a room at rate of $153+tax for four nights Mon-Thu for a double queen with frig and micro. Cancellation is day before, so that's no sweat. Sharing would be $332 each if anyone who doesn't snore is interested.:smile:
 
Great! That's the rate I got, too. Less than the "special group rate" of $170 that I was promised if we registered by mid-March. We (COG friends and I) have frequently had three and a couple of times 4 in a room, if there are folks who don't mind sleeping on the floor. I did that a few times early in my riding career, but now that I've had all these artificial knees, I have to wake people up to help me get my weary old body up to make it to the bathroom. :)
 
cyclemikey said:
I checked and I think I can probably make this; would be a good midsummer ride, and finally get to meet some other NT owners.. It's about 1500 miles from here, more or less. I like back roads, interstates are kind of boring, so it may be a little farther in time and miles. I see that a couple of you are coming from WA state, maybe meet up in Missoula or ??

I just went to BestWestern.com and booked a room at rate of $153+tax for four nights Mon-Thu for a double queen with frig and micro. Cancellation is day before, so that's no sweat. Sharing would be $332 each if anyone who doesn't snore is interested.:smile:
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i had to ask my wife - she says I snore a little, but I never hear it :D. I am looking for someone to split a room with though. I am coming in from Washington, so meeting up in-route would be fun.

Anyone else want to split the room?
 
I would love to make it, but my wife and I are caring for her 88 year old father. He is one of those guys who landed in Normandy and went on to the Battle of the Bulge. Unfortunately he can't be left alone and I really could not have her be the only caregiver. He's a really nice guy. Besides, I am also a Vet.(Vietnam), and we take care of our own.
 
Sailariel said:
I would love to make it, but my wife and I are caring for her 88 year old father. He is one of those guys who landed in Normandy and went on to the Battle of the Bulge. Unfortunately he can't be left alone and I really could not have her be the only caregiver. He's a really nice guy. Besides, I am also a Vet.(Vietnam), and we take care of our own.
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Glad you've got your priorities straight! Those guys don't have many more years left and deserve all the care we can give them while they're with us. We owe them ... well, the WORLD!

Hopefully, the First-Ever NT-Owners Club National Rally wont' be the last!
 
Why does any route from Indiana to SD have to be so bleeding boring!
 

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So - what is the agenda for the week? Are people arriving on Monday (June 27) or are they arriving Sunday to be ready for "activities" on Monday? Are people leaving Friday (so nothing planned for that day)? Just trying to make sure I know how long the reservation should be and my reservations for hotels on the drive to/from Hill City.
 
I'm planning on arriving Sunday -- but it'll be fairly late. I'm doing a wedding on top of a mountain ski resort in Utah on Saturday, catching a plane out of Salt Lake at 5:50AM on Sunday, preaching here at 9:00 and then heading that way. I 'spect I'll get there around 6-7PM.

Rally activities: Not too many planned yet. I'll have some ride suggestions and try to set something up at the Honda dealer in Rapid City. There are lots of things to visit: Caves, Mount Rushmore, Devil's Tower, the Badlands, Indian Reservations museums in Rapid City, Deadwood and Lead (pronounced "l-ee-d" not "led"). We'll have a bike show, but that'll probably start the minute we get there. I'm going to find a place where we can have a "banquet" but I'm not going to organize a menu. That would mean making a commitment about numbers. A lot of what I see us doing is talking about setting precedents in what we want in a National Rally. If we get some of the experts there, maybe they can demonstrate a few maintenance procedures -- I'd really like to see what's involved in adjusting valves (or even just getting all the plastic off.

Typical for the Concours Owners Group Rallies I've been at has been having the banquet on Thursday evening and then people were free to leave and head home on Friday morning. I'm fairly sure I'll check out of the motel by Friday morning so I can be back here by O'Dark-thirty on Friday evening, since I've got to preach again on Sunday.

When I talk about having ride suggestions, what I mean is some routes of varying length (and maybe themes) and folks hook up with each other and ride together. I don't believe in riding in the kind of groups that will take over the Hills a month after we're there when 2-400,000 folks will be there for "Sturgis."

If anyone wants this to get more "organized," I'm open for that, but I won't do it. :)

As for you poor people coming from the east, it's not as awful as you think. You just need to think "off the slab." I'm attaching a route suggestion that's probably something like what I'd use if I were coming from central Indiana. I've ridden some of these roads and they're not so bad. Nebraska is a cool state to ride through once you get off I-80. It's hard to do too much with Illinois, but it can be better than going around the big cities and following interstates. Iowa's got lots of potential. This route adds 150 miles to the straight line version (which you can't ride anyway, mainly because of barbed wire and water).

If you can't open this (it's a Streets and Trips file) email me at ptarman1 at msn dot com and I'll send you an html version.
 
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