The ride down was maybe 50 miles of back roads and pretty entertaining. I was thinking that today was going to be a slower, more vintage type day and was told there would be a crawl of all bikes from the assembly area in Woodstock over to the restaurant for lunch, so I brought the ZRX for it’s more moderate riding position and cushier seat. I got lucky and was in second position in the line and it was a brisk pace all the way. Luckily, I was riding fairly well for not having spent a lot of seat time on this bike lately. Even with a couple diversions, missed turns and double-backs, our group arrived about an hour early.
I can’t remember the name of the meeting place, but it looked like this:
I do not know today’s definition of a vintage motorcycle, but I’d estimate half the bikes here were less than 25 years old. Quite a few were clearly older than that, but many seemed to be from the 70’s - 90’s. About noon everyone mounted up and rode 30 miles or so to the place arranged for lunch. Traffic was blocked off for everyone to exit and parade through town. A couple miles along, our group chose to go our own way and this leg of the ride was still quite a bit slower than desired, partly due to wet roads and a few minutes of rain. We still arrived about 15 minutes early and got first shot at the way overpriced sandwich buffet!
A group of 5 of us left for home on a circuitous route, on some great roads and back on pace. That was going along very well until Ed suffered a mechanical failure. He was able to get home, but is likely facing some rebuild effort on the RZ350. Overall, a good ride day and I racked up 176 miles.
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