Meeting Recap--April 30th, 2016

The Weather Underground can hold their head in shame for predicting thunderstorms starting around noon, while our local guru, Kirk Mellish, had it right again, with sunshine prevailing, well into the afternoon.

Ten of us rode or drove in to meet and discuss plans for a May ride and the three day Camp-N-Ride scheduled for June. Larry took the group through a day by day itinerary for the Camp-N-Ride that starts out on Thursday June 9th with a scenic ride up to the Mile High or Balsam campground just off the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) in the vicinity of Cherokee, North Carolina. The second day, Friday, includes more rides on the BRP and the Smoky Mountains for street rider, or various off road tracks in and around the national park for dual sport riders. Both groups will meet up at the south end of the Dragon and ride together to the Iron Horse Lodge's campground near Stecoah. Day three's route is not yet defined but will head home with various side rides available. Larry is coordinating the event and will soon send an e-mail with more definitive details.

The group agreed on May 14th for the May ride. The route chosen would take the group up to Ellijay (the back way then over Fort Mountain to Chatsworth and lunch at Edna's. From Edna's the ride would continue south on the Old Federal Road, SR 136, Jerusalem Church Road, and Henderson Mountain etc, and home. More information will be available as the ride date approaches.

Dan (and Presley) joined us and brought us up to speed on the financial status of our website. About $215 is needed to cover the site's hosting cost into the next two years. Dan has been covering charges out of his PayPal account but the group agreed that active TLCMC members should foot the bill. This figures to about $20 @

Richard, Dave, Steve D., Larry, Bob (the younger), and Bob S.ponied up their $20 at the meeting. The rest of the active members (defined as attending some meetings and/or participating in rides at least occasionally) should either leave their $20 with their name noted in an envelope left in the Sullivan mail slot at Timothy, or bring it to the next meeting. Anything collected in excess of the $215 will be used for enhancements to the website, perhaps a Lending Library for  motorcycle videos  and books.

The remainder of the meeting looked at the history of BMW's GS series, an instructional video from Captain Crash and a few other video clips depicting other aspects of motorcycling.

Our next meeting will be Saturday, May 28th, same time, 9-11am.