Meeting Recap--June 29, 2019

Seven of us met this Saturday to plan a ride for July, discuss with Dave and Larry their WNC Adventure, get a few tips from various video sources and just have a good time together.

We settled on Saturday July 13 for our next group ride. While the route is not yet detailed the ride will go as far north as Union and Fannin counties with a planned stop at TWO to take a look at the TRIUMPH RIDE-IN scheduled to there on that weekend. A route plan and other details will be sent out as the ride date approaches.

Dave and Larry filled in some of the missing pieces not caught in the Ride Report and videos ( https://tlcmc.org/ ). It was clear that in spite of the showers and storms they encountered they, and Mel had a great time and are looking forward to another adventure.

We discussed various ways we could reimburse Dan for the money he's spent over the past couple of years maintaining our website. We decided PayPal would be the best approach. Details and a suggested contribution will be e-mailed soon.

We viewed and discussed two "instructional videos". One, from Awesome Players, was not intended to be instructional but did show us the steps to take if you accidentally drown your bike, as one of them did. The other was from MOTOTREK showing us how to successfully get through a patch of deep gravel or river rocks.

Upon looking closely at Bret Tkacs, the rider in the video, we saw a resemblance to the famous Buster Scruggs as seen here:

Richard, Dave, Larry, Steve and I rode over to Family Traditions for lunch after the meeting.

Our next meeting will be on July 27th. Have a happy and safe 4th of July