Here is where recognition is to be given for a particularly heroic
action by someone on a ride. If you have done something noteworthy on a
ride and feel it deserves recognition, click here to tell me about it.
Everyone at the 2008 Indianapolis MotoGP
Anybody who would suffer through those hurricane conditions is a true fan!
Skidplate
Riding the Blue Ridge Parkway from Roanoke, Va to the Skyline Drive. Riding the Skyline drive. Riding from the Skyline drive to home. All in one continuous 18 hours of riding.
Ride all the way to Deals Gap in the rain. Riding at Deals Gap in the rain. Riding all the way home from Deals Gap in the rain.
First faceplant “at speed”
Mark
June 2006
Climbing a million stairs to get to the top of the mountain at the Alpine Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park. Just to get this picture.
Robbinsville NC, Mark saves my life by saying, “Lets put on rain gear”.
Colorado. Mark buys and delivers diarrhea medicine to the Tankster.
September 2006
Riding to West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky. In a week.
June 2006
Riding to Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Iowa. In a week.
June 2008
Drinking to excess at the fire, then ralphing on the Foothills Parkway the next moring.
Jim
Lifetime Achievement Award
From the our first ride together in 1984 through the Colorado ride of 2006, and never once saying, “I’m not going down that road on a Gold Wing, you must be crazy”.
June 2006
Riding to Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming, Kansas, and Iowa. In a week.
Clark
August 2006
Clark rides to Wheeling, WV. On a partly cloudy day.
Johnny
June 2008
Riding the Gap during a level 5 hurricane. On a bald tire. Without rain gear.
Tom
Rides to Robbinsville late at night to fetch ice cream for the group
Bob
Riding from Chicago to Duluth, MN in the remains of a hurricane.