Northwest Fall Gathering Round 2 - China Hat / Bend Oregon Oct 2011

Im up for the DS ride now that I have the little TE.

Great to have Motosportz kick in a little bling!

We will get Bill there if I have to lock him in my trailer But I know he really wants to come and has been talking to the HVNA Northwest Rep about participating. This is pretty exciting stuff!

EXCELLENT!! (Sorry about the caps but I couldnt help myself)

Added a copy of this to Post #1 for safekeeping.

As far as I know, Bill will be there. He told me he was moving his shop last year when the event occurred. As far as I know, his participation will be quite important.

I will probably bring some Cafe Husky goodies too.

:LOL:

It's ok.. just the all caps titles over and over gets really hard to read over and over and over...

That was quite intentional. The first thing people tend to do is to look at the dates, then if it includes a Thursday or Monday then they instantly decide not to read the thread. The way it is set up now putting the mouse over the title will bring up not only the dates - but also the explanation that it is ok to show up and leave whenever they want.

A bit more background of the event that some may not know about.

• There is an airport in Bend Oregon
• Bend has a wide variety of places to stay for the people that want to stay there
• There are decent places to eat in Bend
• The riding area is about 30 miles / 60 minutes away from Bend
• There will almost certainly be extra bikes
• There will quite probably be a number of people with vehicles going between Bend and the riding area

Could be.. hard to tell.

The only thing they have really committed to is having the district rep there as I previously mentioned.. but I've got a hunch it will be more than that.

Look in post number 1

Technically the commercial airport is Redmond, OR which is about 15 miles north of Bend.
RDM Roberts Field, Redmond, Oregon, United States
There is a smaller airport for private planes at Bend though and it is east of town, towards the riding area.

Thank you for clarifying that, I have been curious.

Feel free to update post #1 with any pertinent data.

Is there any reason the weekend 1 week earlier would not work? Thursday 10/20 to Monday 10/24th?

Someone sent me a PM (correctly) pointing out that while Halloween is on Monday 10/31, there will be a variety of childrens (and probably adult) social activities that weekend. It is possible that schools will have Halloween parties on Friday 10/28 for instance.

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I'm after whatever dates work for the most people. I 'tentatively' said 'how bout the last weekend in Oct' based on the post I just quoted above... it appears there are 2 weekends to choose from. I just randomly picked one.

The Fall Classic ISDE is the weekend before (moved to Tillamook instead of Bend this year) so I dont think we can hit a weekend without some potential for riding event conflict. I am personally flexible but we ought to make up our minds soon so the factory guys and those travelling longer distances, making hotel reservations etc have time to make arrangements.