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Lets keep this thread going for Calgary area rides....

Sunday August 6 , 2007. Anyone up for a ride? How 'bout the Okotokes, Millarville, 762, hwy 66, Bragg Creek ice-cream run? Due to the lack of notice and time to get our dodo together I'll call a meeting place of the new Canadian Tire parking lot at 130 AVE S.E. (take Deerfoot Trail to 130 Ave - then first left). Lets get together at 10:00am before blasting off to Okotokes. Have the tank full before you get there and be prepared to ride your own ride. Depending if I get called to work or if we can get a babysitter, there will either be a red VTR Honda there with me on it and a red / white duck with Mrs. High_Side on it, one or the other or me on the duck. Confused? How bad can it be? See you at 10am Sunday. Hope you can all make it.

High_Side

High_Side wrote:Sunday August 6 , 2007. Anyone up for a ride? How 'bout the Okotokes, Millarville, 762, hwy 66, Bragg Creek ice-cream run? Due to the lack of notice and time to get our dodo together I'll call a meeting place of the new Canadian Tire parking lot at 130 AVE S.E. (take Deerfoot Trail to 130 Ave - then first left). Lets get together at 10:00am before blasting off to Okotokes. Have the tank full before you get there and be prepared to ride your own ride. Depending if I get called to work or if we can get a babysitter, there will either be a red VTR Honda there with me on it and a red / white duck with Mrs. High_Side on it, one or the other or me on the duck. Confused? How bad can it be? See you at 10am Sunday. Hope you can all make it.

High_Side

I'm in!!

I'll be up at 5am for it. Ya, I do actually have to get up a 5am Sunday morning (Andrea will be off to San Diego) and I'll be making bacon and eggs.

130th Ave SE?? Hey, whatever happened to a "central location!" that's the edge of the boonies! I'll have to fill up there as if I fill up in the inner-city I'll be down a 1/6th of a tank getting there.. haha.

Umm, don't you mean 549 (22) as that goes from Okotokes to Black Diamond to Turner Valley to Millarville, not 762? I don't see 762 on a map anywhere??

Mike.

Hey guys, yep, I'm jealous. You probably have all kinds of twisty roads in around your area to hit - way more than over here. Just chatting with one of our riders tonight and the big complaint was our lack of twisty roads. We're meeting for brekkie tomorrow at 9:00 before our ride (likely on some straight roads no doubt). Next time we'll have to set up a meet like in Red Deer or Sylvan!

High Side - know any good roads this a way...?

totalmotorcycle wrote: I'm in!!

I'll be up at 5am for it. Ya, I do actually have to get up a 5am Sunday morning (Andrea will be off to San Diego) and I'll be making bacon and eggs.

Too bad Mrs Total Motorcycle won't be there. Who else am I going to be able to give such a hard time?????

totalmotorcycle wrote: 130th Ave SE?? Hey, whatever happened to a "central location!" that's the edge of the boonies! I'll have to fill up there as if I fill up in the inner-city I'll be down a 1/6th of a tank getting there.. haha.

The trouble with central is that there are no good roads in the middle of Calgary. WE WANT TO GO OUT OF TOWN! It just so happens that I live on the end of town where this particular ride is starting......what are the odds of that ????:mrgreen:

totalmotorcycle wrote: Umm, don't you mean 549 (22) as that goes from Okotokes to Black Diamond to Turner Valley to Millarville, not 762? I don't see 762 on a map anywhere??

Mike.

Yep, 549 goes from the 'tokes to Turner Valley, then we head west at Millarville until we get to the 762 which comes up south of Bragg Creek. Don't worry, if Jen is along she won't let us not find the ice-cream

KarateChick wrote:Hey guys, yep, I'm jealous. You probably have all kinds of twisty roads in around your area to hit - way more than over here. Just chatting with one of our riders tonight and the big complaint was our lack of twisty roads. We're meeting for brekkie tomorrow at 9:00 before our ride (likely on some straight roads no doubt). Next time we'll have to set up a meet like in Red Deer or Sylvan!

High Side - know any good roads this a way...?

Brekkie: now that is a great idea! Maybe next time we will have to do that here. If you wanna see some nicer roads you are welcome to join us in the morning....and nobody will put you in a headlock! By my watch you have 11.5 hours to get down here As for nice roads around Red-Deer, if they existed I would know about them as I grew up not far from there but it's pretty slim pickin's. The Pine Lake / Delburne area is likely the best bet with some nice rolling hills but other than that I am stumped. As for Edmonton: well.......
I'll try to remember the camera tomorro and get some pics.
Cheers,
High_Side

It's amazing how nobody can make it when you post up a ride less than 24 hours before it starts.....
I only managed to get a few outta focus pictures in before the batteries went dead.

Very nice Bruce. Wish I could have made it out for this one, especially now that I have the bike running smoothly again.

Instead, I'm busing getting ready for a trip to Nogales first weekend of Sept.

High_Side wrote:It's amazing how nobody can make it when you post up a ride less than 24 hours before it starts.....

Sorry Bruce I said I was around but no one phoned I tend not to look at the boards on the weekend until later in the day.Hence why I wasnt there.

MASHBY wrote:

High_Side wrote:It's amazing how nobody can make it when you post up a ride less than 24 hours before it starts.....

Sorry Bruce I said I was around but no one phoned I tend not to look at the boards on the weekend until later in the day.Hence why I wasnt there.

That sucks that you didn't make it Matt, but I did phone you and let it ring 6 times this morning (damned call display ). I'll try to pull it together earlier next time.

Owen,
Sorry you couldn't make it either. By the way where the heck is Nogales?

High_Side wrote: Owen,
Sorry you couldn't make it either. By the way where the heck is Nogales?

South of Phoenix, Arizona on the Mexican border