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I hope i am able to say this next month.Today is Nov. 10.Tomorrow I plan on taking a ride in my LR top down and 68 degrees and Monday top down 65 degrees.Not to shabby for Buffalo N.Y. area.Looking forward to the looks.Alot of times i go to Tim Hortons great coffee and dounuts.This seems to be a place where neat cars and cycles go on warm fall days The last time i went lots of attention ,lots of questions even from the Harley people.
Beatifull day did as i said 70 degrees top down all by myself.Tomorrow with my wife out to lunch a little shopping hopefully this is not the end of it.I seem to enjoy these late fall rides.
I had to look it up.I have to agree we are not cagers.However i believe we are a bit safer.Have you ever tried to avoid a car chasing dog on a motorcycle(1969 triumph 500)
Yes,39 years on Harleys , but the most funny thing was a great big dogs head over the top of my MG Midgets windshild on my wifes side I can here her sceem today.
Dan.Greg , that was one big dog
1969 Midgets are low and small they make a TD look BIG . my wife was 8 mo. on at that time in 1980. Back than i had a XL kicker. and was living by Woodstock NY the MG was also my winter ride. DanDan , you lived near Woodstock NY were you at the concert ? I would of been there If i had only known about all the naked people .Love the music !Country Joe ,Hendrex etc.
Greg, I’m the guy that lived near “Woodstock” which actually took place over 1-1/2 hours SW from Woodstock in a town called Bethel. Unfortunately, I was in the Submarine Force and a couple of hundred feet under the ocean where there were no naked ladies…..and it’s Hendrix (like my last name). No, we’re not related. But it sure was a super bummer that I wasn’t there either.
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BUT i had to be home for dinner ,or my father would have killed me,,,, i was 16 I walked there ! about a 4 hour walk
and had to walk back .. . there WAS no way drive there. yes , all the roads were like a parking lot. the consert was the town of Bethel in Sullivan county still the middle of nowhere. as of 20 years ago.And its 1 2 3 what are we fighting for idon’tcare and i don’t give adam the next stop is vietnammm andits 5 6 7 open up the purrly gates idon’t got time to wonder why WHOOPI! were were all gonna die COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH(Woodstock NY)
Dan and Greg, I went there just a couple of months ago. It is still in the “middle of nowhere”. Quite eerie really, you are driving through farmland and cows and voila, there is the Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts. It is worth going to. A shrine to commemorate the Woodstock experience. Very well done with many many photos and stories that you will only hear there. And the whole thing is now huge….and beautiful in an architectural sort of way with lots of glass and air conditioning. If you happen down Rt 17, make a point of stopping. They have top drawer entertainment/concerts there during the summer. I’m told that most of the folks now wear clothes. If you harbor even slightly nostalgic memories of the time, you really need to go…..and Greg, if you go to Woodstock NY, and it ain’t there – I told you so! One of the things that made Woodstock so special was that it was truly “in the middle of nowhere”. Bethel, NY just off NY Rt 17B. It would be a great place to have a MGTDr meet. Lots of great roads (and cows).
Roy – that’s an awesome idea!
Paul Mossberg
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Thanks Dick ,looks like you could be a fan of that music during that time.I googled and it looks like you are a couple of hours from Woodstock. Were you there?This winter i am replacing my car sterio with a CD player so i can listen to my favorite music.
Looks like a five-hour run from my town–240 miles or so. Quite an adventure if Karen agrees to it.
“Give me an F. give me a U ,,give me a C ,,give a K ,,whats that spell,,,
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” that is first line. A trip there would be a nice ride
775 miles from here i would not trust my TD to do it .. the Midhudson Vally has alot to see and do,, both sides of the Hudson River are full of great things from West Point to the town of Hunter ,in the mountains.of Green county A lot of historic places , Dan
If I weren’t down here in GA I’d be there. For those of you who do go, a nice jaunt through the Berkshires (Pittsfield, Lee, Lenox, Gt. Barington to see Norman Rockwell museum) makes a nice day trip.
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The ShackPaul, Ed, and Bill: If you guys are serious and put together another road trip to Bethel (Woodstock), you can have a spectacularly beautiful ride up through the scenic Delaware Water Gap to Port Jervis where you would cross over the river (Delaware) and then up Rt 97 on the famed road at Hawks Nest. The Hawk???s Nest is the most photographed section of the Byway and has been seen in many national TV commercials, esp for exotic performance automobiles, and on the covers of travel magazines. Then hang a right at Barryville onto Rt 55 up through the Eldred Preserve. That’ll take you to Bethel within a spit of the Museum. It’s be a hell of a jaunt for me (626 miles one way), but at only 71 years young, I’m tempted. These are not roads to be taken quickly so take your time. I grew up 18 miles from Bethel but it takes 45 minutes to drive there from my home. No stop lights, all 2 lane roads, no traffic, hardly any stop signs. Just fun driving. You guys need a “point man”. Just tell ’em “Roy sent you.”
Dan, In Roscoe, another 15 miles up Rt 17 towards you. The 18 miles that I mention to Bethel are “as the crow flies”, which, as I’m sure you know, is not even close to possible in that part of the world. For my high speed touring rides, I used to drive around the Pepacton Reservoir in the Downsville/Margaretville/Fleishmans area. Great roads! I really miss my occasional commune with the cows. They were often the only ones that would listen to me.
Dan.
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