Topic: Team Southeast Coastal World Tour 2012 planning is in high gear!

[madmtnmotors]

World Tour 2012 planning is in high gear at:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?board=167.0

[madmtnmotors]

Relay Map reflects updated (proposed) dates:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=101662.0

Turns out some of the dates were out of sequence, and I fixed the fact that ALL of the dates fell on WEDNESDAY...

All of the dates on the map now fall on Saturday, which meant backing up the dates by four days. Look it over and let me know what you think!

[madmtnmotors]

Bluto has agreed to help coordinate the Spring portion of the Relay through the Atlanta area! Thanks Bluto! 

[madmtnmotors]

GZ 2.0 is on the move! His bags are packed, next stop Oakland, CA, where he will hook up with lead-off rider geminimotors!

Here's a preflight photo-op, ready to go:



and here GZ 2.0 shares a tender moment with his bro before heading out:




FOUR WEEKS AND COUNTING!

[Bluto]

Hi Wilbur,

Give me a shout when you figure out who / where the handoff from out west will be.  Maybe Mississippi to Atlanta.....we can meet in the middle or so.....  I'll start drumming up some interest from the local gang.
I'll touch base with  j4hfr34k soon.


Travel safe GZ..............

Bill

[madmtnmotors]

All right guys, need to start laying some possible plans! Team South and Southeast Coastal are a little splintered with the new routing, I was hoping from Atlanta we would be able to go North into Tennessee and maybe Kentucky (Bowling Green?) before turning back west where hopefully we can catch Missouri too (or we skip Missouri all together if there are no riders signed up from that state?). Member coke in Arkansas has offered to help get it from there over to OK since it looks like Team Southwest is going to skip OK, so zeek and taxiscooter would likely be an important part of the OK contingent. If we don't get Kentucky now then it pushes it off on Teams further down the line (or we skip Kentucky all together if there are no riders signed up from that state?). Same with Kansas, since we have to pick up OK on the westward leg it makes a further reach to swing through Kansas (or we skip Kansas all together if there are no riders signed up from that state?)

jtb has volunteered as Coordinator for Team South
Stev-o has volunteered as Coordinator for Team Southwest
scottly has volunteered as Coordinator for Team West
Bluto has volunteered as spring Coordinator for Team Southeast Coastal

j4hfr34k has been working hard to coordinate a handoff at Barber's on 4/27_4/28, right on schedule!

Kick it around, handoffs usually require planning/communicating across threads from both the upstream and downstream areas of the route.

Feel free to PM or e-mail if you have any problems/questions/suggestions/concerns.

Thanks!

[Bluto]

Hi Mad

I don't see a problem getting from Barber (glad to see John / JTB involved....I think he owns the place)  to Atlanta then.....probably the next weekend....heading up into TN.  Maybe we can get some of those Nashville area folks   (You know who you are....) to meet us in Chattanooga.  After that.......it's on Y'all 

Keep us posted and thanks again for taking this on!

Bluto aka Bill

[Trav-i]

Bill, sorry I've been kind of a ghost lately.  Rookie school has me pinned down pretty good right now.  The only time time I generally MIGHT have free is Saturday and Sunday, other then that school has me covered every other day for the next 14 weeks and then 16 more weeks after that.  I def want to ride I'll keep watching on things as best I can, but I can't make any promises as to if I can ride this year.

Travis

[madmtnmotors]

Travis,
    Check the map, if things go right we will actually pass through Georgia twice! 

[Bluto]

Bill, sorry I've been kind of a ghost lately.  Rookie school has me pinned down pretty good right now.  The only time time I generally MIGHT have free is Saturday and Sunday, other then that school has me covered every other day for the next 14 weeks and then 16 more weeks after that.  I def want to ride I'll keep watching on things as best I can, but I can't make any promises as to if I can ride this year.

Travis

Hi Travis,

So far it looks good for us to do a 1 day (Saturday April 28) ride to Barber for the pickup from Spike and jtb (John)....and (still a bit vague on this one) a Saturday May 5th ride up into Tenn. for the handoff.  Still waiting for some of those TN. boys to jump in.  I'm hoping we can go to Chattanooga....hand off...and head back home.  Should be a pretty easy 1 day ride for both Saturdays.

After what happenedlast year, you definitely need to get some Zilla miles!

Bill

[Trav-i]

A one day trip to Bama for the hand off should be doable I THINK.  I'll have to look at my class calander and see what we have going then.  But I probably won't be able to commit until just before we ride, are rookie school is GO GO GO from mintue one to minute zero when we finish meaning NO free time.  But hey I'll do what I can do.

Travis

P.S.  I'll do my best to keep an eye on things.

[drones76]

I have not been around in a while.  I do not have the time this time around to coordinate.  Good Luck.

jon

[madmtnmotors]

I have not been around in a while.  I do not have the time this time around to coordinate.  Good Luck.

jon

Jon,
    Bluto is working on the Spring effort to coordinate riders in the Atlanta area. This year's relay will actually pass through Georgia twice (if everything goes right) and I'll likely be able to handle Team Southeast Coastal in the Fall. Thanks for checking in, we hope you can at least find time to ride along!  (You'll have two chances!)