2024 Brown County, Indiana Rally - June 20 - 23, 2024

[jpaul]

I got home around 6 last evening. Iran into a few light showers, but it felt refreshing compared to the previous days. Thanks to Brian for organizing this. I had a great time, and it was nice to put some more names and faces together.

[oramac]

Unfortunately, I am that guy this time. While riding sweep I went down and my bike spun into Dogma Dale. I won't go into details or make excuses; I am responsible for myself and my machine, but I can say wholeheartedly that the feeling of being responsible for another rider friend's misfortune and injury is an experience I don't wish on anyone. Thank yous and apologies go to Neil and Jon for helping to get me and Dale's bike back to the motel, to Brian and Robin for drastically modifying their day and for checking on Dale and providing updates. Thank you to everyone that was so supportive and understanding upon my return. My apologies and vigilant prayers are with Wendy and Dale and my hope is for his rapid and complete recovery. I am in reevaluation mode, but I know that in one way or another, I'll be back to spend time with this wonderful group of friends and enthusiasts. The gear mostly worked, but the bruising grows larger and more impressive by the day and extends into more delicate areas that are not pictured. Crashing sucks...0/10; Do NOT recommend.

[ddaniels]

Why couldn't the weather have been like today?! So nice outside.

[Redman]

TO report on other things:

- head counts I heard of was Low 20s for friday evening (pizza) and mid 20s for Saturday evening. ANd we did cover all the rooms (were some dropouts in the last coiple weeks, but then some double-up-shares were then moved to indivual room).

- Scott Cowboy had a flat tire upon arrival. But had a puncture repair kit. ANd someone else had a pump.

- In FrenchLick, Justin was trying to lead us to some overlook, and got us (JayRedmanSIL and I) into an uphill sloped sideways narrow uneven lumpy road, and then that road turned and ended at a barracade. So we took turns doing 3 or 4 point turns, up hill and slopped on lumpy road. ANd Jay found a place where there was seemily no road under his foot - - kafump over down. Broke footpeg on shifter side. Other two of us had a hard time even finding some place to park to go back and help. Devised plan for swapping a rear peg, but between the tools we did have, just could not do it. And its 96degF and blaring sun and humid. Jay says he can makeit back to motel. So he hits up his google for route back to motel, and says is selcting "shortest", not "adventure". I am saying ah lets look at a map, I think we can go east a ways get to 37 for a somewhat straight road. But those guys dont need no stinking map, and off they go. And a short ways out of town, turn north on a up and down and curvey road (looking at Brian map later, I think its the red-dot-highlighted road). I wanted to get on intercom and say "your google maps have option for road needing the least shifting?".... (more to that story later)
On the way out of FrenchLick my air temp indicator showed some 98 and 99 and for a short while 100.

- I will let the folks involved report on the major incident of the weekend.
BUt will say that three groups of people at the motel that had trailers each devised plans for getting Dale Dogma's bike home, and his stuff home from the motel.
THe other bike involved, it seems its final destination will be handled by the tow/salvage yard, and its rider did have a way home.

[Redman]

Haha. Sorry Dave. Didn’t mean to step on your toes there. ......................]

No, Not at all, You didnt. You stepped in and fully cooperated, and was enthusatic about it, and was taking more pics than me.

[Jedz123]

Thank you all so much for sharing, it's great to see the pictures! Wish I could have made it but there was divine plan as we were on Tornado watch all day yesterday getting hammered with storms, not fun to ride all day through.

Have a wonderful week folks!

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Haha. Sorry Dave. Didn’t mean to step on your toes there. And getting lost is part of the fun for me.

Just rolled in at 9pm. 5 hrs on I-80 with a few comfort and gas stops. I think because I donned my rain gear just inside the PA border, I managed to ride perfectly between two storm fronts traveling in the same direction. Think I sweated off the 5lbs of Indian food I ate last night.

Thank you everyone in attendance for making me feel welcome at my first rally and not made to feel like the new guy. Though I felt like I knew a lot of you already and had previously met Norm and Scott B, it was really nice to put faces to names and get to socialize and ride with this great group. Made a lot of new friends.

Thanks especially to Norm for putting me up for a night so I could break up the trip and for trailering the bikes. I can’t imagine riding the whole way in that heat.

Thanks to Dave and Justin, Scott B, and Norm for leading me on some epic rides and showing me the sites. I’d have been lost without you.

Thanks to Brian for putting it all together. Thanks to Bonita for all she does and especially the expert tick removal. (Anyone get a pic of that?) and to Steve for all he does for the group. So nice to finally meet these two.

And special thanks to Jay, the absolute Legend.

Prayers for Dale and a speedy recovery.

Cant wait till next year!

[Baatfam]

Back to Front
Justin RedmanSon, Me, Scott CowboyUp, RichGS750TZ

Thanks for the pic Rich.
Yah, on this ride, that I was leading, In addition to me gettting lost before getting out of town, and then about 10 miles out of town haveing to stop to check map again, the other feature of a Redman-led ride is me stopping somewhere for a roadside group photo. And sometimes a ride partisipant is annoyed with such. But you hop off your bike and get out a tripod and get the picture for us. Thanks.

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Damn, Dave....That sounds great! Next rally I want to ride with you...

As for photos, I still have to go through them, including ones I didn't take (thanks Rodney and Mary!), so probably tomorrow some time.

[Redman]

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Back to Front
Justin RedmanSon, Me, Scott CowboyUp, RichGS750TZ

Thanks for the pic Rich.
Yah, on this ride, that I was leading, In addition to me gettting lost before getting out of town, and then about 10 miles out of town haveing to stop to check map again, the other feature of a Redman-led ride is me stopping somewhere for a roadside group photo. And sometimes a ride partisipant is annoyed with such. But you hop off your bike and get out a tripod and get the picture for us. Thanks.

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[Redman]

Did catch rain for about 20 minutes right after departure, then steamed in the rain gear for another hour and half till the dark clouds dissapated. (Justin and Jay explaining the benifits of the AeroStitch suits.)
Was the only rain of the four days. Had plenty of mid 90s and humid, THursday and Friday and Saturday, so 78 today was good.

On on way home today, We had a couple hours of "adventure routing" to get to Lebanon (avoiding Indy), then headed over to US31 for the blast north home. Home about 6pm (1050 miles for the 4 day weekend).

Good weekend.
One great part was getting to meet Rich82GS750TZ. His first BC rally.
And triumpfant return of JohnPaul.

Had bikes there from Pennsylvania(Rich78GS750TZ), Virginia (Rich Desmond), New Hampshire(friend of RobinDean) , this year along with the more usual Indiania, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska.

My thanks to Brian for what he organizes. Ron for arranging the snacks and drinks. Rodney for organizing the pizza. Bonita and Jay for the Saturday Feast.

Pictures later. (Have domistic things to attend to.)

Yes, pictures will include some GS's.

[alke46]

I got to my sister's place in Veedersburg and cannot find Amish Amos anywhere. I haven't seen him post anything in quite a while, so maybe he has assumed another forum name, who knows.

Anyway, I just want to say thanks to Jay and all the rest of the people {especially bwringer} involved in putting this event together. It's really super good to get to see all of the attendees again. It feels like a family reunion every time we meet, only better.

I hope Dale has a good recovery and can get back to normal as soon as possible without rushing to do so. Best of luck Dale.

[cowboyup3371]

I developed some of my pictures from the weekend. It all started on the federal holiday Wednesday when I started south for Campbellsville. Although the GPS likes to put me on some highways occasionally, it actually kept me on the right road so that I found this in the middle of nowhere near what used to be the old Russell House in Perryville KY. I don't remember hearing about any Civil War battles in this part of the state but now I'll have to head back just to tour the town.

Russell House Civil War Battlefield by Scott Baker, on Flickr

RussellHouseBattle by Scott Baker, on Flickr

The next day, I took off for Abraham Lincoln's birthplace which I missed out on seeing two years ago by ten minutes. It was a very nice site to see though it is a little disappointing to learn the cabin inside the memorial was not the exact one where he was born (they discovered the error several years after the memorial was built and dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt).

AtLincolnBirthplace by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Memorial by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Lincoln Birthplace Cabin by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Left Hodgenville for Bedford and had a terrific ride up IN-62 and IN-150 but my steering felt real funny as I turned onto the last stretch of US50 near the hotel. It was so bad I almost couldn't turn into the hotel parking lot properly. Quickly parked the bike and discovered this nasty surprise:

SlicedTire by Scott Baker, on Flickr

I'm not sure what I ran over but with Brian's and Bob's (Baatfam's) help, the first night of parking lot maintenance was a success.

TirePatch by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Tents went up that night and I had a great ride with Rich, Dave, and Justin the next day to Bean Blossom Bridge and lunch at a nice little greasy spoon in Bloomington

ThursdayNight by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Bean Blossom Bridge by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Saturday was my chance to return to the Saint Meinrad Archabbey to tour the grounds, something I couldn't do last year

St Meinrad Archabbey Church by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Thank you for another great year and hope everyone else had a great time.

[Baatfam]

Ended up staying till 10, watching the end of the F1 race....Got back in town about 3:30.
Had an excellent time...new friends, old friends, fun talks, lots of laughs.
Wishing Dale a speedy recovery, and can't wait to see him next time.

[marvinsc]

Last man out today then took the long scenic route home. Rolled in 30 minutes ago. Fantastic rally except for Dale's incident, best wishes for a quick and complete recovery.

[storm 64]

Also home safe and sound.
Rich just left my house on his way home. He might run into a cooling shower... It's 85 and humid!

Yes, definitely a big thank you to Jay, Brian and all involved, making this a fun rally.

Also wishing Dale a speedy recovery...