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wing-ding or rock rally

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I was just wondering if anyone was coming up for wing-ding or North Texas Rock Rally. I might hit both of these sat.
 
I believe the wing ding ends tonight, 4th through 8th I believe.

I live in Grapevine and the town has been buried under gold wings all week. I haven't bothered to go over there even though it's literaly right down the street from me.

I haven't heard that much about the north Texas rock rally, I think I heard there was a parade or something leaving from Willhoites restaurant (our local poser biker bar) here in Grapevine friday night I think, 90% harley group I'm sure.

I guess I shouldn't rag willhoites, it's a great restaurant/bar and very biker friendly, a few clubs meet there every month. The gold wings have pretty much taken it over this week.

It looks like the HSTA guys bi weekly Charlie and Wilbert Sunday ride might be a little ride north to the car show at the winstar casino on I35 just over the border into Oklahoma, and from what I know of them them there's a nice twisty path picked out, mostly sport bikes and good pace.

Hmm I'm gettin new shoes on the bike tomorrow so I'll have freshly scrubbed in new tires Sunday, just dropped a new set of racing pads in the calipers, I think I may have to go chase the sport bikes on my Dyna Sunday. :twisted: I like car shows anyway.
 
Wow, missed the wing ding. LOL I belonged to GWRRA for a year, went to one of their local month dinners in Victoria. Not my sorta crowd, old like me, but their idea of performance riding is doing figure eights around parking lot cones. :lol: I thought the wife might get into the social thing, but she couldn't care less, so I didn't stay in it. I don't believe in christmas tree lights on my motorcycles, or having the thing so chromed up it presents a vision hazard to on coming traffic if the sun's at the right angle. :roll: I mean, I like the old wing, but for its function. Adding a hundred pounds of chrome and 500KW of lighting doesn't improve its function, only makes the wheels harder to get off at tire changing time. :-?

I think the GWRRA is motorcycling's equivalent of the "Good Sam" club. :lol:
 
What has amazed me over the past few days with all these wings around is the number of trikes! Seems for every 5 wings I see I see a trike.

Even saw one wing with training wheels! Well it was a trike like deal, looked like a trike, till I looked and saw the bike's stock rear wheel still there and still the primary drive, and realized the trike wheels were a bolted on training wheel type setup.
 
Another thing that always irritated me about wingers in the GWRRA is all the "training" they harp on about. It's like not a damned one of them know how to ride a friggin' motorcycle! They won't get on a trike without taking the GWRRA approved "trike" course. I was approached by one guy at a GWRRA picknick/rally at Lake Texana about taking a GWRRA riders course. I laughed at him, told him I'd been riding 35 years, I've raced CRRC since 1975, dirt tracked, raced 250cc GP with a pro license in AMA and at Daytona on the banking, ridden sidecar rigs, dirt bikes, GP road racers and open class superbikes, and street bikes of all descriptions from choppers to touring bikes. I don't need no stinkin' GWRRAer to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, ROFLMAO! He didn't think too much of my attitude, don't think.

I listened to a couple of guys talking, one wanted a trike but says, "oh, I won't ride it until I can take the GWRRA trike course". :roll: I get enough of that sort of crap from NHTSA and Ralph Nader. I don't need no GWRRA giving me safety speeches, too! :lol: Jesus, ain't no wonder they all need training wheels! ****, they probably haven't taken the GWRRA safety riders course for two wheelers yet! :lol: Haven't earned their two wheeled badge for their little vest. :roll: To further re-enforce this opinion, after camping the night at Texana, wife and I got up and packed our camping gear and rode into Edna to a restaurant there for breakfast. In town, there were several wings on the side of the road, one wing with a trailer was laid over. We rode to the restaurant and when we got there, few minutes later they show up. Guy and his wife were on the wing that was down. I asked him what'd happened. He says he didn't know. They were riding along and he started to brake and there was dirt on the road and he lost the front. :roll: Christ, with braking skills like that, he'd better stay off 125 GP bikes! :lol: It's no wonder Honda designs those linked, antidive, computer controlled anti lock brakes for Wings. ****, most of the riders on those things don't know how to use REAL brakes! I guess if I were that danged unskilled on one, I'd want training wheels, too! :lol:
 
:tab Jack, are you having login issues? Just curious as your last few posts have all been as guests. Just want to make sure nothing is screwy, well besides you :-P

:tab Tell us how you really feel Jack :rofl Must be some kind of crazy cosmic rays coming in today, first Daryl now Jack... :roll: Or maybe it is the fact that it finally has stopped raining and you guys haven't been able to go riding yet? :lol:

Adios,
 
Nah, just been too lazy to go to my explorer browser and log out and come back to this Firefox browser and log in. I'll get around to it. I downloaded the firefox cause I was getting tired of getting adware. I mean, I'd log on and get over a hundred of the things. I can use firefox and only get five or six and only a couple times a day. For some reason, I always have some popup adware when I fire it up in the morning, but it's manageable with the firefox browser. It got ridiculous using Internet Exploader.

I got to ride yesterday a bit. Was going to Katy to play this morning, but I've got this bike I need to get done and am probably going to get the part this afternoon.

Guess I just had some bad experiences with Wingers, LOL!
 
I was up in Grapevine this weekend too. I had to leave my sportbike at home but while I was up there I rode around on my Mom's Vulcan 500. One thing I noticed about all the Goldwing riders is that no one waves. God knows they were everywhere and I passed about 300 of them over the weekend. I'm used to not getting waved at on my R6 but usually while I'm on a cruiser I always get the wave. Their big gawdy bikes were impressive to look at but it kind of irked me that no one would take their hands off the handlebars or really even gesture my way. I guess they could tell by looking at me I must not have taken the course everyone's talking about. And my hair is black not grey. Oh well. It was neat seeing all of them in the hotel parking lots gleaming and all customed out.
 
They didn't wave because they couldn't find the auto wave back button on the dash. :lol:

Actually, you ever been at a big rally? You get so danged tire of raising your hand you just stop doing it after a while. :lol:

Besides, they're bad enough riders with BOTH hands on the bars. What, you want 'em to take a hand off the bar and their eyes off the road, now? :lol:
 
I LOVE IT, GREAT POSTS ON THE WINGS

I too was in Grapevine this weekend and saw all the trikes and training wheels and ole folks. Now a little story. I have only been riding for 9 years. I had a buddy talk me into not working every weekend of my life like I was doing and so I bought an 82 Wing for my first bike, sold it two weeks later for a 95 Wing and then for my safety riding course my buddy and I and a few others headed to Colo. I said, hey see that mountain, PIKES PEAK lets haul *** up there. I have been hooked ever since. Now at the time I was only 32 and so I figured I might try this GWRRA thing, oh sh.. I saw the same ..it some of the other guys were talking about. I had one guy got killed in a frigging head on on what could be considered a half twist of a twistie. Then I was right behind a fella that went wide on a huge radius sweeper I could sleep through. He ran off the road going wide and the bike ame apart in a million peices of plastic and sh.. flying everywhere...looked like a **** plane crashing. This was only two weeks prior to me seeing this other guy run into a car head on. After that I figured **** these folks are killing themselves off faster than I can meet them. So I figured to play it safe I better drop the GOLD WING CLUB THING. There group rides were killing me all the chatter about every **** chewing gum wrapper in the road...I had to turn the dang CB off. Anyway over the next several years my riding skills progressed with my own learning and reading articles. I did the long trips like taking off 6 weeks and riding 17, 000 miles at a whack and 1000 mile days and playing up on the Alaskan Hiway, frigging fun stuff. Then there came a time when the skill level needed a new bike. I went into a CBR1100XX, then I tamed it down to my favorite right now an 03 VFR. I have been through an 82, 95, 00, 01 WING, 97, 98 VALK TOURERS, and a 1800VTX.

I have kinda worked backards going from the Winnebegos to the sports tourers looking back at the WING Rally this past weekend and now reading these funny posts brought back memories. I never got into the vests and pins and classes and God forbid three wheelers I just rode and taught myself and i always kept that 20% margin for ole MURPHY.. I never push ole MURPH and it's worked pretty well these first 200,000 miles. I hope to do at least a million, but I AIN'T NEVER GETTING TRAINING WHEELS.....NO WAY....
 
LOL! see we DFW'ers do get together, we were all in Grapevine! Just not all at the same place at the same time. :)

Maybe we should get a bike night at Willhoite's going or something.

I would say at sneaky pete's on Lake grapevine, but he moved to lake lewisville and the marina on lake grapevine is an italian restaurant now.

I still ride out there for a beer now and then, just for little twisty park road going in.
 
I went to the WingDing on Monday. I'm not a Goldwing owner, but I test rode one recently, and wanted another test ride. So I signed up for the test ride. They took us on a ride of approx 10 miles. I don't think we ever got over 40mph. We spent more time at stop lights than moving. How the heck are you supposed to evaluate a touring bike going 35mph for 3 blocks and then sitting at stoplights? Sheesh.

I also test rode a trike. I've never wanted one, but did it just because I had the opportunity. My thoughts? Samuel Goldwyn said it best: "Include me out." It is completely unlike riding a motorcycle. If I get too old to ride, I'll just buy a convertible sports car. If I'm not gonna be on two wheels, I at least want to be able to put the top up when it rains.

The number of bikes was impressive, though. I rode my F650 over there, and tried to park in the underground garage. It is huge, but was completely filled with bikes - there were no spaces left. I can't even estimate how many thousands of bikes were there. The mix was probably 75% Goldwings, 20% Goldwing Trikes, 5% everything else (mainly HD and metric cruisers). I saw exactly zero other BMWs.

Had a good time, though, and bought a RAM mount for the GPS I bought from Scott.
 
I rode up last Saturday morning and stayed until Monday - Better half and 11 month old son came up in the cage. Had a nice time saw some vendors for Wings instead of HD for a change. Generaly nice folks (but I have a Wing) just like any onther segment of bike riders. Jack G is right about the Waving - The closer to the epicenter of the rally the less the waving.
 
It's kind of an unspoken rule of the road that you don't wave when within the city limits of a town in which a rally's going on. Found that out the hard way at the first ROT rally I attended. That said, I've noticed that a lot of Wingers don't wave at any time. It's because they might spill their coffee.

I'd be in favor of a D/FW get together. Just name the place and time.

Kelly
 
:lol: One of the things I love about that old wing, a CUP HOLDER! :lol: You CAN drink your coffee on the way to work! :lol: I mean, I've got a 4x4 toyota you can't do that in, without spilling more'n you get in your mouth, LOL. It's nice on a trip, though, to be able to just flip up the Nolan N100 and hydrate with some gatorade. :chug:
 
Re: I LOVE IT, GREAT POSTS ON THE WINGS

vfrtxn said:
so I figured I might try this GWRRA thing...After that I figured **** these folks are killing themselves off faster than I can meet them.

LOL!
 
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