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Adventure Rider Breakfast Series - Saturday 8/15/20 @ 9a Keese's Bar-B-Que in Medina - TARA/SA

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Adventure Rider Breakfast Series rides dates HERE
A Texas Adventure Riders Association San Antonio Chapter Event

The monthly breakfasts *(third Saturday) are to encourage the Texas adventure / dual sport community to get out and ride, meet other riders, share knowledge, information and see what others are planning and doing, etc.

Come to breakfast at 9a, meet and talk with other adventure motorcyclists. Some will also go for a ride afterward, others ride home. Get out on your bike and join us for either or both.


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Keese's Cafe & Bar-B-Que
(830) 589-7474
13869 State Hwy 16 N
Medina, Texas

Keese's Map Location

If the restaurant is closed this will just be the meet up location.

Post Breakfast Ride Information
If anyone is up for a post breakfast ride see the optional route map below. The route is a no host self-guided GPS ride, as the ride is self-guided join a group or lead one.

The post Adventure Breakfast rides are all about fun, camaraderie, being safe
and forming riding groups so no one rides alone, especially on back roads. Some groups will focus on completing the route, others will just relax and ride to their cut off time then break off and head home.

*You determine your start time, groups usually take off before 10am.

A riding group size of 4 - 6 riders is optimal, with about a maximum of 8 or so, grouping by bike size or desired pace is also beneficial if possible.

Rain date information will be posted here on the Thursday before the ride if necessary.

Adventure Rider Breakfast Series Ride fine print & route
Route information - *Disclaimer, I built the routes on my computer using the Roads of Texas map book as my guide which is the best and most accurate I have used, but not perfect, and MotoWhere's mapping program. So the routes may not be 100% accurate. I do not pre-ride the routes; it's an adventure for me also. Road closures, legal status, road conditions and routing of county roads can change. If in doubt, turn around and find another route - DO NOT trespass. If a landowner says you are on private property, don't argue; politely ask for directions to get back to a public road.

Optional Route - 248 miles
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Videos from the last time I rode this route






Ride plan & Rider etiquette
When I lead a group I don’t stop for lunch in a restaurant, I'm in the office all week so when I'm on a ride I want to spend as much time as possible in nature. I plan a stop about midway out in the country for snacks or a sandwich I bring with me, there are also the planned fuel stop(s) to pick up a snack.

I stop at every corner without a clear / obvious direction to continue and wait for the entire group to make sure the last rider sees the proper way to go, there is NEVER a need to ride above your comfort level to keep up, if I'm leading I won’t leave you.

I encourage riders to spread out to avoid the dust, no need for anyone to ride in the dust. The daisy chain method also works well, especially when its extremely dusty to keep the group even more spread out, the rider in front of the other makes sure the rider behind makes the corner and so on until the sweep rider makes the corner. As long as each rider in front of the other takes responsibility for the rider behind, no one gets lost.

Please tell someone in the group if your plans change and you decide to break off from the group, that prevents you being searched for.

Safety
AGATT

Having your emergency contact information on you and having that information readily available is critical. This is important not just for group rides but everyday. Even though you may have a buddy along on the ride you may get separated on the road.
At minimum:
Name
Your street
Your town, state, zip code
Driver's license # & state
Emergency contact
Emergency phone
I taped mine on the bottom of the visor of my dual sport helmet, I also taped another on the back side of my fairing near the dash. The important thing is that it is easy for anyone to find.

Properly prepare you motorcycle, in advance for the ride. Be ready to ride when the group you join is ready to take off, including a full tank of gas, or at least a 100 mile range.

Adventure / dual sport roads are disappearing due to pavement or closures, etc. Respect landowners and other road users, slow down and ride quietly when passing, people, vehicles, animals, homes, etc.
 
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Definitely watching,
Probably in.
 
I'm going to have to skip the long ride as I'm past the change date on both front and rear tires, etc.

But then I thought I could do a slow ride on a "super secret" short route... Only discussed in hushed tones at Keese's.

 
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JT and I are thinking about an abbreviated version of your route. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to huddle (6’apart of course) and come up with something enjoyable

Anyone else thinking of coming to Medina?
 
I'm going to have to skip the long ride as I'm past the change date on both front and rear tires, etc.

But then I thought I could do a slow ride on a "super secret" short route... Only discussed in hushed tones at Keese's.


I saw Foghat at the Warehouse in New Orleans in '73, incredible show, doggone I'm old...
 
I'm in. I'm curious what Sander calls a "Slow Ride" but I'll likely do the full route.
Just like the song, he gets blazing-fast at the end

I'll pass on this one. Too d___ hot for me. I'll be ready to go next month it'll be really cool then. :roll:
 
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I'm gonna wait until they get the air conditioning fixed in the Hill Country.

With 106 highs all weekend in the forecast at home I'll be spending more time inside watching the grass die outside.

Looking forward to joining in on another breakfast ride soon.
 
Thanks for posting SAB, I called to confirm also.

I wanted to check to make sure I didn't need to bring a family sized bag of hill country fare frosted donuts for parking lot dining. 😋
 
Too HOT for my air-cooled Vintage Thumper Iron to work hard and keep up:giveup:It has to last me at least another 20 yrs.
(Plus I need to shingle a roof today!):angryfire, but I really want to do this entire trip on a cooler day.

Since I live on your route, please honk and 'drop-in' anytime! (..., past Biker Church, west off 16 on Camino Real Rd), just after you turn left from Hoofbeat. Large shop, camping / picnic area. I'll leave the XT out so she can see what she's missing today. :-(

Just got my Aux fuel tank this evening, need to mount it,. I swapped in the largest countershaft sprocket available. Did Medina Pass tonight, (As I often do, 18 min round trip). Blazing.
 
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Too HOT for my air-cooled Vintage Thumper Iron to work hard and keep up:giveup:It has to last me at least another 20 yrs.
(Plus I need to shingle a roof today!):angryfire, but I really want to do this entire trip on a cooler day.

Since I live on your route, please honk and 'drop-in' anytime! (..., past Biker Church, west off 16 on Camino Real Rd), just after you turn left from Hoofbeat. Large shop, camping / picnic area. I'll leave the XT out so she can see what she's missing today. :-(

Just got my Aux fuel tank this evening, need to mount it,. I swapped in the largest countershaft sprocket available. Did Medina Pass tonight, (As I often do, 18 min round trip). Blazing.

With the aux tank, sprocket, and some cooler weather the XT will be raring to go! Hope you don't melt on the roof.
 
With the aux tank, sprocket, and some cooler weather the XT will be raring to go! Hope you don't melt on the roof.


Swamp1....Hope you don't ruin those shingles. At some point it will get too hot to work upon and the shingles will begin to melt under your knees and feet. I'm sure you know this. If there's full sun on those shingles I wouldn't go much past 10 a.m. or risk single blemish damage. Signed, Mr. Know It All.;-)
 
Whoops. I'm fine, shoulder is gonna be sore. Kickstand spring broke off but bike is fine otherwise.

Glad Gina and JT provided support, and most importantly you're OK.

We were set up at another water crossing to take your picture... By the time we got back you had taken off.

I hate those slab crossings!!!!!
 
I'm gonna wait until they get the air conditioning fixed in the Hill Country.

With 106 highs all weekend in the forecast at home I'll be spending more time inside watching the grass die outside.

Looking forward to joining in on another breakfast ride soon.
Same!
 
Yup. Green slime. Learned my lesson about doing those too fast. Much appreciated the help from JT and Gin.

Speed does make it worse, but once you start going down there's not much that can be done. That stuff just doesn't play fair at all.

There was a long one out near Ink's Lake that got me a few years back. Picking up the Tiger on that stuff was a circus act, then skating beside the bike as I slowly made it to the other side while feathering the clutch was an adventure in itself. I was glad there were no spectators, nor cars waiting on me to clear the crossing.

Then and there it seemed to me I'd successfully (precariously?) made it over enough of those green menaces to have filled my Bingo card. Cooling my feet while shuffling across holds unique benefits which are appreciated best by walking the bike, rather than rolling those slippery green dice. I'm thinking the risk/reward ratio comes with odds that favor that pesky slime.
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