I thought we were getting a cabin?

When is everyone planning on arriving and leaving? I can head out friday morning or possibly thursday if people are heading out early. I am goin gto leave sun afternoon because I am going to schedule a track day at njmp on monday.

For the rooms if you call the cross keys we should tell them we are part of the TWF crew that way they put us all near one another. I will call tomorrow or fri to book my room, they have my info on file from all the CF rallies I had been to so I can just put my room on my cc that way its one less hassle for everyone.

Now whats the beer situation, I can get kegs of prety much whatever beer at a very good price but would need to know in a week or so so I can order them. Also how many people and whos drinking so I have an idea of how much to get. I can also bring an ez up and a few chairs so we can set up out back.

Could also be a good idea to put all the most uptodate details on the first post so everyone can easily see whats going on instead of sifting through all the pages here.

Tommy, I might be riding next to you at NJMP that monday

Cool, my friend dave is going so I need to sign up. I have ot get my track bike from my dads this weekend and get it prepped.

Tom

Haven't got through on the phone yet. Writing an email now. I got them to hold five rooms for us, so I'll post up the details in here and a new thread when I get it. Everyone should be able to pay separately when they check out.

Regarding the cabins- too many people complained :lol:

I gotta take a look at my budget after I go to court later this month, we shall see how much that cost first

I'll be in town early... mid week but I got plans for Thursday out there... either way... I'll stay tuned.

As of now I am looking at leaving NY early friday. Not sure if the my better half can get thurs off so I may just work a day shift anyway. I am just about 3 hrs away so i can get there prety quickly.

Tom

Looks like the group rate per room, per night is $74.12. Includes a full breakfast (not just continental bagels and OJ) So that's $37 per person per night. Anybody care to say what you paid before?

I think for the rally it was somewhere around there, maybe a few dollars more if I remember correctly, but the breakfast vouchers are nice and they have good food in the restaurant there.

Tom

:dthumb: Sounds good

So who is going to escort us to some nice roads and good places to eat???

Anybody got all the ideas written down?

Heres what i can offer so far, the restaurant is connected to the hotel and theres a wendys and convienence store across the street. You can go 2 ways out of the hotel into towns that have places to eat and things to do.

Few years back we went to a brewpub down in gettysburg but werent too impressed with it, theres also an italian place that had good food but last time we went the servie was lousy. But rob and nancy said it was great the other times they went.

Theres a go kart place up the street and also a dirt/oval track they race at on saturday nights.

theres a 50-75 mile loop we would go on thats close to the hotel that I kinda remember, and for a longer run theres a park over the MD border that has some nice roads too. Hopefully if grecco gixxer comes by he can lead us on some of the roads.
Tom

We could head toward WV too.

I know a bunch of good roads heading North, but no down that way.

I don't want to hear about wendys... They can :gofurslf:

Karts sound like fun, but I don't think many will want to go to the dirt track unless it's well after dark. Depends when the races start.
Unfortunately, Gettysburg is a bit out of my neighborhood- I haven't made it past carlisle going east.

We never went to the dirt track but I rode past it on a litylte ride its like 2 minutes from the hotel and you can hear them racing from the hotel parking lot. For now I am just trying to throw out as much infor so we can make some tenative plans once were there.

Tom

Anyone bringing their GF's or others who wont be riding, I was going to bring karen but with my bikes suspension well beyond shot I cant do any 2 up riding and she didnt want to bum around th ehotel by herself all day while we were out riding. At the previous CF rallies there were a bunch of people who wouldnt be riding for various reasons so they always went out and did stuff.

Tom

anybody wanna take a tou of the harley factory in york?

If you do, do it now. Probly won't be there much longer. They are planning on packing up and moving soon.

Sure, why not? See how many evil glares we can get :lol:

i was thinking about this after derf was asking me if i was gonna go. i cant afford a hotel room right now but im wondering if i can drop the 954 enough to fit in the back of my van, and then maybe stuff a futon mattress on the side. gonn have to talk to TL and maybe do some mocking up. no promises. not even sure i'll be able to afford gas for that :lol:

Someone will hook you up with a room

I'm not, but if Marko's wife's not on back, I can leave the tourpack on and there is a lazy boy seat back there for anybody else's wife.

I would LOVE to! My bike was built there!!

Yeah i heard they are trying to move it. I heard Kansas is a big hitter for it. Something about moving it next to another factory. One big complex of all hd building.

Yeah, from what I've heard there are about 6 sites they are considering and none of them are the current spot. It's all but guaranteed that they are leaving.

Yeah but I hear they are leaning hard towards kansas where they already have the room right next to the other factory.

How cool would it be to ride my Ultra to where it was born. How freakin cool!

What is the name and location of the hotel you guys are staying in?


Gas Man and I will be meeting you guys, either there or a meeting spot, for the weekends activities.

The Cross Keys Motor Inn.
6110 York Road
New Oxford, PA 17350

Thanks.

And is anything gg on Friday night or all sat???

What is the plan?

I iwll be getting there some time on friday. I kinda know my way around there so we can find stuff to do.

Tom

So, what you really mean is "We'll sit around in the parking lot drinking beer and hiding things" right?

I know nothing of what you speak :whistle:

Tom

Or... "we'll get lost in Maryland, but its ok cause I know a 7-11 that has an excellent map selection."


:D

That was actualy was a fun day aside from a few of those dirt roads I "found" :lol:

Any ex-CF peeps going to be there besides Tommy?

Fred is going an dmy frind chris who came for a bit last year may be going too. I am assuming george will show too to make sure we dont burn the hotel down :lol:

Tom

I'll probably be there late Thursday afternoon. Hoping to go look at that track bike,

hmm if I get out of work early enough thurs I may be able ot make a late run out there. I iwll let you know this week.

Tom

I'll be getting there late friday, prolly gonna pack thursday and leave after work friday when my bro gets to my house.

Dave will probably leave with me and follow me there.

if I leave friday it will prolly be late morning that way rush hr is done so getting out of the city isnt too bad.

Tom

I'll prolly wind up leaving my house between 5 and 6, and its a 3 hour ride from my house...

And dave is going to make it.

meh

Do we have any sort of tentative game plan at this point?

Drink beer, ride bikes, and talk shit about the folks who aren't there

when are you planning on arriving? I can even leave thursdya if need be but figured I would want to meet up with some people first and we can sort of get situated. Since the fiancee isnt comming I dont have my chase vehicle to carry all our stuff so its whatever I can fit on the bike.

Tom

I live in the area...so I'm ready now. :lol:

Well I am a little busy to get out there right now :lol:

I will sort out my plans this week for either a thurs or fri arrival.

Tom

I was bluffing. I have to work the rest of the week. :lol

me too. Working this weekend then using a sick day on tuesday :whistle: then working wed night into thurs morning and am then off till the following tuesday.

Tom

I took Thursday and Friday off next week. Got some work do to before the Rally.

Same here hoping to get that done mon and tuesday.

Tom

I need to take off thurs and fri, but other than that, I'm ready to go. Bikes back in one piece and rideable.

I ordered one needle bearing and need two for the clutch release lever. Should be quick to pop that bearing in and swap clutch covers and change the oil- depending when the part comes in. Found one of my coils is cracked, so I'm replacing both- those suckers are EXPENSIVE! $106 each!

Plan? Do we ever have one?! :lol:
Slow Race
Centralia
Harley Museum
Beer and BS at night
...

When are tours to the Harley Factory? Anyone know what policy is on that? Do we need reservations?

I can take care of that if need be, since I'm pretty local. Let me know a head count and when we'd like to do it and I'll get it rolling.

Alright, according to HD's website, tours of the York Factory are only available Monday through Friday, 9am to 2pm. So we might have to cancel this sucker.


http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/c...tours/york.jsp

I can be there early fri if others want to go. I know guys went on it at the CF rally and siad it was prety cool. I just hope I dont get struck by lightning going in there :lol:

Tom

Sometime Friday might be a good option. Gas Man wants to do it regardless...so he and I might roll down and do the tour.

When is he planning to arrive? I always wan tto be there early to take everything in but dont want ot be sitting around by myself for a day and a half LOL

He's coming to my place Wed night. We've got some things to do Thursday and were gonna do some stuff Friday as well, but we might now do the Tour Friday instead. We were gonna ride to the HD dealer.

LMK when you guys plan on going, I could get an earlier jump on the ride out there and catch up with you guys. I will be on italian bike so they may let me in :lol:

Tom

I think we are gonna plan on doing the tour for sure some time friday. Maybe late morning. Anyone else gonna be around Friday to do it? We need reservations for 10 or more.


What are you riding and where are you coming from?

I am on an aprilia futura the blue one(becasue theyre are so many of them out there :lol:) and am comming from NYC. I think its about 2.5 hrs for me to get there, last several years we rode down to philly and went west from there.

Tom

I'll be there. Still on the blue 650R- with one side a bit prettier than the other :lol:

Cool. So as of now we've got 4 ppl for the Tour. We can settle on a time later on.

Come on what is cooler than riding the bike there that was built there.

The factory is way cooler than any dealership.

We HAVE to HAVE 10 people to do it?

Negative. They only want you to make reservations if your party is bigger than 10.

Wife and I did this tour 2 years ago. Very nice place, very cool to see.

Ok cool. 10 for resv otherwise who ever goes just rolls up. I cant wait!

wha ttime you guys thinking so I can know when to get to the hotel and drop my stuff off. i think the factory is about 15 minutes from the hotel.

Tom

I don't know... that is up to my tour agent Marko

:lol: Well, we'll be around all day...so whatever time works for everyone else. We could do maybe 11am then grab lunch somewhere. Tour is about an hour according to their website.

By air maybe! :lmao:

Better plan for closer to 30 minutes.

Ok thats fair I hadnt been down that way in a while, a couple of times we came into the hotel by going past the factory, I thought it was a little closer than that.

tom

I dunno, I may be able to make it for friday, but it waould be great if we could take the tour later possibly 1 in the afternoon? Again I may be able to make it

I'm fine with whatever. If you can make it then I'm cool with waiting. They say the tours are from 9-2pm. I'm not sure if that means the last tour is 1pm (they are an hour) or the last tour starts at 2pm. I'll call them tomorrow and find out.

either way works for me, I figure I will either get a real early stary to beat the NYC rush hr crap or wait it out and hit the road around 9 and take my chances.

Tom

I prolly wont be able to make it that early, but I will try

LMK what time you can ge ton the road, i could possibly head south and meet you and we can ride out together. It may depend on the time thoug because getting down to the philly area in rush hr may be messy between NYC and the tpke.

I am thinking I might take the whole next week off in which case I would not be able to take off friday, but I would be leaving my brothers house in New brunswick and head to gettysburg from there. If I dont take that week off I can leave any time in the morning

Ok LMK when you know what youre going to do. If I fly solo I may leave NY real early to get out there around 9 or 10, so I can get settled in grab some breakfast and meet the guys later.

Tom

So the real question is, who has a room, and who wants to share a room? I havnt gotten one yet, but I want to share a room, and I'm pretty sure that if dave decides to come he's gonna share a room with me so he doesnt have to pay, same with my brother.

Seems like going to Philly from NYC then west would add a lot of time to your journey. Why not come south on 78 through PA?

When I go straight ther eor back thats how I go, 78 to 81 to 83

We have five rooms reserved as of now. I'm creating a new thread for rally definites, so I don't get stuck with any extra spaces.

I Pm'ed derf my number for next week.

And I posted it on the LGBT message board. You should be getting a few calls from http://www.justusboys.com/forum/ , if they ask just dont admit to going ass to mouth and you should be fine.

Yeah thanks asshat!

I try

I made a sign in sheet I'll bring with. For everybody to sign in, put down name/number/bike/ice/ice#/medical condition

You just never know.

Wow organized much? I'm healthy and my emergency contact is in my cell under AAICE

Yeah well, it may be good to have.

There is a good chance I'll be ridding over to Cross Keys on Saturday.

Sister-in-law is the only one who can stop me now!

(crossing fingers)

Wish this was a little closer, but 6 hours is a hell of a drive. Especially just for a day or so.

me and sixxer rode 19 hrs and a good part of that through a monsoon so we dont wanna hear it :lol:

Tom

Gas Man is riding all the way from Michigan.

I race (running half marathon) on Saturday so I would have to leave after that and would be driving my car, if I'm even in a condition to do that.

Booooo to you.

I know. I shouldn't have even brought it up.

Yes I am.

Racedoll. I'm heading out earlier in the week but you are more than welcome to tag along with me on the way home. I'm leaving mon morning.

maplost has it taking me about 4 hrs to get there from my house, last several years we went down to philly then went out so it was never a straight shot. I already see a few places to shave some time so what I am thinking is I iwll leave NY around 6am that way I will beat most of rush hour out of the city and should get there between 9 and 10.

Tom

Derf how you looking for doing this tour Friday? We should try to lock down a time soon.