The Mother Road Ride/Rally® NEWS
Registrations Up 46%
Registrations for
The 5th Annual
Mother Road
Ride/Rally® exceeded 1998 by
over 45%. In all
we registered 57
people this year,
versus 39 last year.
The Year-By-Year Totals:
1995 . . . . 45
1996 . . . . 65
1997 . . . . 57
1998 . . . . 39
1999 . . . . 57
So, in total, 263 people have registered for the event. And, most interesting, 16 of the registrants are Repeat Offenders . . . having registered more than once (some for 4!).
I plan to leave Grapevine June 8 for Chicago and to return down Route 66 with the people planning to start from Chicago. It is my favorite time of the year . . . a great ride, good company, and each year I see new things on Historic Route 66.
Ride With Sterl If You Don't Have a Cellular Phone
Sterling and Eleanor Page from Henderson,
NV, plan to start The 5th Annual Mother
Road Ride/Rally® in Needles, CA and ride as
far east as their schedule permits. Sterl is a
self employed telecommunications consultant
so you can bet he can stay in touch wherever
he is. Their permanent home is in North
Carolina . . . they're in Henderson through
the Fall developing courses for the Sprint
company.
BEEMERS Searching Texas
BMW'ers got
together in
Central Texas
early in May
for their annual
meeting. Dick
Davis told us
this picture was
snapped when a group of riders were trying
to decide which way to Rocksprings, TX.
As it turned out, the answer was on the sign
above their heads. It gave the direction and
distance to Rocksprings (left, 41 miles).
World's Only Women's Team
Lynell Corbett of Durango, CO, a former
school teacher, found her true calling when
she organized the
world's only
all women
synchronized motorcycle
riding team.
Hardly Angels
performs at
fairs, festivals and
rallies on local, state, national and international levels. Reach Lynell at: 970-259-1322.
The Norwegians are coming!
The Norwegians are coming!
The Norwegians are coming!
Earlier this year Trond Moberg of Norway
and I struck up an e-mail correspondence.
Trond planned to bring a group of Norwegians to run Route 66 - west to east - from
Los Angeles to Chicago. We exchanged
ideas about the Mother Road and things
people would want to see and do.
Then, late in May, I got a package from Trond with one of their t-shirts (100% Bomull, which I take to mean cotton in Norwegian), their really pretty full color patch and even a CD. It has their "official song." Wow. What a trip they will have! The Mother Road may never be the same And for sure they will be remembered as they wend their way to Chicago. I'd like to be able to visit with them in Needles, CA after they cross the Mojave Desert.