SPANK Results

Well kids,

this one's in the books. And what a thick book it makes.

Stories out the wazoo, and they keep coming in. Folks had fun while getting Spanked pretty hard.

Big Dogs blew it, newbies and mid-pack Vets stepped up and performed admirably.

Here is a link to some pics from our Staff photographer Steve Hobart.

https://hobartphoto.smugmug.com/

Holding up Rally Drawers #5 is our winner.

And now for the results.........

Terry Neale took the big bowling trophy on his 1200GS, but he has an FJR. Jerry White takes second and Doug Webb takes third.

Excellent work by these gentlemen.

1 456,431 Terry Neale

2 441,650 Jerry White

3 425,550 Doug Webb

4 408,850 Mike Collins

5 379,723 Eric Jewell

6 349,829 Ken Meese

7 339,361 Dave Biasotti

8 244,910 Sperry

9 217,282 Peter Perrin

10 194,508 Robert Bolger

11 191,435 Tim Watts

12 179,601 John Austin

13 139,747 Chris Ogden

14 116,055 Mike Relph

15 110,948 Micheal Butchers

16 105,774 Ron Bare

17 60,368 Dave Legnosky

18 36,933 Steve Reinig

19 33,112 David Hicks

20 33,112 Ray Blair

21 28,448 Bill Murphy

22 23,112 Hal Risser

23 16,000 Jim Hoffman

23 16,000 Bill Williams

Finisher Scott Wright

DNF Mark Crane

DNF Heidi Still

DNF Bob Bucklin

GunMD and Mark Crane both exhibited very mature behavior by calling it quits instead of riding recklessly and risking injury or worse to themselves. BRAVO! Gun got back in time, Crane didn't. I applaud them for their decisions and present them as Gold Mark Standards for Rally Participants.

More stories and stuff later in this thread.

Damn, I love my job.

GZ

Are you telling me that I could have moved up one position in the standings if I'd just worn my underwear at the final check in? :blink:

Gunny and Crane - wise decisions. Safety is priority. Good Job. :thumbsup:

GZ, what a rally it was. Put me down for 2008.

Oh yeah - Thank You!

...and the password to the fotos is...?

Password is Zelenz. Oops.

Photo #43 is a keeper!

Too bad it's locked down for download to my personal foto gallery of FJR pilots I admire and respect. But I respect the fact the 'grahpher spent time and energy and wants/needs to protect his property.

And in any any any case, what a ride you all had!

Looking forward to the behind the scenes stories...

.. bmw final drive failure?

.....My personal hero TurboDave's ride? Jeesh I can only hope I can do what he can do when I'm his age..

.......hell, I'm not sure I can do it now...

and KaitsDad! - wow dude...

you have come a long way from 'I met a Long Distance Legend Today' thread.....

That was some good fun and I hope to start the ride report tonight ...some good stories to share.

A sneak preview:

- kudos to GZ for a very unique and great rally

- FJR's did well on rally

- Pic of my obese girl getting her fat ass caught between two posts



Not sure who these guys are, but one is old and the other is polite .....which is worse than being old. They were part of the spanking and brought fun and enjoyed good fun

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After 10miles of dirt to get to this groovy bonus I was feelin' great and high on the fact that I wasn't being a street ***** on this rally. I also was using the overgrown sport bike like an adventrue touring machine -crusing dirt at 70mph and scraping the bottom of the bike and bottoming out the limited suspension travel countless times

......Sign says no motor vehicles and some posts securely put in the ground to enforce that. Not being one to embrace such authority, I took a look and figured I could blow through there no problem. Mirrors barely, bars no problem and then !!BAM!! terrible noise and it felt like someone took a huge hook to the bottom of my bike ...it stopped instantly as my helmet bounced off the windscreen.

Wedged in there so hard that it took me 15minutes of grunting to push it back out. Bags are scraped pretty good but the fiberglass came back to shape for the most part but not perfect.





LOL ....funny stuff.

LOTS of stories to tell, hopefully ride report complete in the next few days. ..stay tuned. ...renojohn

Like the Raiders trying to make a touchdown..

Close, but no CIGAR!

This *may* be why those French police with FJR's have sidebags that are skinnier than stock to split traffic.....who knew the mirrors are narrower than the bike's ass?

Classic

That was an OOPs for sure there John :lol:

Any C-14 in the rally?

performance?

That should be the front page photo with an audible of Homer going, "D'oh!"

Nice job all around. And RenoJohn, if you put some FZ1 mirrors on your Feejer you can actually use them as a gauge for clearance, unlike the stockers. as you now well know. Glad you mostly came out unscathed. I cringe at what it would have been like if you were going faster!

Hey Reno, is that the Carrizo Plain overlook? Dude, the photo was a 30 second walk from where you were supposed to park your bike. Doh!

Who needs a tree when you have fence posts.

RenoJohn, that's a funny ass picture.

Oh, and I really like that top-case. Which Givi model is that, anyway?

OK...a new post (I know, I know) to show off a couple of pics from the SPANK Rally.

Hal copies info onto his map...



GZ tells a story...or something. Who really knows?



Lake Henshaw overlook



Oh, and there seems to be a theme at these things...don't leave your camera unattended.

I'll spare you all the pain. I knew it had taken place last night at Stone, but several beers allowed me to forget about it entirely until I put the CF card into my computer just now and BAM...there they were. Two bare, white, thousand-mile *****. *******s.

Oh yeah, and George doesn't phuck around when it comes to rally swag...

RenoJohn said:

LOL ....funny stuff.

LOTS of stories to tell, hopefully ride report complete in the next few days. ..stay tuned. ...renojohn

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Priceless! DOH! :yahoo:

Looks like you guys had a good time.

Sorry I missed the fun.

I hear-by resign from D Carvers CBA (candy butt association) do to my completing the California SS1K, getting my IBA #, as well as a few points in the rally. Got Spanked real good.

Great rally Geo, it keep a SMILE on my face the whole 1,000 + miles.

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Indian Scout said:

I hear-by resign from D Carvers CBA (candy butt association) do to my completing the California SS1K, getting my IBA #, as well as a few points in the rally. Got Spanked real good.
Great rally Geo, it keep a SMILE on my face the whole 1,000 + miles.

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Indian Scout, it's not too late. You can STILL redeem yourself into CBA graces by sending a check in the amount of $125 USD to my personal address Congratulations Scout.. so, tell me, do you have a 30+ year old bike in the shop waiting for an ssVintage1k?