The Hotlanta Roast -- date/time has been set

[wheatonFJR]

Now THAT looks awesome!

 

[NTXFJR]

Mr Hud, those glasses make you look kinda smart, like some sorta professor or sumpin

 

[wheatonFJR]

It does doesn't it?

But I know better, something about Uncle Hud tells me he used to be in the Kentucky Headhunters.

 

[sath182]

Made it home. Boy was I getting fed up with slow people and stop lights. Time for some ice water!

 

[eflyguy]

That's kind of what UH was saying.. I appreciate wanting to explore backroads, but in this heat, the highway provides AC for free!

(You really should have a water bladder for a ride like that!)

 

[sath182]

I do, but I need to clean it and my wife graciously misplaced it for me.

 

[sath182]

Btw, I just looked at TWO-Suches, maybe I will look at that in the near term. I actually have stayed just up the road at Skeenah Creek a couple of times.

 

[eflyguy]

I'll be there 9/23 - 9/25, with many friends..

 

[Uncle Hud]

Sorry, but I have been pretty much out-of-touch this past weekend. Photo evidence does shows me at the Hotlanta Roast, however. It was indeed warm in the sunshine, but we ate on the patio under a ceiling fan, and it wasn't too bad.

Thanks, eflyguy and sath182, for making the trip -- and since two of us three came from the near suburbs, sath182 gets the Grand Prize of Most Miles to the Meet -- the highly-coveted MMM award. My group photo looks remarkably like eflyguy's but I'll post it anyway. (From the left: Sath182, Uncle Hud -- the only one still eating, eflyguy.)

As for TWO-Suches, it's a nice place with really good food. Caters to moto-traffic, so you see ADV bikes, guys with longhorns attached to their helmets, riders in shorts with no shirt (sometimes with bikini-top pillions), fully-kitted dirt bikers, gleaming choppers, and lots more.

 

[Doug36854]

Considering the number of Atlanta area riders that wanted to make this lunch, maybe another try in the near future? I met a guy on an Indian at Wolf Pen Gap store (across the street from TWoS) back in May, he lives on northside of ATL and had a gen 1(?) FJR at home. Very opinionated and obviously a regular up there, can't recall a name and haven't seen him the 4-5 times I've been in the area since. Maybe he's on here or someone knows him. Think he had Traxxion's 1st Indian Scout suspension setup on his

 

[Bill Lumberg]

Hated to miss it. Both for the meeting of the league of extraordinary gentlemen (hoons), and Community Q's macaroni and cheese. Created a complete new joint in my left big toe while mountain biking, so the allis-chalmers-esque shifter of the R75 wasn't a smart option for me. Next time.

 

[rbentnail]

If I had more time available off work I could have done it but being back at work on Monday made a 650 day trip very difficult. So where to next? I've posted up a few since last fall, JS.

 

[Uncle Hud]

No need to explain absences ... everybody has a life, I'm not your 3rd grade schoolteacher, and it was really hot. (I was late to the meetup, too -- how bad is that?)

My concept of an annual get-together has been modified to include "not in August". I'll post up something else in a few months, and you can come on an Indian or a BMW or a Harley or an FJR.

To the bubblehead posting above: a normally sweet redhead has informed me that Hooterville and the BMRx have used up my moto-trips for the remainder of 2016. I may be able to squeeze out a trip to Stagecoach for the 20th anniversary of the Last Ride of the Year.

 

[wheatonFJR]

That's cute Hud. She must be AWESOME!!!!!!!!

I don't tell my wife of 30+ years how many trips I take a year, and she doesn't either.

 

[sath182]

Now you've got me looking at the map for an end-to-end run of the Talladega National Forest (not sure where the dirt parts are though) on the way there. Even though I don't expect to be available to go.

though if it were summer and I had the bike there, it'd be an easy SS1k route.