Mark, Last year you made a big contribution to the number of rides posted on ZG. If you were organizing rides at the same pace that you did last year everything would be wonderful. But I certainly can't blame you for taking employment. I had to do the same thing this Spring. ZG, like MSTA, needs to encourage more people to organize rides. It is a very hard sell. Like selling snow tires in Key West or screen doors for submarines. I have to beg, harass, whine and lay guilt trips or flattery on our membership just to get a "maybe" response to my request to do a ride.
My bad again. I remember JP posted at least one Frontier ride here. A few others may have thrown something up also.
I just want to encourage people to post their rides here. Pickup rides used to drive the old MN-Sportbike forum back when it was very active. It was common to see a long ride and a short ride or two posted for every weekend plus a weekday ride or two. Now things are almost dead here. Mark and I are the only people I see posting pickup rides. Just for the record, MNSBR rides have dropped off to a trickle and their quality is mostly poor. The only thing keeping this forum going is our MSTA rides, which most people recognize as being well planned and organized rides of high quality. Sadly there are only one, sometimes two MSTA rides a month. Nudge your friends to organize a ride and post it here (and anywhere else). The abundance of posted rides on the ZG forum is a big contributing factor to that forums success in my opinion. Their forum members step up to the plate, show some balls (or ovaries) and get things done. We can do better than we are doing.
Good that you registered here. I remember your X1 from a ride Neal did on the WS Forum many years ago. Don't remember if I ever saw your Priller What Ray said, diversity is good. Enjoy your stay here!
Update on my situation. I have full vision in both eyes now. I have been able to ride a bike to and from the hospital, which is about 5 miles away. My strength still isn't there yet so it will be awhile before I can do a Slimey Crud type of ride. I'm hopeful my energy returns sooner or later.
I was perfectly satisfied with the Yahoo Forum but it closed down so I was forced over here. I'm warming up to this format now. I also like the ZG Forum.
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