From: Bob <illinoisbob1@...>
Subject: [Midwest Sportster Riders] Re: RIVER RIDE...
To: midwestsportsterriders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 6:08 PM

I am always interested in a ride. I think it might be best planned for
after the 4th of July.
Bob

--- In midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com, Mike Thoms <mike2ride2@ ...> wrote:
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> Well, the whole trip is an all day affair. Bob, some other folks and I have made the Rock River part of the trip before. I almost left yesterday, but the heat index whacked me down...
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> Sid, if you were headed to Beloit, what route would you take?
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> Anyone else interested in all or part of a river ride?
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> Mike 2 Ride 2
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> From: Sid Wegener <sidwegener@ ...>
> To: midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:33:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Midwest Sportster Riders] Re: RIVER RIDE...
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> Let me know the next time you want to take this trip and i'll ride along. sounds great!
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> Sid
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> --- On Wed, 6/24/09, Mike Thoms <mike2ride2@ yahoo. com> wrote:
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> From: Mike Thoms <mike2ride2@ yahoo. com>
> Subject: Re: [Midwest Sportster Riders] Re: RIVER RIDE...
> To: midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 9:32 AM
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> OK, I love the river rides. I can not count the times that I have rode the WI/IL state line west past the Des Plaines and Fox Rivers to Rockton and the Rock River, following the Rock from near Kishwaukee down to Byron and Oregon - a good place to take a break and relax. Lowden State Park is one of my favorite IL State Parks. The ride down IL-2 from there is sweet - driving through Castle Rock State Park and crossing the Rock River several times on the way south past Grand Detour, through Dixon and Sterling to Rock Falls, where a pit stop at the harley dealer is my spot to stretch my legs before taking US-30 west (over the Rock River again) to Morrison, Albany, Fulton, and my home town, Clinton, Iowa, where you can take US-67 north of town to Eagle Point Park for a view of the Mississippi River at lock and dam #13. Just north of Clinton at Sabula, IA, US-67 ends at US-52. Here you can cross back over the Mississippi to Savanna, IL (a metal grate bridge
> base is waiting you here) OR you can take US-52 north to lock and dam #12 at Bellevue, where many a person takes a break in the nice little park on the Mississippi. Dubuque, IA and Galena, IL are just north of Bellevue and the famous motorcycle road, The Stagecoach Trail, extends east from Galena up to Council Hill and Scales Mound (highest land point in IL and near New Diggins, WI), over to Apple River (on the IL/WI state line) and down to Lena, IL. Ok, I am done rambling about my favorite River Rides in NW IL.
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> From: Lester Lawrence <gindad2@yahoo. com>
> To: midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:18:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Midwest Sportster Riders] Re: ride [1 Attachment]
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> Bob;
> God morning. Riding around Sterling is good. Kind of smelly right now with the fish kill in the Rock River. I still keep up with the Sportster riders. Now that we are retired we travel a lot with the 3 kids in the military. Just had on in the Navy transfer from Hawaii to Bremerton WA. Going to ride the bikes out to see them (Him and his wife) when he gets setteled into housing. You get to Byron now and then you will have to drop a lineso we can all meet.
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> From: Bob <illinoisbob1@ yahoo.com>
> To: midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:02:36 AM
> Subject: [Midwest Sportster Riders] Re: ride
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> Sounds like a great trip Les. Good to hear from you.
> You live in Sterling? Hows riding around the Rock river there.
> I Know its pretty nice around Byron.
> Bob
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> -- In midwestsportsterrid ers@yahoogroups. com, Lester Lawrence <gindad2@ > wrote:
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> > Bob;
> > The sportster and I just got back from a 1625 mile trip. We went to McConnell AFB in Kansas then Tulsa OK for the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association meeting and then Scott AFB in Illinois and finally home to Sterling.
> > I pulled the trailer that had the Basset in it while the wife rode the Deuce. The sportster ran great and only used a pint of oil the whole trip.
> > Looks like we missed a lot of bad weather in Illinois while we were gone.
> > Have a great summer and I hope to get together one day.
> > Later
> > Les in Northern Illinois
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