QuoteSo Phaedrus and my friend Nate from svriders.com are going to be invading my farm and camping in my backyard . Anyone else in the area is welcome, I'm pretty centrally located between western NY, NYC, Connecticut, Mass, and NJ/northern Penn area. There's alot of good roads, including the resevoir and Vermont is 15 minutes from me. There's very little traffic there and alot of good mountain twisty riding.

Nate and Rich have dibs on my tents but I may be able to get one other one. Good news is  no need to carry supplies because we'll have running water, fridge, wood, and a grill right there. I've got room in the garage for 4 more bikes. I'm located in Melrose, NY 12121 PM me for an exact address. Id be willing to meet people elsewhere too because my house is a little hard to find.

We all know how excited Rich was for this meet. He'd been bugging me for months to go on a ride and I stupidly kept putting it off. He teased me cause orginially I forgot he had dibs on my second tent. I'm going to make this an annual ride, somewhere in the north east but we'll figure out details later. If we need to change the date we can do that too so more people can come. Theres a huge sense of community here and I think we would all benefit from being together.

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Blah... you're all ghey. 

Cool. I trust you will guide us to the "good mountain twisty riding" 

hmmmm... my parents live 30 mins from there in ballston spa. ( where i grew up ). and I have a few friends up there that ride.

Yep I know exactly where that is, been there a million times..

Too bad I'm working that weekend...

We'll go to Denny's for you Rich 

hun where exactly will this be i might have to figure out (crunch some numbers) and see if i can at least attend in my cage 

Its north of Albany, NY starting at my home and hitting the twisties Rich was looking forward to my zip code is 12121.....thats quite a drive even in a cage. I was thinking maybe we could ride out and visit Rich's resting place, but I don't want to be crying and riding. 

eh its not far from albany, (contemplating...) although still have poor shocks on truck 

I am in a wedding on the 29th.   

If we need to move it, we can do that too, I cannot do it the following weekend (August 5th) my parents are going away and I've got to run the farm...unless everyone wants to help me milk 

What will we be milking?

Donkey's...... just kidding Cows you goof

So i was in upstate NY, visiting my parents this long weekend, so i didnt ride until now after hearing the bad news.  It was def awkward, with my head feeling heavy at times. But by time i was back home i was happy to have ridden. I hope the group ride to celebrate rich feels the same but different. bittersweet in a way.

Im open to joining you guys for a "phaedrus cruise" any weekend from now thru august unless something comes up. As time passes, i get less sad about meeting up and riding for rich, and more excited.  I guess as close as I can get to riding with him again, is to keep riding. So no i get excited like he were going to be there. i mean, he is kinda.

I won't be able to attend the ride, but I know that Rich will be there.  In everyone's hearts.  And I know that he'll be watching over you guys keeping you safe.

Hello

To All of Gator's Friends well I guess you all called him Rich (Phaedrus) I just called him Gator as he was my Brother Thank you All for al the Nice words and Yes he will be miss more then you all know .. tomrrow at 11 Am is the services for him so you all know

I know that GSTwin will represented tomorrow in person. So many of us wish that we could be there in person, but we'll be there in spirit, TazZ. We miss Rich so much, and we appreciate you taking the time to sign up and post...Thank you....

There is 2 new pictures  of Rich  in Gstiwn's gallary for All I hope you like them 

jw is this meet still going to happen? As I would like to come down and meet up with some of you guys for a nice ride.