Admit it - Mike is right
Food available at rally site - Hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, sometimes BBQ, popcorn, ice cream, beer.
Town involvement - zippo (This IS something the MOA could have and should have done something about, both during the selection process and as the event neared)
Vendor Exhibits - Closing at 6:00 pm was special. It's only three days long - knock yourself out!!!
Closing ceremonies - In the shade (good) but too long and too far away. Long walk for the winners took a LOT of time.
Proximity to good riding - POOR. Two hours away which means four hours of highway driving to get there and back on any given day. This is particularly disappointing since we could have held it somewhere in the Black Hills or closer to Yellowstone (such as the spectacular town of Cody, WY)
Volunteers - All good and much appreciated. It's the site selection and subsequent planning that fell short.
Some of us have been spoiled by the Top-of-the-Rockies Rally in Paonia, Colorado, where bike viewing meeting new friends is much easier, where the town's folks show up on mass and support the rally, where camping is in the shade and breakfast-lunch-dinner can be purchased without having to leave the site, and where pointing your bike in any direction finds great riding roads. I found the Gillette rally underwhelming at best. If it weren't for the factory BMW participation and the stunt riding events, I could have skipped it. Sorry, but it was not a good first time MOA rally experience.
Food available at rally site - Hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, sometimes BBQ, popcorn, ice cream, beer.
Town involvement - zippo (This IS something the MOA could have and should have done something about, both during the selection process and as the event neared)
Vendor Exhibits - Closing at 6:00 pm was special. It's only three days long - knock yourself out!!!
Closing ceremonies - In the shade (good) but too long and too far away. Long walk for the winners took a LOT of time.
Proximity to good riding - POOR. Two hours away which means four hours of highway driving to get there and back on any given day. This is particularly disappointing since we could have held it somewhere in the Black Hills or closer to Yellowstone (such as the spectacular town of Cody, WY)
Volunteers - All good and much appreciated. It's the site selection and subsequent planning that fell short.
Some of us have been spoiled by the Top-of-the-Rockies Rally in Paonia, Colorado, where bike viewing meeting new friends is much easier, where the town's folks show up on mass and support the rally, where camping is in the shade and breakfast-lunch-dinner can be purchased without having to leave the site, and where pointing your bike in any direction finds great riding roads. I found the Gillette rally underwhelming at best. If it weren't for the factory BMW participation and the stunt riding events, I could have skipped it. Sorry, but it was not a good first time MOA rally experience.