2024 National Rally: REDMOND Oregon

[20774]

Yup, that looks like my list...even has my comments on some of them!! I did have an uncertain number for Billings in 2015 though.

 

[lee]

Yup, that looks like my list...even has my comments on some of them!! I did have an uncertain number for Billings in 2015 though.

Yes I copied your list a few years ago.
Someone had the number for Billings so I changed that number.
If anyone spots a incorrect number and has the official correct number, let me and Kurt know.

 

[PGlaves]

Mostly, I try to avoid flat straight roads as much as possible.

But is that the same as avoiding BMW MOA National Rallies?

 

[flyhi2cfar]

Never avoid even a flat road to, or from the National… never know what you’ll find a day away.

 

[kbasa]

But is that the same as avoiding BMW MOA National Rallies?

Sometimes.

 

[kbasa]

Never avoid even a flat road too, or from the National… never know what you’ll find a day away.

California is terrible. It’s crowded and there’s no beer and no trees.

Crescent City?

 

[brownie0486]

80% of the US population lives east of the 100th meridan line.

 

[omega man]

80% of the US population lives east of the 100th meridan line.

Had to do some looking on that one-

The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting

Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farming and other pursuits could be huge.

news.climate.columbia.edu

OM

 

[PGlaves]

The state line between Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle is W100 I think.

 

[kbasa]

80% of the US population lives east of the 100th meridan line.

Good.

 

[GTRider]

80% of the US population lives east of the 100th meridan line.

The 20% of the US population living west of the 100th like it that way!

Best,
DeVern

 

[jandhumphreyme]

There will always be higher attendance at rallies near the east coast due to the fact that easterners who ride where a 7-11 or other Stop & Rob is almost always within a few blocks quiver in fear or at least high anxiety riding across the vast expanse of the empty plains where it might be 50 or 80 miles to the nearest gas pump or bottle of Fiji Water. That plus the fact that there are more members east of the Mississippi than to its west.

Lots of westerners also don't like riding across the plains - it isn't exactly San Francisco or Portland you know. I recall being told by a rider from California that he would never, ever, ride a motorcycle east of I-25 in Colorado. "Never, not ever, ever never". So thus we have three clusters of riders: east won't go west; west won't go east; and, some who don't even care! YMMV but not by much.

If I didn't think there was a little tounge in cheek in that post I might be offended. Redmond was the fith National Ive attended west of the Mississippi. Billings, Great Falls, and this last Redmond are my favorites, I love the plains, high desert, mountain twisties or costal roads. If I'm on my bike it matters little. Fargo 2026 anyone? Maine man here, sitting in a bar in Sioux City having my second martini after a full day from Buffalo Wyoming, side winds included, wouldn't trade this day for anything, well maybe a figi water or Starbucks! See you in Lebanon 2025.

 

[PGlaves]

If I didn't think there was a little tounge in cheek in that post I might be offended.

You would be among the "some who don't even care".

 

[flyhi2cfar]

California is terrible. It’s crowded and there’s no beer and no trees.

Crescent City?

I can’t spell. It’s the town by a lighthouse.
Beside big Redwood trees.
Down the road out of Oregon with great meats at a country store named Taylor… near impressive caves.
Like a Junction of Caves!
It didn’t burn. Kalmath River runs nearby.
People like the sidewalks & offer weed.
About 100 miles northwest of Weed CA.
actually. Happy Camp CA nearby.
Not so Happy anymore. Fire devastation.

 

[mkr1966]

Had to do some looking on that one-

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The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting

Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farming and other pursuits could be huge.

news.climate.columbia.edu

OM

The "Climate" has been changing since the earth was formed.

 

[omega man]

The "Climate" has been changing since the earth was formed.

Yeah. Glad I didn’t have to work through the glacier to dig my cellar hole!
OM

 

[flyhi2cfar]

Maybe that guy from Florida…
But not me!

 

[6322]

Just noticed a new wildfire started just SE of Redmond. The aviation activity would be visible from the rally grounds. Glad we met in Redmond several weeks ago!

 

[dennisdarrow]

Thanks for the research Lee.....What would be interesting to me would be to someway find and post next to the attendance figures, what percentage or the actual number of club members were present at the rally.

I don't know who or what would have this information but i for one would like to see..........God bless..........Dennis

 

[gsinnc]

Just noticed a new wildfire started just SE of Redmond. The aviation activity would be visible from the rally grounds. Glad we met in Redmond several weeks ago!

Ugh ... my wife and I are headed for Colorado and Wyoming on Saturday flying into Denver. I hope we don't have another smoke filled year!