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shirts ordered flag shipped stickers will be shipped this week any 2nd leg people added or confirmed lately? I know we gotta while just bumpin iy up

I'll do an update this week for sure. Everyone be sure to checkout who to who is listed when I do so we can iron out any issues if any.

Ok here is the updated map. I purposely did not link the Canadian riders as I’m not that familiar with the roads and such so I need you guys to work it out as to who gets it after TEK9INE has it.

I need to stress though that it needs to get to JACK in London last. He can take it as far as either Detroit or Port Huron.

HARM, can you go that far to the east to get it from JACK?

BLUEJ58, can you get it from HARM in St.Joseph?

That covers the north end as much as we can until I hear back from you guys up there.

Moving to the other end of the route;

KZCM has offered to cover a lot of ground and to fill the Mississippi gap by starting his route in Meridian MS.

ANY MISSISSIPPI RIDER IS STILL WELCOME TO HELP, JUST POST IT HERE!

KZCM can get it to ENAZ1, you two need to work out the where for the passing of the flag.

ENAZ1 will get it to BOATDRINKS and maybe KRAZY CHRIS, again you guys work out the where and if it will be a team ride to ENAZ1.

BOATDRINKS and/or KRAZY CHRIS will get it as far as the Kentucky-Tennessee border to meet RAMTOUGH63.

RAMTOUGH63 will get to some point north to KOOLAID KID (waiting on confirmation from him. If for some reason he cannot meet RAMTOUGH63 then I’ll fill the gap)

KOOLAID KID will get it to ANDY9802GT at a point to be determined.

ANDY9802GT will get it to KZRAGE (me) at a point to be determined.

KZRAGE will get it to HYPNOHIO (waiting on confirmation from him. If for some reason he cannot meet COBURA then I’ll fill the gap)

HYPNOHIO will get it to COBURA at a point to be determined.

COBURA will get it to the north side of Pittsburgh hopefully but this is where we have a big gap between there and TEK9INE in Niagara Falls area.

WE DESPERATELY NEED A RIDER OR RIDERS TO TAKE IT FROM PITTSBURGH TO AS NEAR THE BORDER AS POSSIBLE!!!

From there it goes through the Canadian gauntlet yet to be determined.

If I missed something or have someone doing something they can’t do or whatever just let me know so we can modify the passing of the flag points.

I can meet up in either nashville or bowling green or similar one weekend and then get it North to lower middle Indiana do We get to sign it twice for multi state rides? lol just kidding

Lots of pic's guys!

Quote from KZ_Rage ;BLUEJ58, can you get it from HARM in St.Joseph?

That is still my plan but I hope this doesn't become a race.

I'm figuring that I'll put on approx 450 miles round trip and would like a couple months of trouble free riding to feel confident about it.

Mid to late July should be plenty of time, but sooner if need be.

JD

yeah some people have real lives and this is a relay not a race so we cant expect them to get it one day and ride another 200 miles or more the next day. it will take as long as it takes

Absolutely NOT! This is NOT a race! Everyone needs to ride their own ride, pace yourself to stay in your comfort zone!

I don't want anyone to push their speed or themselves to the point where they are riding tired. You should plan on making two trips, one to pick up and one to hand off.

If the distance is too far for a day trip then either make it an overnight trip or let us know so we can try to come up with an alternative route or some other solution.

Relayers need to communicate to each other so that it doesn't sit in someones garage while they go on a 2 week vacation or something.

So I got a question, if we are ok with mailing the token, why can't a non-kz ride with it? If I were allowed to ride with it myself on my KLR I could take it from Mark and would happily ride it up north to Jeff and then he could pass it off to M357 and we got everybody covered and no worries...

I have an idea for a route for the Southern Ontario members:

- TeK9iNe - Niagara
- Drooz - Mississauga
- Mark1122 - Cobourg
- 9AM53 - Moscow
- jeffasaki - North Bay
- rstnick - Sutton
- M357.5 - Owen Sound
- Jack - London

maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=Niagara+Falls,...ondon&mra=ls&t=m&z=7

North Bay is a bit of a haul, although we'd meet up half way somewhere.
Maybe some more KZ riders will join in in the area.
I've sent out messages to all the KZ owners in Ontario I know, some who are currently not members of KZR.

That sounds good to me!

What month is this likely going to be during, June?

rstnick wrote: I have an idea for a route for the Southern Ontario members:

- TeK9iNe - Niagara
- Drooz - Mississauga
- Mark1122 - Cobourg
- 9AM53 - Moscow
- jeffasaki - North Bay
- rstnick - Sutton
- M357.5 - Owen Sound
- Jack - London

maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=Niagara+Falls,...ondon&mra=ls&t=m&z=7

North Bay is a bit of a haul, although we'd meet up half way somewhere.
Maybe some more KZ riders will join in in the area.
I've sent out messages to all the KZ owners in Ontario, some who are currently not members of KZR.

thats the way i saw it playing out as well. it seems to work.
1 part i am mulling over, is how it will play out for 9am,jeff,to rstnick. i was thinking jeff might meet 9am to the s east (Barrys bay,1/2 way between them?), then travel southwest to meet rstnick (Huntsville, halfway?, then back home ? or would the 3 just meet in, say, Huntsville and pass it to rstnick ? just thinking out loud ?

I personally have no qualms riding all the way up to North Bay, I like it up there, and it would give me an excuse to get away from the newlywed wife that will likely be annoying me. That said, I am also down with whatever plan works for the others, I just want to be part of this. Hopefully Nick and Jeff can decide what they want to do.

Maybe like you are saying Mark, the 3 of us (or maybe you too) could all meet up in central ontario somewhere in the middle and camp out for a night and then Nick carry the torch from there.

9am53 wrote: I personally have no qualms riding all the way up to North Bay, I like it up there, and it would give me an excuse to get away from the newlywed wife that will likely be annoying me....

Might consider taking her along , so she won't be tempted to annoy someone else during your absence.

Good Fortune!

nah, riding for more than a couple hours with your nads on the gas tank of a thumper aint fun :/

Ill ride anywhere
as long as i have the time
like I said I do 3weeks on and 3 weeks off
The only problem I may have
Is prying myself off the new ZX14R which Ill be riding by then
I guess we can all confirm when and where within the next month or so
long distance is not a problem for me
but weather can make me stop for the night if its bad enough

Hey Jeff, if I end up riding up to you is there anyway I could camp on your lawn or something? I don't want to make a round trip in one day!

did you get a 2012 zx14? I guess it's a beast!

WOW! taking the kz rather than the new zx14 will be a challenge.
Good luck with that 1 Jeff. what a hard ship. I wish i had such hard choices.

9am53 wrote: I personally have no qualms riding all the way up to North Bay, I like it up there, and it would give me an excuse to get away from the newlywed wife that will likely be annoying me. That said, I am also down with whatever plan works for the others, I just want to be part of this. Hopefully Nick and Jeff can decide what they want to do.

Maybe like you are saying Mark, the 3 of us (or maybe you too) could all meet up in central ontario somewhere in the middle and camp out for a night and then Nick carry the torch from there.

that may be an option too. we'll see what the timing of the trip brings.if it falls on a weekend that we r all avail, then that could work for me. or i could just ride up with 9am for a while then turn back? we'll see.

Hey mark, if you have never ridden up 41 it's a nice trip. I think from cobourge to eganville and back would be a longish day, but doable if you have a good seat, or you could turn back at Bon Echo (which is unfortunately around where the road gets nice).

But yeah, maybe we should wait for a schedule to come about before we start figuring out details.