Trip Report

Disclaimer: The club describes itself as having a great appreciation of humor and irony. If The Dear Reader detects anything other than humor and irony in this Ride Review, The Dear Reader may want to retrain in these areas. See the club website for more clarity. My invite to this fun came a whole month […]

I’m not the superstitious type, but choosing 9/11 as the start date for the Colorado trip was probably a bad idea. The trip started uneventfully. But as events unfolded, we decided to rename the trip the Colorado Calamity and then later the Colorado Catastrophy. Ten Scramblers met in Lakewood Colorado to begin the great Colorado/Utah […]

As David described in the recent Scramblers Digest, we had a HUGE turnout for the annual Pig Roast—40+ Scramblers, spouses and guests on 30 bikes and one sidecar.All attracted, undoubtedly, by the triple tease of seeing John’s shop, the beautiful riding weather, and the home cooked Pig Roast at the finish. We started by gathering […]

The event started as all good rides do with a bite to eat. The rally posted at 9 am at the Silver Dollar restaurant at Hwy 71 and Hwy 47 just south of Yorkville Illinois. It was a beautiful day. Those in attendance were Bob and Carol Switzer, Rene Fardoux, Tom French, Mark Bidlake and his son […]

On an overcast and cool Saturday morning, over 45 Scramblers, Gonstead family members and invited guests met at “Windsong” to celebrate and remember our long time friend Curt Gonstead. As you first enter the driveway, you are struck by an the impressive multi-story home that looks like something Frank Lloyd Wright would have built. In […]

The Irish Scramble began unlike any other Scrambler trip.  Of course, the flight went as expected and we all arrived at our hotel, The Royal Oak, in Welshpool without incident. That evening and the next day held both pleasurable and disturbing elements for our group. It was later that day that our trip officially began with a […]

The Journey through the Giants was an assault of the senses and the emotions.  The sights, the roads, the smells (road kill, sage, skunk, peaches, dill, ocean, pine, cedar, smoke, chocolate chip cookies, salt), the movement, the fear, the elation.  The weather was almost without fault as were the roads.  All of this was the […]