2018 Homes For Our Troops Charity Ryde

Saturday, October 13, 2018

The Homes for Our Troops start time is earlier this year. We will be meeting up at the Wawa in Sanford at Rt 46 (4660 W Sr-46) and I-4 at 6:30am with a feet up time of 7:00 sharp.  Our route to the event will take us up US 17 to Palatka where we will top off at the Raceway on US 17 (200 S US Highway 17) before heading in to the Sam Hogg Pavilion. To expedite registration at the event, you are encouraged to PRE-REGISTER HERE: https://seminoleelectric2018.myhfotusa.org/Donate/Tickets.

Download GPX file for our ryde to the event here.

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Event Details:

It is a day of fun, fellowship, great food and raising money for Homes For Our Troops. This will be the 6th year that the event has contributed to HFOT.

The unescorted ride will start at the Sam Hogg Pavilion, located at Seminole Electric. The approximate address for the pavilion is 274 West River Road, Palatka, FL.  The route is yet to be determined, and details will be added as they are determined.

The ride is scheduled to end at the Texas Roadhouse in Gainesville, where lunch will be provided by the restaurant, and will be served at 12:30 p.m. The address of the Texas Roadhouse in Gainesville is 3830 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL.

Registration will begin promptly at 8:45 a.m. Registration will NOT begin until 8:45! First bike out will be 9:00 a.m. with the last bike out at 9:30 a.m. and last bike in by 12:30 p.m.

Since we will be starting an hour earlier than our normal time, beginning at 8:30 a.m, a light breakfast of pastries/doughnuts and coffee/juice will be provided.

At registration, you will receive a Ride Package which will include a map route and detailed instructions of the run. There will be prizes for best ($200) and worst ($100) roll of the dice, and drawings for door prizes. Additional dice roll sheets, 50/50 tickets, and door prize tickets will be available for sale.

The cost is $25.00 per rider which includes: an event t-shirt, one raffle ticket for door prizes, goodie bag, dice roll sheet with instructions, and a meal bracelet for the end of the ride. 

Ryde to "Celebrating You" Honoring Lady Ryders

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Wear your pink and join the fun. US Spyder Ryders - Central Florida will meet up at the Love’s Station, 45000 US-27, Davenport, FL at 8:15 am and depart at 8:30 am to ryde to Sky Powersports, 1638 Kathleen Rd, Lakeland, FL where the fun begins. The ryde to the event will take about 50 minutes over some back road to get to Sky Powersports.

The event is coordinated by US Spyder Ryder, Lori Phillips and sponsored by Sky Powersports of Lakeland.

• Coffee and donuts at 9:30 am

• Road Warrior Presentation at 10:00 am

• Curvy road ryde at 10:30 am

• Lunch served at 12:00 pm

Plus other activities including a bike wash, mini make-overs, massages, raffles, a DJ and more.

Donations for this event go to the Road Warrior Foundation. You can donate here and bring your donation receipt to be included in a special drawing: Lori's fundraiser for Road Warrior Foundation

GPS file for the ryde to the event: Love's Travel Stop, Rte 27, Davenport - Sky Powersports, Lakeland.gpx

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Woodyard Grill Ryde, Newberry, FL

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Meet up 9:00 am at Wildwood Pilot Travel Center, 493 East, FL-44, Wildwood, FL 34785 (the one West of I-75).

Wheels up 9:15 am. Our route will be through Crystal River, Otter Creek, and Bronson to the Woodyard Grill, 102 Northwest 1st Street, Newberry, FL. Our return trip is via 41 to Inverness and 44 back to Wildwood.

Hopefully, we will meet up with some FLOcala Chapter ryders to enjoy this ryde together.

Please post a comment if you plan to join this ryde.

12th Annual 9/11 Memorial Ride and Ceremony

Sunday, September 9, 2018 Rain or Shine

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Meet up location will be the WAWA, 4660 FL-46, Sanford, FL for a departure at 7:30 am.  From there we will ryde to Bunnell via 17/92 and 11 and will arrive at the Government Building around 8:50 am for Registration and ceremony at 9:30 am.

There is NO cost and the ryde from the Flagler Government Service Bulding is an escorted ryde.

Post a comment if you plan to attend this event.

Ozello Trail Ryde

Saturday, September 1, 2018

The Ozello Trail is a curvy 9 mile stretch of road near Homasassa, FL with 67 curves through magnificent marshland of the Florida west coast. We'll take some nice back roads to get there then enjoy the fun. After ryding the trail we'll have a great lunch at Cinnamon Sticks in Inverness before returning to our origninal start location. Join us for a fun day of ryding.

Meet Up at 7:30 am RaceTrac, 20005 US 441, Mt Dora, Fl ... Depart at 8:00 am

Lunch at Cinnamon Sticks, 727 US Hwy 41 S, Inverness, FL

Post a comment if you will join this ryde.

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South Carolina Road Warrior Awareness Rally

Ryde to the Event: Thursday, August 16, 2018

Event: Friday & Saturday August 17 & 18, 2018

The event is on Friday and Saturday, August 17 & 18, 2018. Our ryde to the Rally will be Thursday, August 16, 2018.

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This should be a great, fun ryde to an awesome ryding area in the Carolinas and at the same time support for the Road Warrior Foundation. Our South Carolina US Spyder Ryder brothers and sisters showed us tremendous support for our Road Warrior Awareness ryde in March and this is our opportunity to return the favor.

Save the date now and make your hotel reservations as soon as possible. This has become an extremely popular event and accommodations will fill up quickly. Links with all the Rally information are provided below.

Hotel Information and Vendor Listing: https://carolinaspyderrally.com/

Registration Donation Fee $50.00 after August 1st: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2096123664045081/

Here's a summary of our ryde up on Thursday, August 16.

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• 6:00 AM Meet up at Wawa, 4660 W, Florida 46, Sanford, FL
• 6:30 AM Promptly depart from the Wawa
• 15 Min. Gas stop after 123 miles (1 hr. 54 min.)
• 15 Min. Gas stop after 123 miles (1 hr. 53 min.)
• 50 Min. Gas/Subway stop after 108 miles (1 hr. 50 min.)
• 15 Min. Final gas stop after 88 miles (1 hr. 44 min.)
• 4:31 PM arrive at Host hotel, 10 Kalyns Way, Powdersville, SC 54 min. (1 hr. 5 min.)

Total seat time is 8 hrs. 26 min. Total ryde time is 10 hrs. 1 min.

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July 28th Group Ryde

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Join us Saturday, July 28th for a 92 mile group ryde.  We will be meeting up at Central Florida PowerSports at 8:45 am for a 9:15 am departure.  The group will head south to Lake Wales before making our way over to Davenport for either breakfast, lunch, or even brunch at the Nothing Fancy Cafe.  If you did not join us the last time we were at the Nothing Fancy Cafe, this is your chance.  :) 

If you would like to check out their website and menu here is the link...

http://www.nfcafeinc.com/index.html

Beat the Heat 5 County Ryde

Join us on Saturday, July 14th for a beat the heat 5 county ryde as we ryde to Inverness for Breakfast at Dillon's Cinnamon Sticks.  We will meet up at the Circle K in Minneola (located at 810 N US-27, Minneola) at 8:00 am.  At 8:30 we will depart for a 55 mile ryde over to Inverness arriving at approximately 10:00 am. Our return trip back to Minneola will be about 58 mile.

Menu and Website - https://www.cinnamonsticksrestaurant.com/

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July Mountain Trip

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Maggie Valley, NC

June 30 - July 5-6, 2018

Over the last two years, our chapter as taken at least one trip to the mountains each year.  This year is no different!  We are planning to head to Maggie Valley to escape some of the summer heat and take in the mountain views.

We are planning to be in Maggie Valley starting Sunday, July 1 departing Thursday, July 5.  Hotel reservations can be made at the Best Western Mountainbrook Inn. Currently as of today (3/11) rates are running between $85.00 and $100.00 a night plus 12% tax for a total of about $400.00 for the 4-nights. Here is the link to the Best Western Mountainbrook Inn so you can make your reservations.  And hurry these rates will not last.

Our current plan is to leave the Central Florida area on Saturday, June 30 and ryde via secondary roads up to Commerce, GA where we will stop for the night. (Hotel: Best Western Commerce, current rates are between $71.99 and $99.99 plus tax).  We will leave Commerce Sunday morning and will head toward the Mountains via the Moonshiner 28 and Blue Ridge Parkway.

This year our plan will be a little different then in past years.  We will post a number of various routes that folks can take. There will be a couple of group rydes but if someone wants to venture out on their own that is also welcomed.  Check back often for more information.  Below are some photos and videos from last year.

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Trip Agenda

Day 1, Saturday, June 30 - Will be a 458 mile ryde. Our route will have us stopping about every 1hr to 1-1/2hrs for either a 5 minute fluid stop or 10 minute fuel and fluid stop.  We will break for 30-minutes in Lyons GA for lunch at Subway (time yet to be figured) before head up to Commerce (see above for Hotel link). The plan is for those looking to leave Central Florida as a group we will be leaving the Racetrac in Eustis at 6:30am. Our next departing location will be in Jacksonville at Circle K which is located at 1081 US-301 S, Jacksonville, FL 32234 around 9am

Day 2, Sunday, July 1 - Will be a 148 miles of fun filled roads.  Were we will run the most of the Moonshiner 28 with a stop at Dry Falls for 15 minutes. After leaving Dry Falls we will head towards the Blue Ridge Parkway and stop at Cut Off Ridge for another 15 minute stop. We should be in Maggie around 12:30 / 1:00 pm where we can find lunch before looking to check-in.

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Rydes and Routes - Click Route Names for GPX files

Caesar's Head and Wayah Road Trip via South Carolina: (Wednesday 7/4, departing between 8 and 8:30am) This route will be fun filled with plenty of Mountain Views and Twisty curves.  The total mileage of the route is 281 miles or 7hrs and 44mins of moving time. The route has a lunch spot planned in Easley, SC at Mutt's BBQ.

Tail of the Dragon and Cherohala Skyway: (Monday, 7/2 departing between 8 and 8:30am) This route will have you on two of the areas well known motorcycle roads.  Before traveling north on the Tail of the Dragon, stop in at Deal's Gap for a token and visit the Tree of Shame. Before departing be sure to get the URL information of the photographers, so you can check out your photos. Once departed from the Dragon, you will head south on 360 to Tellico for lunch at Tellicafe before heading back to Maggie Valley via the Cherohala Skyway. This route is also know on the maps as the Brown Loop, total mileage will be 239 miles or 5hrs and 56mins of moving time.

Blue Ridge Parkway, 226A Diamondback, Devil's Whip, and The Sidewinder: (Tuesday, 7/1 departing between 8 and 8:30am) This route could have you asking are we done yet!  Leaving in the morning from Maggie Valley you will head north with a nice ryde up the Blue Ridge Parkway for about 2hrs and 30mins or approximately 109 miles to Little Switzerland. At around 11:30am the route has you breaking for lunch at Mountain View Restaurant before taking a complete spin around 226A (otherwise known as the Diamondback). After making the loop, you will start your route back heading south down the Parkway to top of the Devil's Whip. Just when you think you are complete you will encounter The Sidewinder bring you back in towards Chimney Rock and Hendersonville, NC.  This route is action packed with great scenic views and plenty of the twists.  Total mileage will be 260 miles or 6hrs and 39mins of moving time.

Gatlinburg and The Rattler (209): (Sunday 7/1 departing at 1:30pm) This route is a run little route taking you in to downtown Gatlinburg and Roaring Fork Motor Trail before making your way Hot Springs.  Once in Hot Springs, you will head south back towards Maggie on Rt 209, which is also know as The Rattler. The Rattler has over 234 twists, turns and curves from Hot Springs to Lake Junaluska. After successfully concurring The Rattler you will stop in Waynesville at Bogart's Restaurant & Tavern for a bite to eat before heading back to Maggie Valley. Total mileage for this route is 166 miles or 4hrs and 30mins of moving time.

Return to Florida: This route is a direct flight home for anyone looking to make it back to Florida within a 9hrs or ryde or a total of 10hrs and 40mins.  The route has a combination of secondary routes and interstate.  If someone is looking to make the trip back to Florida over two days, you can surely find a resting spot off of I-95.  Based on projections we will be looking to leave the Maggie Valley area at 7:30am.  We will stop for lunch in Waynesboro, GA around Noon and should be in Jacksonville around 4:30pm.

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June 30th Group Spyder Ryde

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For those of you not making the trip to the mountains, Hal BikerDoc is leading a ryde through Lake County's lesser know roads.

Meet up at Kangaroo Express 17503 W Colonial, Oakland, Fl just off the turnpike, at 8:30 am , to depart at 8:45am.

We can beat the heat and the rain and get in a two hour ryde before stopping for a late breakfast for those interested.

Post a comment if you plan on coming.