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I'm posting this shamelessly to get us thinking about those special moments involving TBA/SMs.
I've got two memories in particular..one I managed and another I always regret not doing.
I cherish the memory 3 years back of my Beloved and I loading up the TBA LT and heading off to Scotland from our home the South of England.
Lovely trip even if we were overloaded.
Beautiful weather all the way and a chance for me to revisit my roots and memories....and to meet my folks I hadn't seen in years.
The other is the long gone Euro Rally trip to Meteora in Greece.
I hadn't yet retired and try as I might I just couldn't get the time off.
The photos of that trip were great and some small compensation for the trip I never made.
What are your memories of TBA trips then?

My best trip was to Laconia NH, long story and funny stuff happened. It was the people that made the trip great. My best friend and I went with our women and another couple and a guy who were novice riders. One got run over by the trailer that had all our supplies but not hurt. The other filled his HD with diesel. They told us how tough we were riding from here in NE PA to the northern end of CT in the cold and pouring rain. We were like , bah, just wanna get there.Way too much to tell.My friend brought his 72 Bonnie (now owned by Tutle Sr. and could be seen in the back ground on an episode of American Chopper) For the guy driving the van to ride. When we were ready to leave he tried to load it and just at the top of the ramp the center stand caught the trailer and stopped him dead. I fell on the ground laughing. Not too long after this trip he got 15 to 40 for murder. I still talk to him and have a bike I bought to give him when he gets out. Hopefully he will get parole in a little over a year from now.

It was so funny. The anticipation of the first Kentucky Rally I went to was so funny. It was going to meet some of those on this forum and see some other great bikes. I was the only one on an America. LOL Still everyone was great and I want to do it again.

I think that one of my best rides on the 05 speedmaster was going by myself out to the black hills of South Dakota. For me it is about a 2000 mile round trip. The roads were great and I hit about every kind of weather possible. The bike gathered quite a few comments and the usual old triumph stories. I had needle and shim kits made up to deal with the elevation changes on the way out and again on the way back.

The bike was flawless throughout the trip. Which was good as I not not taken a phone with!

I have been lucky emough to see a lot of Europe while attending nine of the Euro rallies with some great people but my solo trip around the US in 2003-2004 stands out as the highlight of my rides on a TBA.

I remember! That was an amazing story!

Freedom, Friar and I took a trip down to the middle of Idaho for a get together with Soren in a tiny town -- Cambridge? It was a great ride and a great weekend. Unforgettable. Friar led the way, I think it was 105 degrees when we rode into Lewiston Idaho.

They were heading down to Hells Canyon the next day, I had to get back home a day early. I think Soren called it the Idaho Raid. Because there were so few of us, I don't recall it happening again. Didn't even raid anything...

Somebody has to say it.... OIL!

I couldn't call anyone of our get togethers a favorite. From the first trip to Indiana back in '03, all the Georgia rallies... New Hampshire...New York, till the epic road trip to Arizona, it was a blast! Man I miss those days.

Yes, pity you missed that one.
The location we had organized was really both dramatic and spectacular.
We did a second Euro rally in Greece 2 years ago (2018) and the highlights for that one were Olympia and Delphi.
The settings were not that spectacular but the bungalows on the beach front on the Corinthian gulf where we stayed made up for it.
Just making you envious. ;-)))

Yes that was an epic trip.
Good to hear from you Shaun, you have been missed.

Success!
I am envious.

Alan

I remember someone posting they forgot to put down the sidestand and leaned the bike only to be toppled over and doing some damage to the bike if not some to them. I was at the gas(petrol) station and after filling the tank and paying I was ready for the ride when I noticed something on the front fork after I had reset the odometer. I leaned the bike over to the stand when I realized it was no longer down and slammed into the gas pump. The foot pad hit the curb which came up against the engine housing and kept the bike from pinning me and no one seemed to notice so I righted the bike shook off my pride and proceeded on my way.
Living is learning.

Thanasis

Good to hear from you as well - I don't come here as often as I used to - maybe only 3-4 times a month.

My favorite 'topic' was the story that Grump posted about the ride in his backyard. Something about thorns from hell and minibikes? Snert you recall that one? Oh yeah, there is an abandoned pub right off US1 close to the FL/GA border with a one word name: BAR lol reminds me of you every time i ride by it!

And then there was the epic sojourn of one English bloke of the King George order! Whose one desire amoung many was to 'lean' into a hurricane gale...Shaun, I'll have you know that I cycled some of those left over 9mm rounds this past October. Wasn't in an uzi or thompson though!

Oh, that Grump sure could tell a story, huh? I liked most all of his musings. I do miss the man.
Our BAR is now an abandoned pub also. What a shame, I liked that place.

Hey Jim hope you are all okay, say Hi to Lynn for me.

I am a bit confused by your comment about the 9mm rounds - I didn't realise that we left some over, I thought that we fired them all off!! (Mind you it was 16 years ago ( jeez doesn't time fly) so I might be wrong.)

What 9mm are you using - when I was there you had the revolver?