Bennington Triumph Bash

Back home at noon after enjoying the wonders of the NYS thruway system all the way to Buffalo. Thanks again to Mark and Alan for all their efforts. Really appreciated. Thanks also to Matt and Jeff for leading me around the roads of VT for two days.

Brian

I'm home too.

left the lot at 08:30 and made litchfield, ct at 10:30. Stopped into my favorite little coffe shope for a Drink and a bit of a nosh. Young lady working the counter lets me know her father has a Rocket 3. gave him the url for the btb site and suggested he come up next year if possible.

made Guilford at 12:30.

I too would like to thank everyone that worked to pull this event off.

now have to go down load the camera and upload to photobucket.

GerryP

I got home about 2:45 after a nice ride up Rt 100. Beautiful today; shame the weather couldn't be like this yesterday!

Thanks again to everyone for coming, and to Alan and Seth for helping me organize this shindig!

--mark

Back home at 4 pm today. Weather was great until you guessed it...around Syracuse. Off and on rain..major downpor as I got off the Thruway. All in all a great time and a great ride home. We need to get Jeff new pants though!

Home around 1:30. Over route 9 and then a bunch of back roads. Thanks to Mark, Alan and Seth. Another great year. Lots of old face s and some new ones. Going to have to make an extended ride next year for the missed miles this year . Don't know what Mark means about Saturdays weather it was a beautiful typical Vermont spring day. Thanks again.

Got home about 5:30. Nothing but high winds & lots of rain & lightning the whole way back. Still beats a day at work!

alan

Thanks to all for yet another great Bennington Bash. Looking forward to next years already.

Hope to see y'all in September at the Noreast Triumph Rally in the Finger Lakes, hosted by Biker

http://noreast.webs.com/

We left a bit late and had a nice ride up 22 with Jim, then up through Whitehall and Ticonderoga where we missed running a bone-dry Tracy road by about 5 minutes. Instead, we ran the first three-quarters through a biblical deluge.

The last bit was dry, which let us examine in detail the back end of a guy towing a cabin cruiser over to the interstate

We had some short spectacular bits (the highway out of Tupper Lake was deserted, dry, and awesome fun, and Cascade Lake stunning as always) but it pretty much pissed rain on us the rest of the way back, with the worst in the last half hour with all the weekend traffic on the 416.

At least border protection just looked at us like and just waved us through.

Somehow this event is still fun despite the shittiest weather of all time. Thanks Mark, Alan and Seth for the effort this year, and to all the great folks who make it what it is.

took the long way and arrived back home safe and sound.

This was my 1st Bennington Bash and I had so much fun, met lots of great people and already looking forward to next year. A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen. It's a fantastic event.

Jessica

A great big "me too" on the thanks for such a great event. Maria and I had a great time, albeit a tad on the wet side We will definitely be seeing you all next year...just get me a heads up when the Paradise Inn is open for booking!!! Kirkside (er, um, Streetside was a bit noisy).

Looking into getting out for Noreast Rally as well. For anyone coming through the Albany, NY area, here's my cell number (please use it responsibly ) 518-506-7407. Or look me up on Facebook. I'm in for a ride, chow or, worst case, if you need break down assistance!

Until next time!

Jamie/Maria

Kathy and I had a great time at our first BTB. Thanks to the organizers for the geat event. We met so many nice people, and the dinners were awesome.
Kathy can't stop talking about the Triumph jacket she won at the dinner. I told her if it was a size or 2 bigger she might have had to give it to me.
We had a nice casual ride back across to NH with a stop at Skyline for some great views and an nice breakfast at the Royal Diner at the bottom of the hill.
THough there were some big dark clouds following us the whole way. Hope to make it next year.
Craig & Kathy

ps. I'll be doing a ride up Mount Washington this summer, if anyone is interested in joining.

Hey we all had a great time...because we always do with Triumph riders like the ones who come to the BTB every year....I headed down to Spencer, Mass. and spent Sunday with my old college roommate and his wife....great time catching up on family news...Left this morning in the rain and cold but that's what we do...Rode 363 miles in 6 hours so pretty good time for pokey rider me....A big thanks to my riding pals Brian and Matt for always waiting up for me on those Vermont roads..I got to see a lot of people and do a lot of riding this time...most excellent.....1433 total miles

Thanks to Alan...Mark and Seth for their big parts in organizing.....

Mark and I had good run up Rt 100 al the way home. Got to my house around 2:00. It was beautiful all the way home, about 30 min after getting home the rain came.

I too would like to thank Mark, Allen, Seth and everyone else that helped out or sponsored. Except for the weather everything worked out perfectly, and even with the weather we all had fun.

It was great to renew freindships including Allen, Matt and Wes. Great to make new freinds. And thanks Jess for some classic lines I will never forget.

See all again soon.
Tim

Yea, lunch conversation was great. THe waiter couldn't tell his head from his ass, but it was still great!

Alan

Departed Bennington at 11:15 and was back in Framingham at 2:30 safe and sound. Trying to go through all of my GoPro footage (~4-5 hours) and cut the good parts.

Thanks to the organizers, and it was great to see everyone again.