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Re: 5-24-13 MSTA TriStar Rally in Sparta, NC

Unread postby Brick » Sat May 25, 2013 7:10 am

Brrrr! Well we have a good turn out with 66 bikes counted in the parking lot. However here it is 7:00 and its 40 degrees. Last night the usual tire kicking in the parking lot for the most part didn't happen. I didn't check but I think it was colder than 40 AND it was VERY windy! Not a combination to keep everyone out drinking a cold beer.
It's beautiful sunny today just still cold.


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Re: 5-24-13 MSTA TriStar Rally in Sparta, NC

Unread postby Brick » Tue May 28, 2013 1:01 pm

I think they said there were 80 members in attendance at this years TirSTAR. Excellent! I had a great time and rode with my old Ohio riding friends. That's fun. However I hear I missed some good stuff from the cofsta riders too.
All in all a great but cool weekend!


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MSTA Sparta Rally 5-24

Unread postby Bob » Tue May 28, 2013 5:13 pm

Broz, Yamadog, Yarbi, and I rode up to Sparta on Friday 5-24 for the event. After checking in around 1PM we rode some new-to-me roads between Sparta and the Mt. Rogers NF. They turned out to be the high point of the whole trip, for me anyway. They would be worth the trip up there just to ride them again! Anyone who wants them, email me, as I have created GDB routes for them.

They look like this:

Sparta backroads.jpg


On Sat, the 4 of us rode NC/VA/WV route 16 as far as Welch, WV, for a "taste of coal country". Road good, coal bad. Then we headed back down 52 into Bluefield, over East River Mountain, and followed the scenic hiway until we decided to take VA 42 (The Blue Grass Trail) back over to connect into 16 between Tazewell and Marion, to make one last fling on that fun stretch of hiway, and back 16 to Sparta.

On Sunday, we started out (minus Yarbi who had to play boat captain later in the day) on the IV234 route, but ran into a washed out bridge on the "Valley" portion of the ride (the best part). Are we the only ones who took this route? I was really surprised no one had warned about this, since the "IV" routes account for about 1/2 the total rally routes and all of them go this way. <yikes> So anyway we backtracked and picked up the route at a spot further on, and had a nice ride from there.

Took a few pics---uploaded them all here--->>>> http://pics.cofsta.com/thumbnails.php?album=31
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