Where to see a Pasq ADV1

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Paul

Beta Tester
Is there a plan in place yet for rides or rallies?
Apr 11-13 I'm heading to the spring dust off in Spragueville, Iowa.
It's 3 days of all kinds of riding. Everything from twisty highways, gravel roads to private offroad park.
Wife and I are taking a couple different bikes. I will try some mild offroad with the trailer.
That is if the bike will run. Replaced the factory battery and the new battery worked great for a week. Now it won't hold a charge.
Anyway would love to find a place to hang out with other testers
 
At this point, my plan is to have a booth at:
  • BMW MOA Rally in Tennessee (June 19-21)
  • Touratech Rally in Washington (June 26 - 29)
  • BMW RA Rally in OH (Labor Day)
I am also planning to attend as a participant the Get On ADV Fest Sturgis, SD (July 17th - 20th). Doing it as a participant because they don't seem to have booths.

I won't be able to make the Dust Off in Spragueville this year, but would aim to do it next year!

What other rallies/events do you all know about and are thinking about attending? I'm open to going to more events!
 
60/40 I'm going to Touratech in June....
@PBKrarup 80/20 I'm joining the Doc Wong crew for the Distinguished Gentlemen's ride, my first (aint getting gussied up) but Doc is a friend so...
 
Which DGR?

I've attended half-a-dozen of Doc's rides/seminars, he's a good guy. Getting up there, tho (yeah, same as me, so...)
 
I knew Gary, at least enough to watch him fly past me on his Ninja 250 a few times. Went to his memorial service.

I'm a maybe for this, I might be committed to taking down a passed-away ham's rather tall antenna assembly up in Richmond that day. Depends on whether I can get some other folks to help disassemble & remove it. Fingers crossed, etc.
 
We used Motorola radios for our surveyors pre-cell days. Took a lightning strike to the mast to get ownership to pull down the antenna.
$100k mistake, back when that meant real money :P
 
Tony D. said:
We used Motorola radios for our surveyors pre-cell days. Took a lightning strike to the mast to get ownership to pull down the antenna.
$100k mistake, back when that meant real money :P
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Smart hams (i.e. ones who follow the laws, regulations, etc.) actually ground their lightning-susceptible antennae. Dumb ones don't, and occasionally pay for their dumbness.

I worked as a solo IT contractor for US West Wireless out of the Seattle office (actually Bellevue) for a year or so and learned quite a bit of antenna technology. Then I got handed the responsibility of supporting Portland, OR, as well, had to drive down a few times a week to support them. The lead engineer got used to paying for my dinner at Salty's on the Columbia Salty's Waterfront Seafood Grills Portland Menus - saltys.com. Had to take a conference call on one drive down, notified them that I was roaming that distance, they okayed the expense. $1,500 for that month. They paid it.
 
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