5th Annual Catskill 300
June 26th, 2011

The Pre-ride Dinner
Gully's Newburgh, NY

Click here to see why Joe, Rob & John almost missed the pre-ride dinner.

Pre Ride Dinner at Gully's in Newburgh.

Lorenza & Joe

Angela, Rob & Lorenza

Jessica looking so happy, kinda like she just got married or something.

Mike & Jessica

Phil wondering "where is everybody?"

Joe & Rob

Steven & Michele
With adoring eyes and a cherry stem in her hand one most wonder what she is thinking?

Jeanne & Robert

Nick & Eddie

Jesse & Carol

Dee & John "chow'n" down.

Lobster bib not required.

and the rest of the crew enjoying the pre-ride dinner.

Sunday Morning Breakfast
at the Gateway Diner

Parking lot beginning to fill up.

Inside we wait for breakfast because Rob forgot to call ahead to the diner, oops.

SCRC Westchester Chapter is in the house.
Bill I like the hat!

Glenn is calling for us to mount up.

Who dat?

Jeff checking out Joe's ride

Jeff has a new ride too.

Thank you Christine.
Christine had asked the State Police to assist us in exiting the parking lot.
A big thanks to the NY State Police for helping us!

The Ride Begins.

Mid-Hudson Chapter Officers are ready to "get it going."
Christine is ready to take about 700 photo's (no joke).

Lorenza is ready to help with the picture taking too.

It's show time!

We're all out and ready to roll.

Passing Orange County Choppers we head west to the Catskills.

Scott & Pat on their new ride!

a long line of bikes.

a comfortable 72 degrees.

Unfortunately cloudy but good riding weather.

We will see lots of cows on this ride.

lots of farms...

and lots of open road.

Our first hairpin turn of the day.

Mike handles it like a pro.

Spectacular views are common in the Catskills.

Detoured because of bridge repair we have to hit rt. 209 for a couple miles.

Pedal power cyclists wait while we make the turn onto rt. 209

Bummer we all get jammed up when someone has bike trouble.
But a quick fix by Frank & Joe and we are on our way.

Plenty of these signs along the way.

Sal & Jeff approaching one of many curves.

It's a new bike and she handles it well.

Traffic lights suck but fortunately there were only a few.

Our safety officer making sure all is well.

Rt. 28 almost to our 1st stop before lunch.

Pit Stop

welcome to Phonecia, NY

Our first stop we fill up our tanks and we also fill the gas station.

Jeff (Safety Officer), Rob (2nd Officer) & Glenn (1st Officer).

Heidi & Jeff
uh oh, that's not Heidi!
Is that a wallet? I think John is offering cash to get Dee back.

Joe in a previous life.

" no pain no gain"
Actual translation - "you must suffer to be beautiful."

Not a fan of all the motorcycles filling up the gas station.
This little girl just wants to untangle her fishing pole
and take her slightly bored Golden Retriever fishing.