2010 Sound RIDER! Events & Beyond
Mark your calendars
The last year was insanely crazy for us at Sound RIDER! as we celebrated our
10th anniversary with no less than 10 events! We thought we might get away with
doing less in 2010, but lucky you, it does not look like that's going to happen.
Which means between what we're doing all year and the many other great events
going on you can keep yourself busy just about every weekend with motorcycle
activities throughout the year.
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It's time to break out your calendar and start marking it up. And while
you're at it, be sure to block the vacation time with your boss sooner rather than
later. 2010 here we come!
The Dave & Tom Clinic Series - January-April. Or you can call it the
Hough & Mehren show. Riding Skills Guru David Hough and Sound RIDER! publisher
Tom Mehren will be presenting a number of clinics for riders throughout the
winter and into early spring. Sometimes together, sometimes apart. David's
clinics will deal with various riding skills topics such as cornering techniques
and ways to make yourself more visible. Tom's clinics will deal with a number of
topics including motorcycle photography, gear tips and tricks and upcoming
Northwest MC events. Clinics in Seattle will occur the first Saturday of each
month from January to April at
Ride West BMW.
 Cafe to Cafe Grand Tour - April-September. It was just too much fun in
2009, so we're bringing it back in 2010. The Cafe to Cafe Grand Tour takes you
to 15 designated cafes in the Northwest. These will be different locations from
those we used last year. You ride to them anytime between April and September,.
The more you hit, the more points you gain and winners are rewarded with
commemorative plaques during a special luncheon event in October. Look for
details to be posted here in Sound RIDER! April 1st.
Sound RIDER! Garage Sale - May 15th (tentative)Like any other
retailer, our online store is overstocked and we need to reduce our inventory on
a number of items. But we're going to wait until riding season is a bit more in
swing to do it. We'll be setting up for a day somewhere in the Puget Sound area
and we'll have all kinds of specials going on. Details will be revealed in the
April issue.
 Road Trip 2010: Oregon Backroads - June 21-25. You got
$10k to blow on
an international tour this year? Neither do we. But we know how to put on a good
tour, so this year we're putting on two here at home and you can join in on the
fun. The first is our Oregon Backroads tour, designed to take you to some
great locations and ride some outstanding roads hidden in the Oregon interior
and along the coast. For this one, all the roads are paved and we don't care what
you ride (as long as it doesn't break down and isn't too loud!). Details will be
revealed in the February issue of Sound RIDER! For the dates of our
Sasquatch dual sport tour keep reading.
Oregon's Smith Rock. Don't miss it on the Oregon
Backroads Tour!
BMW MOA National Rally - July 15-18. If you plan on attending this
shockingly large event (9,000+), you'll find us there with a vendor booth. Be sure to stop by, say hello and spend several hundred dollars with us.
 Rally in the Gorge - July 28-
August 1. AKA Sportbike Northwest, Sport Touring
Northwest, Dual Sport Northwest & Maxi Scoot Northwest. Now in it's 8th
year, Rally in the Gorge is an amalgamation of four rallies run simultaneously
in the same location. What's nice about that is you can bring several bikes and
join in on whatever activity suits you at the time. Take a sportbike clinic in
the morning and run a dual sport route in the afternoon. You get the idea. But
even if you only have one of the four types of bikes this rally is built for,
you'll have an endless number of possibilities to keep busy each day. This rally
gets better and better with each year and it's infectious with more than 70% of
the attendees returning year after year. Look for the usual cast of top-rate
speakers and clinicians to be on hand. More details with each passing month
right here in the pages of Sound RIDER! Rally links are on the lower left of
your screen.
Sasquatch Dual Sport Tour - August 23-27. 54 riders enjoyed our
Sasquatch Dual Sport tour last summer so we're doing it again. This time our
route takes us through the more scenic areas of Oregon (this is not the OBDR
route). You'll traverse gravel roads to have lunch at Mt. Hood, cross through the
Cascades on dirt and pavement to get to Crater Lake and wind your way up unpaved
coastal backroads to reach your final destination of Astoria after five
beautiful days of riding. Look for more details in the spring.
International Motorcycle Show - December 10-12 (tentative dates). Look
for our 10th annual Northwest Motorcycle Display during the 2010 International
Motorcycle Show. Got a bike you need to show?
CLICK HERE
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