Denver's 41st Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade - PICS ARE IN!

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 11:05 AM

Here is the list of participants as it currently stands. If your name is on this list and you can't make it, please let me know ASAP, ''cuz we still have a few people on a waiting list. Thanks.

1. Spiderman
2. rforsythe
3. gixxerjarhead
4. Dyscofool
5. MileHighGSXR
6. hoopty
7. surfinspacegirl
8. Chris Coston
9. Barn
10. DrEvilR1
11. Marcus Doyle
12. David Campbell
13. Larry Cadwell
14. Floyd Wilcox
15. S56GSXR1000
16. *B*
17. Paul Bruns
18. Brandon Harper
19. IQ
20. Monica
21. Andrew
22. Joe
23. Jason Menzor
24. Wil929
25. Paul Anderson
26. Ken Perron
27. Cheyni Webster
28. Tim Takala
29. Barbara
30. Jim Vance

**Vance** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 11:07 AM

WOOOOOOOO
FREAKING
HOOOOOOOOO

I will be polished and ready to ride... slowly... in procession.

Vance

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 11:20 AM

Hey spidey, tell Will to charge up his battery this time...

Should I pack jumper cables just in case?

:P

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by rforsythe

Hey spidey, tell Will to charge up his battery this time...

Should I pack jumper cables just in case?

:P

The Will on the list is a different Will from last year (he had a 900RR).

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 02:30 PM

To everybody that's participating...

BRING WATER!!!!!!

It is going to be a long slow procession, and you will eventually get thirsty. Bring water, Gatorade or whatever you like to re-hydrate yourself with.

**surfinspacegirl** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 02:38 PM

Hey, is anyone driving a truck down to the staging area (with bike on back, obviously)? It'd be good if we could leave jackets etc. in it while we're parading.....

apologies if I'm repeating, but I didn't see an answer to this earlier..

**Hoopty** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 02:45 PM

Hey, isn't your house close to downtown?

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by surfinspacegirl

Hey, is anyone driving a truck down to the staging area (with bike on back, obviously)? It'd be good if we could leave jackets etc. in it while we're parading.....

I'm planning on trucking my bike to the parade, and was thinking the same thing. If I do in fact bring my truck, people are more than welcome to throw their stuff in it for safekeeping.

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Originally Posted by surfinspacegirl

Hey, is anyone driving a truck down to the staging area (with bike on back, obviously)? It'd be good if we could leave jackets etc. in it while we're parading.....

I'm planning on trucking my bike to the parade, and was thinking the same thing. If I do in fact bring my truck, people are more than welcome to throw their stuff in it for safekeeping.

So is that a confirmation on the gear storage, red leader?

And when did you get a truck? Last time I checked, a couple months ago you were looking for one to haul the spidermobile to the shop in...

**Duc'nnit** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 05:07 PM

Hey, let's do a prestage ride tomorrow night!!!

We'll get everyone who is participating together around 8ish, and run the route say at about 50mph!

Then we can determine who places where....

Chris

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Chris Coston

Hey, let's do a prestage ride tomorrow night!!!

We'll get everyone who is participating together around 8ish, and run the route say at about 50mph!

Then we can determine who places where....

Chris

Parade Qualifying Laps? hahahaha sweet!

**surfinspacegirl** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Hoopty

Hey, isn't your house close to downtown?

Nah, I'm not biting :P

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by rforsythe

And when did you get a truck? Last time I checked, a couple months ago you were looking for one to haul the spidermobile to the shop in...

I got me a pickemup truck on February 1st. I found a good deal on a '97 Dodge Dakota. 85K miles, V6, 4x4, auto, air, pretty much fully loaded, w/bed liner & topper for $8000.

**Anonymous** · Thu Mar 13th, 2003, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Originally Posted by rforsythe

And when did you get a truck? Last time I checked, a couple months ago you were looking for one to haul the spidermobile to the shop in...

I got me a pickemup truck on February 1st. I found a good deal on a '97 Dodge Dakota. 85K miles, V6, 4x4, auto, air, pretty much fully loaded, w/bed liner & topper for $8000.

Ohhhh that's right. The one I didn't see at the ladies gear night.

**brandon** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by surfinspacegirl

Hey, is anyone driving a truck down to the staging area (with bike on back, obviously)? It'd be good if we could leave jackets etc. in it while we're parading.....

Dumb question perhaps, but do you guys normally wear much gear during the parade? I guess I've seen too many nasty pictures on other message boards of mangled limbs, etc, from even low speed crashes, so I always wear gear unless I'm just riding around the parking lot or something. I figured I'd be sporting my normal minimum.. light riding jacket, gloves, and lid.

I also have a hydrated backpack which I was thinking of taking... and a boombox to throw on my shoulders to blast some Fat Boys. Okay.. so I'm kidding about the boombox..

- Brandon

**Anonymous** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 01:00 AM

Well, first things first...

Brandon, this is one of the *only* times you will ever see me say this, because I am a gear whore. However I'm not planning anything exotic except gloves and sunglasses, and a funky hat. I would be surprised if you left first gear more than once during this whole deal. If your bike is torquey like mine you might shift into 2nd just to give the throttle control a break, but it's your call. Last year if I recall correctly we had one or two people with lids on, but they removed them less than halfway through.

I guess you can always hang it off the bike if you need to, if you move *real* quick at one of the spots where the parade will likely stop for a sec.

Now, onto other issues...

Perhaps I won't be bringing my digital camcorder to this thing after all! For the life of me I cannot find the charging cord for this thing and the battery doesn't have enough charge to last 15 min right now. It's a little disconcerting since I always keep my video/camera gear in one place, and I have literally ripped my house/garage/basement apart looking for it. Plus I remember seeing it a month ago... Now I have a huge mess and nothing to show for it.

So either someone else needs to bring one, or I need to borrow a charging adapter that will fit a Sony digital camcorder (mine is model TRV-103) Friday afternoon sometime.

Or if someone has one (or two) of those infolithium batteries ('bout 1"x3") they can bring saturday all charged up, that'll work too.

**Duc'nnit** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 06:35 AM

Sweet.....suntan lotion, shirts, hats.........anyone want to BBQ after the parade let me know. With my bike, my seat will be cooking anything and everything.....arse included.

Chris

**Duc'nnit** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 07:06 AM

OOOOOOOKAY, after reading the Post's article on the parade I think it is safe to assume that they are going to put us between the "Klingon Club" and Jimmy Buffet's "Parrot Head Association". Not even a mention of us...

Chris

**Dysco** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 08:30 AM

You mean I could have marched with the Parrotheads??? sonofa...

BTW- I'll be going with "normals" downtown. They will be holding my stuff

See youse guys at the start. Any word yet on steel plates along the route? Those Klingons better have eye protection.

**Anonymous** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by brandon

Dumb question perhaps, but do you guys normally wear much gear during the parade?

Brandon, actually, that's a really good question - I'm sure a lot of people are asking the same thing. Like Ralph said, it's pretty slow going (stop and go), so it's not such a big deal - I didn't wear my helmet last year (and I'm probably a bigger gear whore than Ralph is). I did wear my jacket (without the liner) & gloves, but they got to be too warm after a while and eventually come off (this year I'm bringing my summer gloves). As far as helmets are concerned, I just checked the TV Coverage video we got from last year's parade, and of the 7 bikes, there were only 3 helmets worn, and 2 were by passengers.

Originally Posted by rforsythe

Or if someone has one (or two) of those infolithium batteries ('bout 1"x3") they can bring saturday all charged up, that'll work too.

Ralph, I have an older ('98 ) Sony camcorder with 2 infolithium batteries (2 hour & 4 hour). I'll get you the model #'s later today to see if they'll work.

**Vance** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 08:54 AM

Klingons??

Hang on - should I come with my Bat'leth strapped to my back?

I'll kick some geek butt if they mess with us or even oogle our rides the wrong way! I took second place at the MileHiCon bat'leth compeition in October! I can hold my own!

**Anonymous** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by Vance

Klingons??

Hang on - should I come with my Bat'leth strapped to my back?

I'll kick some geek butt if they mess with us or even oogle our rides the wrong way! I took second place at the MileHiCon bat'leth compeition in October! I can hold my own!

We now return to our regularly scheduled non-geek thread...

**haywood jablome** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 10:57 AM

I am sooo fuggin pissed i can not go AGAIN!!!! Everyone bitches about war but they all love there freedom!!!!! Fuggin tree huggers

**Jmetz** · Fri Mar 14th, 2003, 11:40 AM

I'll be driving down as Barnaby will be riding my bike. So anyone is welcome to store stuff in my vehicle.

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