isdt reunion ride

[johnm01880]

Please allow me to add some information regarding the ISDT Reunion Ride that Jay has posted information about already. Jay is helping to produce a video documentary of the event. Thirty years ago the first U.S.-hosted International Six Days Trial (ISDT) took place in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. In recognition of this anniversary, the decision was made to move the 7th Annual Leroy Winters Memorial ISDT Reunion Ride to the site of the 48th ISDT. Members of the Pathfinders Motorcycle Club from Connecticut (a New England Trail Rider Association Chapter) have been working diligently since last November. Excitement is building in anticipation of this once-in-a-lifetime happening. More than 200 riders from six countries and 32 states, including almost 60 ISDT and ISDE veterans, will gather at Jim Hoellerich's beautiful Ayr Hill Farm, a family-owned 400-acre working dairy farm, located on a scenic mountain top directly across the valley from Mt. Greylock (Massachusetts' highest peak.) All non-trail activities will take place at this Cheshire, MA location including the parc ferme, registration, final grass track race on Sunday afternoon. A special attraction is Jim's private museum of more than 50 beautifully restored and some rare enduro motorcycles from the `60s and `70s. The ride itself will be a much de-tuned ISDT experience offering all the mix of road and trail of a typical classic ISDT, but compressed into a shorter distance and time frame. Saturday will comprise two loops of about 27 and 30 miles while Sunday offers a single loop of 45 miles. All loops comprise back country paved and dirt roads, unimproved old town roads, and state forest woods roads and ORV trails. Many of the trails for this year's reunion ride are the same ones used during the 1973 ISDT. While the event will be challenging to riders having a wide range of abilities, it won't be a cake walk nor will it be a machine or body breaker. Organizers have adhered to Dick Mann's vision of an event that can be successfully ridden by 50-year-old riders on 30-year-old motorcycles. Riders will be aboard almost 30 brands of vintage motorcycles, most of which are no longer in production. We're creating a 64-page collectors' item program book and a professionally produced video to document this historic event. Rider entries for the event are closed. However, the Pathfinders invite vintage motorcycle enthusiasts to visit the event on Saturday, October 4 or Sunday, October 5. For more information about the ISDT reunion ride, visit www.pathfindersmc.org or send an e-mail to pathfindersmc@.... Also, visit www.isdt.org for more information about the International Six Days Trial itself. John Leone