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With the recent announcements of DIMBY AND WCDIMBY, please note that Ducatis in The Rockies (DiTR) will take place once again in Ouray, CO this year.

Details are far from final, but plan on a trip to "Switzerland of the Americas" sometime in August.

This sounds sweet!  I'm looking forward to tearing it up to Ouray this summer!
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Randimus Max,

Yo yo yo.  Hey, VP and I were just talking about adding this event to our summer schedule.  Maybe we inject some SoCO sophistication to this Monster Ball? 

Say hello to Stella for us too!

Il Duce

You must! Great people and a great way to meet a lot of our extended Ducati family.

Randimus, just an FYI......some of us girls have plans August 19 - 22 ....I am pretty sure Stella said she wanted to go to this:

http://www.womenandmotorcycling.com/womenc/index.asp (http://www.womenandmotorcycling.com/womenc/index.asp)

Good point.  Will keep this in mind.

Wondering if this and DiTR were on back to back weekends, some people might travel in for both?

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Let me know how that works out for ya!!

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Alternate sources of information:

DitR Website (http://www.ducintherockies.com)

DitR Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55581935777#/group.php?gid=55581935777)

I have blocked 20 rooms at The Best Western, Twin Peaks for Thurs., Aug 7 - Tues, Aug. 11.

125 3rd Avenue
Ouray, CO 81427

Phone: (970) 325-4427
http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=06031 (http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=06031)

The rate is $149.49/night (tax incl.)

All rooms have 2 queen beds.

When booking your room, reference "Ducati in The Rockies"

 

Thank's Bick !!
                       The wife and I are trying to secure vacation time, hope to get a few days. Sounds like a must do event [thumbsup]

KRJ you'd love it! Beautiful rides, lovely town and a lot of cool people.  [thumbsup] [drink]

Hey Scottish,
                    How You doing ?,  We've been fourwheeling offroad there before several years ago, but have never been riding in that area , making a serious effort to be there for DITR, looks good so far.Just thinking about it, I might sneak off for a ride this afternoon. Temps in low 60's. GOTTA GO !! [moto] [moto]

is lance ready  [evil]  8)

Vacation time confirmed, Hotel reservations confirmed, Unless what's left of the World falls completely apart ,We will be in Ouray for DiTR '09   [drink] [beer] [moto] [moto] [thumbsup]

Awesome, Keith!  It will be great to see you again!  [beer]

And in the event the world as we know it does completely fall apart (as I am sure it will), not many places I would rather be than Ouray!

Hi everybody the durango peeps are looking forward to seeing you all this year!  ;D [drink]

Is there any updates for the DiTR 2009? This thread seems to be dated. Maybe I'm dated  [laugh]. I'm planning on coming up from Texas with 3 other Ducatisti and would like to know the itenarary/schedule/planned activities for this event.

Thanks,
RED

Hey Red, I answered you on Facebook, I believe, right?  I recognize your yellow ducati. I don't know of an iteniary of sorts, but there may be one since the Denver crew seem to be more into it this year.  They set it up at the Best Western so they may also have some events planned.  Left to ourselves basically last year, we muddled through, riding randomly, and we did manage one group ride, a barbeque, and a lot of beer drinking and hot-tubbing.  This year, it may be more organized but either way, we are sure to have a blast!  See you over there in just a few short weeks!  Can't wait.   [moto]

P.S.  Most of us roll in sometime Friday afternoon, get our rooms, then check out the place.  Saturday, lots of riding and the barbeque, hot-tubbing, and later the bar.    Sunday, recovery and departure for those who have to be back to work, the rest either recover somemore or ride somemore and repeat the BBQ or just go to the bar.  Two years ago we had an award ceremony.  Awards for everything imaginable including the one I won:  Most stock bike.  It took me awhile to start blinging it out.

Bonfy, I did get the message on  my facebook wall and thanks for the info. We are planning on being in Ouray Thursday afternoon sometime. We'll be leaving prolly Monday afternoon/night and being back here in DFW Tuesday night for work Wed. We are so stoked for this it's not funny. One guy and his soon to be wife are traveling from Houston to Philly to pick a new bike then riding it back down to DFW on some awesome roads then putting the bikes on my trailer and we're coming up! I think at the moment 5 from Texas. I'm just hoping we can hit Durango by at least sun up if not after in order to get some riding up to Silverton/Ouray.

Wow!  You guys will be the first Texans I've seen at the rally.  Lots of 'em on the slopes, but not so many in the twisties.  This will be great!  We are super-stoked, too!  It'll be fun to meet facebook and DMF people face-to-face. 

He he, well that's one of the bennies of the interwebs right?!  [thumbsup] Well, I haven't been on the slopes in quite a few years (that's going to change though) and haven't ridden the twisties in Co. yet either so yep, this is going to be a bunch of firsts all around!

I was wondering if we could do that little road off 550 into Te-Hell-u-Rode? he he  ;D

oh we will be....some nice roads that way

maybe DDGM will find his secret place again and share with us  8)

   We've been puttin in 14 hr. days, welding and fabricating asphalt plants in Trinidad and Alamosa for the last three weeks, I am so looking forward to a cool mountain weekend,Shut the whole work scene OFF!!!            Just a little longer wait.......................then  [moto] [moto] [moto] [moto] [moto] [beer] [beer] [beer] [beer] [beer] [beer] [moto] [moto] [moto] [moto] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink] ETC...ETC...

Spending lots of time in Trinidad?  ???

You still are a Keith, right?  :-X

Most defiantly looking forward to the trip!  [drink] [drink] [drink]

   Got the trucks reloaded and headed to Fruitsville, And yes I will remain OEM.  [laugh]

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Update:

7 rooms are still available at the discounted rate that Bick was able to negotiate.  They will be released in the morning.

We will have private access to the Tiki bar from 4-6pm on Friday for a reception at the Best Western.

We will also be having a BBQ at the Best Western on Saturday evening for about $15-20 per person.

If you have not made note in the General Monster Forum Thread about your attendance, please do so here:::> http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=19515.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=19515.0)

See you guys in a little under two weeks.

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   Wanting to know if any one else is riding to Ouray on fryday? I'll be leaving in the a.m., maybe catch some MHM folks. Hollar if you want to travel that way.. thank's

Yes, we are heading down on Fry Day.

Probably 285-50-550.

Me, too!!!  Any timeframes yet? 

We are leaving MoCo at 9:00, so should be in Buena NLT 11:00.

Just need to decide if we are having lunch in Buena or Gunni.

   Good Morning Bonfy, do you know of anyone else around Us going ?  Six more days,going to be difficult to focus on work !!

I KNOW!!!!!!!! ;D  I think Pete is going.  I may be heading over even earlier than Friday.  So much can happen in six days.  I am going to keep it loose and probably will know about half an hour before I head out which direction and the route.  I am planning around the weather.  If I can catch a group of riders, I will, but may do a southerly route and stay over in Pagosa Springs to catch the NMMR as they pass through.  Or maybe up to Glenwood and down over McClure Pass.  I have three days off before Friday so might as well make a vacation out of it, money being on the only prohibitive factor.   :-[  Post up your projected departure time as soon as you have it. 

   I'm striving to get thursday thru tuesday out, but won't know till wed. [bang]  hopefully got My shit togetherby then!  We'll keep in touch and see what pans out... fitting some Coretech bags on the scoot, not a good fit on a Maltistrada, may have to fabricate some new rear side covers, oh well.  Keep posted, maybe semeone else will join    [popcorn]

Yes, well, about those Cortech bags, word, don't overload them and be sure that they are cinched up good and tight.  Mine loosened up and the back tire rubbed a hole through the fabric on both bags.  Some of my lingerie got sucked out of the bag by my grunder-hungry chain and I was very fortunate to escape a serious mishap.  Lance watched it all unfold gleefully thinking he was finally going to get in on one of my spills.

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/bonfygloria/100_2699.jpg)

    Yeah, I can see that happening, and lord knows I can't afford to lose any of My lingerie!!   Maybe not the best set-up, but fit the time/budget problem. They'll have to work for now [moto] [moto]  Thanks for the info, gotta try to work [bang]

it would be nice to catch up with ya on the ride...

i know we are going to be stopping in Durango for lunch  [beer]

i guess demsolu wanted to check out the brewery [drink]

Wow, Bonfy.....commando....... :o........ [thumbsup]

The Smelly Pirate Hooker never goes commando in her leathers...no explanations needed, but for one that may go overlooked, even leather can come off in a crash, plus I've been in the emergency room twice for x-rays after a good wad.  They let you leave your grunders on, but not your leathers.  For me, more is better.   :o

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Even a Smelly Pirate Hooker has standards.  [thumbsup] I was comforted by this.  [beer]

    Yeah, Bonfy is conservative and proper, [roll]. But it's that perverted gargoyl Lance You gotta look out for, The Guy is off the hook!

Yes, indeed, my Lutheran upbringing has left me with some restraint, but thank God for Lance!  He picks up where I leave off.   ;) [bacon] [evil] [drink]

I always thought it was Bonfy that was the bad influence on Lance.  [evil]

 ;D ;D ;D

Where's the emoticon for beverage-of-choice coming out the nose!!!

Lance was so much more appreciated in Albuquerque.  Like Randimus says, there's something in the water down there.

Lance brought this guy on board, trying to talk him out of the broomstick era and into the Ducati realm:

(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/bonfygloria/monkey.jpg)

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(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/bonfygloria/thalpacas.jpg)

Ahhhh, hell!!!!!!!!!  Do you hear Termi's?   We're outta here!!!

I'm taking off today so I will see everyone over there.  Ride safe!   [moto]

Hey, for all you SoCo DOGs that may be interested in the trip, I am posting the link over to the NMMR where I posted a bunch of pix.  This is where my pictures start, but there are a lot of pictures posted by others that start a page or two before.

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=17729.msg488365#msg488365 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=17729.msg488365#msg488365)

It was a great weekend.  Hope more of our group can go next year!

And here is the facebook link that has every single shot I think I took:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28327&id=1504392302&l=8f504cce16 (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28327&id=1504392302&l=8f504cce16)

   Very Cool Bonfy, I will try to get Shannon to post some pics, We've been busy and haven't sorted them out. I do think She put some on facebook,I'm not sure,though. I forgot about the Santa raid with Lance, the poor owner must have thought We were Psycho!!

I'm glad I got a chance to say hi to Shannon and pet your puppies.  I really hope she gets to go next time.  We have some rides still left in the season, too!