Regarding the discussion about what time of year meets happen in... this is not necessarily a representative sample, but, since attending my first meet in 2009, here is the distribution of how many meets I have attended in each calendar month:
Jan 1
Feb 2
Mar 8
Apr 4
May 6
Jun 4
Jul 6
Aug 6
Sep 4
Oct 6
Nov 5
Dec 3
Topic split from 2020 Meets and subject changed - worthy new topic. -sso
Quote from: froggie on August 14, 2019, 08:27:43 PM
SE PA was 2010 and IIRC focused on their traffic management center. I skipped that, in part because it was also the "bill snafu meet" and highlighted the issues with having a large turnout and confusion on the lunch bill.
I did indeed host a DC meet in May, 2012, right before I transferred out. This meet focused on the Beltway HO/T lanes and the new 11th Street Bridges.
State College was April, 2009. I remember this well because it was Oscar's Prius that got bumped from behind and I was in the back seat.
It got "Denny Pine"'ed.
Jeff, Bullshit!, Bullshit! :popcorn: :popcorn:
Quote from: Duke87 on August 14, 2019, 08:48:49 PM
Regarding the discussion about what time of year meets happen in... this is not necessarily a representative sample, but, since attending my first meet in 2009, here is the distribution of how many meets I have attended in each calendar month:
Jan 1
Feb 2
Mar 8
Apr 4
May 6
Jun 4
Jul 6
Aug 6
Sep 4
Oct 6
Nov 5
Dec 3
Very interesting! After seeing this breakdown of yours, I felt compelled to compile mine. I have attended 60 road meets since 2004:
January - 0
February - 0
March - 5
April - 9
May - 13
June - 4
July - 3
August - 4
September - 6
October - 7
November - 7
December - 2
I'm lucky to make it to 2 a year....Anthony's triple that...
I have been averaging about 4 road meets a year since 2008 when I started going to these on a regular basis. Some years I get to 6 then some years I am luck y to make 2 and the years I travel out west (odd numbered years) I tend to go to less road meets those years. One exception, 2015 when I went to the Denver area meet then nearly 2 months later travelled as far as the northwest.
I started attending road meets in 2004. Here's the breakdown of how many meets I've attended each year since then:
2004 - 3
2005 - 2
2006 - 1
2007 - 1
2008 - 2
2009 - 3
2010 - 5
2011 - 6
2012 - 4
2013 - 4
2014 - 6
2015 - 5
2016 - 6
2017 - 4
2018 - 4
2019 - 5 (after Milwaukee, and assuming there will be no other meets coming up this year that I'll be attending)
Quote from: Duke87 on August 14, 2019, 08:48:49 PM
Regarding the discussion about what time of year meets happen in... this is not necessarily a representative sample, but, since attending my first meet in 2009, here is the distribution of how many meets I have attended in each calendar month:
Topic split from 2020 Meets and subject changed - worthy new topic. -sso
38 meets attended since October 2001 (including impromptu meets)...And yes, I have kept a running tally...
January - 1 (Impromptu meet in Rochester the first weekend of 2004)
February - 1 (Impromptu meet in Utica in 2012)
March - 2 (Newark '11, Scranton '15)
April - 9 (Buffalo '04, State College '05, Albany '06, Hartford '08, Elmira-Corning '14, Utica '15, Tuxedo '16, York '16, Selinsgrove '18)
May - 1 (This year's Providence meet)
June - 6 (Cleveland '04, Boston '05, Rochester Impromptu '07, NYC '14, Toronto '16, Salamanca '18)
July - 2 (NYC and Glens Falls on consecutive weekends in 2017)
August - 2 (Rochester '04, Binghamton '13)
September - 6 (Syracuse Impromptu '02, Harrisburg '03, Elmira-Corning '06, Watertown '11, Albany '16, Mentor '18)
October - 6 (Elmira-Corning Impromptu '01, Utica '01, Elmira-Corning '02, Albany '03, Stamford '14, Kingston NY '18)
November - 2 (Bennington '11, Burlington '13)
December - 0
Sporadic would be my count.
2002 - 1 (Toledo)
2003 - 1 (Cincy)
2005 - 1 (Pikeville)
2010 - 1 (Akron-Canton)
2011 - 1 (Hosted Columbus)
2012 - 1 ([sort of] Hosted Dayton)
2013 - 2 (Huntington W.Va, Cincy)
2017 - 1 (Columbus)
2018 - 5 (Central PA, West Chicago suburbs, hosted Mentor-Ashtabula Ohio, NE Philly (Turnpike "golden spike"), Lafayette Ind)
2019 - 3 (Hosted Portsmouth Ohio, Pittsburgh, Newburyport, Ma.)
I go to road meets based on it being a place I want to see, and secondarily for the people (if it's close enough). For example, I'm past due visiting my friend in Cincy, so that road meet works out. I may not actually go to the October meet in Newburyport because I've exhausted things to see in that area.
So if we're going by year....
2009 - 1
2010 - 4
2011 - 10
2012 - 5
2013 - 8
2014 - 8
2015 - 6
2016 - 4
2017 - 6
2018 - 4
2019 - 1
As with by month though, this is not a representative sample.
I started off only doing meets I could do as day trips... then in 2011 a few overnighters started working their way in, as by this point I had more disposable income than previously and was getting more into the groove of roadtripping in general. My trend of showing up to a whole bunch of meets continued through 2014 (2012 is an outlier because there just weren't a lot of meets that year - I even recall this being discussed then).
Since then the frequency of my attendance has slowed down, and there are two key contributing factors to this:
1) In August 2014 I met the woman who is now my wife. Naturally, this has shifted some priorities about how I spend my time...
2) Starting in 2017 I began traveling frequently for work - which has both directly created schedule conflicts with meets, and indirectly resulted in me not attending others simply by reducing my desire to travel when I don't have to.
March - 1
April - 1
May - 1
June - 0
July - 1*
August - 2
September - 1
* indicates my own meet weekend.
2014: 1
2015: 3
2016: 1*
2017: 1
2018: 1
2019: 0
Quote from: Duke87 on August 16, 2019, 02:00:06 AM
So if we're going by year....
I started off only doing meets I could do as day trips... then in 2011 a few overnighters started working their way in, as by this point I had more disposable income than previously and was getting more into the groove of roadtripping in general. My trend of showing up to a whole bunch of meets continued through 2014 (2012 is an outlier because there just weren't a lot of meets that year - I even recall this being discussed then).
Since then the frequency of my attendance has slowed down, and there are two key contributing factors to this:
1) In August 2014 I met the woman who is now my wife. Naturally, this has shifted some priorities about how I spend my time...
2) Starting in 2017 I began traveling frequently for work - which has both directly created schedule conflicts with meets, and indirectly resulted in me not attending others simply by reducing my desire to travel when I don't have to.
After I met my wife, the pace that I attended meets slowed too, at one point going three years between meets, but later did pick back up to about 3 per year. I don't like to go too far (two overnights at most) and I did back off on going to Montreal and Pittsburgh...as much as I wanted to go to both...after determining I needed to stay home to rest given my recent schedule demands at work.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on August 15, 2019, 11:45:22 PM
2014 - 1 (Cincy)
Are you sure this wasn't the meet that Jeremy Moses hosted in 2013? I was not aware of a 2014 Cincinnati meet.
Quote from: Alps on August 16, 2019, 01:01:06 AM
I go to road meets based on it being a place I want to see, and secondarily for the people (if it's close enough).
I do the same thing.
Quote from: A.J. Bertin on August 16, 2019, 06:59:13 AM
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on August 15, 2019, 11:45:22 PM
2014 - 1 (Cincy)
Are you sure this wasn't the meet that Jeremy Moses hosted in 2013? I was not aware of a 2014 Cincinnati meet.
I'm going off the date of the thread on here. I can double-check.
I have been to 4 meets total. Cody hosted the first 2 I attended, I hosted the 3rd, and Jason hosted my 4th and most recent.
I haven't been to one yet. I'm a maybe for the Cincy meet next year.
2008 - 1 (Chicago/Milwaukee)
2009 - 1 (State College)
2010 - 1 (Providence)
2011 - 1* (Wausau (mine))
2012 - 2 (Joliet, St Louis)
2013 - 2* (Dubuque (mine), Metro Los Angeles)
2014 - 5 (St Louis, Starved Rock, NYC, Fox Cities, Quad Cities)
2015 - 1 (Madison (mine))
2016 -
2017 - 3 (Minneapolis, The Eclipse😉, Land between the Lakes)
2018 - 3 (Shreveport, Aurora and Naperville, Lafayette (IN))
2019 - 2 (Providence, Milwaukee (mine))
2020 - 1 (La Crosse/Winona (mine)
2021 - 4 (Quad Cities, Wilmington DE, Cleveland, Shaumberg/Elgin)
2022 - 4 (Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, SE Chicago/NW Indiana, Philadelphia, Janesville/Beloit)
2023 - 2 (Grand Forks, Peoria)
Quote from: SSOWorld on August 17, 2019, 09:06:16 AM
2013 - 2*
Does this mean you hosted two meets in 2013? I attended your Dubuque meet that year but was there a second one you hosted that year?
Quote from: A.J. Bertin on August 17, 2019, 10:52:29 AM
Quote from: SSOWorld on August 17, 2019, 09:06:16 AM
2013 - 2*
Does this mean you hosted two meets in 2013? I attended your Dubuque meet that year but was there a second one you hosted that year?
I assume that would be 2**.
By year?
2016: 3
2017: 5
2018: 3
2019: 2 (will be 3)
I only got into this recently. Cut me some slack.
I don't always remember the months, but here goes (not including the met I held in 2002 in Joliet or the 2003 meet in New Buffalo, MI):
2011 - 2
Wausau, WI; Kalamazoo, MI
2012 - 4
Dayton, OH; Port Huron, MI-Sarnia, ON; Joliet, IL (mine); St Louis, MO
2013 - 4
Dubuque, IA; Cincinnati, OH; Flint, MI; Cleveland, OH
2014 - 4
Utica, IL (mine); St Louis, MO; Appleton, WI; Nashville, TN
2015 - 3
Upper Peninsula, MI; Denver, CO; Madison, WI
2016 - 6
St Louis, MO; Duluth, MN; South Bend, IN (mine); Battle Creek, MI; Birmingham, AL; York, PA
2017 - 6
Kankakee, IL (mine); Twin Cities, MN; Glens Falls, NY; Jackson, MS; Columbus, OH; Paducah, KY
2018 - 4
Aurora-Naperville, IL (mine); Selinsgrove, PA; Lafayette, IN; Shreveport, LA
2019 - 2 to date plus 2
Memphis, TN; Portsmouth, OH; Milwaukee, WI; Newburyport, MA
Grand total (to date): 35
Plans to go to: 6
2020 - 4
San Antonio, TX; Dixon, IL (mine); Outer Banks, NC; Cincinnati, OH
Quote from: ce929wax on August 16, 2019, 11:43:17 PM
I haven't been to one yet. I'm a maybe for the Cincy meet next year.
Given your location in K-zoo, you could make Milwaukee (August 31) and Dixon, IL (next June/July) as well.
Meets I hosted are italicized:
1999 - SWPA (Greensburg) - first documented meet, SWPA (Robinson Township)
2000 - SWPA (Greensburg), XMAS SWPA (North Versailles)
2001 - SWPA (North Hills)
2002 - Toledo, SWPA (Pleasant Hills), Elmira
2003 - New Buffalo, Charlotte, SWPA (Greensburg), New York/New Jersey, Harrisburg, Albany, XMAS SWPA (Cranberry Township)
2004 - Buffalo, SEPA (Willow Grove), Raleigh, Cleveland, Rochester, Lancaster, Breezewood
2005 - Boston, Columbus, SWPA (Pittsburgh)
2006 - National (Pittsburgh) - first national meet, XMAS SWPA (Belle Vernon)
2007 - Greensboro, XMAS SWPA (Uniontown)
2009 - State College
2010 - SEPA (Phoenixville), XMAS SWPA (Brownsville)
2011 - Williamsport
2018 - "Golden Spike," Breezewood
I'm actually going to Chicago to take in a game at Wrigley on August 24th. I'm not able to swing both, but thank you for thinking of me.
Quote from: ce929wax on August 16, 2019, 11:43:17 PM
I haven't been to one yet.
Neither have I...and I don't plan on going to one anytime soon.
Quote from: A.J. Bertin on August 17, 2019, 10:52:29 AM
Quote from: SSOWorld on August 17, 2019, 09:06:16 AM
2013 - 2*
Does this mean you hosted two meets in 2013? I attended your Dubuque meet that year but was there a second one you hosted that year?
I modified my post to help you out.😉
I believe my current count is 20 with 2 or 3 more to come this year.
2009 - Oklahoma City, OK
2010 - Kansas City, MO
2011 - Lawrence, KS
2012 - Joliet, IL & St. Louis, MO
2013 - Wichita, KS
2014 - Starved Rock (IL)
2016 - South Bend, IN; St. Joseph Valley (MI); Battle Creek, MI
2017 - Kankakee, IL & Columbus, OH
2018 - Central Susquehanna Valley (PA); Aurora/Naperville, IL; Salamanca, NY; Ashtabula County, OH; Lafayette, IN
2019 - Memphis, TN; Providence, RI; Portsmouth, OH; Milwaukee, WI (planned to attend); Newburyport, MA (maybe); Delaware County, OH (likely)
I waited a long time to finally begin attending meets. Once I did, I found that I rather enjoy them. Anyway, here is my not so impressive list:
2015- Utica, NY
(A long hiatus followed due to me working overnights)
2018- Shreveport, LA, Shamokin Dam, PA, "Golden Spike", Abandoned PA Turnpike, Lafayette, IN
2019- Providence, RI and Newburyport, MA (planned)
I had also planned on attending Pittsburgh and Milwaukee, but adulting got in the way.
It's going to be about 3-4 years before I attend any road meet for age related reasons. I would be interested in a meet somewhere in New England, as I have never been to that region.
(Yeah, I know I'm bumping a 4 year old thread :pan: :poke:)
Any of you want to update your roadmeet frequencies after covid?
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on April 16, 2023, 09:45:58 PM
(Yeah, I know I'm bumping a 4 year old thread :pan: :poke:)
Any of you want to update your roadmeet frequencies after covid?
Done.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on April 16, 2023, 09:45:58 PM
(Yeah, I know I'm bumping a 4 year old thread :pan: :poke:)
Any of you want to update your roadmeet frequencies after covid?
No.
Hm. Can't remember how many I've been to.
2008, Long Island was the first
A couple in Buffalo since then.
Then, the one in Schenectady/Amsterdam.
Something like that.
Met up with Roadgeeks at non-meet kinds of events as well, which is messing with my memory.
I think this is all of them, though I don't remember the years on a couple of them.
2007 - St. Louis
2008 - Chicago
2009 - Oklahoma City, (?) Kansas City
2010(?) - Tulsa
2022 - Natchez, Oklahoma City
So far, I've attended 74 road meets since 2004. However, I'm not sure anyone would want me to list them all. LOL
Let's see, for me it was Cincinatti in 2020, Natchez and Iowa City in 2022 and my York area meet I hosted in September 2022 (that was planned for 2020 but needless to say got delayed) and that is all I have attended since the pandemic, I am planning on North Little Rock this year but not sure after that.
Quote from: A.J. Bertin on April 17, 2023, 07:32:53 AM
So far, I've attended 74 road meets since 2004. However, I'm not sure anyone would want me to list them all. LOL
74??!! That is impressive! I think I have been to about 3 dozen meets since 2005 and that includes the half dozen I have hosted over the years in PA and TN
So I have down attending 27 since 2013 (with 9 just in 2022). I am not counting Laura's baby shower in 2019 or my recent ride with Alex Nitzman in FL last month.
2013-Pikeville, KY (1)
2016-Central PA and Albany, NY (2)
2017-Beckley, WV, NYC (Goethals Bridge), Northern DE (US 301) (3)
2018-CSVT and Salamanca, NY (2)
2019-Newburyport, MA (1)
2020-Utica, NY, Morris County, NJ, Greensboro, NC (3)
2021-Quad Cities, Wilmington, DE, Cleveland, OH, Atlantic Beach, NY (though for the last one, I was only there for the afternoon pizza gathering) (4)
2022-Natchez, MS, Meriden, CT, Outer Banks, NC, Lynchburg, VA, Chicago, IL, Raleigh/Durham, NC, Amsterdam, NY, Philadelphia, PA (Day 1 only), Shrewsbury, PA (9)
2023-Long Island, NY, Columbus, OH (2)
2014 - Appleton/Green Bay
2015 - Madison, Front Range, UP
2016 - Duluth (host)
2017 - MSP
2018 - Shreveport
2019 - Milwaukee
2020 - none
2021 - La Crosse, Schaumburg
2022 - Janesville/Beloit
I suppose I should update this...
44 meets attended since October 2001 (including impromptu meets)...And yes, I have kept a running tally...
* Impromptu Meet
** Hosted
January - 1 (Rochester '04*)
February - 1 (Utica '12*)
March - 3 (Newark '11, Scranton '15, Huntington NY '23)
April - 10 (Buffalo '04, State College '05, Albany '06, Hartford '08, Elmira-Corning '14, Utica '15, Tuxedo '16, York '16, Selinsgrove '18, Meriden-Waterbury '22)
May - 1 (Providence '19)
June - 6 (Cleveland '04, Boston '05, Rochester '07*, NYC '14, Toronto '16, Salamanca '18)
July - 3 (NYC '17, Glens Falls '17, Utica '20**)
August - 3 (Rochester '04, Binghamton '13, Schenectady '22)
September - 7 (Syracuse '02*, Harrisburg '03, Elmira-Corning '06, Watertown '11, Albany '16, Mentor '18, Shrewsbury PA '22)
October - 7 (Elmira-Corning '01*, Utica '01, Elmira-Corning '02**, Albany '03, Stamford '14, Kingston NY '18, Newburyport MA '19)
November - 2 (Bennington '11, Burlington '13)
December - 0
Quote from: Brandon on August 17, 2019, 07:55:45 PM
I don't always remember the months, but here goes (not including the met I held in 2002 in Joliet or the 2003 meet in New Buffalo, MI):
2011 - 2
Wausau, WI; Kalamazoo, MI
2012 - 4
Dayton, OH; Port Huron, MI-Sarnia, ON; Joliet, IL (mine); St Louis, MO
2013 - 4
Dubuque, IA; Cincinnati, OH; Flint, MI; Cleveland, OH
2014 - 4
Utica, IL (mine); St Louis, MO; Appleton, WI; Nashville, TN
2015 - 3
Upper Peninsula, MI; Denver, CO; Madison, WI
2016 - 6
St Louis, MO; Duluth, MN; South Bend, IN (mine); Battle Creek, MI; Birmingham, AL; York, PA
2017 - 6
Kankakee, IL (mine); Twin Cities, MN; Glens Falls, NY; Jackson, MS; Columbus, OH; Paducah, KY
2018 - 4
Aurora-Naperville, IL (mine); Selinsgrove, PA; Lafayette, IN; Shreveport, LA
2019 - 2 to date plus 2
Memphis, TN; Portsmouth, OH; Milwaukee, WI; Newburyport, MA
Grand total (to date): 35
Plans to go to: 6
2020 - 4
San Antonio, TX; Dixon, IL (mine); Outer Banks, NC; Cincinnati, OH
OK, I'll update this.
2020 - 5
Dixon, IL (mine); Cincinnati, OH; Utica, NY, Kansas City; Lacrosse, WI
2021 - 4
Quad Cities (mine); Cleveland, OH; Schaumburg, IL; Wilmington, DE
2022 - 6
SE Chicago/NW Indiana (mine); Iowa City/Cedar Rapids, IA; Philadelphia (Day 1); Oklahoma City; Natchez, MS; Janesville/Beloit, WI
2023 - 6
Columbus, OH; Omaha, NE; Grand Forks, ND (mine); Little Rock, AR; Buffalo, NY; Peoria, IL
2024Plans for New Orleans, LA; Bakersfield, CA; Michigan City, IN (mine); Orlando, FL
Total: 57 with plans for a minimum of 4 this upcoming year.
If we are talking specifically about meets we've attended since COVID, here's my list for that:
June 2020 - Sauk Valley (Sterling/Dixon), IL
July 2020 - Utica, NY
August 2020 - La Crosse, WI
October 2020 - Kansas City, MO/KS
June 2021 - Quad Cities (IL/IA)
August 2021 - Cleveland, OH
November 2021 - Schaumburg/NW Chicagoland (IL)
March 2022 - Natchez, MS
April 2022 - Outer Banks, NC (the "city meet" I hosted)
June 2022 - NW Indiana/SE Chicago
August 2022 - Philadelphia, PA (Day 1 only)
September 2022 - Beloit/Janesville, WI
And these are the meets I plan to attend this year:
April 2023 - Omaha, NE (the "city meet" I will host)
May 2023 - Grand Forks, ND
June 2023 - Little Rock, AR
September or October 2023 - Peoria, IL
One. I've attended one.
My website says I had been to 40 by the end of 2014.
Still sitting at zero alas.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on April 16, 2023, 09:45:58 PM
Any of you want to update your roadmeet frequencies after covid?
Sure why not
2009 - 1
2010 - 4
2011 - 10
2012 - 5
2013 - 8
2014 - 8
2015 - 6
2016 - 4
2017 - 6
2018 - 4
2019 -
12
2020 - 1
2021 - 2
2022 - 2
2023 - 0 so far, will become 1 in a couple weeks. No idea if I'll attend any others.At this point I don't travel for work as much as I was in the 2017-19 timeframe, but I'm still honestly not that super into meet attendance anymore. I'll go to one if it's local or if it's somewhere I haven't had much of a chance to explore before... if my schedule permits.
The latter concern does get in the way of some things. For example I would like to attend the Little Rock meet, but as one of my cousins is getting married that weekend I cannot.
May as well add my list
2016 - 3
2017 - 5
2018 - 5
2019 - 3
2020 - 1
2021 - 0
2022 - 0
2023 - Soon to be 1, maybe a second if the other CA meet happens
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on August 15, 2019, 11:45:22 PM
Sporadic would be my count.
2002 - 1 (Toledo)
2003 - 1 (Cincy)
2005 - 1 (Pikeville)
2010 - 1 (Akron-Canton)
2011 - 1 (Hosted Columbus)
2012 - 1 ([sort of] Hosted Dayton)
2013 - 2 (Huntington W.Va, Cincy)
2017 - 1 (Columbus)
2018 - 5 (Central PA, West Chicago suburbs, hosted Mentor-Ashtabula Ohio, NE Philly (Turnpike "golden spike"), Lafayette Ind)
2019 - 3 (Hosted Portsmouth Ohio, Pittsburgh, Newburyport, Ma.)
(since I bumped the thread...)
2020 - 2 (Cincy & LaCrosse)
2021 - 2 (Wilmington, hosted Cleveland)
2022 - 1 (Okla. City)
2023 - 2 (Hosted Columbus, Harford Co. Md, and we'll see what else comes along)
None. This site is more or less a nerdy outlet for me.
Quote from: on_wisconsin on April 26, 2023, 03:08:26 AM
None. This site is more or less a nerdy outlet for me.
you just hosted one :|
Quote from: baugh17 on April 17, 2023, 06:54:32 PM
I suppose I should update this...
Year-By-Year...
2001 2
2002 2
2003 2
2004 4
2005 2
2006 2
2007 1
2008 1
2009 0
2010 0
2011 3
2012 1
2013 2
2014 3
2015 2
2016 4
2017 2
2018 4
2019 2
2020 1
2021 0
2022 3
2023 1 so far... (Planning on attending part of at least one more)
2. 2012 Richmond (hosted), 2014 Hampton Roads.
Quote from: Alps on April 26, 2023, 06:45:54 PM
Quote from: on_wisconsin on April 26, 2023, 03:08:26 AM
None. This site is more or less a nerdy outlet for me.
you just hosted one :|
Probably someone else from Wisconsin...
Too many. And, yet, not enough.
Year-by-year for me:
< 2016: 0
2016: 1 (Corridor H)
2017: 0
2018: 1 (Golden Spike)
2019: 0
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 1 (Philly)
2023: 1 (so far) (History of US1/US40 in Harford County, MD)
Grand total: 4. Average per year: 0.5.
It's tough for me since my wife isn't really a roadgeek, and so I always end up going alone and feeling guilty about leaving her behind, ESPECIALLY over two-day meets. Also, I usually don't have the funds and/or available time off from work to travel, so I end up sticking VERY close to home. (When I did Corridor H, I lived in Maryland. In 2018, I started working in the Philly area and commuting weekly from Maryland, which put a huge damper on ALL of my hobbies, but Golden Spike was too rare an opportunity to pass up. I moved to Philly in late 2021.)
January - 1 (Cape May)
February - 0
March - 2 (Scranton, Western Suffolk)
April - 2 (Tuxedo, New River Gorge)
May - 3 (Utica, Corridor H, Harford County)
June - 4 (Brick/Wall, NYC National, Goethals Bridge, Cherry Lane Bridge)
July - 2 (New Haven, Pulaski/Wittpenn)
August - 1 (Schenectady)
September - 1 (Golden Spike)
October - 2 (Long Island, Atlantic Beach)
November - 1 (NJ Turnpike)
December - 0
I've never gone to one. I might consider if it weren't too far away, but I probably wouldn't go out of the way to go to one. Any plans for a KW road meet?
Been to three road meets so far...
2022: Philly
2023: Buffalo, Cumberland
2024: New Orleans
Quote from: 74/171FAN on April 17, 2023, 11:04:55 AM
So I have down attending 27 since 2013 (with 9 just in 2022). I am not counting Laura's baby shower in 2019 or my recent ride with Alex Nitzman in FL last month.
2013-Pikeville, KY (1)
2016-Central PA and Albany, NY (2)
2017-Beckley, WV, NYC (Goethals Bridge), Northern DE (US 301) (3)
2018-CSVT and Salamanca, NY (2)
2019-Newburyport, MA (1)
2020-Utica, NY, Morris County, NJ, Greensboro, NC (3)
2021-Quad Cities, Wilmington, DE, Cleveland, OH, Atlantic Beach, NY (though for the last one, I was only there for the afternoon pizza gathering) (4)
2022-Natchez, MS, Meriden, CT, Outer Banks, NC, Lynchburg, VA, Chicago, IL, Raleigh/Durham, NC, Amsterdam, NY, Philadelphia, PA (Day 1 only), Shrewsbury, PA (9)
2023-Long Island, NY, Columbus, OH (2)
Updating 2023 to show myself now at 32 road meets. Lancaster, PA, would be number 33 for me.
2023-Long Island, NY, Columbus, OH, Harford County, MD, Little Rock, AR, Buffalo, NY, Peoria, IL, Cumberland, MD (7)
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on November 09, 2023, 12:06:02 AM
Been to three road meets so far...
2022: Philly
2023: Buffalo, Cumberland
2024: New Orleans
Welcome, time traveler! What is 2024 like?
Quote from: algorerhythms on November 08, 2023, 11:25:09 PM
I've never gone to one. I might consider if it weren't too far away, but I probably wouldn't go out of the way to go to one. Any plans for a KW road meet?
Key West?
Quote from: Takumi on November 09, 2023, 04:45:15 PM
Quote from: algorerhythms on November 08, 2023, 11:25:09 PM
I've never gone to one. I might consider if it weren't too far away, but I probably wouldn't go out of the way to go to one. Any plans for a KW road meet?
Key West?
Kitchener-Waterloo
If I were in Key West I wouldn't have had to leave my bike at work last night because the lock was frozen in a block of ice.
I have never heard KW before in reference to a location...
Quote from: Rothman on November 09, 2023, 10:55:59 PM
I have never heard KW before in reference to a location...
It's called that in user "7/8"'s location. https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=13633
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2023, 07:19:05 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 09, 2023, 10:55:59 PM
I have never heard KW before in reference to a location...
It's called that in user "7/8"'s location. https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=13633
Well, then anyone should know it, then. :D
Quote from: Rothman on November 10, 2023, 10:34:48 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2023, 07:19:05 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 09, 2023, 10:55:59 PM
I have never heard KW before in reference to a location...
It's called that in user "7/8"'s location. https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=13633
Well, then anyone should know it, then. :D
Of course! :biggrin:
(It's a well known term in southern Ontario, but I'm not surprised it's unknown to Americans.)
Quote from: 7/8 on November 10, 2023, 11:32:20 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 10, 2023, 10:34:48 AM
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2023, 07:19:05 AM
Quote from: Rothman on November 09, 2023, 10:55:59 PM
I have never heard KW before in reference to a location...
It's called that in user "7/8"'s location. https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=13633
Well, then anyone should know it, then. :D
Of course! :biggrin:
(It's a well known term in southern Ontario, but I'm not surprised it's unknown to Americans.)
Depends on where. Michiganders and western New Yorkers might get it. Albertans might not.
Kids have killed me traveling anywhere far for a road meet, and since the southeast is a road meet desert these days, it means little to no road meets for me.
This year (2023) my daughter and I attended six meets! This was a huge year for us and meets - probably our personal record-breaking year!
- Long Island, NY (3/18)
- Harford County, MD (5/6)
- Buffalo, NY (7/29)
- Cumberland, MD (10/21)
- Lancaster, PA (12/9)
- Missing Moves Mini Meet (12/16)
Mike attended 4 of the 6 (excluding Long Island and MMMM). Of the six, we hosted two of them (Harford County and Cumberland)!
Updating...
Year-By-Year...
2001 2
2002 2
2003 2
2004 4
2005 2
2006 2
2007 1
2008 1
2009 0
2010 0
2011 3
2012 1
2013 2
2014 3
2015 2
2016 4
2017 2
2018 4
2019 2
2020 1
2021 0
2022 3
2023 2
2024 Tentatively, 2
As a first step to compiling my list, my first meet might've been something in Raleigh NC around 2000. I can't pin down the year let alone the month, since it was long before this forum, and the scan date on my film camera photos doesn't reliably indicate when the photos were taken. Maybe my film camera negative archives can help, when I have more time (not this year) and can pull those archives out of my storage unit.
Adam Prince might've been there. More notably, both John Lansford (never joined this forum) and Scott Kozel (inactive on this forum, Beltway when he was active) were there.
Can anybody help me make a better guess?
My meet frequency has plummeted lately, due to balance and other health issues. This year, at least a brief appearance at Laura's Harford MD meet.
Huh. Could have sworn John Lansford was on here many moons ago. Maybe I'm thinking of m.t.r.
Quote from: oscar on December 22, 2023, 10:02:42 PM
More notably, both John Lansford (never joined this forum) and Scott Kozel (inactive on this forum, Beltway when he was active) were there.
I'm surprised that didn't turn into a physical altercation, given the bad blood between those two.
At my first Pikeville meet, there were a couple of attendees who'd been into a pretty vicious altercation on MTR. For the life of me, I can't remember who they were. I remember they both climbed a hill under the Raccoon Creek bridge to check out the construction, and some of us were joking about "two go up, only one comes down," but nobody came to blows.
Quote from: hbelkins on December 23, 2023, 11:02:29 PM
Quote from: oscar on December 22, 2023, 10:02:42 PM
More notably, both John Lansford (never joined this forum) and Scott Kozel (inactive on this forum, Beltway when he was active) were there.
I'm surprised that didn't turn into a physical altercation, given the bad blood between those two.
At my first Pikeville meet, there were a couple of attendees who'd been into a pretty vicious altercation on MTR. For the life of me, I can't remember who they were. I remember they both climbed a hill under the Raccoon Creek bridge to check out the construction, and some of us were joking about "two go up, only one comes down," but nobody came to blows.
You wouldn't be thinking of the two protagonists concerning "I-73 in Ohio" the last couple of months would you?
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on December 29, 2023, 01:13:41 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on December 23, 2023, 11:02:29 PM
Quote from: oscar on December 22, 2023, 10:02:42 PM
More notably, both John Lansford (never joined this forum) and Scott Kozel (inactive on this forum, Beltway when he was active) were there.
I'm surprised that didn't turn into a physical altercation, given the bad blood between those two.
At my first Pikeville meet, there were a couple of attendees who'd been into a pretty vicious altercation on MTR. For the life of me, I can't remember who they were. I remember they both climbed a hill under the Raccoon Creek bridge to check out the construction, and some of us were joking about "two go up, only one comes down," but nobody came to blows.
You wouldn't be thinking of the two protagonists concerning "I-73 in Ohio" the last couple of months would you?
I haven't been reading that thread, but maybe I should.