Minutes of the Isny Meeting

[winghunter]

First I wonna tell all our friends, those could not join the meeting in Isny, that we really missed you !!!! The UK Gang, the German Venturers, Rudi and the Intruder Gang, Scorpi, Ruth and Roland. We really feel sorry, you coudln`t make it this time.

Meeting was fantastic !!!! Very very well organised by Petra. Thanks a lot for all the work you did. You did a really good job !
Hotel was very very good ! All dinners were great. Good quality and very moderate prices ! Soup, Saladbar, Main dish and dessert for 8,20 € ! Hotel rooms incl. breakfast buffet for 29,- € per person ! I really recommend this hotel for other groups !!!

Thanks for all people those joined to made this meeting for a real good moment in our lives !

All people arrived Friday late afternoon and the weather was horrable. All of them had long rides - but they made it, just to meet other great people !

Saturday we mad the trip to Neuschwanstein. It has rained as we started. As we arrived at Neuschwanstein, we catched heavy snowfall . So we had to return back to Isny due to the weather without visiting the castle

But on Sunday we had the weather we were looking for. Bright and sunny skies !
Just enjoy the pics !

Also we met new members and be sure, we got some more real nice people ! , like Peer, like the whole Polish group - all of them great great persons !

Thank you to the Polish group, that you did that long long trip, just to join the meeting. You people are really nice ! Hope we will meet each other again very soon ! Good luck for Romek on his further trip to Marokko !

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It was a real pleasure for me to ride together with so great people like you are !! I enjoyed the rides much ! Anyone who will come back into my mountains ;D ;D ;D, just give me call. You are more than welcome. Wish all of you a good and safe riding season !

Yours
Rudy - Winghunter
Former Moderator
Former European Roadcpt.
and
Former
European Coordinator
of the
Venture Club Europe

[TwoWheels]

Thanks for the pics Rudy,it seems you all enjoyed yourselves very much,a wonderful scenery where you live,I must join you there some day.
A very well organised trip,well done.

[Pi-eF vum Elsass]

Hi guys, I'm back to home since 4.30 pm ( I've just spend time for a well cleaning of Rollingdisco Bike, due to the salt on roads sunday ) . Bunnie and Jolanda were with me til Freiburg in Breisgau, and I droped them on the A5, direction Karlsruhe, arround 3.30 pm.
I hope we're all safe and nice riding back home.

Many thanks to "Flatman" Rudy, and Petra, for their wellcoming and organasation, they leave in great area, and we will be back, for sure !

[doc]

It was an interesting Isny Meet.
I took the venture in the end, but without Helen as she had to finish some important web work for a possible break into the American market.

The vent performed well but I didn't manage to get a new tyre (that's a tire to you John) for my front wheel before I left so I was riding in really wet conditions with less then 1mm of tread.
Needless to say this slowed me down somewhat (along with my mother in laws directions) and I found myself 20K from the meeting in the pitch black peering into a downpour and facing oncoming car headlights with my headlight hardly throwing out any light of its own.
After nearly running off the road a couple of times I decided to stop and phone Rudy. He came out in his car and guided me in (Cheers Rudy).

I decided not to take my bike on Saturdays run to the Castle as it was too wet for my bald tyre and I had a nice drive with a car full of lovely ladies instead.
I think maybe some of the guys on bikes envied me this, especially when the tempurature was down to 1C and it was snowing. ;D ;D ;D

I loved the ride on Sunday though I did have to call a stop for "adjustments" after a discarded piece of poster wrapped itself around my left foot and twisted my artificial leg into a painful position.

I rode most of the way home with John and Romak.
I got stuck behind a slow car on a really nice twisty section coming up from the lake so decided to stop for a minute and give him some distance so I could play.
I pulled to a road entrance to the right turned the bike to face out onto the road and as I stopped I very slowly tipped left and down she went in slow motion.
No damage to the bikes exterior as it was so slow and fell cleanly on my crask bars and leg (the wooden one). and I was lucky in that an army truck pulled up straight after and helped me pick her up.
Funilly enough it did damage two of my plastic air vents that both fell out but not a scratch to the body.

I finnaly got in about 5.30

My thanks to Meiner Stinky Füße Freund for being a good host and not snoring too loud, but special thanks to Petra for all her organisation.

Hi to all you guys who were there. It was great to see you all.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'll post a link to the pics I took when I get them up on my web space later.

[winghunter]

Doc, feel sorry to hear about your problem , at least I am happy that nothing happened bad to you

Hope all of you made it back without problems. Will be off the whole week. Need to leave now. Hope after arriving Friday, I will find tons of pics.

Pief : Date for the Venture meeting in France and also the meeting in Italy is marked on our calender. We will join you !!!

[johnjr]

Great pics Rudy and Petra...thanks to you both for a well organized event!!! Even though it was a rainy day Fri & Sat...Sunday made up for it as we all had a great ride........I made it back about 3:30 after leaving Doc....sorry to hear you had a little trouble Doc...glad the Swiss Army was nearby!!!

Thanks again Rudy and Petra.....was a great time, great organization, great place to be, to stay and best of all....we met many new friends and had a great 3 days with each other!!!! Oh I forgot...lots of good beer and wine too........ ;D

When do we do this again!!!!! ;D

Cheers from Mont sur Rolle.......hope we hear from Romak soon....he will have a great trip into north Africa!!!

[roland]

Hi, Guys!

Very nice pics and it makes me very sorry that I couldn't take part in this meeting. But I am getting better and better. Very slow but it works. I soon will be back on the road. Needless to say that it helped also a little that You all thought at me and phoned me during the meeting. A hard time is behind me and I have a long and hard way to go now. But I'll do my very best to see You all together at another place.

Best regards and thank You for Your good wishes to me.

Roland

[johnjr]

Very glad to hear you are felling better Roland...we all were thinking of you both and had you in our thoughts all the time.....Rudy wouldn't give me the phone to talk to you ...he was to busy talking .....so I will get him!!!! ;D Here's a few more pics from me........

[Falko]

pls put the photos into the photo section ! here :

venturers.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=isnypics&action=display&thread=1146576773&page=1

[bunnie]

Afetr we drove off an hour to late as usual with us, we met Peer at a tankstation on the way.

The drive to Isny was great and sunny. Only near Memmingen it was that the specially arranged bad weather finally was there. It became really cold and Jolanda was almost out of control to drive up to Winghunters place. that cold it was.

Sorry for me that there was no camping out... NOT.

the welcoming was very warm by everyone especialy to the poland people, great.

the next day we had a great drive to the castle and we all enjoyed the weather conditions as a bad tooth-ache.

Later the day there was this first aid training in which we all learned much; I guess we are the safest bikersgroup to drive with now.

For the arranged dinners and breakfasts I'm really spreachless so good that it was.

the saturday evening was also great we all had a good time. in fact it was so good it gave me amnesia for the late hours, that is a pitty. So if some of you guys can fill me in again it would be appreciated.

on sundaymorning I was really fit but somehow almost everyone asked me if I was feeling well enough? that gave me some thoughts ;D.
On sunday the weather was not as planned but sunny and warm. Nevertheless we did the tour. it was very very strange that the more altitude we got the heavier my eyelids became. On the senond or third stop I put myselve to rest in Petra's car for a couple of minutes and that did the trick; from then on my eyes would stay open to enjoy the Lechtal.

The evening was a bit tame as we were all disapointed about the ride and the weather conditions . The mountain air made that we all went in early.

Monday morning it was pay-time and this was really enjoyed by Petra. That is if the word Scheisse is translated as nice?

We had a beautyfull ride back thanks to Pief, no for real, who showed us the roadnr 31 which is recommended by me to drive by you all.

We took some pictures, not that much because sometimes we looked like a bunch japanese folks who also constantly takes pics from each other; we will steal the pictures from the postings that will come.

thanks to you all for a great weekend.

by the way I made a total of 2051km's so now I am at 2.771 kilometers for the tourcompetition.

[doc]

I remember you from the late hours Bunnie.
Who are these "Ralph" and "Huwey" people you were shouting for?