Chief Rider

That's great! Hope to see you in St. Louis next June.

The St. Louis Scooter Club doesn't have a lot of SilverWing riders - let's show out in numbers. We're up to 5 SilverWings now...

Bill,

I'd like to, but am hard pressed to find enough vacation. We'll re-look our plan with an eye toward adding and setting aside a day for a SilverWing ride in the plan. I'm more inclined to putting this on the front end.

BUMP!

Join us in St. Louis for a rally / ride!

Heart of American Maxi-Scoot Meet Up
HAMS III
St. Louis, Missouri
June 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2010

The Gateway Maxi Riders of the St. Louis Scooter Club proudly presents HAMS III in St. Louis this year! We are so excited to show you the great roads we have on our side of the great State of Missouri! We can hardly believe this is our third year for HAMS! The previous two years have been great and we have all made so many new friends; we plan to continue the great concept of coming together for fellowship and riding! While the name does say Maxi Scoot Meet Up, we welcome all kinds of bikes and in each of our previous years we have had all things two wheels and even some things three wheeled! Clear your schedule and come on out, you are in for the ride of your life!

Host Hotel

Oak Grove Inn 6602 S Lindbergh Blvd St Louis, MO 63123-7808 - (314) 894-9449

Please make reservations prior to April 10th, 2010 to guarantee the block group rate of $59.99. Just call and ask for the St. Louis Scooter Club block when booking. They have 30 double bed rooms set aside for us and 15 singles. Well now 29 because even though Pete and I live very close we plan to stay at the host hotel. Many others in our club plan to stay at the Oak Grove! Given the great fun we have had at previous HAMS this sounds like a prudent plan!

Registration this year will be free! If you choose to get a T-shirt, patch and sticker a link will be made available as soon as our artist cranks out this year’s new logo! All orders for merchandise must be placed no later than April 15th, 2010!

Go to page one for all of the details.

SilverWing riders - Show up and show the power!

- BUMP -

Chief Rider - Hope you can make it to St. Louis.

Bill do you have a preference on a day to ride with other SilverWingers? Maybe we could get Maggie to give us a good route. Lets set a day (before or after) and I'll find out about a route.

Fellow Swingers I am counting down also and anything you set up is fine with me. Just send me a PM on days and routes and I will meet up with you to go to St Louis.

If we get in on Wednesday, which Kim and I are planning to do, we can ride Thursday. The schedule of events shows the St. Louis Scooter Club greeting folks at 7:30pm on Thursday.

How's that date for an all SilverWing ride for those planning to attend?

This is a go for me....local and all...

Heart of American Maxi-Scoot Meet Up
HAMS III
St. Louis, Missouri
June 10, 11, 12 & 13, 2010






Click Here to Register and buy HAMS 2010 Swag

http://www.gratefulprints.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=35

All orders for merchandise must be placed no later than April 30th, 2010! These can be picked up at HAMS or mailed directly to you.

The HAMS 2010 package includes t-shirt, patch, sticker, Friday night pizza meet up and a St. Louis breakfast! Cost of registration is $27-32 (depending on shirt size) The shirts we always pick for our events are heavy Gildan, this years shirt will be cream to beige in color. The design is centered on the front and covers the front of the shirt. Special shout out to Steve from the SLSC for this year’s great design!

If you do not want the swag package you can still eat free


VERY IMPORTANT

If you plan to attend HAMS (this includes SLSC and The Rockers as well), please email Maggie @ letsride94@gmail.com with the following information:

Name:
Address:
City:
Emergency Contact Info:
Date of Arrival at HAMS:





The Gateway Maxi Riders of the St. Louis Scooter Club proudly presents HAMS III in St. Louis this year! We are so excited to show you the great roads we have on our side of the great State of Missouri! We can hardly believe this is our third year for HAMS! The previous two years have been great and we have all made so many new friends; we plan to continue the great concept of coming together for fellowship and riding! While the name does say Maxi Scoot Meet Up, we welcome all kinds of bikes and in each of our previous years we have had all things two wheels and even some things three wheeled!

Clear your schedule and come on out, you are in for the ride of your life!



Schedule of Events HAMS III 2010

Thursday June 10, 2010

7:30pm – Members of the SLSC will be at the hotel to meet and greet anyone coming in Thursday!
We will head out to break bread together at 8pm! (Location to be determined)

Let the HAMS begin!!

Friday June 11, 2010

9:30am - Lewis and Clark Ride hosted by the Gateway Maxi Riders of the St. Louis Scooter Club
A leisurely ride paralleling the route Lewis and Clark made out of St. Louis. We will ride out to Herman and the wine country of Missouri. Do you like meat?? Yes! Well then get ready for a carnivores delight! We will stop for lunch at Swiss Meats! One of the best meat shops in the US!

6:00pm - Friday Night Meet and Greet with Pizza (but this time with St. Louis pizza!!)
Following our laid back tradition of previous HAMS Meet Ups we will have a meet and greet at the host hotel.

8:30pm - Night Ride Downtown hosted by the St. Louis Scooter Club

Head out on a night ride downtown and see some of the highlights of our great host city! I have no doubt an Arch sighting will occur! Have you seen the City Gardens? No? Well you will tonight! They are spectacular and a new sparkling jewel in our fine city!

Saturday June 12, 2010

8:00am - Breakfast by the Pool hosted by the St. Louis Scooter Club

Sure the hotel has a free continental breakfast but you are in St. Louis! You will be treated to the St. Louis delicacy known as gooey butter cake!

9am - Bixby Ride co-hosted by the Gateway Maxi Riders of the SLSC and The Gateway Rockers

A leisurely ride on the best twisties in the State! We will head to one of only four of Missouri’s covered bridges! Then we will twist and turn, one after another right through the heart of the Mark Twain National Forest to Bixby! Ever ate lunch in a train caboose?? You will today!

7pm – Supper at the River City Casino

Supper at the brand spanking new River City Casino! Bring your appetite and if you choose, your pennies for the penny slots! I am working on free dinner or discounted buffet tickets as I write this

Sunday June 13, 2010

9am Breakfast by the pool hosted by the St. Louis Scooter Club. Enjoy a breakfast before hitting the road!

10am Ride to Labadie hosted by the Gateway Maxi Riders of the St. Louis Scooter Club

If anyone is staying Sunday the Gateway Maxi Riders will host a leisurely ride out to Labadie via what we like to call our Meet the Twisties in the Neighborhood ride! This rides takes us out west so if you are headed west we are happy to get you on your way!

Host Hotel

America's Best Value Inn 6602 S Lindbergh Blvd St Louis, MO 63123-7808 - (314) 894-9449

Please make reservations prior to April 10th, 2010 to guarantee the block group rate of $59.99. Just call and ask for the St. Louis Scooter Club block when booking. They have 30 double bed rooms set aside for us and 15 singles. If you need an alternative hotel, please e-mail Maggie @ letsride94@gmail.com. The closest camping available is 25ish miles away. If interested, please email Maggie.

I am working up an early ride for you all that involves a ferry ride, I will get that info to you today!

Excellent, you and Pete are invited to ride along with us if you have the time.

Great! I will more than likely be available Can't wait to see you guys and show you our great roads!

I just wanted to be clear if you want to attend without buying swag, just make sure ya email me!

VERY IMPORTANT - DO THIS STEP TO REGISTER

This allows me to have a clear count of the number of participants in attendance

If you plan to attend HAMS (this includes SLSC and The Rockers as well), please email Maggie @ letsride94@gmail.com with the following information:

Name:
Address:
City:
Emergency Contact Info:
Date of Arrival at HAMS:

Hi Maggie,

I think I found a place to camp for a few days and it's not that costly, $8.00 a night for 4 adults with free fire wood and it's only 24 miles from America's Best Value Inn 6602 S Lindbergh Blvd St Louis, MO.

http://freecampsites.net/horseshoe-lake-state-park/

Have you heard of this place? Is it OK?

If any one wants to split the $8.00 per night camping fee and share a campsite ...Please let me know. Sounds like fun and they are close to alot of fast food places, not more than 4 miles away.

How to say this nicely.... that is not the best neighborhood in the world. If there is good security cool.

Look at this map...

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Oakville,+St.+Louis,+Missouri&ll=38.643691,-90.101624&spn=0.157404,0.363579&z=12

To the west you see Venice and Brooklyn? This is like the strip club capital of the world. OK, that might be an added bonus if you're a guy and like such. But with that comes drugs, robberies, car jacking etc. I sure would not want to ride that way at night.

I've never been to that park before but there are some scary areas that border it...
Places I wouldnt want to ride in the daylight even....
But on the plus side, there are some good stripclubs not too far away

Edit..Maggie beat me to it!

I would rather see ya at A, B or C

http://tinyurl.com/yez8vrw

There is another alternative near A/B

Greensfelder

http://www.greensfelderstable.com/

Whoops here is info for Greensfelder

http://www.stlouisco.com/parks/greensfelder.html

Campsites
Call 314-615-4FUN for more information or to make
reservations.

A BUSA member suggested this spot:

http://stlouisrvpark.com/ This would be 15ish miles



Edited:

Again it is an urban location. IMHO not the safest area in St. Louis. Is it fenced in?

Ok this is from a camper as well as a man in our club that works for the Convention Center re the downtown camp place:

Probably safer than you think. It is entirely fenced in
with good onsite security. Not the most scenic place since it for all
intents for RV's. Some of the dealers use this site to stage their RV's
prior to getting them in the Convention Center for the RV show. I've
never heard of a bad report regarding crime in the park. Always seems
to be motorhomes there year round.

Jack

Made our reservations today. Got a great rate by booking and paying in advance - Queen bed - Non Smoking room for $47.00 per night + taxes. Registered this morning, now need to go on line to buy some swag!

Thanks Maggie and thanks to the HAMS crew.

Bill,

Same hotel, I just booked directly off of the website.

www.americasbestvalueinn.com

Americas Best Value Inn, St. Louis / South
6602 S. Lindbergh Blvd
314.894.9449

The full stay is already completely paid for and if for some reason we don't show up I'm out the full amount. Not transferable, no stay - no joy!

I searched for best rate and did not use the scooter meet-up or military rate as a discount.

Started a thread re room sharing.

http://stlphins.com/slsc/index.php?topic=2448.0

Steve added this re rooms:

You can get a single queen room on-line for a couple bucks less than the club rate with AAA/Senior/Military etc. discount. Or you can first sign up for their "Value Card" and save even a couple more bucks. However, the club rate for the two queen room is still the better deal than any discounted rates and only $.50 more than the Value Card rate. There is also an even better rate if you pay up front (at least 14 days in advance), but but I don't know if this is refundable.

Hotel link: http://www.americasbestvalueinn.com/bestv.cfm?idp=1671

Using Senior rate I was given a rate of $52.19 plus taxes... would I get a rate of $47 if I show a picture of me with a pretty young lady at my side..???


I am going to do a little bargaining before I make the reservations... not a big deal, but what else is an old man like me going to do with his time.

Gary (Opalsboy),

Yes she is a pretty young lady (beautiful even).

The key to my good rate was the 14 day advance purchase that Maggie alludes to. And, it is in fact not refundable. That did not deter me as I fully expect to be there. It is a single queen bed, non-smoking room, with no mini fridge or microwave. Could have opted for more amenities, but I'm a tight wad about certain things. I have a hard time with paying for too much decor when most of my time in the room will be with my eyes closed.

But, do dicker with the folks as I've read somewhere that interacting with the local hotel management can get you the best or at least a very good deal. They want the building full with all beds occupied.

I was investigating some routes to the HAMS rally ... I wanted to maximize the motorcycle recommended/scenic roads.
http://tinyurl.com/y89e4tz