The Adventures of "The Over The Hill Gang".
If you live in the Marion, Indiana area and would like to ride with us, just show up a little early. We meet at 11:30AM Wednesdays at Gabriel's in The North Park Mall, Marion, Indiana.
We welcome anyone that rides.
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The Over The Hill Gang
Let's ride! Riders are Jerry Cole, Billy Niverson, John Nave, Jack McClain, Larry Davis, Larry Burk, Merle Combs, Charles Thomas, Art Adrianson, Larry Miller.
We left Marion at about 11:30 for a ride-to-lunch at Burlington, Indiana. Eleven of us today for a nice, warm, ride. We rode IN 18 west to Converse, Bennett Switch, Young America, and turned south on IN 29 to Burlington.
We dismounted and had lunch at the Dinner Bell:
After lunch we rode west to Adams Mill:
After studying the water going over and through the dam, we rode through the covered bridge that is north of the mill.
We rode west over to Cutler, Indiana and then south on IN 75 to Frankfort, IN. Upon leaving Frankfort we once again had "separation problems" and somehow lost three of our riders. We stopped as soon as we noticed but alas, it was too late. Nine of us continued on until we lost Jack McClain, who had to go home for a previous engagement. Eight of us continued to Tipton were we stopped at McDonald's for ice cream. We rode east from Tipton to Elwood and then home.
A map of our trip:
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Riding today were Merle Combs, Larry Davis, Larry Burke, John Nave, Larry Miller, Jack McClain, Jerry Cole, Art Adrianson, Bill Maynard, Charles Thomas, and Billy Niverson. The last three were "lost" in Frankfort.
I rode 167 miles and it was warm (90 degrees) and little wind.
Eight of us left town on a ride to Cammack Station for lunch. That's in Cammack, Indiana... I know, I had never heard of it either. Cammack is located 2.5 miles north of Yorktown and 2.6 miles north west of Muncie. There's a restaurant there that looks like a old time gas station with gas pumps out front. They have a 1940-1950 theme to the place with old gas pumps and globes inside. Good food and 1950's music playing while you eat.
After leaving the restaurant we stopped at the nearest gas station so Billy Niverson could buy gas. We left the gas station and rode on in close to Muncie. Our intrepid leader, Merle, lead us around Muncie and we headed east. At this time Art rode up to the front to tell us Billy was no longer riding with us. After much palavering, we decided to ride on and see if Billy joined us--he didn't.
Just a gentle reminder: We should join the ride with a full gas tank and an empty bladder, not the other way round!
We proceed to ride over every road in Delaware County with potholes until we got to IN 36. We rode IN 36 to US 27 and then on to Mrs. Wicks Pie Store in Winchester, Indiana. Of course, being old men, we forgot that Mrs. Wicks Pie Store closes at 2:00PM on Saturdays and it was 2:30PM. We'd been there before under similar circumstances but had forgotten (that's the old men part). We decided to go back to US 27 where there was a McDonald's to get a cup of coffee and pie.
We rode on to Portland where Dave bought gas. We came home from Portland on IN 26.
I rode 154 miles.
Riding today was Bill Maynard (a new rider), Billy Niverson (at least part way), the three Larry's (Larry Burke, Larry Miller, and myself, Larry Davis), Art Adrianson, David Payne, and our leader, Merle Combs.
