Chapter County Tour
There is a perception that the majority of our rides center around going to a restaurant for a meal. Chapter
members sometimes complain that "all we ever do is ride to a restaurant". This is true to some extent. Most
rides need to have a destination (other than the "follow the leader" rides) and there are few destinations other
than restaurants that wouldn't become boring if repeated several times. Granted, there is Bike Week, poker runs,
and some longer rides such as Deal's Gap but mostly those are the exceptions rather than the norm.
Chris Reddy came up with the wonderful idea of planning rides to each and every county in Florida. The goal of
these rides would be to find an interesting way to ride to and through the selected county. Of course, we'll
probably still have to stop somewhere to eat on the longer rides but that won't be the primary purpose of the
ride.
So, we have a map of all 67 counties in Florida and each month we will try to schedule at least one ride that
will go through a different county so we can fill it in on the map. A county will only be completed when it
is ridden through on roads other than Interstate highways (we may use Interstates to get to an area but counties
passed along the way will not be marked completed). Also, counties will be completed only on Chapter rides that
are on the monthly calendar or where the phone tree was activated (e.g. Wanderer runs) so all members will have
the opportunity to participate.
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| Date |
Counties |
Miles |
| August 27, 2005 |
Nassau |
70 |
| September 3, 2005 |
Clay, Bradford, Alachua |
120 |
| October 1, 2005 |
St. Johns, Flagler |
131 |
| October 8, 2005 |
Putnam |
138 |
| October 22, 2005 |
Volusia |
168 |
| November 5, 2005 |
Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee, Lafayette, Union |
218 |
| January 1, 2006 |
Marion, Lake |
249 |
| January 28-29, 2006 |
Brevard |
315 |
| February 24-26, 2006 |
Orange, Osceola, Polk (District Rally) |
326 |
| April 8, 2006 |
Levy, Dixie, Gilchrist |
268 |
| May 6-7, 2006 |
Hardee, Desoto, Charlotte, Lee, Hendry, Collier, Monroe, Glades, Highlands, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Indian River |
780 |
| July 29, 2006 |
Seminole |
273 |
| August 31, 2006 |
Taylor (Region A Rally) |
238 |
| November 18, 2006 |
Madison, Jefferson, Leon |
331 |
| February 24, 2007 |
Citrus |
268 |
| May 12, 2007 |
Hillsborough |
198 |
| August 18, 2007 |
Dade |
756 |