Posted: 5/19/2006 11:37:05 AM EDT
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Only one week and I will be coming to visit any of you attend the rally? This year for the first time my CCW permit will be valid in NM good job NM on getting that passed. NM is a great state and I never get tired of riding the enchanted circle that is a great scenic ride.  |
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Hunter, I am in Taos, and the bikes will start rolling by in earnest come Friday. It gets pretty loud through here. I don't ride anymore, and only hit the rally one year while doing a little surveying up that way. An interesting distraction. I have not followed the "boycott" situation this year. Are folks saying away again this year? You probably know the drill, but just in case, the drivers here are bad to terrible, anytime. Throw in few thousand bikes, and things can get downright terrible. And if you find yourself in Taos Canyon on the loop, you get to decide between rocks and limbs on the right shoulder, and RV's across the center stripe. Not much fun, even in a jeep. Craig |
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Bear, This will be my 5th year (I think kind of lost track) and Taos canyon has never been a problem for me. The biggest problem I have is between Eagles Nest and Red River there is always big rocks in the road I hit one two years ago and it broke my kick stand.  I did notice last year the boycott made a dent in the size of the rally that was a messed up deal with that kid. My buddy has family in Questa and I stay with them it's a great time. Two years ago in Taos on sunday a bunch of hippies decided to have a war protest in the town square I was at the bar out on the balcony. Boy did things get ugly the cops showed up and made all the hippies leave before they got killed. We usually only spend half a day at the actual rally the rest of the time we ride or hang out at my buddies families place. |
That could have been interesting. Makes you wish they would have let it go "just a little further." 
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Man, don't get me started on the stringhead bunch that we have here who do the protests. They, for the most part, live on the other side of the gorge bridge. They squat, live in vehicles, commune with friends and basically do not work. They like to hang out at the lights and intersections, bumming money. They all come into town on Wednesday, for free meals at the church here on the north side of town. Taos is quite the magnet to those types. We have a small core bunch of real liberal citizens who are more mainstream, and they drag that bunch into town whenever they want to protest. Luckily their numbers, in total, no way begin to approach the local folks, who tend to be silent until election time. Don't work, don't pay taxes, create crime and crap. And they want to protest. And to make matters worse, the plaza in Taos is dedicated to war veterans. We have a long history of service here, including the Bataan Death March. Yup, the crash two years ago was sad. But it harkens back a bit to what I was describing above. The local folks do take care of themselves and their own up here. If you have out of town plates, you are not going to get much sympathy, from the folks or the courts. Right or wrong, I kinda like it that way. One of the reasons I moved here was for just that reason. You can bring in all of the liberal mentality that you want. Right now it is not nearly enough to overcome the basic conservative nature of the local folks. Most are registered democrats, but their core beliefs tend to be very conservative in nature. Craig |
It went far enough people backed their bikes up and filled the town sqaure with tire smoke and the hippie with a sign that said USA SUCKS got the hell beat out of him. It was ugly trust me and the locals are great in NM I know from expeierence that you all are great and that is why I love to visit every year. Don't pick on me this weekend damnit just because I have CO plates on my scoot. 
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