Why is there so little participation in this squadron

SoCal has the best year round weather and plenty of good places to ride. so why is it that the NW region squadron have alot more participation when all it does is rain up there. Seems odd to me. Anyway, Hi to everyone and hope to ride with some of you soon.

There is not much activity in this squadron but lots of people ride. Hit me up some time. jim

I'm in AZ so I really can't make it out to SoCal all the time. Although I do ride with people on here on a regular basis. I was even thinking that we could branch off and have a SoCal Squadron and a Desert Squadron..........

We have a lot of S.Cali riders but for some reason they don't want to participate. I tried to put a list together will all the names of members here but I think I only received about 15 emails. I am sure we have way more than 15 people in this squadron. I just think we need more people involved in advertising for the squadron and asking people to get organized than just me.

Just so you know rezar i'm trying to do just that. So you'll get some help from me. Bye the way i sent you an e-mail. are you getting them? just wondering

Yeah, I have your info. I waiting to see if I am going to get info from anyone else before I send the list out.

It's a very large area for a "squadron". I mean there is a lot of riders from socal and we have quite a few here in Vegas. I know a few guy's from Reno are or want to be a part of it. All in all everyone lives too far apart. Just my .02 cents...

It is a large area but if we can contact each when we are in other people's town, we can hook up for dinners, hang out and stuff like that. Like a true brotherhood.

I'm down for that...I will be in so cal this weekend though I'm taking my son to Disneyland...It's his first time he is so stoked...

See what I mean, I work for Disney. If I knew you were coming down earlier, I could of hooked you up with some discount tickets.

Dam if I only knew...

We should try and pump up this squadron and get some more peopla involved...Maybe we could bring something up at the Spring Blast...

I'm in...

There's no participation because we're all out riding all the time! :rock :rock :rock

That is true unless you can surf the web at work like me.

yeah this squadron is very spread out. and i haven't seen any participants from up in nor-cal. i know i'm new here but would love to ride. I'll be in rancho cucamonga near the ontario airport in traing from june 15 to the 18th. but you guys will all be in vegas. oh well. but I'm in for making this work better. I'm trying to find some riders up here. got a couple going.

whats it take to be "in" the squadron ? I've already spoken with Rezar1 a bit about your meeting this sunday, i have a few friends that are interested as well, total of 3 R1's 3 R6's and maybe two or three other bikes. We are all ready to ride and i can post when and where we are meeting anyone is welcome to join. we are based out of San Diego btw

:hellobye Hey rezar1 my sister in law works at D'land too. Infact we have had annual passess for several years now. Anyway, we should probably break the squadron down by region/county (ie. LA, OC / North county, Inland Empire, SD, etc.). Each area would be responsible for it's own recruiting / meetings, whatever. Then If we can commit to at least one meeting of the majority of us a month, I think that we can build from there. We can talk more about this on sunday and if anyone is down for a LONG ride we can either go up to Big Bear or take the 74 out to the high desert.

Just a note, remember this is a holiday weekend, the nation is on high alert for terrorism, many police departments are on tactical alert... all of which means many, many more po po's on the roads than normal. Wherever we ride, there will be plenty of police!

Actually this means they will cluster around "high value" targets and hopefully open up the backroads for us.:rock

I would like to get together with as many of you as possible next weekend (the 31 may or 1 of june). It would be fine with me if me meet at the same place some of you are meeting this sunday. Let me know. I will have some patches done for the squadron i'd like to show you guys and you can tell what you think. hyfi-- You are joined up by just wanting to join up. I ride in the san diego area all the time. Just pm me and let me know if you would like to ride sometime.My name is Greg.

Rezar and Borealus, What is the average rider's skill level in the squadron? I have been riding off and on for about a total of two years. I don't think that my ability level is quite there yet to do some of the more challenging rides, but I'm up to some sight-seeing rides (ie. driving around some beautiful countryside, enjoying some mild to moderate twisties, and the comaraderie that comes with motorcycling). I would rather not associate with riders who have no regard for the law (stunting and excessive speeding) and those who do not have the maturity or the desire to allow novices to ride with them. Pardon me if I'm being a wet blanket, but like I said, my skill level is definitely up to that of other riders, I'm sure, and I would not want to hold anyone back. If that is what membership in the squadron would provide, then sign me up!

Originally posted by Ronin R1 :hellobye Hey rezar1 my sister in law works at D'land too. Infact we have had annual passess for several years now. Anyway, we should probably break the squadron down by region/county (ie. LA, OC / North county, Inland Empire, SD, etc.). Each area would be responsible for it's own recruiting / meetings, whatever. Then If we can commit to at least one meeting of the majority of us a month, I think that we can build from there. We can talk more about this on sunday and if anyone is down for a LONG ride we can either go up to Big Bear or take the 74 out to the high desert. I don't work ad Disneyland, I work at the investor relations department near the corporate offices in Burbank. As for breaking up the squadron, I don't think we should break it up because there aren't that many of us to begin with. You can ride whenever you want with whomever you want in your area, but breaking it up just makes it too confusing. Then there is the issue of patches, stickers and shirts. If we break it up, then each section wants their own patches and stickers and so on. Of course this my opinion and I will go with majority on this but I don't think breaking up the squadron is such good idea. We can meet once a month and go for group rides and of course you can meet with people in your area whenever you want. I am going to check into making some t-shirts. Since the patches are silver and black, I was thinking about the same color for t-shirt (Black t-shirt with silver Logo). One color makes it cheaper to make. It will have the logo small on the front and big on the back. I just need to know how many of you will be interested in purchasing it.

Originally posted by Bill Gato Rezar and Borealus, What is the average rider's skill level in the squadron? I have been riding off and on for about a total of two years. I don't think that my ability level is quite there yet to do some of the more challenging rides, but I'm up to some sight-seeing rides (ie. driving around some beautiful countryside, enjoying some mild to moderate twisties, and the comaraderie that comes with motorcycling). I would rather not associate with riders who have no regard for the law (stunting and excessive speeding) and those who do not have the maturity or the desire to allow novices to ride with them. Pardon me if I'm being a wet blanket, but like I said, my skill level is definitely up to that of other riders, I'm sure, and I would not want to hold anyone back. If that is what membership in the squadron would provide, then sign me up! The best way to learn how to ride is to ride with experienced riders. At least this is the way I learned how to ride. I would follow their lines and ask questions. So riding with experienced people should be something that you want to do. In our ride on Sunday, we had all sort of riders with different level of experience. I think it was the first time in a canyon for one of the riders and we knew that and took it easy. From what I have heard, he had a really good time. So if from beginning we know what we have to deal with then we adjust to meet everyone's level of experience.

Originally posted by Bill Gato Rezar and Borealus, What is the average rider's skill level in the squadron? I have been riding off and on for about a total of two years. I don't think that my ability level is quite there yet to do some of the more challenging rides, but I'm up to some sight-seeing rides (ie. driving around some beautiful countryside, enjoying some mild to moderate twisties, and the comaraderie that comes with motorcycling). I would rather not associate with riders who have no regard for the law (stunting and excessive speeding) and those who do not have the maturity or the desire to allow novices to ride with them. Pardon me if I'm being a wet blanket, but like I said, my skill level is definitely up to that of other riders, I'm sure, and I would not want to hold anyone back. If that is what membership in the squadron would provide, then sign me up! I cannot speak for every one, but i take in account what the group wnats to do. If we have a less experianced rider we will slow it down and if that person falls behind we will stop and wait. I am not into stunting because i enjoy my bike and would like to reduce the chance of me laying it down. I would say that i am an average rider. I like the twisties as much as the secenery. So if you want to ride with us try it and see if you like it. I know i will wait for any one that wants to go slower. That person will probably be me though. :blush :lol

Originally posted by rezar1 I don't work ad Disneyland, I work at the investor relations department near the corporate offices in Burbank. As for breaking up the squadron, I don't think we should break it up because there aren't that many of us to begin with. You can ride whenever you want with whomever you want in your area, but breaking it up just makes it too confusing. Then there is the issue of patches, stickers and shirts. If we break it up, then each section wants their own patches and stickers and so on. Of course this my opinion and I will go with majority on this but I don't think breaking up the squadron is such good idea. We can meet once a month and go for group rides and of course you can meet with people in your area whenever you want. I am going to check into making some t-shirts. Since the patches are silver and black, I was thinking about the same color for t-shirt (Black t-shirt with silver Logo). One color makes it cheaper to make. It will have the logo small on the front and big on the back. I just need to know how many of you will be interested in purchasing it. I agree not to split up the squadron, as it seems we have a lot of socal guys. then like on from this area and another from this. if we have a few or more people in one area maybe then just have one guy organize things for the people around staying tune with the whole squadron though. just to make communication easier but not to split us up. I will buy some shirts and patches.

Originally posted by Bill Gato Rezar and Borealus, What is the average rider's skill level in the squadron? I have been riding off and on for about a total of two years. I don't think that my ability level is quite there yet to do some of the more challenging rides, but I'm up to some sight-seeing rides (ie. driving around some beautiful countryside, enjoying some mild to moderate twisties, and the comaraderie that comes with motorcycling). I would rather not associate with riders who have no regard for the law (stunting and excessive speeding) and those who do not have the maturity or the desire to allow novices to ride with them. Pardon me if I'm being a wet blanket, but like I said, my skill level is definitely up to that of other riders, I'm sure, and I would not want to hold anyone back. If that is what membership in the squadron would provide, then sign me up! I Just met up with a bunch of the guys from the squadron for the first time on sunday (see the may 25th thread for pics) and i brought along some friends from work, one of them was a very inexperienced rider and everyone did a great job of taking that into account. When i first started talking to Rezar1 I had nearly the exact same question as you. take my word for it, these guys were great to ride with and i cant wait to hit the road with them again.

It sounds great that you guys respect the "new" riders. I'm the same way...I'm not great on twisties (only rode Ortega a couple times and only once so far on my R1), so I would be slow as heck. hehehehe... But it's cool if you guys respect that and not just take off like some people do and not look back because they are way more experienced (and thus faster) than us new guys. I wanted to be there on Sunday, but couldn't make it due to family coming in. I'm hoping to ride with a bunch of you in Vegas at the convention. Sounds like you guys are the type of people I like to ride/hang out with. :)

Originally posted by Ronin R1 :hellobye Hey rezar1 my sister in law works at D'land too. Infact we have had annual passess for several years now. Anyway, we should probably break the squadron down by region/county (ie. LA, OC / North county, Inland Empire, SD, etc.). Each area would be responsible for it's own recruiting / meetings, whatever. Then If we can commit to at least one meeting of the majority of us a month, I think that we can build from there. We can talk more about this on sunday and if anyone is down for a LONG ride we can either go up to Big Bear or take the 74 out to the high desert. that sounds like an awesome idea, send me an email if you guys are ever riding the 74, i live about 15 min away from it:D