Flower Sniff'n (September 23 - 25, 2021), Commemorative Saddlesore 1000 (September 23 - 25, 2021)   and 20th Annual Founders Feast (September 25, 2021) Lexington-area, Kentucky Host Hotel in Georgetown, KY

Lexington KY is known as the "Horse Capital of the World", so get on your horse and join us riding the scenic roads of Bluegrass Country. Enjoy the camaraderie of daily riding and dining with good friends. Put another SaddleSore 1000 under your belt or get your first one! And join us for our Annual Founders Feast on Saturday evening as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the Motorcycle Tourer's Forum! With special guest speakers: Alan Leduc, Founder, President & Director Emeritus of the Motorcycle Tourer's Forum and Paul Pelland, aka Longhaulpaul, A man with MS ..... A motorcycle ..... A million miles ..... Make your Hotel Reservations as soon as possible!!

Event Manager / Site Coordinator:      Bill Campbell For Flower Sniffin' & Founders Feast Dinner:   MTF Discussion Thread   Schedule   Registration   List of Participants   Routes   Lodging   MTF Refund Policy   Ride Disclaimer & Waiver For Saddlesore 1000:   MTF Discussion Thread   Registration   List of Participants

History of the Founder's Feast

From http://www.mctourer.com/rides/2007/Founders/Feast.html

• 2002 - September 28: Indiana Cookout, The Leduc's, New Castle, Indiana
• 2003 - October 4: Indiana Cookout, Baker Park, New Castle, Indiana
• 2004 - September 24-25: Indiana Cookout, Knights of Pythias, New Castle, Indiana (6 Hour Rally)
• 2005 - September 9-11: Founder's Feast held at Best Western Inn, New Castle (6 Hour and 24 Hour Rally)
• 2006 - May 9-13: Founder's Feast held in conjunction with the RAT, Texarkana, Texas (8 Hour and 24 Hour Rally)
• 2007 - October 5-6: Founder's Feast held in conjunction with the SIRRR, Metropolis, Illinois 2008 - October 17-18: Founder's Feast Held in conjunction with Flower Sniffn Event to be determined. One thing for sure it will end on Friday October 17 in Clarksdale, Mississippi kicking off with dinner and blues at Warren Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club. Saturday October 18th's events will be held at the Shackup Inn starting with a cook your own dog, burger, and brat lunch (we'll supply the ingredients, you supply the labor) from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. From 1-6 p.m., will be family yard games. Beginning at 7:00 p.m. will be the Founder Feast Banquet where you should come dressed in your zuke suit and best southern duds. There will be a prize for the best dressed individual and best dressed couple. Blues will start about 8:30 or 9:00. P.S. Don't bother trying to get rooms at the Shackup Inn as we have booked them all. However, we will have bus transportation from a host hotel in Clarksdale.

We changed the name of the Indiana Cookout to the Founder's Feast in 2005 so thinking that we might want to move the event from year to year. This will be the second year for the move. In 2006 we held the Founder's Feast in conjunction with the Inaugural Ride Around Texas (RAT), in Texarkana, Texas. This year we wanted to hold the event with either a Flower Sniff'n event or a Rough Road Ride. The Rough Road Ride won out and we will be holding the 2007 Founder's Feast in conjunction with the Southern Illinois Rough Road Ride (SIRRR) in Metropolis, Illinois.

Bob (bobmeinet) Fisher supplied this additional FF history:

• 9-18-08 Clarksdale, MS
• 6-13-09 at Spring Mill State Park, IN
• 10-16-10 Paris, TX
• 9-24-11 Robbinsville, NC
• 9-22-12 New Castle, IN
• 9-28-13 Berlin, OH
• 9-20-14 Iron Horse, NC
• 9-26-15 Cumberland, MD
• 9-24-16 Russellville, AR
• 10-7-17 Stecoah, NC
• 9-29-18 Wilmot, OH
• 9-28-19 Denver, PA
• 10-3-20 Lexington, KY (canceled due to COVIID-19)

There have been a lot of members of the MTF over the years. We'd like to see as many of them as possible at our 20th Anniversary Founder's Feast! Please spread the word!

Safety

Also the MTF Flower Sniffin' Committee strongly encourages each participant in our events to self assess their riding style, interests, need for breaks and riding skill level and to keep that assessment in mind when choosing a riding partner or small group (2-4 riders) to ride with at our events. Sharing the road with someone of similar interests and riding style not only makes the ride more enjoyable for you, but safer for everyone.

COVID-19 Safety
We canceled this event last year due to our concerns over your safety. We will do so again if necessary. In the meantime, please check the Kentucky COVID-19 web page and keep up to date with what's happening there.

Event Schedule

Dinner locations for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night are still being worked on. As you know, the pandemic has really hurt the restaurant industry.

The MTF certification team has been annointed by Mike Kneebone to approve and present SS1000 certificates for a Twentith Anniversury SS1000 ending at the host hotel in Lexington KY. You may start anywhere you wish and run an IBA qualified SS1000, checking in at the host hotel with one of the MTF Board of Directors members or one of the certification team, (Greg or Pat Blewett or Jeremy Lovall), after you get your ending receipt. All IBA rules and fees apply and if certified, you will receive your certificate at the Founder's Feast banquet on Saturday night. This is a great opportunity for IBA members to get a cert without waiting.

Flower Sniffin' Routes

Route	Route Description
	Special thanks to Bob Cust and Bob Moore for organizing and supplying these routes for us! Routes will avoid the Interstates where possible but they are sometimes necessary to avoid places like the congested downtown of Lexington.
Augusta	The entire route is approximately 166 miles, with 4 hours 15 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 4 hours 15 minutes.
Corvette Museum and Mammoth Cave	The entire route is approximately 346 miles, with 7 hours 57 minutes riding and 4 hours for stops, bringing the total to 11 hours 57 minutes. If you're going to Bowling Green be sure to stop by the "Fork In The Road" sculpture by our own Jeremy Loveall! And it's only 24 miles from the "Fork In The Road" to Smokey Pig BBQ! And Pat Blewett says you shouldn't miss Chaney's Dairy Barn not far from the "Fork In The Road" sculpture.
Lexington Shamrock East	This is the first of 4 Shamrock Tours as published by Roadrunner Magazine. The routes have been tweaked slightly to account for a different starting and ending point. The entire route is approximately 224 miles, with 5 hours 8 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 5 hours 8 minutes.
Lexington Shamrock Northeast	The entire route is approximately 145 miles, with 3 hours 16 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 3 hours 16 minutes.
Lexington Shamrock South	The entire route is approximately 205 miles, with 4 hours 59 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 4 hours 59 minutes.
Lexington Shamrock Southwest	The entire route is approximately 178 miles, with 4 hours 32 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 4 hours 32 minutes.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory	The entire route is approximately 183 miles, with 4 hours 41 minutes riding and 2 hours for stops, bringing the total to 6 hours 41 minutes. Mike Newton (Grizz) thinks a ride which encompasses the Louisville Slugger Factory should also include dinner in Louisville at Michael Linnig's Restaurant, 9308 Kane Run Rd., Louisville, KY 40258, (502) 937-9888.
Natural Bridge	The entire route is approximately 201 miles, with 4 hours 51 minutes riding but no scheduled stops, bringing the total to 4 hours 51 minutes.
Rabbit Hash KY	The entire route is approximately 187 miles, with 4 hours 34 minutes riding and 2 hours for stops, bringing the total to 5 hours 34 minutes.
Additional POIs (Points of Interest)	The Lexington area is the acknowledged Bourbon Capital of the world. Waypoints for the following distilleries are included in the GPS file: Angels Envy; Bulleit Distilling Co.; Evan Williams; Four Roses Distillery (part of the Lexington Shamrock Southwest Route); Heaven Hill Distillery; Jim Beam's American Stillhouse; Lux Row Distillers; Maker's Mark Distillery; Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery; O.Z. Tyler Distillery; Old Forster Distilling; Rabbit Hole Distillery; Stitzel-Weller Distillery; Town Branch Distillery; Wild Turkey (part of the Lexington Shamrock Southwest Route) and Woodford Reserve Distillery. Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park was established as a Union supply depot and hospital during the Civil War, Camp Nelson became a recruitment and training center for African American soldiers, and a refugee camp for their wives and children. Lincoln Birthplace National Hist Site was the country's first memorial to Lincoln, built with donations from young and old, and enshrines the symbolic birthplace cabin. Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial was where Lincoln grew from youth to manhood on this southern Indiana soil.  Explore Lincoln's boyhood and learn about the boy who would one day become the leader of our nation. Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor houses stories and artifacts from the life and leadership of General Patton at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Mike Brown (Hammer Down Brown) will likely be leading an expedition to the Moonshine Store for lunch one day! Jim McPherson (jimmcp) notes that Hillbilly Hot Dogs in West Virginia isn't too far away.
ZIP file containing all All Routes & POIs:     Lexington_KY_Routes.zip	Right-click the filename, and SAVE LINK AS
Even more POIs!	For those of you interested in more POIs for the Kentucky / Tennessee area, Mike Donley has provided the GPX file used for a Bluegrass Bike Bingo charity ride that was hosted by Lynn Carey. The GPS coordinates are in bgb.zip and listed in the attachment is a description of the 24 POIs. You can ignore the parts where you’re directed to take a photo of your Bingo card.

 

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Host Hotel

Holiday Inn Express Lexington North-Georgetown 140 Osborne Way Georgetown, KY 40324 Phone: (502) 570-0220

Hotel Rates: Twenty (20) Rooms, 10 single-King and 10 double-Queen, have been reserved for us at a discounted rate of $119 per night plus applicable room tax. Each guest will call in individually, (502) 570-0220, to make their reservations. You may also book online at this location dedicated to the MTF. Each guest is responsible for paying for their own room. You must identify yourself as a member of the Motorcycle Tourer's Forum group to get the group rate. Any rooms in this block that are not reserved by August 25, 2021 will be released without penalty.

Key Amenities: Make yourself at home in one of the 85 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 42-inch LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and complimentary weekday newspapers. Unfortunately, at this time the indoor pool is closed due to COVID-19. A complimentary breakfast is served daily. Free self parking is available onsite.

If camping is more to your liking, the Whispering Hills RV Park is 11 minutes away from the host hotel. Please contact them directly for reservations at (502) 863-2552.

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The Motorcycle Tourer's Forum reserves the right to accept or reject a rider's request to participate in this ride.