Monongahela Noon Moon

Ride Postponed until Spring 2022


Photos From the Preride

Join us for this 3 Day Dual Sport and Adventure Bike Ride in the mountains of West Virginia

This ride offers ride choices for easy and harder option, All riding is on your own. This is a GPS lead ride. Riders are given Micro SD Cards for there Garmin gps units and paper maps with routes for 3 different days. All riding is on your own and what you decide to ride is your choise. Typically riders hook up together in small groups and ride loosely together. Most of all this is about exploring the great backroutes of Monongahela National Forest.

Riders will be Staying in Motels and have the options to eat in restaurant. So no need to bring that camping and cooking gear.

Noon Moon 11x17 Maps

Three rides are: Full Moon, Noon Moon and Half Moon

Ride Signup

The ride is limited to 20. The cost to join the ride is $265. Riders will receive their ride packets in the mail one week before the ride. Ride packets include a Micro SD Card for your Garmin GPS unit and large printed maps. Included is your Hotel accommodations for Saturday and Sunday night.

Riders must add their info to the list below and will receive an email with signup instructions and ride info.

Rider Waiting Monongahela Noon Moon

View the ride maps below

OK since many of you like to study more detail about the ride, below are the ride maps.


I put these ride maps on the web page because I know a few of you love looking at the ride detail and dreaming about the ride. At first glance these maps do not look so impressive, but they are way cool. If you start zooming in, you can see the ride in incredible detail. I have spent a ton of hours sorting through the details of the ride for each day, so for those of you that enjoy this sort of thing, well enjoy!

Legend:

The Blue lines are MAIN routes

The Red lines are Harder routes

The Green lines are Easy options

The Black lines are the out and back viewpoints

Yoda Dakota

How does the ride navigation work?

This is a self-led GPS ride; all riding is on your own. You are responsible for your own riding. You will be given a GPS map file and instructions on how to use your Garmin GPS unit. People will hook up in small groups of less than 6 riders and tend to ride together. You are not encouraged to ride alone. You are responsible for your own riding and yourself.

(see my ride Navigation Video)

Are you right for this ride?

When something goes wrong on a ride, would your riding friends say that you are more likely to need help or more likely to give help? You should be in the more likely to offer help camp. This ride is filled with riders that are more likely to give help, so most of the time the riders never need help. Additionally there is all the normal stuff, come prepared to maintain your bike, fix your bike on the trail, repair flat tires, deal with bad weather and rain and make a joke or two.


How do I make the GPS stuff so easy?

I develop very high quality ride maps custom for our ride. They come from much of what I and others have ridden. I take the best from all my rides and make new ones.

(See my Custom Ride Maps Video)


Note from me, gpsKevin

My goal for this ride is simple, great riding, so you can count on great routes and places to ride.

But in addition: the ride is about discovering new places, meeting new friends, seeing new parts of the country.

Thanks

gpsKevin


Dakota C

Norfolk, VA

Richard K

Elizabethton, TN

Ben A

Elizabethton, TN