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The Very Boring Rally II Weekend

The venue is set. The entertainment is booked. The awards, events and activities are shaping up. The Aerostich staff have marked their calendars. Now all we need is you… You are cordially invited to the Very Boring Rally II, which is happening August 22-24, 2008, at Spirit Mountain in Duluth, Minnesota. To get here, turn off Interstate 35 six miles west of Aerostich HQ, at the top of the 700 foot hill overlooking Lake Superior. After checking in and setting up camp, you’ll find many good things, including a selection of riding-related seminars and shows from motorcycling greats, such as Dr. Gregory Frazier, Ted Simon, Max Burns, Doug Grosjean, Andres Carlstein, and others. Hmmm… Poetry Reading? GPS advice? … Fancy something related to motorcycles?

The cost of the weekend is $57 per person at the event, or $47 with pre-registration before June 30th. So bring your bike, sleeping bag, tent, and camp on the Mountain. Or more consumptively wimp-out at a nearby hotel or B&B. Your shelter options and connections are here.

FRIDAY

Things start happening on Friday afternoon with seminars, and continue that night with a show by nationally known comedian Maria Bamford and the live music of Nordic Angst and Brian Dack. Make a s’more at one of the campfires and swap lies and tell stories with old and new friends. If the weather is just so, you may get the rare chance to study the local ninja mosquito sub-species. Maybe some amusing lightening bugs will show up to perform their luminous mating improv… There’s plenty of space - and a well-stocked bar at rally HQ, should you be parched.

SATURDAY

Seminars, programs, games, contests, local rides, explorin’ the local area - this all happens Saturday. You’ve got the nearby old covered bridge to find, a huge miles-long white sand swimmin’ beach, Bob Dylan’s birthplace home, some great twisty roads (mapped out in the rally program), and the second oldest - and boringest - concrete street in the world. There’s also the final round of the USA Trials Championship right on site. Yeah, it’s included… and the action is brilliantly slow… At around four in the afternoon please join us for a meet n’ greet cocktail gathering. Afterward, we’ll move more-or-less directly into a BBQ feast (with two or three meat and veggie choices…) Later, enjoy the musical selections of the Conquerors, who are back by request… five years ago they performed at the first Boring Rally. At some point there will be Boring Awards with a little speechifyin’ and larger prize drawings. The Saturday night show and concert features famed Texas “guit-steel” man, Junior Brown. So enjoy another beer - and roast up another s’more. Look up at the waning moon.

SUNDAY

Sunday morn’ there will be a light breakfast buffet and you’re outta here bug bitten, dirty, and slightly hung over… So come celebrate 25 years of pioneering Aerostich nonsense and RiderWearHouse catalog mischief with enough food, fun, friends, and foolishness to turn Mr. Happy inside-out.

Advanced ticket sales, camping and hotel reservation information, and much more info is available online at www.boringrally.com. Pre-register by June 30 for a $10 discount!

For more information about the Very Boring Rally II, and to see detailed online event schedules, or to join the rider community planning to ride to the rally, please visit www.boringrally.com or call 800-222-1994. The website is continuously being updated, so check back often. Please pass the word and forward these ads.