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Simplified ABEES for 2012 ...
Because we didn't do ABEES in 2011, there weren't any ABEES books printed up for the January 2012 Meeting in Montevallo. For this year, we will use the version posted on our Club page at http://bmwmoal.org/abees.php, or you are welcome to uses a previous years book. We are throwing out all of the special categories, and counting each listed ABEES location as one-point, and if you are participating, each group of ten points will equal a raffle ticket at the next ABEES drawing for prizes for those who participate.
Meanwhile, I am going to take this next year to work on cleaning up our book, and re-writing into something that wasn't copied from other sources. My goal is to re-write this into a travel book entitled "1,000 Places To Ride To In Alabama." What I need from you the participant, is feedback submitted to me at the end of each month. Please create a document on your computer titled "ABEES-Your_Name" and then start a running chronological list of each ABEES point you rack up as you ride about. If you have email capability, attach your updated document to an email and send it to me at Travel@BMWMOAL.org at the end of each month after you get home from the monthly meeting, and before the Friday after the monthly meeting. If you are internet'less, start a journal, and make a xerox copy of each months places visited, and either hand it to me at our monthly meeting, or mail it to me at my home address out of the Blue Book.
This is an example of what I am looking for:
XX) Place, City, Rating (1-10)
01) Center of State, Montevallo, AL (7)
02) Campus Trek, Montevallo, AL (7)
03) Fav Ride C3, (8)
04) Railroad Museum, Calera, AL (6)
05) Confederate Cemetery, Calera, AL (5)
06) Shelby Courthouse, Columbiana, AL (6)
07) Fav Ride CSE2, (8)
08) Old Coosa Jail, Rockford, AL (5)
09) Coosa Courthouse, Rockford, AL (4)
10) Fav Ride C17, (8)
etc., etc., etc. ...
Please be stingy with "10" ratings. Give them where they're due, but please don't just rate everything a "10"!
I am also looking for photos of these locations. Please consider taking one quality pic that depicts each location you visit, and you can also attach those to your monthly emails, - or give me a link where you have uploaded them to your album elsewhere on the web. By the end of the year, I should be able to pick the best photo submitted of each location, and recognize those who submitted those photos, and probably generate some sort of recognition or prize for the single best photo overall! While the pic needs to be of the ABEES location, - please feel free to include a BMW bike, or fellow Club Members in the pic if it will work.
I am also still looking to add several more locations and roads to get the total up to 1,000, and then once we've reached that magic number, we will only add a new location at the Annual Meeting, if those present vote an old location out (one-for-one). ... I imagine that restaurants, etc. that go out of business ought to make eliminating several locations easy.
Ride Safe! Have Fun! And I'll See Y'All On The Road !!!
Meanwhile, I am going to take this next year to work on cleaning up our book, and re-writing into something that wasn't copied from other sources. My goal is to re-write this into a travel book entitled "1,000 Places To Ride To In Alabama." What I need from you the participant, is feedback submitted to me at the end of each month. Please create a document on your computer titled "ABEES-Your_Name" and then start a running chronological list of each ABEES point you rack up as you ride about. If you have email capability, attach your updated document to an email and send it to me at Travel@BMWMOAL.org at the end of each month after you get home from the monthly meeting, and before the Friday after the monthly meeting. If you are internet'less, start a journal, and make a xerox copy of each months places visited, and either hand it to me at our monthly meeting, or mail it to me at my home address out of the Blue Book.
This is an example of what I am looking for:
XX) Place, City, Rating (1-10)
01) Center of State, Montevallo, AL (7)
02) Campus Trek, Montevallo, AL (7)
03) Fav Ride C3, (8)
04) Railroad Museum, Calera, AL (6)
05) Confederate Cemetery, Calera, AL (5)
06) Shelby Courthouse, Columbiana, AL (6)
07) Fav Ride CSE2, (8)
08) Old Coosa Jail, Rockford, AL (5)
09) Coosa Courthouse, Rockford, AL (4)
10) Fav Ride C17, (8)
etc., etc., etc. ...
Please be stingy with "10" ratings. Give them where they're due, but please don't just rate everything a "10"!
I am also looking for photos of these locations. Please consider taking one quality pic that depicts each location you visit, and you can also attach those to your monthly emails, - or give me a link where you have uploaded them to your album elsewhere on the web. By the end of the year, I should be able to pick the best photo submitted of each location, and recognize those who submitted those photos, and probably generate some sort of recognition or prize for the single best photo overall! While the pic needs to be of the ABEES location, - please feel free to include a BMW bike, or fellow Club Members in the pic if it will work.
I am also still looking to add several more locations and roads to get the total up to 1,000, and then once we've reached that magic number, we will only add a new location at the Annual Meeting, if those present vote an old location out (one-for-one). ... I imagine that restaurants, etc. that go out of business ought to make eliminating several locations easy.
Ride Safe! Have Fun! And I'll See Y'All On The Road !!!