BMW RA Rally 2013 at the Biltmore Estates in Asheville NC.

This years BMW RA Rally was help at the Biltmore Estates in Asheville NC. The Rally was help on the property of the Biltmore which was really cool. How many people get to say they got to camp on the Biltmores' front lawn. As for the Rally there wasn't much really there to do. If you ask me it was like a Bike week in Myrtle Beach but instead of bearded old men on Harley Davidson's it's old more clean cut men on BMW's. The Rally had a turn out of about 2500 people and up. No matter where you seem to go in Asheville you would have come across BMW's in packs. Lined up in front of all the stores and popping in and off of the highway all day long. One of the benefits of being part of the RA Rally that weekend was we got full access to the whole park. We could visit the house everyday, go to the Wine Vineyard anytime and come and go off the property whenever we wanted. It was great.

On Thursday I had the bike pre packed. I stayed up late Wednesday to finish packing and make sure I was ready to roll out after work Thursday. At 4pm Thursday I was already changed and walking out the door at work. I didn't stop nor pass go and collect my $200. I was gone. turned on some tunes and hit Interstate 40. After a few hours as I got the RA. and set up camp and did it feel great to lay down.

Friday was the big day. Friday I signed up for the Adventure Raid Course the GS Giants built on the Biltmore property. The course consisted of 7 obstacles. It had everything from tight corners to crossing over logs. going over dirt hills and mud. Wet dirty deep mud.  I signed up for the bike big medium course. To be honest I thought I did pretty damn good too for being as small as I am and having to handle a 600lb bike. The rest of Friday was just go out and explore Ashville. But sadly due to the extreme fun I did have to spend some time at Starbucks to get homework done. Then explored Asheville some more. I've always passed by Asheville and been there tons of times but never really had the chance to stop and just see what all there is to offer. It was good to see what's there.

Saturday was the big day where the RA took over. All the venders opened up, and those who couldn't make it earlier in the week all showed up on Saturday for the weekend. For all the bikes that were already there. The bikes tripled. GS's everywhere. Beautiful sight. At 5pm all the BMW's got together and took over the main gate and parked all over the front steps of the Biltmore. (see photo below). We had so many bikes we ran out of places to park them and they just started parking everywhere they could fit. It was a great photo op. While we were all gathering together there was a new wed couple who got married and were taking photos in front of the Biltmore. I'm not sure if they knew though that there were going to be bikes everywhere blocking their photo. But front he look on the grooms face he didn't seem to mind bikes everywhere. There was a older gentleman with a classic bike and a side car who offered up his bike for photos. He also then took the newly weds on a short ride on the classic bike with sidecar around the Biltmore property. After that you could tell the bride didn't mind and she really loved it. I'm sure those photos came out really well.

On Sunday it was a easy day. Wake up, clean up and ride home. Got home around 4pm. and just relaxed. never thought I'd miss my bed and a clean shower so much.