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My 2025 Deals Gap report.
I had a great time spending a week at the Deals Gap Motorcycle Resort for the 26th Annual 2 Stroke Meet. Everyone had a great time and there were a bunch of people and bikes in attendance. There were a few unusual bikes also. As always, Ian, Toby, and Joe Baxter brought their Gammas. Shane and Joe brought KR1s. Kevin, a friend of Toby and Ian's, brought a TZR250 as did Mark Haase. Jon McDermott brought his RZ500 and a GS750ES with a GT550 motor. There was a Grom with a Yamaha Blaster engine. And Mark Haase also brought his 1967 100cc twin Yamaha, which was beautiful.
There was only one crash and a few breakdowns. Unfortunately for Ian, he laid his Gamma down and a super moto used it for a ramp and did a fair amount of damage. It's fixable, but it's a Gamma, so it probably won't be inexpensive. Fortunately, neither Ian or the other rider were seriously injured, just banged up a bit. Roger's KH500, my H2, Dean Gaetano's (spelling?) H2, and Jon's GS/GT hybrid were the only breakdowns that took a bike out of service if I remember correctly. Dean's H2 had a rear shock issue that had his fender scraping the tire all the time. My H2 had a rear brake lining come unglued and the back tire locked up occasionally. Jon's kill switch disassembled itself on the bridge in front of Tapoco and it just quit running, so wires have to be resoldered to the contact board inside the switch housing. Roger's KH500 was the worst, though. His engine started making a very bad noise internally. He didn't want to take it apart at the motel, so we just have educated guesses as to what broke. So, all 4 bikes got parked. I figured out the ignition issue I was having on my GT550, so I ran it out to the overlook a couple of times, but didn't ride it much because it's technically not registered. I have all the paperwork and receipts, but it hasn't worked it's way through the Harrisburg bureaucracy yet, so my tag hasn't been reactivated yet...it was off the road for so long, it fell out of the system, so i couldnt renew the registration online. Now that I know it runs well, I'm going to finish it's "restoration" sometime over the next few weeks and it will become my main rider...I really do need to take my H2 off the road and give it a thorough clean and a frame paint.
There were several car crashes that plugged up the Dragon a little and one Mustang had its motor oil drained out on the roadway while it was being sling towed away. It did rain all but a few days and Saturday started off with a 4.1 earthquake at 9am. Over the years we've had torrential rain, hail, gale force winds, and now an earthquake LOL.
As usual, the DGMR staff was wonderful and helped us have a great meet.
Next year's meet is May 17th through May 24th. Hopefully pushing it out a couple of weeks gets us some better weather, warmer temps, and fewer angry mother's.
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