Twin Valley Riders:
Sport-touring the wonderful back roads of the
Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia
Twin Valley Riders is a motorcycle club for sport-touring enthusiasts of the Roanoke and New River Valleys of Southwest Virginia. We are chartered as BMW-MOA Chapter 284, however, we consider ourselves an all-marque sport-touring club. TVR members employ a wide variety of motorcycles ranging from current european and japanese sport-tourers to vintage beauties and everything in between. We encourage anyone who likes scrape a peg, or casually glide through scenic river valleys, to come ride with us. Excursions tend toward moderately spirited, and always involve curvaceous backroads and the breathtaking scenery of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Roanoke and New River Valleys lie to either side of the Eastern Continental Divide, mostly in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, west of the Blue Ridge and east of the Allegheny Plateau. The Roanoke River flows easterly and drains to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The New River flows north and cuts through the rugged, eastern escarpment of the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia before combining with the Gauley to form the Kanawha on its way to the Ohio, Mississippi, and finally the the Gulf of Mexico. Elevations within the New River and Roanoke River watersheds in Virginia range from about 297ft. on the upper Roanoke River near North Carolina to 4348ft. atop Salt Pond Mountain in Giles County. The fascinating geography and heritage of the Appalachian Mountains offer more than great motorcycling roads; there are innumerable recreational and cultural destinations throughout the region that make being here as wonderful as getting here.
Twin Valley Riders has exciting things on the calendar for 2007, adding up to more rides, more mountain roads and scenery, and a great bunch of people to enjoy them with. Overnight excursions, short and longer day trips, camp-outs, tech workshops, tire changing sessions, regular breakfasts and casual social gatherings [a.k.a. partying] are all part of the fun. Check out the forum to see out what's happening and come along and enjoy the ride.