Activities | GRTTC Greater Rochester Triumph Touring Club

GRTTC Events 2025

Things to DO, Places to BE

With fellow Triumph Clubbers

Some are local, some regional, and some national in scope.
During summer months, there are Cruise Nights pretty much every day of the week in the Greater Rochester area.
If you have an activity suggestion…

please contact Brian Schirano – GRTTC Events Coordinator
Suggest a proposed date so we can try to make it fit.

2025 GRTTC sponsored Events

“Happy Motoring” in 2025

We’re working on 2025 events, work in progress, but below is tentatively what we have thus far. Read the newsletters and look at the website for updates. We have some dates we’re looking to fill in, hopefully with something you’d like to host, do you have an event in mind to share? Or see bottom of page. Call Brian 585-305-0349

Feb 10 - Drive Your Triumph Day –- get it out or uncover it and take a pic send it to Chris
Feb. 23rd, Sunday – Cabin Chili Party – Chris and Eileen are coordinating the event
Feb. 28th - March 2nd – non-Club event - head Downtown to the 2025 Auto show?
April 12 - Saturday - Shop Tour – show us your “shop”? Contact Brian 585-305-0349
April 24 - Thursday - Spring Club Meeting / gathering – Jerimiah’s Henrietta 4:30 - 5 for arrivals and drinks, dinner 6 - 6:30
May 3 – Saturday - Tune Up Clinic – cancelled for this year
May 17 - Saturday – West Side Ride and Bad Apples Bistro lunch – Richard Reynolds Host
June 1 – Sunday 2:00 – Informal meet-up Senaca Lake Brewing - Explore Brit Car Social
June 25 - Wednesday – Change up, Now Six50 On The Bay, Sodus Point
- Contact: Brian Schirano 585-305-0349 We’ll meet at the SandBar Park Webster Meet up ~ 5, Plan is to depart by 5:15, ~ 45-minute drive via Lake Rd out to the restaurant, we have the upstairs patio. They will be looking for a t least a rough headcount a few days before.
July 12 – Reminder Saturday - Norm and Char’s chicken BBQ, Hilton google map
- Please contact: Norm 585-352-0156
- This one is a Club highlight of the summer season
- Plan to arrive 12:30 - 1:00
- Norm and Char will supply: Chicken, salt potatoes, cabbage salad and ice tea.
- Needed are appetizers, desserts. BYOB
- Still $5 per person.
- Norm requests the club to please start calling him now so he can gage the amount of chicken to purchase
July 13 - Sunday - 52nd Annual Sports Car & Auto Festival Rush, Triumph Marque sponsored
- The Club is sponsoring the Triumph marque for the show.
- As we are a sponsor we can register both in advance and day of the show for $10 (normal $20 day of show) Really well done car show and fun event
July 15-18 - Vintage Triumph National Convention (VTR) La Crosse WI - Chris Holiday has advice
- Not a Club sponsored event, but one for the true green Triumph enthusiast
July 20 – Sunday - Eric and Elaine Barge of EM Motors will host a picnic from 11 - 4 to celebrate the Life of GEORGE HAYNES.
NEW - Aug 3 – Sunday - Day Trip to Watkins Glen. Local Chuck Franzese (607-769-0006 cfran72848@aol.com ) will take us on a tour around the hills of Watkins Glen including a ride around the original 1948 – 52 Grand Prix Racecourse. We will finish out at Senaca Lake Brewing for their “Brit Car Sunday Social” for a bite and a brew.
- Plan to meetup at 11:45 in the large parking lot adjacent to the International Racing Research Center (IMRRC) at 610 S Decatur St, Watkins Glen. Depart at noon, arrive at the Brit Car Social about 1:00 for lunch and enjoy the company of fellow British Car owners doing the same.
NEW - August 8, Friday 5 – 8PM – Car Show at Shutts Apple Mill. If you’re not busy go see Marty Shutt and family at their car show. Marty hosted us for one of our shop tour stops last year, you should remember the big box of fry cakes and coffee 😉
- Food will be for sale outside from Rob’s Kabobs Food truck, ice cream & other goodies inside!
NEW - August - 16th - drive and dine - Keuka Lake run. Ralph and Linda DiCaprio have stepped up to host a ride on Saturday August 16th to The Switz Restaurant and Domaine Leseurre Winery on beautiful Keuka Lake just outside the village of Hammondsport.
- We will meet at the Irish Mafia parking lot located at 2971 Whalen Rd., Bloomfield at 10:30AM to leave by 10:45. Irish Mafia will not be open, but those that will need a bathroom break can use the restroom at the Quicklee's Gas Station which is just a short walk across Whalen Rd.
- If you plan to attend, please contact Ralph at ralphdicaprio@hotmail.com by Monday August 11th. (For the purpose of making reservations, if you are planning on going to the restaurant but not the winery, please specify.)
NEW – Sept 14 –lunch at The Garden Cafe, Sonnenberg Gardens, 250 Gibson St, Canandaigua
- Hosts and new members 2025: Mark and Robin Sheppard, Contact 585-802-2718 (Mark)
- Please contact Mark for planning purposes.
- Time: 11:15 a.m. meet (Victor) location pending
- *There is NO fee to park or enter the cafe. Park admission is optional for those who wish to tour the gardens.
Sept 27 – Sat. - NEW - Antique Wireless Museum + Irish Mafia Brewing Contact: Rick Langkamp
Date change - Oct 11 - Saturday - Fall Esperanza Lunch, Keuka Lake. Contact: Chris and Eileen
Oct 22 - Annual fall meeting – voting event
Dec 7 - Holiday Party at Greystone
February 22 - Chili Party at Quinzi Lodge in Eyer Park in East Rochester

OPTIONS FROM 2024

Brewery Ardennes
Ice Cream run – have a suggestion?
Hammondsport day out or overnight – tour and lunch

NEWER IDEAS

NY Museum of Transportation - Rush
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum – Rush
Keuka Lake run - Domaine LeSeurre Winery and lunch at The Switz
Finger Lakes Live Steamers – Clyde
Aug 6 – 9 Pageant of Steam – Canandaigua – (I have heard this can be bit of a dusty event)

Recurring Non-GRTTC events

Grab some Friends

Looking for a Cruise night? Try here …Rochester Cruise Nights and Car Shows

Or here - Street Machines Of Rochester

Some examples (Will keep updating):

Tuesday nights. Panorama Plaza Cruise Night, Penfield, west end of the parking lot.

Wednesday nights. Cruise night. The Log Cabin restaurant, 2445 W Walworth Rd, Macedon, NY 14502. Always a good turnout with food available outside.

Wednesday nights. I-Square Cruise Night. The park is small and the crowd is friendly. Free ice cream for participants. Irondequoit Square, 400 Bakers Park, Rochester, NY 14617

Thursday nights. Cruise Night at Wegmans in Canandaigua, NY has become a popular gathering. Wegmans has food and there are several ice cream opportunities. The best is Cheshire Farms Creamery, 10 Parrish St., Canandaigua.

Second Thursday every month, 9:30 AM start. Car Nuts Breakfast, Bay Front Restaurant, 1075 Empire Blvd, Rochester, NY 14609

Friday nights, 5:00 PM start. Shriners Cruise Night in Webster, NY has become the place to be. So much so, they have had to turn some people away, so get there early. They have a fish fry available while it lasts. Between the 104 expressway & Empire Blvd.

Saturday Mornings 8- 10 - ROCHESTER CARS & COFFEE

The Little Speed Shop, 500 Lee Rd, Bldg D

Last Sunday every month from April to November. 9:00 AM - 12.00 PM. Cars & Coffee at the Freestyle Mercantile, Mumford, NY. Coffee, breakfast buns, word is the donuts are GOOD! Nice atmosphere, people and a nice ride into the country.