This is web series I just came across that seems like something that would be enjoyable to anyone looking at this thread.
I've only watched the first episode so far, favorite line: 2 guys considering starting a motorcycle club, "We'd be one hundred percent one percenters!"
I don't know about you guys but I'm looking forward to riding with my big club at Russellville. Its gonna be huge!!! Like Thunder on the Mountain!!! Well......... maybe not like Thunder , maybe like a soft rain. We ain't loud but we're proud!!!!!
"I wouldn't want to belong to any group that would admit people like me!" (Groucho Marx)
2015 F6B deluxe matte silver
2012 GL1800 level 3 pearl white
2010 GL1800 level 1 hot rod yellow
2001 GL1800 level 1 hot rod yellow
VTX 1800
VTX 1300
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BBG 1,500 3/16/13
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Michelin Primacy Alpin RF 195/55R/16, 32#
front Bridgestone G709, 36#
Ditto !!
Been riding for well over 55 years. My wife and I have been members of a few clubs starting in 1977.
If my memory serves me we were done with clubs in 1986. No need to give details cause we have all been there. My riding buddy is my wife !!
Oh yes she knows I keep up with Steve's Chive On !!
This is soooo true. I do not work in the classroom anymore, but I spent 12 years as a 5th grade teacher, and I have heard some doozies that I still talk about today. Here are my top three:
1st place: A 2nd grade girl..."Good morning Mr. Bruyns!" Me: "Kendra (not her real name), my name is not Mr. Bruyns. My last name starts with an 'N'." 2nd grade girl: "Oh. Well, good morning Mr. Nuyns!" (Mr. Bruyns is a real person who no longer works in our school district)
2nd place: 5th grade boy, coming out of the bathroom: " You DO NOT want to go in there!" (Class starts laughing) "What is so funny? There's a mosquito in there!"
3rd place: "Mr. *****, is passing above a 65, or below a 65???"
As for the thread:
This has been one of the most interesting threads I have read on this forum since joining five months ago. Like many others, I ride alone 99.9999% of the time. In fact, I have only ridden ONCE with another person in my five years of riding - my father - back in October 2014, on a 60 mile round trip along the Lake Ontario State Parkway. I took my wife a couple of times years ago, but after my accident in 2012, she has been slow to get back on. Hard to blame her.
I started riding as a commuter, when gas was $4/gallon. I purchased a 1982 Suzuki GS650 for $475 and put 11,000 miles on it while regularly achieving 48 mpg. It took a year or two before I actually rode a motorcycle for pleasure. Last year, I rode 7,000 miles, with half of it from commuting, and half from riding for fun. Therefore, I know little about the culture of motorcycling. I mean, I see the groups of Harleys roaring by, and the groups of sport bike riders, but until today, I did not realize there were so many who do not ride in groups and didn't realize how complex of a social structure many formal MC's have! I never once thought about joining a club to ride with. Never even passed on my radar.
I am also a snowmobiler, with double the miles on sleds as I have on bikes (not for long). It is a completely different structure than motorcycle clubs, at least as featured in this thread. We have 200+ snowmobile clubs in New York, with about 125,000 registered snowmobiles. I think we are 4th in this number in the US, behind Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan...anyway...Club activities include trail signing, brushing, bushwhacking new trails, grooming in the winter with $200,000 machines, etc. Most clubs have one, maybe two "club rides" per year and they tend to be very family oriented. If you are an active member of a snowmobile club, you probably aren't riding a sled all that often. Completely the opposite as motorcycling.
Former Ride:
2013 F6B Standard, black; sold 7/2019
Latest Addition:
2016 Gold Wing Level 3, red; SCT transmission stuck in manual mode
2019 Miles:
7,900 as of 10/6
Will,
I left Legion Riders because they were more interested in doing meals for everyone else than ride anywhere. Post 180 in Milwaukie, OR. will do 2-3 meals a month, wanting riders to volunteer to serve, cook, clean, etc. The only ride they schedule is a group grope to the ocean, ONCE a year. After that, you are lucky to see of more than 2-3 riders come with their bikes! I am with you on joining clubs. I join to ride and have fun doing it. Not to be a busboy or a waiter. I left that outfit and moved on. Right now, there are about 7 F6B riders in the greater Portland, OR. area and we got together on this forum and have started doing rides together. Maybe meet for breakfast and then ride or ride and stop somewhere down the road for lunch. No commitments just making riding the bikes as the priority. So far it is working very nicely. Bunch of great guys I have met here.
Ride Safe, Ride Often
C
Mekong Delta/Can Tho/ Rung Sat- 8/66 ~ 8/68
Chuck that sounds like a good group. Some of the guys I ride with their priority is finding a place to stop and get a beer. I don't mind a guy drinking a beer but for me I like to ride. RTE is a good concept as long as their is a good ride involved. Sounds like you have a good thing going.