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• Find Us Faithful

  • From: keithjsutton
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    Recording by the Covenant Four Quartet's All Glory to Jesus CD - www.covenant4.com

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• turkey run

  • From: cougarhunter
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    finally gonna get to ride for the first time in 2 weeks tomorow. weather hasn't been too bad here but work has got in the way and haven't had a chance to ride, had a bad case of withdrawal for sure lol. there is a local organization that collects donations all year and uses the money to buy turkeys and all the fixings for thanksgiving dinners and they have us bikers ride along to help deliver the food to needy families in the area. rode in it last year and had a blast, after all the food is delivered they have all of us bikers meet somewhere and feed us a big dinner for riding and helping out. the temp is supposed to be high of 65 with sunshine and for colorado in november that is a treat . so to everyone here at ccc have a great thanksgiving and hope ya'll get the chance to put some miles on soon.

    keep the shiny side up and the rubber down !!!!!!!!

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• Another Cute Pup

  • From: CromagnaMan
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    The patch on the lady's vest states "Wanted ... More Bikers in Heaven"  It was taken in the local "Toys for Tots" Parade last year.  Guess that says it all!

    Every December, the Marines have a "Toys for Tots" parade here in Tallahassee that usually starts at the local HD store that proceeds around 30 miles or so to a local restaurant to benefit the unfortunate kids that the parents don't really have enough money to purchase decent toys for them.  The "price" to participate in the parade is a new unwrapped toys that the local bikers contribute for the cause.  I've participated in the last several years, and it's pretty much the highlight (for me anyway) of the riding season.  This past year there were almost a thousand local bikers participating ... though an official count is always difficult to determine.  This is the staging area at the HD dealership and in this photo it's not even half of all the riders that joined in.  This year's parade is going to be held on December 13th, and bikers from all over North Florida, south Georgia and Alabama try to join up to make it a success.  If anyone is interested in participating this year, just drop me a personal message and I'll give all the pertinent information.  Cagers (cars) are also welcome.

    

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• Toys for Tots

  • From: CromagnaMan
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    Every December, the Marines have a "Toys for Tots" parade here in Tallahassee that usually starts at the local HD dealership that proceeds around 30 miles or so to a local restaurant to benefit the unfortunate kids that the parents don't really have enough money to purchase decent toys for them.  The "price" to participate in the parade is a new unwrapped toys that the local bikers contribute for the cause.  I've participated in the last several years, and it's pretty much the highlight (for me anyway) of the riding season.  This past year there were almost a thousand local bikers participating ... though an official count is always difficult to determine.  This is the staging area at the HD dealership and in this photo it's not even half of all the riders that joined in.  This year's parade is going to be held on December 13th, and bikers from all over North Florida, south Georgia and Alabama try to join up to make it a success.  If anyone is interested in participating this year, just drop me a personal message and I'll give all the pertinent information.  Cagers (cars) are also welcome.

    

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• re; Bikers dog

  • From: ocanada
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    Seems that the little timid guy had some balls too!

  • 2 days ago
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  • Forum: Jokes! Joke...

• khitrog

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• Bike Riders Make Better Driver

  • From: Wild_Hogs
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    I feel that riding a bike has improved my driving.  In my opinion, bike riders, for the most part, make better drivers because of their increased attention to traffic patterns, what I call "idiot anticipation" and concentration on the road and surrounding elements.  I WOULD say that no cell phone use while riding a bike is another safety advantage...until recently.  A bulletbike rider was texting while cruising at about 45 mph!!  My first reaction was "He knows better than that...I couldn't believe it!"  I have had more near-miss situations with drivers on cell phones than anything else.  This blows my better driver theory out the window.  Just an anomoly?  I've seen texting or message checking by bikers at intersections but never on the run.  I would love to see a cell phone ban while operating motor vehicles but more especially after what I've been through while on my bikes.  I was curious about what you have experienced in your different areas?  I am in Texas!

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• Dawg61

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• Need to check the brakes!!!

  • From: Hiwayprisoner
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• NFL Players, These guys are go

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• Wanna go for a ride in India?

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• VMAX Uncovered by V-Sting

  • From: johnrote
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         I recently bought a brand new 2009 VMAX 1700.  The person that ordered it last year didn't collect, however I did and am now the proud owner of the VMAX.  I used to hate the old VMAX because it could beat my old bike, the 1985 Honda V65 Magna.  These two bikes are very different, however.  Honestly, the old Honda ran out of guts down the 1/4 mile.  The VMAX does not. The guy I bought it from said it would spin the back tire in 3rd gear.   The first three gears take some getting used to though.  You don't know whether to go all out or keep the throttle back.  What I mean is that I was concerned about spinning the wheel at 60 mph and popping a wheelie.  But, looking back, I guess I never got on it enough to raise the front.  That is until now.  I have had the front end off the ground now.  Incidentaly, I have made it past the 1000 mile mark and it is almost ready for a good drag with someone.  I still haven't went balls out from a dead stop to the end of a quarter.  I have a good place to do the quarter, but we'll see. 

         I put a small windshield on it, but haven't ridden it since.  I will tomorrow.  Stay tuned to see if the windshield is sturdy enough to take the wind.  I think I'll put a smoke tint on the windshiled once I find out if I like it or not.  It will match the black body better.  Keeps the heavy rain off and also gives me a break from the wind on my 40 mile commute to work.  I can take it off really easy if I want to.  The only drawback after the initial setup on the windshield is that I had to rotate the clutch lever and reservoir downward.  That means to pull the clutch I have to chase it over the top, rather than reaching up for it.  It shouldn't be a problem when I'm riding upright, but when I'm trying to lean forward and keep the front end down in the quarter it will be a chore to reach the clutch without having carpal tunnel syndrome set in by the end of the day. 

         I hope to someday get a video of the bike going down the road in all 5 gears.  But, nothing can demonstrate the amount of torque and power this thing has.  You just have to be on it.  It just keeps pulliing.  The pro rider that works for Yamaha said it best, "any more power and this thing would not be street legal". 

         I find myself looking in my rearview alot.  What I mean is I think it's fun to get out on the interestate and get in front of a car and the car thinks he's going to go right up my tail end.  Of course, I don't let that happen.  A quick flick of the wrist and a gear change and I've left the scene.  Or, as I'm getting on the onramp I let the vehicle pass me doing 70.  I'm barely going 20 getting ready to get onto the interstate.  By the time we hit the end of the onramp I'm already ahead of him.  I know they must think I'm crazy, thinking "what some of these bikers do nowadays.  It's really dangerous", but in reality they don't know how much power the bike has and therefore think I'm riding crazy.  I'm actually just using acceleration just like they do when they jump on the interstate.  It's just that they've never seen something move so fast.  Anyway, it's entertaining for me and that's what counts. 

         Got to go.  More from "V-Sting" later. 

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• Cro Man

  • From: Englissh
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    Hello from France.

    Thanks for your reason why, it certainly takes a man to tell a group of bikers your story, as we are just a bunch of kids in long pants, I think that is good you acept the name and it dont hurt as much, remember the old saying " sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me " what an idiot.

    Keep the grey coming long and slow

    1 week ago

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• what up ya'll

  • From: redneck88
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    been out ridin a bit and have learned some more interestin things. First not all bikers are friendly. I am far from intimadating looking person and my bike is not either. But other bikers don't seem to want to talk just look at you and go on. (there loss if you ask me ,I'm alot of fun ). Next I learned it is very different ridin with a group of riders. I enjoyed my trip to Mrtyle Beach with some friends (about 7 of them). First long trip went on and it was very much a learnin experince.You have to find  a happy medium between there ridin and your ridin style. Of which I did. That whole trip is another story.

      I went ridin with my hubby and learned we have different styles of ridin. Which surpised him cause  he taught me how to ride.He is a slow starter takes his time goin through the gears. Me I go through them fast . To me thats half the fun of ridin. Hubby rambled some thing about gas mileage. (Guess when ridin old harely that is a concern).

     You never stop learnin when your ridin. Hope never to stop learnin  cause guess it means I stopped ridin. I have had a great season of ridin. have about a month left to ride and not freeze goin to try and get out every chance hope to see you out thereRIDE ON AND RIDE SAFE

     

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• ThunderRun to Port Dover – Nov

  • From: kimmer127
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    6:00 AM – The alarm has not gone off so I shut it off so Maureen can sleep in.  Cold!  It is 23 F and white frost covers everything.  Find the woollies and start layering on clothes.  I have to make a 20 mile run to join my fellow HOG members at a Tim Horton’s near Fonthill.    Timmies as we call it is a chain of coffee shops like Starbucks but, they sell real artery clogging donuts, there is no one there called a barista; just Helen on the cash and Fred In-Training.

    7:20 - I am in the garage putting on my leather neck cover, helmet, and insulated riding gloves.  Boomer (my ’06 Road Glide) starts with the first push of the starter.  The Rinehart exhaust is singing in the cold air.  The cold is burning  my cheeks as I clear the village and turn up the wick heading towards the rendezvous.  It is 28F.

    7:45 – I pull into Timmies about 45 minutes early.  Make a note to self: put on the thin inner gloves then the insulated gauntlets or my fingers will be numb at 30 miles.  Ordered a bagel/egg/sausage breakfast and a calorie-soaked donut and a large coffee. 

    8:20 The others begin arriving until all 6 are present and accounted for.  As they get a quick coffee, dozens of bikes are rolling past.  A continuous roar.  It has warmed up to the freezing point.

    8:30 – Time to go.  I take some shots of Dave’s Bobber he built last winter.  Everyone is layered with lots of clothes and don face cover too.  We roll out onto the local highway in a tight formation and Nancy in the lead turns up the wick and we are off.  Just less than 100 miles away is Port Dover.  Someone said the news forecast 12,000 bikes would arrive today  for this one day event.  The population of this fishing village is 5564.  If the estimate is right, the population for the day will be about 3 times more than the number of permanent residents. 

    9:30 – Bikers are feeding into the route from all directions.  Single riders, duos, and groups of 10, 20 or 30. We are toasty warm and making great time.  We blow through Dunnville and avoid the main drag knowing the Timmies there will be overloaded with bikers seeking a caffeine hand warmer.  Nancy keeps a fast pace and we are riding in a disciplined formation responding to hand signals.

    10:05 am – We roll off Highway 6 into the village.  The village centre already has a lot of bikes but the side streets are clear.  We get prime spots to park behind a restaurant on the main street.  A group picture and we are off to the Timmies up the street to warm up and get a coffee charge.  It is now a balmy 46 degrees.  The air is filled with roar of bikes pouring into the village from both main roads.  Every imaginable make and custom jobs too.  Cruisers, choppers, trikes, bobbers, crotch rockets and dirt bikes.  There are even bikers here from the USA

     

    11:30 – I am waiting for my friend David who has come about the same distance from the opposite direction on his Honda Valkyrie.   The parking lot that was half full is over full and bikes now line both side of two main streets for as far as the eye can see.  The roar is continuous.  Wait; is that a guy in a Santa’s hat and a red thong riding that CB500?  David arrives and we go as a group looking for T Shirts and other memorabilia.  I bump into Brad who sold me my Sportster last summer.  He rode his Ultra down from near Toronto.  Soon it is lunch and some of our group line up for the restaurant.  It could be an hour’s wait.  Dave, Brad and I go in search of street meat.

    1:30 – The cops have shut down the roads into town to all vehicles except bikes.  .  There are continuous lines of bikes 2 abreast streaming into town from both directions.  The vendors are out of stuff.  They figured November?? Who will come?  I head back to see if I can get Boomer out of where I parked.  Yep, there is a narrow lane between the metal and chrome.  Some of the group left early but now the others return and we begin to suit up.

    2:00 – We are on the road out of town.  The cops are waving us through and we roll up the hill towards highway 6.  We go over the rise and ahead of us a line of bikes 2 abreast stretches as far as we can see and, there are still hundreds more heading into town.  Nancy ramps up the speed but hauls it again down as we approach villages along the way.  Bikes are along the roadside getting their tickets for missing the reduced speed limits.

    3:00 - We roll into Dunnville on highway 3 for a Timmies break and to don our cold gear again.  I envy Nancy and Lee with their heated vests and gloves.  After a quick pit stop we are off and as we continue on towards Niagara Falls our group is reduced as riders peel off to head for home.  Lee and I bail to pick up the road into St Catharines.  I am a bachelor for the day.  Maureen is away with the grandchildren.  I am wiped so I head to Puddy’s bar for a plate of wings and a cold ginger ale before heading home to download pictures from the day and write my blog.  I take a shot of the long sleeved T I bought  I got the T short to prove I was there.

    11:30 – The blog is done and so am I.  It seems we hit or exceeded the estimate on attendees the 13^th.  We all plan to be there next August for the 13^th.

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• jdj3rd

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• Bye-Bye Hurricane!

  • From: CromagnaMan
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    Because of the minor Hurricane coming our way, for the last week or so it has been grey and rainy here in the "Big Bend" area of Florida.  For the first time in days the weather this morning is bright and beautiful with nice warm sun, and since I have the day off I'm going to jump on one of my bikes and take a nice short ride!  This is the kind of day that’s made for the best rides, for I have no particular place to go and no particular time to get there and best of all, my pain meds have kicked in this morning and I’m not in my normal achy agony! 

    I truly miss the days when I could jump on my bike and ride for hours and hours and the only thing I needed to worry about was a sore “Monkey Butt” … but with age, comes the endless hassles of age.  Aching back, stiff legs, screaming hips, cramping in my lower back and all of the other assorted ills and woes are a part of my every-day life now.  It’s almost worth dying young and not having to deal with all of various complaints.  Dye young and leave a beautiful body … that’s the ticket!

    Well, this blog post isn’t supposed to be about my aching back and screaming hips or even about feeling like I’m going to puke because of all the pain meds I’ve had to take this morning.  This post is about “expectations”. 

    I didn’t expect to eventually have to pay the price for my life-style up to this point, and now because of that life style being in constant pain.  I don’t expect to go out for a nice little ride and have an accident on my bike and be hurt.  I don’t expect to be riding today and have a rain-cloud come up from nowhere and ruin my ride.  I don’t expect whatever bike I take will break down somewhere and leave me stranded and fuming on the side of a road. I don’t expect to be calmly making a turn in some parking lot and have the bike slip out from under me dropping my arse onto the concrete in embarrassment. 

    “Expectations.”  We as humans in general … and as bikers specifically … go through our lives with more or less good expectations.  I know I do, and I’m sure of all you do as well.  I don’t worry and “expect” that bad or horrible things will happen every time I go out in the world.  Like you, I “expect” I will be just fine … and have a wonderful and enjoyable day.  After all … I expect to!  And in the end … isn’t that what being a “biker” is all about for most of us?  Not hiding away in some dark corner being afraid of life and the consequences it can bring … but rather a huge celebration because of that life! 

    We as bikers seize every moment and live it to the fullest … and despite the sometimes disapproval of society and all the “non-bikers” that cannot or will not understand … we rejoice in our life!  It’s expected!

    Ride on and be safe … and please … take the long way home on your ride!

     

     

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• Ressecion hits Bikers

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• Do Ya - ELO

  • From: mcornelsen
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    Okay -  not a biker/rider song, but; I've heard this one become one after a few too many have been "tossed" down...

  • 1 week ago
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• The Fun Stuff

  • From: shadowfox
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    Fun Stuff

    

     

    I had a blast this weekend. I did my first ride with over 100+ bikers. Probably closser to 200. We had our Toy Run and I got to be in it. What an experience. First my friends and I met up probably about 10 of us, then we all went to the Toy run. There were bikes every where. All the groups of bikers met up and talked for a while. The group kept getting larger and larger. All kinds of people and groups some independent riders fell in and then when it was time we all rolled together with a police escourt through town to the drop off point. It was a hudge group by this time and we took both sides of the street for as far as I could see. Bikes of all types and people of all kinds also. we all talked and hung out then went for free chilli. Best time I have had yet on the bike. This is what bikers are all about getting together and sharing the ride. The stories and friendships made are great. Just loving it.....

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