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| Events | | | Largest Motorcycle Ride in the World Starts in Chattanooga | Posted by phrawgh |  Thousands of bikers gathered in Chattanooga today for the largest motorcycle ride in the world. The 13th annual Trail of Tears ride is sponsored by the Christian motorcyclists Association. CMA is trying to raise awareness about the grueling march that killed thousands of Native Americans nearly one hundred seventy years ago.
"Golly mighty, it just thrills me, just to see them come by and, golly, waiving," Alva Crow says.
Crow is a Cherokee Indian who is blessing the Trail of Tears riders. Crow says he's there to make sure the bikers have a safe trip.
"[I'm here to] help the bikers have a good ride, a safe ride, a beautiful ride," Crow says. Bill Cason is the ride leader and the originator of the trial of tears ride. He says the ride gets bigger every year.
"If each one goes back home and tells what this is about, that's how this ride has grown," Cason says.
35-40,000 will be riding by the time they reach Florence, Alabama.
"It's great to see all these lines of bikers down through here," Crow says while gesturing towards the long line of motorcycles.
Proceeds from the ride will go to scholarships for Native American students.
Crow says he couldn't happier with the Trial of Tears ride.
"It's celebrating the life of Native Americans," he says with a huge grin.
Mayor Ron Littlefield called for riders to start their engines, and newly elected Sheriff Billy Long swapped his patrol car for his motorcycle.
Long says Chattanoogan's should be pleased with today's turnout.
"We'll this is one the biggest rides in the nation and they'll be proud it starts right here in Chattanooga," Long says.
Crow says he has the same message for everyone supporting the trial of tears ride.
"Have a great day! It's going to be beautiful," Crow says enthusiastically. Organizers expect to raise sixty thousand dollars in scholarship money for Native American children. They expect as many as one hundred thousand cyclists to take part before the ride ends in Oklahoma. | |
| Events | | | Motorcycle poker run to benefit American Red Cross | Posted by phrawgh | Volunteers for the American Red Cross of Northeast Tennessee will be shuffling and dealing this weekend as area motorcycle enthusiasts participate in a "poker run" fund-raiser.
Rebecca Shelton, organizer of the event, said "players" donate a minimum of $5 per "hand" of poker, with all funds raised going to the Red Cross chapter, which serves residents of eight counties.
Event registration begins at 10 a.m. at Ralph's Bar and Grill on Stone Drive in Kingsport and includes checkpoints at several locations. Runs will leave Ralph's between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. | |
| Events | | | 4 biker deaths cast shadow over BikeFest success | Posted by phrawgh | LEESBURG -- Last weekend's BikeFest brought in about 100,000 more people than organizers expected, making it the biggest and busiest ever.
It also marked the deadliest with four motorcycle deaths during the three-day event that drew bikers from throughout Florida.
The latest death occurred about 10:30 a.m. Sunday when a 75-year-old Leesburg man died at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Tomato Hill Road. | |
| Events | | | Motorcycle Rally May Roar into Quiet Mancos | Posted by phrawgh | The Rally in the Rockies, a big Labor Day weekend motorcycle rally held since 2002 in Ignacio, Colo., may move to little Mancos, Colo., this summer after negotiations with Ignacio faltered. The organizer’s website still lists Ignacio as the planned site for the event from Aug. 30 – Sept. 4, but Rally owner Dan Bradshaw met last week with Montezuma County officials about moving the event to a ranch just outside of Mancos. The Durango Herald reports that two of three commissioners expressed interest in the idea.
“I really don’t have a problem with it because it is a benefit,” Commissioner Larrie Rule told the Herald, referring to the fact that the Rally is a non-profit entity that gives proceeds to charities. “It would be a big money-raiser for the community, there’s no doubt about that.”
Should both Mancos and Ignacio fail as venues, Bradshaw has said he will move the rally out of the area.
The Rally was created after the Four Corners Iron Horse Rally, which had run a motorcycle gathering in Ignacio since 1993, failed to stage an event in 2002. In 2003, both gatherings were held in Ignacio, drawing more than 20,000 participants. Last year, the Rally was held at Ignacio’s Sky Ute Events Center, on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, and was attended by thousands of bikers (while no numbers were released, the attendance was lower than previous years blamed on Hurricane Katrina, high gas prices, and a competing gathering in Loveland, Colo.). No deaths or major crimes were reported last year.. | |
| Events | | | Seeking old Bandana bikers | Posted by phrawgh | Calling all Bandanas from the 1960s to 1976. We are now in our 60s, 70s and yes, some may even be in their 80s. If you can, remember the church where we had our meeting. The address was 1369 Route 1 in Elizabeth, N.J. We had our meetings in the glass shop in Rahway, N.J., and Marty and Millie's in South Amboy, N.J., and our last meetings were in Stinky's in Edison, N.J. I believe our last meeting was in 1976.
Last year we lost Bob Rapp, our first president and I just found out we lost Spider 10 years ago — and you may or may not know that Stoop is gone also and there's probably a lot more. If you are interested, send me an email at thelloyd@chilitech.net. It depends on how many people reply how big or small it will be. I'm on top of the Pocono Mountains where it's biker friendly. Thank you. | |
| Events | | | Deadliest Ever Bike Week | Posted by phrawgh | On Sunday, Bike Week 2006 wraps up in Daytona, Florida, and this year's event will go down as the deadliest ever.
Since the event began eight days ago, there has been more than 164 motorcycle accidents, causing dozens of injuries and killing at least 16 people.
Last year eight people died in motorcycle related crashes during Bike Week.
Police attribute the increase in accidents to warm weather and inexperienced riders.
Bike week attracted more than a 500,000 bikers this year. | |
| Events | | | Cancellation may not stop biker rally | Posted by phrawgh | Hollister has pulled the plug on its annual motorcycle rally -- a much ballyhooed event that capitalized on the allure of the outlaw biker to double the town's population every July 4 weekend.
Officials cited increased costs and worries about rival "gangs" when the City Council voted 3-2 to cancel this year's Hollister Independence Rally. But various promoters are still hoping to salvage the event -- for this year or 2007. And a lot of people in town seem convinced the bikers might still show up this summer, uninvited.
"I don't know what the City Council's thinking," said Charisse Tyson, co-owner of Johnny's Bar & Grill. "I can guarantee 30 (thousand) or 40,000 bikers are still going to come anyway."
Although she may be exaggerating, Tyson has some basis on which to speak. Johnny's has been in business since 1946, the year before several thousand bikers roared into the rural San Benito County town for a rally that came to be celebrated in news reports and the Marlon Brando film "The Wild Ones" as an invasion of beer-swilling, leather-clad barbarians. | |
| Events | | | Polar Bear Run Not Too Cold For Riders This Year | Posted by phrawgh | Jamestown, CA -- Wet weather in the Mother Lode did not stop hundreds of Harley Davidson enthusiast from participating in the ninth annual Polar Bear Run Saturday.
Although the high was 58 degrees, organizers say it is called the Polar Bear Run because the temperature is usually much cooler.
Last year the 2-hour ride was cancelled because the roads were flooded, however this year the advertisement read come rain or shine.
All riders donated $5 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which Jamestown Harley Davidson constantly does fund raising for. Harley riders met in Jamestown at noon for the ride to Lake Tulloch. | |
| Events | | | Motorcycle club gathers | Posted by phrawgh | This year’s 10th annual Polar Bear Run was much more than a motorcycle ride.
It was a time to remember Ron Forney, of Dalmatia, a longtime member of the Christian Motorcyclist Association. Mr. Forney died last year at 62.
The annual gathering was held Monday morning at the Country Cupboard near Lewisburg, with more than 50 people attending. They came from Lewisburg, Selingrove and Milton, but also from as far as Williamsport, Tunkhannock and Hanover, to have breakfast and socialize, and to remember Mr. Forney. | |
| Events | | | 3 Shot as Rival Biker Gangs Clash at Toy Drive in Norco | Posted by phrawgh | The kicker is the end of the stroy. Now pay attention, "six people who were in a vehicle matching the description of a vehicle seen leaving the scene". Perhaps it was violent cagers or some angry soccer moms in a mini-van
Three people, including a firefighter collecting donated presents for children, were wounded Sunday when gunfire erupted between rival motorcycle gangs gathered for a Christmas toy drive at a Riverside County saloon, authorities said.
The shootings occurred about 3:30 p.m. outside Maverick Steakhouse in Norco, where participants in the Spark of Love toy drive — most of them bikers — delivered toys to be distributed to needy children.
Authorities said none of the injuries was life-threatening. About 100 bikers were being detained late Sunday for questioning, sheriff's officials said. | |
| Events | | | Wilma worries haunt biker event | Posted by phrawgh | DAYTONA BEACH -- George Deffenbaugh and Mike Sayer were keeping one eye on the leather-clad women strolling along Main Street and another eye on Hurricane Wilma updates on TV.
"I'm trying to figure out when to run," Deffenbaugh said Wednesday from his comfortable perch on the bench in front of Dirty Harry's Bar.
A Biketoberfest regular, Deffenbaugh found a positive aspect to what he assumes will be a storm-shortened weekend. | |
| Events | | | Officials: Real noise-law test to be in spring | Posted by phrawgh | Sounds like bikers are not welcome here. Why not take these events, and the cash they generate, elsewhere?
This year's fall motorcycle rally provided a test for Myrtle Beach's new noise ordinance, but a better trial likely will come at the annual spring rally.
Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders flock to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand twice a year for bike rallies. The spring rally usually attracts more riders over a longer period of time.
Although the roar of thousands of Harley-Davidson motorcycles along the Grand Strand was inevitable during the past weekend, some event observers said noise complaints were not overwhelming. | |
| Events | | | Leaders discuss biker weekends | Posted by phrawgh | Local leaders met with the Horry County Council last week to talk about the two biker weekends which have turned May into “Bike Month.”
Mayors, city council members and members of the Horry County Council listened as North Myrtle Beach Mayor Marilyn Hatley and Atlantic Beach Mayor Irene Armstrong compared notes on biker weekends with North Myrtle Beach Public Safety Directory David King. | |
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