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So many new things to talk about.
2008 looks like another great riding season for our chapter. In addition to our regular ride calendar, we've planned a few FARC events. FYI: Unless specified, FARC events are open to all of our friends, regardless of club affiliation. It's always about friendship.
The Annual Blessing of the Bikes will be held on April 19th . Once again, SIP, our Tailgunner, steps up to the front of the pack to lead us that day.
The 2nd Annual FARC National Meet & Greet aka the Rally in the Valley will be held in Lewisburg, WV on May 2-4th. Our Brothers and Sisters will converge in Lewisburg for a weekend fun. Lewisburg may never be the same.
On June 28th, we will hold our 3rd Annual NYC Vampire Run. Once again the Crew takes to the streets of NYC at night for a leisurely ride with a lot of sights along the route.
CCR 5, our 5th Concrete Canyon Run event will be held Columbus Day weekend. This year we're changing and tweaking the event to make it even better than previous years. We're also happy to announce that our brother, Bob Polding and his band will be playing at the Saturday night party (oops did I just give that away?).
Have a GREAT ride season, be safe, and ride as often as you can.
Gunjinn
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| Many have posted their holiday wishes in the last few remaining days
of 2007. One such post really hit home and I wanted to share it with
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When I woke up Saturday morning the first thing I did was check
the
weather. When I opened my front door the first thing I noticed was
the
water on my front steps. I thought to myself, damn I was really
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For one who is usually in bed by 9:30 each evening,
this was probably one of the dumbest things I've ever
done.
While waiting, I entertained myself by watching the
young couple in the sleeping bag on the loading dock
take turns barfing into a nearby dumpster (Gotta love
New York!)
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| This is not today's ride report. Just my thoughts on
Wing's Castle.
For those who missed this visit, do it on your own,
when you can. Rosemary's Texas Tacos is like a
"carnival side show" compared to this! This was
the "Big Top".
The Castle/Home itself is obviously very unique.
Inside and out it's bizarre.....and weird, but not
half as interesting as Peter Wing himself.
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| On the original date of this ride, we were greeted with a NYS style monsoon and June 23rd's ride was a "do over". I'm glad we didn't let this one pass by. Kudos to Geri who suggested this ride and provided me with a map of the route she used to get there. But.....
I passed on her route and instead, used my trusty GPS to get us there, using a bicycle route. What that meant was NO highways!! Only 2 lane roads. The outcome was amazing. Mapquest put the total miles as 111 using highway and the thruway. My GPS gave us a 137 mile route using roads that a bicycle could access.
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| Today was JR's ride to Orange County Choppers. Since I
led parts of the ride (and as of mid-day there was no
electricity in Harrison), I've taken the liberty of
writing the ride report.
Present were JR, Dave, Donald, Dwayne, Steve Sr.&
Steve JR. (Father and son from Queens: friend's of
Frank G.), and myself. Dave had his daughter with
him and JR had a guest as well (a friend from his
neighborhood, and for the life of me, I cannot
remember her name!)
Gunjinn's Note: That's Anne Marie |
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| I wrote a few entries about our trip to Genva, and if you read them you already know that my bike did sustain a little damage on the way home. The process of getting it back on the road was relatively easy, but frustrating.
The actual damage included a broken bracket in the rear that holds the tail light, the license plate light, the license plate itself and a pair of aftermarket running lights that I installed. With the exception of the bracket, these items were all ok. However, all the wires feeding these various things were pretty well torn up after bouncing around on my rear tire for 1/4 mile. The left side floorboard bracket was bent as well as the shifter, and my left side speaker housing was severely bent out of shape. |
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Donald and I planned to be on the road by about 9:00. There was no
pressure or schedule to keep, so that was real flexible. The only
condition we had was that we had to leave before JR and Dave,
because this time they would be taking the same route as us with
the trailers, and we wanted them behind us.
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| I wrote earlier about the ride up, and how much fun it was, but the weekend itself was every bit as enjoyable. By early Friday evening everyone was there. We spent the evening in the hotel lounge just getting to know one another a bit and talking about bikes and life and everything in general. It was fun.
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