Happy New Year

[Rocky]

Happy New Year to everyone on TT
May 2019 be a great year of good health, happiness and safe riding.

This is a shot of our bike club from last May. We had ridden inland away from the cooler Atlantic coastline and were about to go for lunch at a local family/country restaurant that serves great food at reasonable prices.
We gathered for a group shot in front of the fire station.

 

[CarlS]

Very nice, Rocky.

I will be taking a New Years Day Ride tomorrow across the the state to the Gulf coast.

I wish everyone a healthy, happy, prosperous 2019 with lots of good riding.

 

[Rocky]

To top this all off, I just watched the stunning fireworks display from Sydney, Australia!
It was 9:00 am my time; midnight there.
Absolutely stunning show!

 

[CarlS]

It was a gorgeous display! I watch it every year.

 

[triumph david]

NEW YEAR, I hope everyone has a great new year

 

[Tri ledge 58]

Happy New Year. May this year be better than the last, and give us many days, to be behind bars.

 

[triumph david]

R, you are lucky to have a bunch of friends interested in getting out and riding even if its a get together for a bite to eat, a friend and i have tried to spark some interest in something like that with no luck, even the antique car people around here are stuck in the mud.

 

[triumph david]

I got thrown behind bars one new years eve too.

 

[Rocky]

Well, there are bars - and then there are "bars"

Our vintage bike club is a riding club and we have a scheduled ride or event every two weeks from May to October.
There are 167 members in the club and that group above are pretty much the "regulars" that come out for most of the events.
The others we see only once in a while; maybe once a year; some not at all.

We don't fudge on the rides either. 150-200 miles are common and we are out on the roads all day making a good day of it.

If it wasn't for all the rides the club wouldn't amount to much.
The members have put a lot of time and money into the old bikes and love to ride them and show them off.

I told this story before:

One day we had ridden down the coast to a small town and stopped there for lunch. It was Sunday and the grocery store was closed so we parked in their car park and walked over to the pub.
When we returned to the bikes we saw an RCMP officer (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) talking to a couple of the riders.
Shortly after a second RCMP car swooped in. We were stunned because we knew we hadn't done anything wrong.

It turned out that the first officer was so enthralled at the sight of the 1948 Norton in the group that he radioed his buddy to come and have a look at it

Both officers were super nice guys.

 

[CarlS]

Great story!

 

[triumph david]

Now thats the way things should happen!

 

[DaveM]

A Happy 2019 to all and let's hope we all have a great one