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Hope all of You Have a Wonderful Memorial Day!

Wishing You Good Health and Hope That We All Get Back To Having Fun, Safe Adventures Soon, And Invite You To Share Them with Us!

Remember, Wash Your Hands and Practice Social Distancing, Stay Safe & Well

Cover Design By: Lisa Bonta

In This Issue:

  Wow! It’s hard it’s hard to believe that we’re already starting another year!

2019 had its ups and downs, that's for sure. The highlight for us had to be the Zoo Run Safari for Children’s event. We had more Star families this year and hope to increase that again in 2020.

We’ve once again, been happy to have all of you on board with us. We enjoyed sharing stories and adventures with you and having some of you share your adventures with all of us!

We appreciate each and everyone of you and hope that you all have a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year and that you will continue to share your adventures with us!.

Footnote:

We’re very grateful to our Graphics Artist and friend, Lisa Bonta, for continuing to bring us some awesome covers and event fliers, and just generally grateful for your friendship girl, that goes way beyond all that!!!

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   As is the way of everything these days since the Covid-19 shutdown of the world goes, so does the Bike Shows in the motorcycle community. 

One of the best things about being a biker is that our passion opens up opportunities that the poor sad saps stuck behind car steering wheels never get.

Sure, it’s nice renting a car in the south of France and driving around some vineyards but nice is boring. Try rocking up in Kyrgyzstan or Vietnam and renting a nice family hatchback. Good luck to you buddy!

Nope, some countries and some roads either require heavy-duty off-road vehicles or something more nimble, like a motorbike. Below are five of the most scenic motorcycle tours you can do anyway in the world!

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  Well, just before the country was shut down due to the Corona Virus, On Saturday, March the 14th, the Veterans Brotherhood hosted a St. Paddy's Day-Chow Call, with all the Irish fixings to eat and even out-of-state visitors from the Massachusetts chapter.

The times we are living in at the moment, are very scary for the whole country; we know this is all temporary but in the mean time people are left wondering....what can we do to fight the boredom, the cabin fever that so many are experiencing and try to keep some sense of normalcy in our lives. Well for the biker community, there seems to be a rather simple fix to that, something that one of our facebook friends posted about to remind us, so I thought we would share that with the rest of you.

Indy in Birmingham, Thunder Beach Spring Rally, Daytona, The Kentucky Derby, and the Olympics, just to name a few among the countless events canceled due to the Coronavirus.

It's coming up on a year since the tragic accident that took the lives of 7 wonderful people, and injuring many others on their way to a benefit motorcycle ride in New Hampshire, The lives of the survivors and the families of the Fallen 7 will forever be changed, but they also gained an extension to their families, who will never let their loved ones be forgotten.

  Thanks to wonderful people like Brian DeSimone and his crew, who quickly got together immediately after the accident to organize a ride that had to be a record attendance of a motorcycle ride ever....... to honor the fallen and survivors. Brian also helped to organized the "Fallen 7 Memorial Ride And Foundation" as a way to keep their memories alive, and to show the great love coming from the whole motorcycle community around the country, not just in New Hampshire.

The World of Wheels coming to town in Birmingham is always an excellent way to kick start the ride season around here. On Friday, February the 7^th, the World of Wheels rolled into Birmingham for the 49^th time....WOW!

January always brings the only motorcycle show that Atlanta sees all year and, although having attended for more than a few of these of the years, it’s always good to catch up with old friends in a motorcycle atmosphere and this year did and did not disappoint. With the usual Atlanta motorcycle dealers in attendance, the parade of new and unique bikes, custom builds, and street racers was good to see as always as well as a few unique street racers that were the epitome of attention to detail and with that, that’s about where the unique aspects wear off.

  Just wanted to bring you a few shots from: Motorcycles on parade at the Mobile Mardi-Gras. Mobile is the ORIGINAL, therefore the oldest Mardi-Gras event! 

Photos By; Fay Pitts

  The Chattanooga Convention Center was host to the 52nd annual O'Reilly Auto Parts World of Wheels Custom Auto show, starting on Friday, January the 10th and ran through the 12th, 2020. The show is produced by, MotorSports Production, Inc. The specialty vehicles attending this year included Hot-Rod's, Race Cars, Custom Imports, Antique and Classic Cars, and Motorcycles, plus , Special Feature Cars. This event is the largest Chattanooga indoor custom car show and enjoys the participation of many of the local enthusiasts who proudly exhibit the vehicles they have invested lots of time and love in, and for some that is a "years long investment". Along with the locals are many exhibitors that come from across the country to show their vehicles and compete for plaques and cash awards on a local , regional and national level. The quality and workmanship shown on these awesome vehicles is truly a work of art.

  Representatives from the "Ride for the Fallen 7 Foundation" presented officials from the Department of Safety and the Department of Transportation with a custom- made, wooden United States flag, etched with the names of the Fallen 7. The flag will be displayed permanently in the Incident planning and operations Center; a state building that houses agencies from both the Department of Safety and the Department of Transportation.

  On January the 23rd, 2020, the Ride for the Fallen 7 Foundation president, Brian DeSimone, made the presentation to Department of Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn, Department of Transportation Commissioner Victoria Sheehan, Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jennifer Harper, NH State Police Colonel Christopher Wagner, DOT Director of Operations David Rodrigue, and other State Agency Officials at the Incident Planning and Operations Center, in Concord, NH.

  Well its official, with the completion of the Raffle/Booze Raffle, the last portion of the 2019 Zoo Run Safari For Children's event is complete, this years Raffle was graciously hosted by the folks at the Veterans Brotherhood.

    Thought we would share some shots from this years Fall Thunder Beach Rally, courtesy of Mrs. Cindy Marsh.

   Chow Call at the Veterans Brotherhood calls in bikers from around the area to come together over a meal. The members have spent the better part of the day preparing for company, cooking food, cleaning house, and making everything nice for the arriving guest.

  The Eldridge Children's Home run is always done on the first Saturday of December and for 9 year's now, the Gintown Lowlife Society has happily participated and generally just made a day out of it, starting at the Club House with breakfast. They also do a "Mayor's Run" that they take the proceeds from along with tips collected throughout the year, and take a substantial donation with them. They never know just how much they will be taking with them until the week before the ride when the council members get together and count all the proceeds and go to the bank for a cashiers check.

  This year's Breakfast with Santa had another visitor, and unlike last year, it wasn't the rain! Larry Moore, better known as the Magic Man, joined us to do some balloon creations for the kids, and the Chic-Fil-A cow was also there to entertain the kids, he even hung out with Santa.

The day started out cool and sunny on the morning of August 31^st. One by one the bikes rolled in with a thunder and anticipation of a ride to help those who have left us. The bikes lined up in staggered formation until all you could see was chrome, rubber and patriotism. A total of 153 bikes were in attendance, some single riders, some double, ready to hit the pavement and get some “wind therapy”.

  On October the 4th, 2019, old bikes, old parts and old "Farts" :-) started to roll into the Barber Motorsports Park for the 15th annual Vintage Festival, Presented By: BMW Motorrad.

The Iron Warriors Motorcycle Club (IWMC) Beartooth chapter in Billings Montana held its 14th annual poker run on Saturday, August 24th with a turnout of about 60 motorcycles and a few classic cars. The poker run is in honor of fallen officer Kevin Unruh, a 25-year veteran of the Billings Police Department. Kevin served our community with great distinction but sadly lost his courageous battle with cancer in 2015, Kevin will forever be missed by our members and our community.

What a beautiful, but HOT, race weekend as the young guns with the MotoAmerica Championship rolled into Alabama on Friday, September the 20th, 2019, at the Barber Motorsports Park.

  On Saturday, August the 31st, 2019, rider's with the American Legion, Bikers Helping Hand Inc. and other veteran supporters, gathered at the American Legion Club, Post# 214 in Rossville, Georgia to ride and raise money to help combat the war against Veteran PTSD Suicide. They partnered with Mission 22 and Reboot Alliance to be the beneficiaries of all proceeds collected. Both organizations had representatives on hand to answer questions about their organizations and as to what they do to help our veterans.

Another successful "Zoo Run Safari For Children's" event in the books! On Saturday, September the 28th, 2019, Rider's, Stars and Star families started rolling in early for the ride leaving the Barber Motorsports Museum to the Birmingham Zoo, before registration was even in place and sign ups were ready, bike after bike rolled into the parking lot, then cars carrying our Stars started rolling in.

  On Sunday, September the 8th, 2019, well over 100 bikes rolled out of the newest American Legion SSG Michael W. Hosey Post # 205 out of Clay, Alabama for the annual 911-memorial ride. Several of the American Legion Post’s shared in & contributed to this event.

  This year's ride started at the "Bent Horn Saloon in Pinson as the old gathering location, the Thunder Inn, which had been the gathering location for this and many other events for as long as we can remember, had been closed, so a new spot for everyone to start the ride from was born.