The annual Wise County Toy Run is a great time to meet other riders and ride for a reason. This year Margaret came along and rode her bike to her first large event. We met up with our HOG Chapter at the dealership for the Chapter ride to the event. I think we had about 50 bikes this year from our Chapter. It was a good turn out even though it was down from last year. Upon arrival in Decatur…
It’s been 3 weeks since my last post due to a lot of construction projects I am managing at work. Because of this we haven’t been on a ride in 3 weeks either! This weekend however I managed to get a small break and was able to take off Sunday. We took advantage of this and took a ride to Muenster, TX. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
We finally did all of that work around the house that we had planned for the last couple weeks. Most of it was yard work and after a long day of that, we were tired, hungry and didn’t feel like cooking anything. There had been something like a 50% chance of rain all day but we didn’t even get a drop. Sundays chance for rain had gone up considerably so we thought it would be a good opportunity to get…
The weekend turned out to be far more than I anticipated. Originally our plans were to work around the house on Saturday and participate in our chapters skills day on Sunday. We got up early Saturday morning and the temperature was a nice cool 65 degrees and was only supposed to get up to around 85 for the high. We didn’t want to miss out on the nice weather so we planned a short 248 mile ride to Strawn, TX…
With an event as big as the Fort Worth Harley Davidson Water for Life 2013 ride I figured the extra post would be a good idea. Margaret and I arrived about an hour early to get some pictures and video of the staging area and take part in the poker walk. When we pulled up we were counted as bike number 160. It was early and the bikes were steadily rolling in. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench…
Wednesday evening the Fort Worth HOG chapter gathered for their 3rd 911 Memorial ride. After a presentation of a banner that had the names of all of the victims of this tragic event, Kim read the timeline of the attacks to recall that horrible day. This set the stage for the beginning of our ride. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
Labor day weekend brought about the opportunity to sneak in a longer ride. When you work full time you have to take advantage of those extra days off. I had some ideas of where to go and tossed them out there for Margaret to choose. The winning destination was Marble Falls, TX. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
I had to put this post up a day earlier than usual since Margaret and I will be taking a 3 day road trip over the labor day weekend. Hopefully we will have good fortune with our camera and Gopro and get some good media to share over the next couple of weeks. This content has been moved to Ride it Wrench it.
Following the previous weekend of hard riding I was able to talk Margaret into doing some riding related activities instead of riding the entire state of Texas again. Saturday we both gave our bikes a good scrubbing. They were still covered with an enormous amount of grasshopper goo. This was her first washing of her Softail and a great experience too. It was interesting to hear her whine and grumble about how nasty the bug parts were and that they…
We’ve been getting Margaret out on short rides for about a month. Started out doing 20 miles round trip and worked up to 60 mile round trips. I was thinking she was doing pretty good, didn’t want to push her and provoke any discouragement by riding too far too fast and freaking her out. I decided to trick her by doing a longer ride without telling her. I worked up a route to Hico, Tx and back which was about…