NEXT SUMMER !! Whooo-eeeeeee !!

Now I like lights, I have a bunch on MY VALK, but you 'can' go over-board, wouldn't you say. This picture was sent to me from an 'invisible member' of our chapter, by the name of Don Lane - he rides a wing, no wonder this photo was sooooo intriguing to him. 'Invisible' - I mean he not once rode with us this summer, NOT ONCE - man, I took a shower and everything!




**** Keep your eyes and ears open folks, for NEXT SUMMER! You will not BELIEVE what all we will be having going on. The plans are in the works for several, AND I DO MEAN SEVERAL, outstanding rides/events. These are all going to be 4-5-6 day type rides, to absolutely gorgeous spots. Some close by, and some - a distance. BUt these are going to be fantastic!

That's all I'm saying right now - anything more, I would be shot ! So plan your summer accordingly, catch a couple weeks with us - spread throughout the months - this WILL BE GOOD !

More Members in Grand Rapids - & beyond

Now here are TWO extremes, in our riders.

First off, my ol' pal Charlie. This is Mr Charles Lane, lives on Crockery Lake, close to Revenna, MI, I've know him for over 30 years now, one of my best 'pal-sie'. Here he's talkin' to another one of our group, Joe T - looks like he's telling him to 'take a hike', but I may just be puttin' words in his mouth. Anyway, after riding many years together, various times and bikes, last year Charlie bought a Honda 750 - and rode with us for a year, not a problem at all with that. But evidently, he had a problem?? This summer, we rode over to the Chicago area, where Charlie bought himself his own Valkyrie I/S - wise choice my friend!! The only problem he has, he happened to buy that 'slow-poke' BLACK model, Oh Well !


Then we have Jack here. I know "I don't know Jack!" But I do now - I just met him about an hour before THIS picture was taken. He lives in the Muskegon, MI area - and rides a Valkyrie I/S Trike, really a cool bike - I should post a picture of that, but I don't have a good close-up, I know - I know, what good am I?? My wife asks me that all the time. Sure hope to see a lot more of you this next summer.





Well that's all for now, but more is coming.
VG (that's short for ValkGary)

2 MEMBERS - of the Grand Rapids Road Ryders

Here we have Bo Roop, out of the grand little town of Jenison (MY own town, BTW). Bo just picked up his Blue/Silver I/S just about 4-5 weeks prior to this ride. So far, he's extremely happy with it - how can you not!

Just had the privilege to meet Bo the morning of this ride, he saw our posting and just showed up. Very glad that he did, hope we can get in many more rides together my friend.

Now this sorry lookin' old fart is Joe T, resides in Mason, just outside of Lansing. Joe and I do a lot of kidding back and forth, he's a fun guy to talk with. Met him on an earlier ride this summer, then got to talking about InZane V in Paducah, and lo & behold, he rode along - actually we shared a room together for a week. Man, are his feet cold, but we won't go there !!


We'll have MORE members posted soon.

See yaaaaaaaa !!

2005 Season is just about OVER !

Just reminicing about some rides. Right below here, we have Timberwolf & Chili Pepper, looking out over Lake Superior, from last August's 'Bridge Ride'. This was truly a cool week-end, we had I think 29 bikes from all over the state.




These other 4 pictures are from Michigan, around the Manistee area. We had 10 bikes on our color tour, October 8th. Kinda a cool day, but still had sunshine - as you can see.
Met (4) new riders that day, which was waaaaay nice ! You'll be reading about them in future posts.


Hey! I lost a couple pics, but we'll find them somewhere along the way.