Novi-Pinckney, MI June 21, 2008 Charity Ride

[JoJoYZF]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

Yeah, but even 30 sec of rain means HOURS of clean up time for Gas's choppa.

He'd spend hours cleaning it even if it never got dirty. Im pretty sure he just imagines the dirt.

[Mudpuppy]

PM sent - sorry its so late just getting on here now going to bed.

[Gas Man]

The cleaning sucks on the chrome beast....

[Gas Man]

Yeah well, it sucks... I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

Weather man just moved it to 70% chance, some shit just left here, there's damn red near, maybe just north, of the ride spot. There is a storm cell coming across the lake and heading this way. I don't think its a matter of if more as to when its going to storm like hell.

Normally I would have never even got up after seeing the 60% but I really wanted to make this just for Mud's backing of the ride. But I don't feel like getting wet and being tired (fuckin midnights, just went to bed at 3). So I'm going to bow out, go bk to bed, and I guess go work at my bro's property and new house later. Gee, no riding in exchange for working... WOW now that's screwed!!!

Sorry Mud... hopefully you all stay dry. I'll paypal my ride fee anyway.

[Mudpuppy]

Weather is good first group is getting ready to roll - come on out and join us

[Gas Man]

Yeah shit... I was sleeping when you posted that.

Well hopefully nobody got wet. I know I did at the bro's property hanging siding... twice as a matter of fact.

I knew if I didn't ride it wouldn't rain. That's my luck. Was there a nice turn out? When did it end? That was my biggest thing. Especially sense I got soaked shortly after lunch down here.

[Mudpuppy]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Yeah shit... I was sleeping when you posted that.

Well hopefully nobody got wet. I know I did at the bro's property hanging siding... twice as a matter of fact.

I knew if I didn't ride it wouldn't rain. That's my luck. Was there a nice turn out? When did it end? That was my biggest thing. Especially sense I got soaked shortly after lunch down here.

No it ended up raining at the end on everyone's ride home. Not real bad for me but I know Dyno had to go to Bay City and hopefully rode clear of the weather. Those going West got hit the hardest but it was a brief hard rain.

The event was a complete success execution wise, ride wise, no mechanical issues, no crashes. Everyone loved the route we took - it was a nice easy back road route around a couple of lakes and through Gregory, Stockbridge, Northfield, etc. Wasn't a usual WOS weekend Twisty Assault but that wasn't the intention of the ride.

Unfortunately the weather scared alot of people off. We ended up with 17 bikes - 6 from WOS.

The day started out with a very nice spread at Novi Bowl. They had muffins, bagels, donuts, coffee, juice, etc. They were gracious enough for us to use their bar for registration.

We sent the first group out around 9:45am. Second group followed around 10:30am.

Weather was great for the ride. The bbq at the park was great as well.

The only key missing ingredient was attendance.

Those that attended included members from Redline, DSB, bikerornot forum and some family and friends.

I took some pictures and I will post them up when I get time to get them off my camera.

Bottom line it was a great event which we are going to repeat in the next 4-6 weeks. We are going to team up with some additional people and we are going to do some additional advertising. We already have 99% of the supplies since we had to be ready today for up to 100-200 bikes. So that part of the expense is already spent might as well do it again. So keep posted for more details to come. We learned alot from our first attempt at pulling off such an event and we are going to put it to good use.

If anyone would still like to donate you can do so via paypal to: mudpuppy@wideopensportbikes.com

Just mark it "Ride for Jay Donation".

[Gas Man]

Well i look forward to seeing the pics. Sorry to be one of the guys to bail on account of the weather.

Did you get my donation via PayPal? I "added" a couple extra bucks sense I didn't attend. Hope it goes to good use.

[Mudpuppy]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Well i look forward to seeing the pics. Sorry to be one of the guys to bail on account of the weather.

Did you get my donation via PayPal? I "added" a couple extra bucks sense I didn't attend. Hope it goes to good use.

Yep. I got it. Thanks much. I got the pics on my computer but I am tired so I am crashing soon. I need to edit and then I will post up like tomorrow or something. Hoping some other people share their pictures as well.

Also today we talked about a bike wash / bowling / poker game in the near future to raise money to advertise Ride for Jay II on the radio, etc. and also raise more money for Jay.

Thanks for your support.

[pickle.of.doom]

Here are some of my pics from the day...