New England riders will be happy to hear that the First Annual Guns & Hoses 911 Memorial Ride will be held in Hudson, NH on Saturday, September 11, 2010.
The ride will start at the VFW in Hudson, continue through beautiful countryside, and end at the The Upper Deck, Salisbury Beach where all participants will enjoy a barbeque.
The motorcycle event is jointly sponsored by the Enforcers Motorcycle Club New Hampshire and Fire and Iron Station 28 Boston. All proceeds from the ride, which is held in memory of the heroes lost on 9/11, 2001, will go to benefit homeless veterans through HomesForOurTroops.org.
To find more information, pelase see the Guns & Hoses website.
The 11th Annual Nelson’s Ride will take place at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, MA on Sunday, August 22.
This memorial motorcycle ride is held every year in honor of a 19-year-old Essex man, Nelson Selig, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 2000.
Nelson’s Ride was started to help Selig’s widow, Felicia, raise college money for their two children, Nelson Jr. and Kristin. Once that was accomplished, in 2003, Felicia requested that the proceeds from the ride go to the Massachusetts Motorcyclists Survivor’s Fund.
More than 1,000 motorcyclists are expected to join the ride, which will go through Essex, Ipswich, Hamilton and Manchester.
Registration begins at 9:30 am at the park. Tickets are $15. Advance tickets, $10.
The ride kicks off at noon, with the first riders will start returning to the park around 1 pm. Afternoon entertainment includes bands, including Full Circle of Gloucester, a 50/50 raffle worth more than $500, bike games, and more.
Ride and raffle tickets may be purchased at Cycles 128 in Beverly; the Ipswich VFW; the Whittier Motel; Seacoast Cycles in Newburyport; Provanzano Law Offices in Peabody; Eric’s Auto Repair and Gypsy Cycles in Rowley; and Lister Insurance Agency in Medford.
The 70th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is in full swing attracting hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riders and biker fans. For a few days, the small town of Sturgis, South Dakota, is the epicenter of motorcycle noise, music, and festival activity, but in all the fun and chaos, accidents still happen and bikers still die in crashes.
So far at least 9 people have been killed in motorcycle accidents at the Rally. Among them are a senior motorcycle rider, the say 83-year-old Eugene Sowles Jr. of Round Lake, Minnesota, who died before the start of the rally (on Sunday).
At least three others were killed in separate crashes in South Dakota Friday and Saturday, and others were killed on Monday in a collision with a pickup truck.
We sympathize with the families of those bikers who died in the accidents, and wish for speedy recovery to those lucky enough to escape only with injuries from Sturgis Rally crashes.
The rest of our fellow riders currently at the Rally – send us your comments and pictures. Let us know how you like the event.
And don’t forget, the big closing night concerts are coming up…
To get a better idea of this year’s Sturgis Rally feel, see Brian Harley’s blog on Motorcycle-USA.
The 70th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally started today. The most enthusiastic riders arrived over the weekend with thousands more swarming in from all over the U.S. Official attendance estimates for this year’s rally are between 500,000 and 750,000 people.
The Sturgis rally was first held in 1938, organized by the Jackpine Gypsies Motorcycle Club as a venue for racing and stunts. It has survived and thrived since then, continuing the tradition every year except for two years during World War II.
Today, the Sturgis rally is a world-famous event drawing an ever-growing number of motorcycle enthusiasts from all over the world.
To see some of this year’s Sturgis rally photos, please click here.
More Sturgis-related stories, here.
Guns N’ Roses fans and Sturgis bikers will be happy to hear that GN’R will make their first US concert appearance in the last four years at the annual Rock ‘N Rev festival during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (Aug 9 – Aug 13) in Sturgis, South Dakota. This will also be the GNR only US show for all of 2010.
GNR will close the Sturgis motorcycle week’s final night, Friday, August 13 at the newly constructed Rock N’ Rev Amphitheater at Monkey Rock USA.
The fest will also include Daughtry, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Godsmack, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Hinder and Hellyeah.
The 33rd Annual National Bikers Round Up is currently going on in Columbia, MO.
Thousands of bikers have already arrived at the Boone County Fairgrounds, where the event will be held.
About 50,000 motorcycle lovers are expected to attend this year’s round up despite the heat wave. The motorcycle event will last till August 8, 2010 (Sunday).
Get this promo PDF flyer here.
The 70th Anniversary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is starting in a week or so – - – August 9 – 15, 2010 to be more precise.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is usually held in the first week of August in Sturgis, South Dakota, but the 70th anniversary of this event starts on the 9th of August this year.
The rally has been held every year, except for a few years in WW2, and the event draws hundreds of thousands riders and other motorcycle fans.
Some of the rides that Sturgis bikers take every year include Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Road, the Wildlife Loop, Vanocker Canyon Road, Spearfish Canyon, and more.
Check out these amazing photos from last year’s Sturgis rally.
Our friend, the Hoka Hey Challenger and Harley-Davidson enthusiast, Carlos Vieira, is back from his motorcycle travels across the United States and Canada.
He arrived home to Massachusetts after more than a 15,300 miles journey.
Welcome home, Carlos!!!
We can’t wait to hear all the details about your days on the road.
Here are the latest updates on Carlos Vieira’s journey after the 2010 Hoka Hey Challenge – he continued on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Alaska to Canada, then back to the US, on his long way home to Massachusetts. To read in detail about his travels, please visit his blog.
7/19 – As of 3:30pm Carlos is approx 300 miles away from the US Border and his goal is to make it there tonight. Not only did he lose a credit card early on in the begining of the Challenge, he has now lost his toiletry bag! Wonder what he’s going to lose next….stay tuned!
7/19 (later that day)- Carlos is back in the USA! He had a very long 500+mile ride mostly in the rain today. Next destination is the Harley Museum in Milwaukee, WI, that will be approx 1500 miles of traveling.
7/20 – Carlos is now in North Dakota. He traveled approx 600 miles today, getting closer to the Museum! He is going to stop off and get a tire for the bike at the next HD Dealership he finds.
7/21 – Carlos got his tire first thing this morning and started motoring along. He found the Geographical Center of North America in Rugby, ND today! He is already 2/3rds of the way through Minnesota on his way to Milwaukee.
7/22 – Carlos thanks the Service guys at Roughrider HD in Minot, ND for scraping together a few bucks for gas money. Also, a thanks to the retired doctor who gave Carlos $20 at the BP station tonight.
Carlos at the Geographical Center of North America in Rugby, ND
The 5th Annual Charity Motorcycle Ride and Bike Show in memory of Mary Ann Tedesco was held over the weekend in Torrington, CT. The event brought together over 170 motorcyclists and other guests to commemorate her community spirit and love of riding a motorcycle, the RegisterCitizen reported.
Mary Ann Tedesco, who died of a heart attack in 2005, was known and loved as an active volunteer, a frequent participant in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and an overall outstanding human being.
Her family has been raising money through this event for the last five years to benefit organizations that fight breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Through the Mary Ann Tedesco Memorial Fund they have also given nine $500 scholarships to students from Torrington High School and Oliver Wolcott Technical School.
The Sunday motorcycle event welcomed bike riders from all over the US, including Massachusetts.
Starting from the parking lot of RJB Contracting on Winsted Road at 11 am on Sunday, bikers went on a two and a half-hour cruise through Torrington, New Preston, Morris, Cornwall, Canaan, Norfolk and Winsted, and enjoyed music, food, raffle, and a bike show after the cruise.
