Clarksville trip to Appleton's HD for their Open House 4-25-09

We started out at Arby's with a group of about 6 bikes.
Made it to Pilot Truck stop in Mortons Gap to pick up about 7 more bikes.
(for those of you that didn't want to take your shoes off... that's 13 bikes...)
About halfway to Hopkinsville, the front part of the group hit the highway at break-neck speeds and left a bunch of us riding speed limit.
We arrived in Clarksville with about 5 bikes still left in the group I rode with.

We actually re-grouped at the Tennessee Welcome station rest area.
Got split up again on the way to exit 11. By exit 11, we still had about 5 bikes together.



At Appleton's, they had Back Yard Burgers catering the event with free burgers, hot dogs, chips and soft drinks.
If you weren't hungry when you got in line, you were when you got to the burgers!
It was GREAT weather. Little hot and got sunburned a little.

We finally left around 4 or so and got back to Madisonville around 5:30.
I rode with Rhonda and John Gibson to the city park to see if the poker run scheduled that day was still going on. It wasn't.
So, I went home.

Our gang!



Just a few of the bikes there.




Boss Hoss Trike


This is the long line to the burgers! (see tent in background!)

Paducah Four Rivers Harley ride

We met at Abundant Grace Fellowship today for one of their scheduled rides.
Funny thing is... None of the church organizers showed up. Seems Phil and Woody and their wives went to Gatlinburg!!
SO, we gathered together to decide who was going to lead us on this ride and it seems John Gibson was elected.
He did a great job and directed us through as few traffic signals as possible.
Tommy and Alice Carr, Eugene and Linda Giffin, John Gibson, Bob Trover and a couple I failed to get their name went.
The guy that rode is also a member of the HopNmad motorcycle club here in town and I met him one morning last week at the donut shop and invited him on this ride. He knows John and Rhonda too.
(I'll do better with new peoples names on my next self improvement exercise!!!)

So, we arrived at Four Rivers to a pretty good crowd. There were LOTS of members of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle clubs from Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and seems like some other state too.
These are the "one percenters"...
What that means is .....99 percent of motorcyclists are Law abiding citizens..... They are not.
The wear a 1% patch on their vests and are very proud of their memberships.
Everyone that I encountered were polite and got along with everyone else.
I did notice one guy that had a very large knife in his back pocket, a clip on knife in his left front pants pocket and another clip on knife on the lower right front side pocket. That was all I SAW....




See the red bandana? It has a padlock tied to the part in his pocket. Used like a blackjack or billy stick, will knock you out faster than you can blink!



There was free burgers and hotdogs and water there too. not bad for free.
We stayed there about an hour or so and left.
Got caught in a sprinkle for about 10 minutes or so on the way back and then seemed to out run the rain.

April 4---long ride

Several of us met at Abundant Grace Fellowship Church on Princeton road to take a ride.
We rode to Hopkinsville over to Fairview to the Jefferson Davis Memorial.
Left Fairview and went back to Hopkinsville via 68/80 and 68/80 bypass. Circled around to The WoodShed BBQ place for lunch.
Left there and split up with the group.
Darwin needed to get back to his house to pick up Mary after she got off from work.
We left Nebo, went to Providence for fuel.
Drove over to Morganfield for another lunch! (had deep fried pickles for a snack!)
Then we rode to Sturgis to Custom Biker Wear to look around.
then back home!