Would you help an Older Biker in trouble?

If you saw a big motorcycle laying on the ground in a gas station or restaurant parking lot and the owner was having trouble picking it up, would you stop to help?

If you saw a motorcycle broken down in front of your house, would you offer to help the owner?

If you met a biker inside a gas station or restaurant and discovered they were too sick to ride their bike home, would you offer to drive them home or transport their bike home for them?

As an Older Biker, my primary goal is to spend as much time on my bike as possible. My second goal is to enjoy the companionship of as many other Older Bikers as possible.

When I joined the Older Bikers Riding Club, there were no other members living in my town, so I decided to recruit new members that I could ride with. I started by carrying a stack of brochures in my bike, my coat pocket and my truck. That way, wherever I went, I would always have some brochures with me.

The next step was to watch for other bikers. Anytime I saw a "cruiser" sitting alone in a gas station parking lot, I would pull in and try to find the owner. Whenever possible, I would strike up a conversation about bikes and try to find out how often the other person rides and where they were from. If they lived close enough, I would give time a brochure AND my phone number or email address along with the suggestion they contact me whenever they want to go riding.

I must have passed out 20 brochures before someone finally called me to let me know he wanted to go riding with me.

We went riding but I didn't stop there. I kept handing out brochures and talking to other bikers until I was contacted by a second biker wanting to go riding.

Then I was contacted by FTW from Older Bikers, asking me to contact someone that filled out an application on the website and invite them to go riding with us.

I continued handing out brochures, but by now I had expanded my locations to include bike shops, fast food restaurants, truck stops and even the DMV parking lot where people were taking road tests in order to get their motorcycle license.

I eventually built up a list containing email addresses and phone numbers of locals I would contact on a regular basis every weekend to see who wanted to go riding or go out to eat on a Friday night or go to a rally with me.

Now we have enough local members that I don't have to call anyone. Someone within our chapter sends out an email with the starting time and location of our weekly ride. However I still carry a stack of brochures with me everywhere I go because my next goal is to be able to have enough chapters in the surrounding towns that we will have lots of club members joining us when we go to local rallies.

We currently have members interested in forming new chapters of Older Bikers Riding Club in:
Atlanta, Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Boonville, Indiana
Huntingburg, Indiana
Tell City, Indiana
Henderson, Kentucky
Longview, Texas
Montpelier, Vermont

Therefore, we are looking for Older Bikers from these areas interested in joining a local chapter.

There are NO membership fees or annual dues, so if you are interested in becoming a member of the Older Bikers Riding Club, make sure you are logged in as a registered user on this website,

then click on this link to fill out an application.

Fake Motorcycle Club T-Shirts

There is a company that is currently selling T-shirts online, representing FAKE Motorcycle Clubs. One shirt uses the words, "Hell Razors Motorcycle Club" with the additional wording "cut throat" and 1938, along with an image of a straight razor on the front and back of the shirt and Pasadena, Calif on the back. There is also a small diamond on the left sleeve, containing either a 1% or 13, but due to the angle of the image, I can not determine positively which insignia it is.

Get Paid To Ride

Older Bikers Riding Club is looking for individuals interested in making money while riding their bikes.

Since our club policy dictates that anyone joining the Older Bikers Riding Club has to be interviewed in person by an existing member, we are currently looking for bikers willing to travel up to 100 miles from their home, in order to meet with and talk to other bikers interested in joining our Riding Club.

In return for your assistance, we are willing to compensate you for your time and gas for each interview, regardless if the bikers you are meeting with, become members of our Riding Club or not.

For additional information regarding this program, please contact FTW through this website or one of the officers from your local chapter.

Why You Should Ride With A Club

Why you ride and the type of riding you do, will have a major impact on your decision to join a club or not. Since I am not involved with hill climbing, races, or moto-cross, I can not speak to those types of riders. However if you ride a cruiser and like traveling down the highway on your bike, then I will be happy to let you know why I choose to ride with a club.

SAFETY

Cars WILL turn in front of a motorcycle.
Drivers are in a hurry, they don't see you, or they just don't care about you. Regardless of the reason whey they turn in front of you, the fact is that I as well as many of my brothers have laid down our scooters in order to avoid hitting a car broadside. By riding with a group of bikers, you greatly reduce the risk of having cars pull out or turn in front of you.

Greater Security against theft.
Your bike, your leathers, your helmet, all of your personal belongings are valuable to you. When you are parked outside a motel room, in a campgrounds or in front of a restaurant, no matter what type of security system you have, nothing works quite as well as having an entire group of bikers keeping an eye on anyone that gets close to their bikes.

Breakdowns.

Nothing ruins a nice trip on your bike like being stranded miles away from home. I can not speak for all clubs here, but the Older Bikers Riding Club has a policy that if one of our members breaks down while we are on a ride, we will NOT leave them behind. If we can not help them get their bike up and running, we will make sure a crash truck picks their bike up, so they can either continue the run in the crash truck or return home with their bike.

FAMILY

Members of the Older Bikers Riding Club become closer then some biological families. In addition to helping each work on bikes or with other problems that arise, we also help out of town members. Whenever members from one chapter of the Older Bikers Riding Club are traveling through an area where another chapter exists, the local chapter will welcome the visiting members with open arms, providing them with food, lodging, guided tours or anything else wanted or needed.

So whether you enjoy riding locally or long distance, if you would like to have the companionship, camaraderie, safety, security and respect that comes with membership in the Older Bikers Riding Club, be sure to contact FTW, Harley or Scooter Trash through this website or speak to any member you see in your home town or at a rally that is wearing the Older Bikers Riding Club backpatch.

New Chapters
If you do not currently have an existing chapter of Older Bikers Riding Club in your area and would like to start one please read the following info.

Basically, starting a new chapter would involve us using the Internet to advertise and promote the opening of a new chapter in your area, in order to attract other Older Bikers from your town. As we receive additional applicants from your area, we would ask you to meet with them in person to make sure they own bikes and are interested in riding and/or going to rallies with you.

As new members are accepted from your town, it will give you the opportunity to ride with them and start building a bond. As soon as there are at least 6 members from your area, it will be up to those members to elect officers and form a sanctioned Chapter that will become responsible for scheduling poker runs, benefit rides and other activities that will help to promote good will in the area. Your local chapter would also be encouraged to attend bike rallies where they can meet with and enjoy the companionship of members from other chapters.

In conclusion, if you are up to the job of becoming our "front" person in your area, please
click on this link
to fill out a membership application and be sure to include a comment letting us know you are willing to help start a new chapter. and we will begin the process of advertising, plus send you a variety of additional information regarding the benefits of membership in our club.
FTW
Recruiter
Rockport, Indiana
Mother Chapter
Older Bikers Riding Club

During the summer months, being able to attend a local "Bike Night" event on a regular basis is nice because it helps you to meet other bikers, make new friends and reacquaint yourself with old friends.

However during the colder winter months, when many of the "Bike Night" events are cancelled in the colder states, it can be hard for bikers to find events on a regular basis where they can meet up with other bikers.

Therefore I am proposing that each chapter of Older Bikers set up a weekly "game" night where our members can get together for bowling, cards, pool, dinner or some other indoor event on a regular basis during the winter months.

Give me some feedback on this idea and see if others would appreciate being able to maintain the fellowship during the winter as much as I would.

If you have never attended a Motorcycle Rally or camped at one, you may want to conduct a bit of research before you go. I would also very highly recommend that you go "with" a group or club instead of traveling by yourself.

Transporting a tent
Unless you are towing a trailer behind your bike that you can transport your tent in, I would suggest you strap a tent to your handlebars, (if you don't have a faring) or carry it standing upright on your passenger seat if you have a sissy bar to strap it to. My reason behind these suggestions is because it is almost impossible to find a tent short enough to fit crossways behind you, without blocking the view through your mirrors unless you can position it where it will ride above or below the view from your mirrors.

Enjoying the 3 R's.

Riding, Relationships, Rallies

Riding

Reasons I LOVE to ride alone.

Sometimes I like to ride by myself, so that I can be alone with my thoughts while I am enjoying everything the back country roads have to offer.

Reasons I like to ride with a group.