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Sunday, July 05 2009 @ 12:31 AM EDT

Three Basic Rules

Welcome to the Older Bikers Riding Club website. This site may contain adult or x rated language and photographs, therefore you must be 18 or older to enter this site.

The Older Bikers Riding Club is a motorcycle riding club for older bikers that LOVE to ride their bikes and want to spend as much time on them as possible, while our health still permits it.

As older bikers, we promote the enjoyment of riding motorcycles, brotherhood, family responsibility, and respect for others as well as for ourselves.

We do NOT charge a membership fee or annual dues in order to join our motorcycle riding club, however in order to ride with us, we do have THREE basic rules.

1: You must ride a motorcycle or trike. When we say ride, we are looking for people that are out riding every week during the summer, traveling to rallies, bike nights, poker runs and using any other excuse they can find to ride.

2: No drinking while riding. We do NOT stop at bars when we are out riding. You can drink as much as you want when you arrive at a rally or get home, but we do not allow drinking while riding with us.

3: NEVER abandon another biker. If we see another biker on the side of the road, we always stop to help and never leave another biker sitting alone.

If these rules are acceptable to you and you would like to join our motorcycle riding club, Click here to access our online application
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Are you looking for someone to ride with?

General NewsAre you looking for someone to ride with?

Since the Older Bikers Riding Club does not have chapters in every state yet, we are currently in the process of setting up a new program, offering a FREE service to any biker that is interested in finding others to ride with or go to rallies with.

All you have to do is register as a USER on our website, then fill out the LOCATION section of your profile and we will take care of the rest.

We will go through our listing of locations and whenever we find another biker from your town, we will send you their user name so that you can use our contact form to communicate with them.

BIKERS LOOKING FOR RIDING BUDDIES.

Here is a list of towns where bikers are currently looking for other local bikers to ride with.

If you live in one of the following area's and would like to meet up with other local bikers, please contact FTW and let us know what town and state you live in, so we can forward your screen name to other local bikers.

This page is updated weekly, so If you don't see any towns close to your location, you can check back next week or contact us and ask us to list your town.

Mobile, Alabama
Venice, Florida
Ball Ground, Georgia
Canton, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia
Roswell, Georgia
Watkinsville, Georgia
Corydon, Indiana
Dale, Indiana
Grandview, Indiana
Kokomo, Indiana
Princeton, Indiana
Richland, Indiana
Tennyson, Indiana
London, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Owensboro, Kentucky
Ste Genevieve, Missouri
Kinston, North Carolina
Columbus, Ohio
Clarksville, Tennessee
Arlington, Texas
Dayton, Texas
Denton, Texas
Gilmer, Texas
Houston, Texas
Huntsville, Texas
Katy, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Madisonville, Texas
Hardwick, Vermont


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Bikers helping bikers?

General NewsWould 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?

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How To Attract New Members And Riding Buddies

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.
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Now Forming New Chapters

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.
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Fake MC T-Shirts

General NewsFake 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.

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Older Bikers Get Paid To Ride

General NewsGet 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.
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Why You Should Ride With A Club

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.
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    How To Start A New Chapter

    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

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    Winter Activities

    General NewsDuring 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.
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    First Time Campers at a Motorcycle Rally

    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.
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    Riding, Relationships and Rallies

    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.

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