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07 - Remembering Tommy Fryed 08 - Ride & Event Calendar 12 - Women of Harley-Davidson 14 - New Products 16 - 2013 Gift Guide 17 - SDHD Giant New Location 18 - Comparing Apples and Oranges 23 - Street Vibrations: Carson City 25 - Bikers for Boobies 26 - Las Vegas Bikefest 29 - Operation Christmas Child 30 - The Kennedys 33 - Breakfast with Champions 35 - Reader Feedback 38 - Weekly Events 39 - Cambodia Bike Week DECEMBER 2013 5 6 DECEMBER 2013 By Randy Twells in both music and motorcycling. And watching the film you get to appreciate I only met Tommy recently, at the long why so many motorcyclists and awaited premiere of the film I RIDE, at musicians alike feel like they are part of the Laemmle Theater in Santa Monica, the Fryed family. A lot of you have gotten California. But I immediately warmed to know Tommy, Harry and the whole to his gentle nature and could see how family through their annual campout & everyone there just took to him as anniversary party at the Redwood River well. We were all there to welcome Resort each September. Nothing like a the final result of years of work, the good early morning pee-run from your big screen appearance of this story tent, to cement the bonds of friendship. about motorcycles, music, family and And as life has a way of doing, the story friendship, and as I watched I learned has a new chapter, with Tommy’s passing what the fuss was all about… on October 30, 2013. The kid who The Fryed family lived in Sacramento, started it all with two words, has now left California. When Tommy Fryed was us behind. He lived, caroused, loved his a kid, his Mom used to get really upset family, friends, motorcycles and music, because she had no idea where he was and was a gentle bear of a man. Where after school. She was working and would does the story of I RIDE go from here? come home, and ‘no Tommy’. So, he We can be glad that we have Tommy on solved it one day with a note left on the film with his brother Harry and the band kitchen table, but being a kid and in a as the Fryed Brothers played gigs from hurry to do what he REALLY wanted to California to Sturgis and beyond. do, which was to ride his bike, he kept it As the Fryed family comes to grips short and sweet—scribbling two words with the loss of Tommy, in the far flung on a piece of paper—“I ride”. yet surprisingly intimate culture of the His older brother Mark who lived motorcycle community, the common elsewhere heard about this episode bond of motorcycles and music that and the head shaking that went on over started it all in the first place, will keep Tommy’s antics, and having a creative this story rolling along—we just have to bent he turned two words into a poem wait for the next page to turn and see which he sent to their Mom. A bit of where the road leads… light hearted family love. All the while, We invite you to view a short tribute motorcycles connected the dots. video of excerpted footage from I RIDE, Then the unthinkable happened, and set to the title song performed by the Mark was gone. But the Fryed family Fryed Brothers Band, in the link here: was always big on ‘family’, so they took https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5 lots of home movies. And yes even GAVftcSPU&feature=youtu.be difficult scenes, they documented, such Meantime, the full-length “I RIDE” as the day everyone said Goodbye to film on DVD along with extra scenes, Mark for the last time. Close your eyes scheduled for release in stores November and imagine thirty years ago, a day that 19th, will give viewers a chance to relive brought sorrow and also comfort, as this family’s legacy and see Tommy as he hundreds of motorcyclists rallied around was, and for those who knew him best, a family’s tragedy. Open your eyes and always will be. relive it with them, on DVD, in the story Ride On in Peace, Tommy…. of I RIDE- as the poem works its way into becoming this family’s mission--a In Memoriam family playing tribute with a poem that Tommy Fryed became a family anthem. August 1, 1964 – October 30, 2013 Everyone has a story of their friendship with Tommy and Harry Fryed, and Please visit some interaction along the way—just the http://quickthrottle.com/?p=8921 opening scenes of the film I RIDE testify for a Tribute photo collection to the impact they’ve had on their peers remembering Tommy Fryed. 8 DECEMBER 2013 DECEMBER 2013 9 NOVEMBER 29 Food Buffet provided by Willits Rotary, Raffle TUCSON AZ* Sun Riders M/C 32 Annual Toy Rollergirls Exhibition More Info contact Tory- on a “At Risk Child” that you sponsor Blvd. #113 760-481-7300 More info: receptionist@ Prizes, Live Auction, Music and No-Host Full Bar. Parade Presented by Sun Riders. 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