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Download This Issue As a PDF Here 06 - Ride & Event Calendar 07 - Christmas Is’nt Just for Kids 08 - Chester’s Celebrates the Journey 11 - Andrea’s Closet 13 - Biggs H-D Toy Store Invasion Ride 14 - Man and Machine: Von Braun 17 - Lynryd Skynyrd - Harrah’s 18 - 2013 Victory Cross Country Tour 21 - Illusion Cycles Cage Fight 22 - Southwest Christmas 25 - Independent Motorcycles Opening 26 - High Seas Rally 2012 33 - Weekly Events 35 - Pomona Valley Hog Toy Run 36 - The Lone Star Rally ON THE COVER: The Tenino Motorcycle Drill Team rolling in the 34th Annual Olympia Toy Run. Photo by Diana Olmstead 4 JANUARY 2013 6 JANUARY 2013 JANUARY 2013 7 By Robert Sweeney Photos by Cheryl Warren Every year, beginning shortly after Thanksgiving, the biker world is flooded with toy runs and rallies designed to evoke visions of needy urchins shivering in the cold with barely a glimmer of hope that Santa will ever find his way to their home. And every year thousands of bikers DECEMBER 29 Rider, Biker Baked Food Auction, Biker Fashion help rescue, rehabilitate and care for the hundreds of with crusty shells that encase soft hearts play the Show, Kissing Booth, Event T-Shirt, $5 Chili lunch, animals that come to the Adobe Mountain Wildlife role of Christmas Elves to make sure that no child SAN MARCOS, CA* Biggs H-D Scavenger Hunt Vendors, Music, Beer, Awards, Games, Raffles and a Center each year. goes un-gifted. Little faces glow with unanticipated & Trivia Ride– 9-3pm Scavenger Hunt and Trivia whole lot more! All bikes are welcome! So get ready The ride starts and ends at Buffalo Chip Saloon - Christmas cheer and bearded, tattooed men Ride to benefit Pediatric Brian Tumor Foundation. to be entertained, tattooed, eat and party!!If you 6811 E. Cave Creek Rd. Cave Creek, AZ. 85331. stoically shrug their shoulders and insist, “’twern’t 1ST,2nd and 3rd prize winners. Raffle. FREE BBQ want to be a vendor, download the application from Sign-up is 8:00 - 9:30 A.M. Breakfast will be available nuthin’”. and Live Band 1040 Los Vallecitos Blvd. #113 our website and mail it in by the 30th of November. for purchase on a first come basis. As always More info: 760-481-7300 or visit www.biggshd.com FIRST COME FIRST SERVED! RAIN OR SHINE participants will enjoy a great lunch, music, a raffle, But there is another segment of our ~ NO rain date! Vendors and bikes arrive between auction and a large display of animals courtesy of society that often gets overlooked by Santa: the JANUARY 5 8:00 - 9:00 A.M. Tattoo and Bike Contest Entry the volunteers at Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center. $5.00 each. For more information http://www. Pre-registration is $25.00 for rider, $35.00 for rider aged and infirm. Most particularly our elderly veterans living in nursing homes, such as the SAN MARCOS, CA* 1st SATURDAY SWAP skinandsteelaz.com & passenger. The first 200 who pre-register will MEET – 10-3pm FREE to buyers and sellers, receive a ride shirt and pin. After February 8, 2013, Boulder City, Nevada Veterans Home. registration prices are $30.00 for rider and $40.00 vendors, FREE BBQ & Live Band. Benefits Angela SAN MARCOS, CA* BIGGS CREW RIDE –Ride for rider & passenger. The AMWCA is a 501c3 In the classic Christmas film The Bishop’s Spence Foundation. 1040 Los Vallecitos Blvd. #113 with the crew from Biggs Harley – 9-3pm Ride with organization. All donations are tax deductible. For Wife, The Bishop, played by David Niven, is giving More info: 760-481-7300 or visit www.biggshd.com us. All bikes welcome. The staff at Biggs wants to more information visit www.azwildlifecenter.net. his Christmas Eve sermon and commenting upon ride with you. FREE BBQ & Live band. 1040 Los the custom of Christmas gift-giving: “You give me a JANUARY 12 MESA Vallecitos Blvd. #113 More info: 760-481-7300 or FEBRUARY 23 NEW book, I give you a tie. Aunt Martha has always wanted AZ* Helping Homeless Veterans. Help us visit www.biggshd.com RIVER AZ* 20th ANNUAL MMA BEACH an orange squeezer; Uncle Henry could do with a new help Homeless Veterans. Register at the Mesa PARTY at the Roadrunner in New River AZ. Wear Marketplace Swap Meet, U. S. 60 and Signal Butte, pipe…” Such may have been the makings for a JANUARY 26 TUCSON your favorite hawaian shirt for our famous contest. Merry Christmas in 1947, but it is a Christmas list Mesa from 7:00 - 10:00 A.M. Receive a full breakfast AZ* 3rd Annual Polar Moose Poker Run Presented $10.00 gets you lunch,live music,Bike Show, Tattoo along with music and prizes. Then ride the beautiful that seems laughable in 2012 when everyone wants by Thunder Mountain Moose Riders. Benefits Contest raffles and more. Party starts at 12:00 - 5:00 an iPad or a HDTV. Sonoran Desert on our 2 hour Police escorted ride Moose Charities. $400 hi/$200 lo. Rain or shine. P.M. For more information call Cindy 623-695-5659 to Tortilla Flats (Sponsored by Tortilla Flats) and 150+ miles of Southern Arizona’s best. Ride begins or visit www.mma-az.org And yet, the Christmas lists of the arrive at Superstition Harley-Davidson at 1:00 P.M. and ends at the Moose Lodge. Chevrons for the first veterans in the Boulder City home are just as 4 bands, Mess Tents for multiple stations to eat, 100. $5 breakfast, $12 steak dinner. Stop’s are: Fred’s MARCH Large Menu this year. USO Style show featuring Arena Bar, La Gitana Cantina, Long Horn Saloon simple as the one recited by the Bishop: One asks the Uptown Angels and Stand Up and Stand Proud and AL Post #109. 8am. Thunder Mountain Lodge MARCH 2 for a sweater and some sweat pants (the elderly Salute to Veterans between acts and bands. All new #2475 2442 S. Harrison Rd. Tucson, AZ tend to get a chill, even in a heated room); another production this year with more entertainment, more 520-603-4668 [email protected] ABATE Local 17’s 25th Annual Freeze Your Ass wants a sheet of postage stamps; a bag of Oreos time to enjoy and relax while we also make sure Off Poker Run is all it takes to make another vet happy. Simple our Veterans are remembered for their service. For Sign in 9-11 at Miss Darlas, 110 Peabody Road, things you and I take for granted, but luxuries JANUARY 26 more information call 480-832-2466 or visit http:// Vacaville. Run ends: at the Winters Community these men and women can’t afford for themselves. standupandstandproud.org/Events.html Center, 201 Railroad Ave., Winters. Food & SAN MARCOS, CA* BIGGS H-D & BACK SAN MARCOS, CA* BIGGS H-D “WIN IT IN A Beverages, Music, Hi/Low hands, Prizes. $20 The vets in the Boulder City home served ALLEY GRILL “Big Burger Biker Bash – ROUND MINUTE”– noon-3pm Are you big enough to take donation/person. Rain or Shine! For more info the most out of the money at hand and everyone in an almost surreal sight to watch these riders 3” noon-3PM This is round 3 of the famous Biggs their country in Vietnam, Korea and WWII. Many the challenge? Big prizes for those who can conquer contact Glenn at 707-624-6310 glennphillips01@ the home gets a gift to open on Christmas morning. make their way through the parking lot full of Biker Burger Bash. Win big if you can eat it all. Sign have outlived their loved ones, and many others the challenge levels. Details biggshd.com 1040 Los comcast.net or on the web @ www.abate17.org It is no small task, as there are over 180 people to motorcycles. An FLH Harley seems like a pretty up today online or in person biggshd.com 1040 Los have been forgotten by theirs. But fortunately, Vallecitos Blvd. #113 More info: 760-481-7300 or shop for and then all the gifts must be wrapped. large machine until you see a horse standing over Vallecitos Blvd. #113 More info: 760-481-7300 or someone in Las Vegas hasn’t forgotten them; the visit www.biggshd.com Phoenix AZ* Then all the gifts have to be delivered to the home it. Fortunately, no fluids were “leaked” in the visit www.biggshd.com good people at Leather Headquarters. Vietnam Vets/ Legacy Vets Chapter “E” 3rd Annual in time for Christmas. parking lot by the horses, although I can’t vouch Spring Party. for all of the motorcycles. JANUARY 19 TUCSON FEBRUARY For the last 5 years, Leather Headquarters Location: American Legion Post #107, 20001 N. All of this is done anonymously; Leather AZ* Tucson East Elks 1st Annual Poker Run Cave Creek Road Start Event Coordinator, Chay Robinson, has been Presented by Tucson East Elks Lodge #2532. playing Santa to the veterans by taking down a Headquarters takes no credit and many of the Michael and Chay wanted me to FEBRUARY 2 3:00 PM. Proceeds to benefit the Wounded Warrior Benefits Childrens Charities, Veterans and Wounded veterans assume the gifts have been sent from far offer their sincere thanks to all of the clubs and SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA* 5rd Annual Project. Door prizes, list of the things they would want for Christmas Warriors Project. Registration Starts at 7:30am, away family members. individual riders who came out to support this Dr. Joe Cortese Memorial Motorcycle Poker raffle drawing, 50/50, auction and music. Free and then moving heaven and earth to make those Pancake Breakfast, Lunch, Vendors, Games, 50/50 wonderful cause.
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