Gray Beard knows, "Iffy can be good"

Gray Beard has heard the word, several times, at our club house.

The weather this Sunday is iffy.

It's hard to plan a ride when the weathers looks iffy. Yet, our intrepid Road Captain, GPS Tom, does a good job handling this iffy thing. When weather looks threatening, he checks Doppler Radar and heads for the sun. Sometimes a little rain is involved, but without sun and rain, we'd never see a rainbow!

Tre has a saying, "If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride"

That works for Gray Beard.

Sunday, he headed out ready for what ever the gods of sun and rain had to bless us with. But, guess what? Sunday, iffy turned out to be great! Riding with several brothers and sisters over beautiful, winding country roads was just the tonic his aging gizzard needed to really feel good! After enjoying the ride, he was ready to put the feed bag on. Of course, he wasn't disappointed. Our Road Captain always sniffs out where the good eats are at.

While enjoying a good and peaceful meal, Tre defoliated in public! She let it be known, one of our brothers went wide when leaving the D&D parking lot at the beginning of the run. Our teacher of how to ride rubber side up, Tom, held class right then and there. With a lamb gyro going limp in his hand, Gray Beard listened to Tom enlighten one and all how to pull out of a parking lot. Smiling, Gray Beard nodded, realizing he was, once again, spot on.

The ride home was relaxing and uneventful. A small stretch of 395S was lightly traveled and allowed us to roll along briskly. Good enough! We don't want carbon build up, do we?


Banquet Report

Great Food
Great Turnout
Good DJ
Good Drinks
What more is there to say?

Well......

Gray Beard ended his evening early, knowing he was going to ride the next day. Listening to other riders at D&D the next morning, he found out several of our younger and more viral members shut the house down. Good Going Guys!

Our group came dressed comfortably and ready to party. Road Captain Tom, was dressed to the hilt (who would expect any less) and his long suffering wife Donna looked stunning. We can be proud of all our club sisters, as they really looked good and had a great time!

Bob Douton won the Presidents Award. Talk about a guy that works hard for the good of the club! His meals pack our club house on meeting nights during the cold weather months!

Laughter was the predominant sound of the night

Charlie Kay won the coveted Dauntless Rider Award. He earned it the hard way, with his head! He is also able to wear the distinguished upside down deer with a broken leg pin! Good Going Charlie!

Could it get any better than this?

Yup!

Charlie was presented with a special pin and medallion for all the great things he has done for our club this past year. Most folks aren't aware of a lot he does because he's one of the guys that works behind the scenes. He doesn't like to bring attention to himself. That he was the only one who got a standing ovation for the night was really right way to let him know how we feel about him.

Good tunes kept things festive and Judy did a great job with the raffle.

Charlie cleaned up there too!

Mrs. Gray Beard won a "Dash Board Duster". Gray Beard is still trying to figure out how women think. Why didn't she go for the S90, or the quartz lamp, or............

Well, that's the way it was.

We owe our banquet committee chairperson, Judy Moran, a standing "O" the netime she joins us at our clubhouse. Steve and his wife Elaine were active all night long making sure things went smoothly. Gray Beard is sure there are others who pitched in and thinks we should all let them know how much we appreciate their service.

Ride Free Ride Safe Ride Often

Gray Beard