Biggest difrence between Bikers of the 70's and these "Bikers" we got now..
#672
02-16-2012, 03:11 PM
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#674
02-16-2012, 05:14 PM
Bike Week? Don't you mean "RUN TO THE SUN" ? KOA @ Valdasta was the real party back in the early 70s. everyone met there and a big parade down to daytona.
#675
02-16-2012, 05:44 PM
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For sure. I was lucky because my dad was in his late teens and early twenties from 77 and up and my step dad was in his twenties and was one of the 'nam guys to come back who was a biker before he left and came back to the big change up. We have pictures from the early days of bike week and sturgis in our old binders that we keep. I generally try to not worry about it but then I go to the dealers or these "rallies" that are polluted with all of these so called "clubs" (people that make a patch and call themselves a club) and it seems like nothing like it was back in my early days of going to the stuff and it just pisses me off. I actually turned a free trip to Sturgis down last year because I could barely stand to put up with all of the **** that goes on there. When we go to bike week now we spend like a day on the strip checking out all of the vendors and then we usually link up with a club and go on a kickass ride down through Florida.
We call those mushroom clubs around here , they pop up about as fast as mushrooms on a cow pie .
#676
02-16-2012, 07:28 PM
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It wasn't too bad back in Georgia. You've got the big one percent club and then their two smaller support clubs and then you've got a few veteran and black clubs here and there and that's pretty much it. They all get along, except with the CMA guys who **** me off on a daily basis. I get up here to Tacoma and my first rally I went to had probably a hundred people and like 30 ****ing clubs between the 100 of them. It's insane.
#677
02-16-2012, 07:39 PM
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It wasn't too bad back in Georgia. You've got the big one percent club and then their two smaller support clubs and then you've got a few veteran and black clubs here and there and that's pretty much it. They all get along, except with the CMA guys who **** me off on a daily basis. I get up here to Tacoma and my first rally I went to had probably a hundred people and like 30 ****ing clubs between the 100 of them. It's insane.
#678
02-16-2012, 07:47 PM
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I guess it's good to have so many- it keeps the cops busy and just like the boom of motorcycle riders in the 80's, the more patches running around people don't freak out when they see them.
Don't miss these rallies-
http://www.seattlerod-tiques.com/cruzin.html
http://www.skyvalleybikeshow.com/
#679
02-16-2012, 07:53 PM
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Local popular biker/poser bar is about 5 blks from my house & on given sunday I can count 8 to 12 patchs and at least 2 are new ones without fail . That's on top of the Oakland 81 crew . Seen some of these guys go through a half dozen or better clubs the last 25 yrs .
