airboss
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Been out beating up some north California roads. including the trip out and back you can put me down for 6488 miles. :yahoo:
2009 2 million mile push !
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vanderflugen
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put me down for 623 this weekend
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Isabella is Lazarus
3375 miles last 12 days...
I just got back from one of my trips of a lifetime - Run For The Wall - 12 days - 3375miles - my '04 now has 92275 on it
kicker of the trip was standing in line at Thunder Alley near the Vietnam Wall at the burger tent. A vet with vest walks up behind me for his lunch - has one artificial arm. I order my hot dog, hamburger, and diet pepsi and tell the lady I'm getting whatever this vet behind me wants. I wish him welcome home and he surprisingly brightens up and thanks me profusely. I tell him I'm Navy, fought the Cold War, and am a PGR Ride Captain from Nawlins'. He points to a patch on his vest. It's indicates "Society of the Medal of Honor". Holy shit, he's a Vietnam Conflict Medal of Honor Winner. I offer him my card and a PGR pin. He takes my card and says he isn't into pins, but he has something for me. He pulls out his "Mission Coin" with the pic of the Army Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart on one side with the logo of the Society of Medal of Honor Recipients, and his name and date of incident - during Tet 8 Jan 1968 and Gary G. Wetzel
Mike "in awe" in Nawlins'
I just got back from one of my trips of a lifetime - Run For The Wall - 12 days - 3375miles - my '04 now has 92275 on it
kicker of the trip was standing in line at Thunder Alley near the Vietnam Wall at the burger tent. A vet with vest walks up behind me for his lunch - has one artificial arm. I order my hot dog, hamburger, and diet pepsi and tell the lady I'm getting whatever this vet behind me wants. I wish him welcome home and he surprisingly brightens up and thanks me profusely. I tell him I'm Navy, fought the Cold War, and am a PGR Ride Captain from Nawlins'. He points to a patch on his vest. It's indicates "Society of the Medal of Honor". Holy shit, he's a Vietnam Conflict Medal of Honor Winner. I offer him my card and a PGR pin. He takes my card and says he isn't into pins, but he has something for me. He pulls out his "Mission Coin" with the pic of the Army Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart on one side with the logo of the Society of Medal of Honor Recipients, and his name and date of incident - during Tet 8 Jan 1968 and Gary G. Wetzel
Mike "in awe" in Nawlins'
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airboss
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[SIZE=24pt]Now[/SIZE] you have a ride to remember Mike, never mind the miles.
and good on you
Karl
USAF Vet
Phu Cat AB,RVN
Aug 67 - Aug 68
and good on you
Karl
USAF Vet
Phu Cat AB,RVN
Aug 67 - Aug 68
Patriot
Isabella is Lazarus
thanx...PGR can be a funny thing
this lowly Navy Lt O3 is chummy with Generals and Admirals, Colonels and Captains
I've shaken hands now with 6 Medal of Honor Recipients and attended funerals standing the flag line for two of them
I ask them about it subtley, and the answers include from all of them
1) we wear the medal not for ourselves, but for all of the folks who never came back
2) we are NOT Medal of Honor Winners, We Are Medal of Honor Recipients
3) when the shit hits the fan, we do not fight for God, Country, or Mom's Apple Pie; we fight for our buddy/comrade at our side and it's amazing what one can do with no regard for self when he get's pissed off enough
Mike "still in awe" in Nawlins'
zorkler
Ave U !!!!
Great story!! . Patriot
bikesniffer
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2945 miles to Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Italy and back to Switzerland with Stefano and his friends...9 days and lots of freeway riding all in all 5 min. rain.
Alfredo
Alfredo
2606 miles
petey
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Add another 600m
wheatonFJR
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Patriot
Isabella is Lazarus
175 miles today - really great day
AIW (Angelic Italian Wifey) as pillion for first time in a year because of assorted health problems - did just fine
Jeff Q and his lovely wifey Sonja came by to the Big Easy from Biloxi to join us
She rides a Katana 750, but left it at my home and rode pillion with Jeff on his '08 since my wife did the same with me
Metairie, Destrehan, over the Destrehan Bridge across the mighty Miss, Luling to Raceland to twisties through sugar cane fields through Kraemer to Vacherie
then River Road north to Oak Alley Plantation - took the tour and walked around
up River Road some more, cross the mighty Miss on the Sunshine bridge, then twisty hwy 22 along the bayou to Springfield.
lunch at Charlie's Seafood with great jumbo butterfly fried shrimp, onion rings to die for, broiled fish, and grilled tuna.
then to Ponchatoula, hwy 51 along Lake Maurepas to Laplace and back to Metairie.
All had a good time and look forward to doing it again.
let's ride safe and be careful out there,
Mike in Nawlins'
AIW (Angelic Italian Wifey) as pillion for first time in a year because of assorted health problems - did just fine
Jeff Q and his lovely wifey Sonja came by to the Big Easy from Biloxi to join us
She rides a Katana 750, but left it at my home and rode pillion with Jeff on his '08 since my wife did the same with me
Metairie, Destrehan, over the Destrehan Bridge across the mighty Miss, Luling to Raceland to twisties through sugar cane fields through Kraemer to Vacherie
then River Road north to Oak Alley Plantation - took the tour and walked around
up River Road some more, cross the mighty Miss on the Sunshine bridge, then twisty hwy 22 along the bayou to Springfield.
lunch at Charlie's Seafood with great jumbo butterfly fried shrimp, onion rings to die for, broiled fish, and grilled tuna.
then to Ponchatoula, hwy 51 along Lake Maurepas to Laplace and back to Metairie.
All had a good time and look forward to doing it again.
let's ride safe and be careful out there,
Mike in Nawlins'
Jeff Q
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petey
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Patriot
Isabella is Lazarus
200 miles
another great day in the deep south
combined CMA / PGR ride to Baton Rouge for fundraiser for Baton Rouge motorcycle officer hurt in an accident in the line of duty escorting a funeral recently. :angry:
AIW (Angelic Italian Wifey) as pillion - my 2 teenager daughters are at Church Camp in Tennessee so we are free to do as we please :yahoo:
another great day in the deep south
combined CMA / PGR ride to Baton Rouge for fundraiser for Baton Rouge motorcycle officer hurt in an accident in the line of duty escorting a funeral recently. :angry:
AIW (Angelic Italian Wifey) as pillion - my 2 teenager daughters are at Church Camp in Tennessee so we are free to do as we please :yahoo:
zorkler
Ave U !!!!
BEST month to date May total is [SIZE=36pt] 52,644 [/SIZE]Miles .Great going to all members that posted up thanks .
zorkler
Ave U !!!!
Total miles year to date is [SIZE=36pt] 163,675 2/10 & 8 feet . [/SIZE]
Tenchi
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Sorry I was late!!! I meant to enter these last night but I got sleepy.
May totals:
Motorcycle Miles - 2712 mi - California/Mt. Rainier
Bicycle Miles* - 1272 mi - A f*ckload of riding to and from work (60 mi round trip), a 44 mi 2500 ft of climbing and 100 mi 7000+ ft of climbing charity rides.
Total: 3984 mi
* I'm taking part in a commute challenge. Last month's ranking: Ranked 23 out of 10368 (I was in California for a week which hurt my rankings).
May totals:
Motorcycle Miles - 2712 mi - California/Mt. Rainier
Bicycle Miles* - 1272 mi - A f*ckload of riding to and from work (60 mi round trip), a 44 mi 2500 ft of climbing and 100 mi 7000+ ft of climbing charity rides.
Total: 3984 mi
* I'm taking part in a commute challenge. Last month's ranking: Ranked 23 out of 10368 (I was in California for a week which hurt my rankings).
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