A Few BMR Bikes

OK, We've gotten the event coverage out of the way, now it's time for some of the other stuff. Today we have a couple of bikes. I don't know much about them, but if you do feel free to tell me in the comments and I'll try to edit the post with the info.

Saw this guy riding this bike around all weekend. Sweet looking ride with very nice paint and LOTS of cool details to keep you looking.

Here it is parked near the Limpnickie trailer.

Better view of the paint and some of the other details. This time it was by the Bling's Cycles trailer. I'm pretty sure it was one of theirs, but I never got a chance to investigate.

If you can't find cool stuff to look closer at in this one you're blind!

Sweet old Ironhead, I'd love to hop on and ride away on this one. That's Curt and Nichole in the background.

Other side.

This one even has a DST sticker. One day I want some Ritchie Pan art!!

Just a nice basic simple XL hardtail chopper, ready to rack up some miles.

Another Blings Cycles bike.

A Twin Cam version. It's black and white so I screwed with the color in the pictures.

And the Sportster version ;-P


Lots more pics to come, so as usual have yo ass here!

Sunday - Going Home!

And we're finally up to Sunday morning. Saturday night I took it kinda easy. There was still some excitement, but I wasn't too involved in it. Let's just say that someone got what they were asking for. Finally we all went to sleep and got up ready to make the trip home.....

Some of the folks standing around talking and saying their goodbyes.

Check out those patches. Think Doug's been to some out of the way places?

Snuck this picture of Pickett when he wasn't looking.

Chris and Rick joined the goodbyes.

Nathan and Andy coming back with coffee. Can ya tell they had a wild weekend? Look at those faces!

Classic Andy picture right here.

Doug's ready to go.

Andy saying "wait for us!"

Finally we all got up, got packed and headed into town to gas up before leaving.

Chris showed up while we were there. That man had a LONG ride ahead of him, but he made it with no problems that I heard about.

A picture with my fan club ;-P

This armband survived the weekend in just about as rough a shape as we did.

On the road for home!

I was trying to take a picture of Brandon taking pictures (I'm weird like that), when Duane decide to try surfing.

He made it up!

We passed a glider field before we made it out of the mountains.

Picture my Wife took when I got home. On the way back Duane's borrowed bike broke so we got separated from the pack. Luckily the trucks were with us so we finally gave up on fixing the wiring and loaded him up. Then we hit the interstate to make time. I got off at the Alabama Welcome Center and the rest kept going. That worked pretty good for me because I was so tired that I was actually nodding off on the bike. This way I could make stops when I needed to and eventually made it home safe where I proceeded to sleep ELEVEN hours straight. I normally sleep about 5-6 so you can see that I was pretty damn tired. I've had time to recover so now I'm ready to go again. The next trip will be the Bastard Bash in August. It's another grass roots party that shouldn't be missed. Maybe I'll see you there.

Saturday Afternoon At BMR 2012

OK, We're getting toward the end of the weekend THEN I'll start posting some of the bike shots I took. Today we have pictures from the ride to the falls, at the falls and a few shots I took during the evening. Check em out and I hope ya like em.

Riding through the town of Tellico Plains. They're used to bikes, but I don't know if they were ready for all the chopper jockeys that poured in that weekend.

Starting up the Cherahola Skyway.

I love how the sides of the road are blurred and the camera focused on Shannon riding ahead of me.

The falls from the stream down below. We climbed up to that shelf you can see with the big round boulder on the right.

Everyone jumped in to play.

Roadside, Darren and Shannon playing in the freezing water. It felt good on a hot day.

You can see everyone up on the falls in this shot. I like to just wade in the shallow water more than get soaked sometimes. The water was so cold and clean that my feet felt totally relaxed and refreshed after this.

The ride back, you can see that Kim had Darren's camera and was trying to get some good shots from the back of Roadside's bike. I'm not sure if she was getting single shots or shooting short videos.

Kim wanted a picture of us together.

Chris and the Cycle Source crew on stage getting ready to give out the prizes.

Roadside Marty MC extraordinaire!

Fred and Dennis, a couple of great guys I met through the evil Facebook, and now we've finally seen each other in person.

And finally to close out the evening a picture of Butters moving his bike from the bike show area back to his campsite.

I know you're probably getting tired of this crap by now, but there are more pics to come. Stay tuned.....

Saturday at the BMR

Friday night was throw down night and I ended up getting to bed (sleeping bag) at 4 a.m. I was up at 8 a.m. because that's as late as you could sleep with the way the sun crossed the valley. As I crawled out of my tent I looked over and saw that Alan had made it back to his tent.....sort of. It seems his tent fell down at some point and Alan couldn't be bothered to sober up enough to put it back up so he kind of used it as a sleeping bag. About this time I heard a loud roar and looked over to see a nice cloud of tire smoke start to rise up into the air. It seems that someone wanted to start their day with a blown tire and then proceeded to make it happen. After letting this get through the fog in my head I walked around for a few minutes and took pics of some bikes (pics to come soon) and stumbled across Chopper Ed asleep in the big top. HAD to get a picture of that of course.

About this time I realized I was as alive as I was going to get with 4 hours of drunken sleep so I rode over to the place where Roadside was staying in a cabin with Kim, Curt and Nichole. Curt was HURTIN' so we left him and his girl to recover for a bit while Roadside, Kim and I went over to the cool little country gas station/cafe for breakfast. Lots of folks had the same idea so we stood around outside until it was our turn at one of the tables. After we ate, we rounded up the hungover kids and hooked up with Darren, Shannon and some other folks to ride up to the falls and go swimming. It was a great ride up and back with lots of goofing off involved. After that we just kinda hung out and enjoyed the day. Check out the pics and be envious that you were not with us. Lots of pics still to post, but I'll break them down different ways.

This is how I found Alan when I got up. Doesn't he look comfy?

From the other side. I'd have to say that this might just be the poster shot for this years BMR.

The beautiful cloud of tire smoke rising on the morning breeze while the drag pipes serenaded me with their sweet song.

The aftermath of the shredded tire. I hope he found a way to get it fixed for the ride home.

I enjoyed walking around in the morning while it was so quiet and the temps were still cool.

Chopper Ed asleep in the big tent. He said he didn't need to bother with his tent since this one was empty all weekend.

Snapped this one on the road out of the campsite on my way to breakfast.

Waiting outside for breakfast. There were only a few tables so we had to wait out turn. That's RTW Doug's Indian again.

Bean're, Chris Callen and some other folks bikes out front.

Chris and Roadside swapping lies. 

I love the views up in these hills. Especially with sweet bikes to help frame them. 

Rick joined us for some good grub.

Back to the cabin to get Curt's drunk ass up and moving.

Saw this at the gas station. When's the last time you saw a Trans Am as sweet as this, especially the dark blue ones.

Curt and Nichole on the way out of the parking lot headed for the falls.

Stay tuned the pics from that ride will be up soon.