Its been awhile since I wrote in the blog, I am going to try and remedy that. I have been riding alot, so more should be posted pretty quick. The XL-List had thier annual rally here in KC. Actually it was at Basswood Resort just north of KC. I ran out there on Friday to say Hi and put some faces to the names I see on the list. Screw Loose Dan had not arrived yet but I had a nice conversation with Decman and others. Decmans ride reports are what I loved most about the XL-List, now if we could [View Full Entry]

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Toto, I See Twisties! The Poppy Poker Ride was a joint project of the women of the American Legion Auxiliary and the bikers of the American Legion Riders, both of the Dwight Cowles American Legion Post 370 in Overland Park, KS. I was the cooordinator as I was a member of both groups. It started as a suggestion that the Riders group help the Auxiliary with their annual poppy distribution. Bill Christensen suggested to me that the riders help the aux and i am sure he was wanting us to stand out front of some stores and help with the distribution [View Full Entry]

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So the weather is beautiful, in the high 60’s heading for the low 70’s (Fahrenheit). I just got the new floorboards installed () and I am itching to get out on the road and try them out. The night before I had plotted some of the points I thought would count toward the Presidential Race challenge that my HOG group is having. The Presidential Race is open to all our members. Every year my HOG group offers some kind of a challenge for fun or t-shirts. In 2006 the challenge was the I’ve Been Everywhere Tour. Using the 91 locations in [View Full Entry]

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08 Installing Floorboards on my 05 883 Harley Davidson Sportster, Effie. Finally a warm day it’s a good day for a ride, but I wanted to put one of the new accessories on that I had bought over the winter. I had decided to try floorboards last year. I spend a lot of time on my bike and have found that it affects the way I walk. The story behind this is the bike is air cooled, on hot days the back cylinder gets really hot because my legs were cutting off the air going to it. So I need to [View Full Entry]

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I learned through the American Legion Riders group about the project of Extreme Makeover Home Edition they were going to be building a house for a wounded Marine in my area. Daniel Gilyeat a single parent with 4 children had lost a leg in Iraq and was in need of a better house. 8 NOV 2007 A DAY OF WORK Volunteers signed up actually a few blocks away and shuttle buses took you to within a block of the work site. When I showed up I was told that they were not accepting anymore volunteers except for Marines. They would not [View Full Entry]

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Our American Legion Riders from Post 370 in Overland Park got together to go see the Patriot Chopper. The Patriot Bike is a National Guard theme chopper built by OCC (Orange County Choppers). It was built on the show American Chopper. We met at 11:30am on Saturday morning. I had to hurry, as I needed to put in a couple hours that morning at work, I work for that American Legion Post. But I got to the post in plenty of time to join the group for the ride. It was in the low 40’s when we left for Cabela’s a [View Full Entry]

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I wanted to add a trunk to my Sporty, Effie. I had a dual purpose need of a trunk for the back of my sporty. 1.) I have a new laptop that has a 15” screen. The old laptop would fit in a saddlebag, but the new one is taller than the bag. I had researched waterproof, crushproof computer cases that I might strap on the back rack, but they were very expensive and would still leave the computer unsecured on the back of the bike. 2.) I also wanted to be able to secure (as in LOCK UP) my clothes [View Full Entry]

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1 Sept 2007 Adams Tennessee After spending a week and half on tour of TN and NC our group of 5 bikes and 5 riders were headed home, this is the second day of our three day trip home. We are all on Harleys and there is everything from my Sportster to Jerry’s Road King in the group. Our day started at Murphy NC, real early in the morning. One bike had some troubles so we needed to be at Smokey Mtn HD in Marysville NC when the service dept opened that morning. So we were riding over the mountains at [View Full Entry]

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I had been wanting to make a run up to NE and IA this year. For the last couple years I have made a triangle, leaving KC heading up I-35 to IA cutting across IA on some of their highways to I-29 (NE) and coming back home. On the way I usually run by John Wayne’s birthplace in Winterset IA, this is located in the middle of all the bridges that were made famous by the movie ‘Covered Bridges of Madison County’. There is also an ‘I’ county (Iron I think), I counties are not found too easily so usually I [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so I was asked to carry the American Legion Auxiliary banner in the post color guard for the Overland Park, KS parade. I rode my bike to the Legion post building (AL post 370, Overland Park) and I wore my American Legion Riders vest in the parade, so its still going to count as a bike event and be included my blog here. The day started around 10AM as I had volunteered to help decorate the Aux float that morning. When I got to the post Norma the AUX president wasn’t there yet so I sat and had a great [View Full Entry]

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