10-10-10

So I get a text from Steve-O..."101010 ride. Meet at haus at noon. Nothin special, just quick ride around town" about a week or two ago. My thought was just a few of us cruising around Madison and grabing a couple beers and calling it a day. I talk to Tom at the dog park that morning and mention it to him to see if he is interested. He's game so I meet at his house a little before noon. We pass Ben at the Northside shopping place and laugh at him for being a farmer and after a little running around we finally find Steve-O and Corey's shop and pull into this...

This is a cut off view, there were probably another 10 or 20 bikes not in the picture. I kind of hesitated a little thinking we were riding into a motorcycle gang parking lot as we pulled in. Met up with Steve-o and we get a tour of the shop by Steve-o and Corey who are super nice dudes. They have tons of projects going on both car and motorcycles. Corey is almost done with a very cool Suzuki and has a '78 ironhead he has waiting on the burner to chop this winter that he picked up for 750.00. They give us beer and offer up bacon sandwiches. We slam the beer and get ready to roll. For the first time amongst friends, I was not the red headed step child with a non-Jap bike. All Harley's, most vintage/evo's or hardtailed modern Sportsters. Apparently they make this ride every year, but always 08-08-08, 09-09-09...next year 11-11-11...oh man. About 2 miles out...Corey's shovel has an issue...

A little roadside repair...and we're off again. Ride out to Riley's near Verona and have a drink, talk shit and meet new friends. We head out for Mount Horeb for gas then to New Glarus for another beer. I've never riden with that many people...dudes blocking roads so we could cross intersections and shit. It was alot of fun though. Perfect weather and alot of super nice people. I'll be there next year for sure!