Born to Ride Southeast #129 - November 2023

NOV 2023 #129

Contents

NOVEMBER ISSUE 129

FEATURES

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France In America

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Bert’s St. Pete. Bikefest

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Ride Appalachia

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Hogster’s Chopper & Tracy

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COLUMNS

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Nefarious James

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James Irwin: It’s Time!

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Spyke and Mike

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CMA

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DEPARTMENTS Contents Page

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Letter From The Editor Dave Nichols

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BTR Kids

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REPORTS

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Join the BTR Group

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Fuel Tank Rusty?

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ON THE COVER

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Letter from the Editor

DAVE NICHOLS

FROM THE HELM GIVIN’ THANKS – WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOU! HOWDY BROTHERS AND SISTERS! Welcome to November, the month that brings you Veteran’s Day on the 11th. Enjoy the freedom of riding your motorcycle on this incredible day that honors our men and women of the Armed Forces and all of our intrepid veterans out there! November is also the month that brings us Thanksgiving; a great opportunity to give thanks for all the blessings in our lives… and they are many.

Our cover story for this issue is all about the awesome Saint Pete BikeFest! Your brothers and sisters here at Born To Ride are gearin’ up to blow the doors off out at Bert’s Barracuda Harley-Davidson on November 16th through the 19th.

Join the Skyway Charity Ride with Paul Teutul Senior from American Chopper fame.

Put your ride in the Bike Show Mafia ride-in show. There will be ten great bands playing over four days, plus pro wrestling, and wild and wooly Redneck Biker Games! Visit www. saintpetebikefest.com for more info. You don’t want to miss this kickass event! We’ll see you there!

This November issue brings you a Mega 16page feature called France in America that follows one rider’s trek of over 21,000 miles across America on two wheels. Gary France is a biker from England who takes his HarleyDavidson on a four-month sojourn across ths great land and makes many discoveries along the way. Join us for this epic once-in-alifetime road trip.

Yes, this issue of Born To Ride ia packed with everything bikers love, including a killer feature on Hogster’s Chopper with tantalizin’ Tracy shot by Daniel Gallant. Riders are always giving back to their communities for good causes and this month we cover bikers doing good for Autism Awareness.

Riding the mountain backroads of the Appalachians should be on your bucket list and we’ll go in search of brightly colored falling leaves along Country Music Highway 23 for some of the best riding in America.

But wait, there’s more! All this plus Nefarious James reminds us to be grateful for the little things in life. Turns out they’re mighty big things. And our own crazy parrot gets mighty nervous at this time of year. We join Spyke & Mike for a crazy cluster pluck.

Don’t forget to join our Born To Ride Facebook Group to keep up to snuff on all the motorized adventures coming up and join Boss Hog Radio on Thursday nights for good ol’ Biker talk, and check our Instagram, it is growin’ fast! Have a biker friendly business? Let Born To Ride tell the world all about it! Advertise and support the south’s best biker magazine.

Happy Thanksgiving brothers and sisters, from our family to yours.

Ride full of turkey!

— Dave Nichols

editor@borntoride.com

A 21,000 MILE USA DISCOVERY ON MY HARLEY-DAVIDSON

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Gary France is English and lives near London. In a few short years, Gary’s self-description changed from “Project Management Executive” to “Writer, traveler and motorcyclist, who is happiest when combining all three.”

That’s quite a shift, but nevertheless an authentic summary.

Riding with just his thoughts for company, Gary’s description of his 4-month trip unfolds through a down-to-earth record of what he saw, whom he met and what he felt on the road, backed up with an impressive photographic inventory. As he clicks up the miles from the New England states, through the Midwest and the Rockies, and closing in the desert states of the Pacific coast, his thoughts, language and photographs become increasingly reflective and vivid as the ‘journey’ progresses— revealing more and more of his internal exploration and steady winding down.

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with many. Not just those who wish they could make such a once-in-a-lifetime road trip, but also with the many men who have faced the unspoken uncertainties and reassessments of midlife.

This is not only a detailed guide about where to go and what to see in the USA. It is also a personal story of one person seizing the moment—a living testimony to the maxim that travel is not so much about the destination as it is about the journey itself. One man living his dream, and carefully cornering through the opportunities that midlife presents.

Having ridden 21,475 miles in the USA on one spectacular road trip, I was struck by a few things. I had no idea that America is so beautiful, with so many great places to see. I rode over high mountains and across deserts. I went to big vibrant cities and tiny towns.

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be cherished, and I saw brand new things to marvel at. At times, I was boiling hot—others I was freezing cold. What an amazingly diverse country the USA. I would like to thank America, all of it and all of its people.

As a nation, you have some extraordinary qualities and Americans are a very special people. I was touched by your generosity, politeness, and overwhelming friendship.

Just about everywhere, I went bikers greeted me like a brother. We shared road stories and a few beers and it seems bikers are almost the same the world over, going out of their way to help a fellow motorcyclist.

My motorcycle carried me effortlessly on a tremendous journey without complaint and without any major problem.

There was only one make of bike I could ever have ridden across the U.S. on, and it had to be a Harley-Davidson.

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Gary France We are proud to announce Gary is a new international moto-jounalist for Born To Ride, and he has some really cool stuff on the way for us all. Grab a copy of his book because it’s awesome; his 21,000 mile discovery of America should make us all proud of our great country through the eyes and words of Mr. Gary France.

FRANCE IN AMERICA is a visually stunning 400page volume offering a unique mix of Americana, travel, motorcycling and a personal account of male mid-life transition. The book showcases an extraordinary 21,000-mile solo journey by a man leaving behind his professional life and identity to explore America and fulfill a lifelong dream.

The official launch of FRANCE IN AMERICA will take place at Warr’s (King’s Road, London, UK), Europe’s oldest HarleyDavidson dealership. The only current book source is www. garysfrance.com.

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BE GRATEFUL “no one in this country, or the world for that matter, should ever go hungry.”

Welcome to November. Hopefully you enjoyed, and survived Biketoberfest and Halloween. Now it’s time to gear up for Thanksgiving. It’s the time to remember and celebrate the things we should be grateful for. The little things. You know, health, happiness, living indoors, food on the table and things like that. Many out there do not have some of these things. Others have none of them.

It may be that time to think of them during this holiday season and give a hand up if you can.

at the argument of who loves or hates Trump, but nothing about how the current administration is quickly destroying this country. Those who support Trump or those who support Biden have the right to do so.

Both sides should debate each other to support their views. Start with the topic of achievements of your candidate, not what

Sometimes it’s hard to reach out to others to help them when we have so many cons out there who aren’t needy but greedy and lazy. Still, no one in this country, or the world for that matter, should ever go hungry.

As predicted, we now have lab grown meat and synthetic eggs on our food shelves. We have conflicts starting all over the world that our government is getting us involved in. Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants from all over the world who are slowly exhausting our social resources. Many of our veterans are still living on the streets even after our government gave its word not to forget about them. All of this paid for by us; the hard-working tax payers. Many people’s involvement in our political system stops

you have against your opponent’s choice.

Grow up. Finger pointing accomplishes nothing. It solves nothing.

We have electric cars taxing power grids to failure and brown outs on the west coast. We have freshwater shortages all around the country as well as wildfires and food processing plants burning down to the ground. Farmable land is being left to dry up and not produce well needed food. Gas prices are through the roof for

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no reason, and on and on. But why should society care? As long as marijuana is legal, pills are easy to buy on the street.

Our educational system is a joke, gangs and violence are on the huge rise, crime is rampant and we can easily make money by selling nude photos of ourselves or become popular by eating Tide pods or licking public toilet seats and posting it to social media. all is good, right?

The plan to dumb down America is in full swing. But why am I complaining, right? I miss the freedom and quality of life we use to have in this country.

Some of us work harder than ever before, and in return it seems we are punished for it. We are being priced out of existence. I remember purchasing my first motorcycle. It was a basket case.

I traded a typewriter and $100 for it.

The rest of it was paid for with blood, sweat, and tears. It wasn’t much to look at, but it was mine and I was proud of it.

You sure as hell can’t do that today. I ask you this. Why are those that have the most to lose do nothing to stop this? When you figure it out, let me know.

Ride Free. Be as safe as you want to be.

Live your life to the fullest and remember, Freedom isn’t Free.

--Nefarious James

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RIDE APPALACHIA

BACKROADS OF APPALACHIA The leaves are falling to the ground here in our mountains and another riding season is coming to a close for us here on the

Backroads of Appalachia. It was a season to remember this year

as thousands of new riders came to our region to experience what we have to offer here in the last unexplored frontier on the East Coast. On the Motorcycle Side of our Non-Profit Organization, our all volunteer Whitley County Motorcycle Facebook Group

averaged over 20+ new members per week all season long as

more and more riders joined us in our mission to bring economic

development to our small forgotten coal towns through Motorsports Tourism. It is truly a community effort here at the WCMG and we are making a difference and we could not accomplish what we have in such a short time frame without you the rider. We are

humbled by the response we are getting now and no words can tell you how much we appreciate your support of what we do.

This season we were able to attend 5 major Rally events, bring

our new Backroads of Appalachia Live! Show to Facebook, add 8 new gps-enabled trail routes to our Backroads of Appalachia Mobile Application, and host over 25 events and rides helping many small towns, small businesses, numerous charities, and

multiple people in need along the way. We also began adding

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and we are already working on the expansion of our trail route

system to include another Appalachian state, West Virginia! This will allow us to reach even more impoverished areas across

our region while also bringing you more of the best riding in

the U.S.! When you come here you are not just making lifelong memories, you are also helping our area recover from years

of economic downturn. For everyone who came to ride here or

visit us this season, our media partners, our sponsors, and our state and local government supporters, we thank you and we look forward to seeing everyone next year as we pull out all

the stops in 2024 to bring you our biggest riding season, trail route system, and event schedule yet! Stay tuned next month as we begin our Winter coverage highlighting many different

areas for you to check out and explore here on the Backroads of Appalachia starting with the one and only Country Music Highway 23!

-Jay Fryman

Founder, Whitley County

Motorcycle Group

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A Biker Helping

Bikers

JAMES IRWIN

LET’S AVOID EVER HAVING TO SAY “I WISH I KNEW BACK THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW” What a stellar month this has been! Started off celebrating the Quaker State 20th anniversary party. I attended the event with former off shore boat racer Drew Moon. Drew and I met through Born to Ride and he became a CLIENT and CLOSE FRIEND. I have found over the years many boaters ride, too. We all love to feel the wind in our face.

Maybe that’s why dogs love to s<ck their heads out car windows.

During the Quaker State event there was a auction for charities. I was the WINNING BID for the Evel Knievel Tribute guitar signed by legend himself and other daredevil legends such as Bills Gills who jumped a set of Ryder trucks that aired during super bowl VIII. Another signature was Terry Hopkins who set the land motorcycle speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

There are only two ways to help people financially. You can either help them find a better product than they have today, one that potentially pays a higher rate of return but may require more risk.

OR you can help them be more efficient with the money they already have.

I believe in the latter of those two approaches. I believe there is more opportunity to serve my clients by helping them avoid losses than by predicting the winners. You are probably wondering how I do that. Well, there are five major areas where most people are losing money unknowingly and unnecessarily. Call me or attend one of my webinars or seminars to learn these simple truths.

I also help fellows bikers answer important financial questons like:

Do you know what rate of return you need to earn on your current savings and investments In order to live at your current lifestyle in retrement and have your money last till life expectancy factored in for inflatioon?

Do you know? Do you want to know? I can answer that ques<on in a 15 minute phone call for free. CALL ME 1-833-467-2865

Do you want to know how to be in the ZERO % TAX BRACKET? Is your re<rement plan a IOU to the IRS?

Did you know tax rates are going up Jan. 1st 2026?

Did you know that David Walker former Comptroller General of the United States says TAX RATES WILL HAVE TO RAISE 50% by 2030 just to pay for unfunded obligations like Social Security,Medicaid, Medicare, and interest on the national debt?

If you think this won’t happen just think about all the thing happening now you never thought would happen.

The PROCEEDS of my winning bid went to Rev Jims Racing for Orphans foundation and Floridian Sheriff Youth Ranches, two outstanding causes! The month ended with a party attending Bert’s Harley Davidson Halloween festival. What a fun place that has become thanks to Christy Bert’s event specialist. My wife Jamie dressed up as a cop I was a prisoner. What a great life sentence to have.

My name is James Irwin, and I am a financial professional with a unique approach. I help people find money they are losing unknowingly and unnecessarily.

Prepare your financial life like you prepare your motorcycle for a long ride. You would never ride if your odometer, speedometer, and fuel gauge didn’t work would you?

My experience has always been that bikers are very charitable people who love giving back to the community in meaningful ways. I’m of course a fellow biker as well, and my services are complementary to bikers!

Call now for your personalized financial GPS. James Irwin 833-4672865 I will be at your service, or visit one of my websites at www.BikerHelpingBikers.com or www.HealthInsurance65.com

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HOGSTER’S CHOPPER WITH TRACY PHOTOS BY DANIEL GALLANT

Well, we’re do I start? The Hogster is 24 years old this year. I finished it in December of 1999. This bike just won’t ever go out of style with its signature Choppers Inc. 6-up and 4-out 45-degree rake up front and a 240mm rubber out back. It just has that cool factor, man!

It has a suicide foot clutch jockey shift and a 101cubic inch motor built by the one and only Rob Schwellinger of R&R Cycles in Tampa, Florida. My good friend and longtime brother Billy Lane set up the chassis and handed it back to me. I laid down a colorful cloak of House of Kolor kandy tangerine over a nova orange metallic. Over 24 years later, that paint still pops, man.

This motor is about 26 years old. Yep, that’s what I said!

I’ve been trying to blow it up for years now it just won’t grenade. The motor is all S&S with 4.3/4 stroke, a 3.11/16 big bore kit, 2.1/16 intake valves, and a Super G carb with a Thunder Jet set. It also has a 550 Red Shift cam and I run VP Racing fuel only. She is a handful at full tilt Boogie!

I Love this chopper. She will always be my number one. it been in a few mags and featured on the cover of the first Born to Ride DVD cover. Ron and I shot it down in Ybor City with the late Panhead Tom Hawes towing Ronnie to

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get all the cool shots. What a blast that was! I remember something about a busted chain after too many hole shots, LOL! I’ve built many choppers and vintage style Harley Shovelheads since 1982 at Crowder Custom Choppers.

It’s just in my soul. I still live and breathe this lifestyle, it’s who I am! Ride Hard, Ride Fast!

--Ugly Ed Crowder aka Hogster

I am Tracy Stephens who has a passion for modeling and living life to its fullest. I have worked at my company for 28 years with many more to go. I have been in a music video, front cover and inside of a magazines, won beauty pageants, modeled in fashion shows, volunteering for different charities and so much more. I have a love for hunting, fishing, scuba diving and camping. I also love being girlie by buying the latest fashions, doing my nails and hair and occasional tea parties with my girlfriends.

My main love is family, friends and life! I’ll end this with my favorite mato in life is “Never Let Anyone Dull Your Sparkle”

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A CLUSTER PLUCK around taking turns pecking at his legs!”I cackle, “Dude! Y’all thought that was funny but you weren’t the ones feeling the dirt flying up around you and hearing whistling noises over your head. It reminds me of an old joke. What is the sound that a dizzy yard bird makes?”

Mike scratches his head for a few seconds and says, “I dunno, cluck, cluck?”

I squawk, “No, birdbrain, you’re never too old to learn something stupid, it’s wobble, wobble!”

Here we are my BTR friends, into November. It’s one of Mike’s favorite months to ride and my favorite month to hide.

I’ve been mistaken in the past for being a mini-colored turkey, but I’m nothing like my cousin Tom. Although I do feel his pain along with the pheasant, the grouse, the partridge, and Cornish game hens.

Depending on where you were raised made a difference with what was being served up on a platter during the dreaded fourth Thursday of this month, Thanksgiving.

Mike breaks in, “We seem to go through this every year, my funky, feathered fowl.

Just because many moons ago back in West Virginia, you almost made it as a table centerpiece doesn’t mean you have to give in to your PTSD. You have to let go of the memories when you were running around on grandma’s farm with all your poultry pals and Uncle Bob (who is half blind in one eye and can’t see out the other) was taking pot shots at anything feathered that squawked and moved. We all knew he meant well and couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn, but it was funny watching him try and then joke about it. We thought it was even more hilarious when he ran out of ammo and your bigger barnyard buddies would chase him BTR 38 | BORNTORIDE.COM

Mike replies, “Well, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. Speaking of Uncle Bob, I want to die like he did; peacefully in his sleep after eating a big Thanksgiving meal. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car on their way back to Kentucky.”

I chirp, “I bet the last few words out of their mouths was probably something like this: ‘One year would you please stop making Thanksgiving a cluster-pluck with all your ridiculous shooting and jokes?’ Then he possibly replied, ‘Okay, I’ll try quitting right now, cold turkey…’ This was likely followed by miles of silence. I’m sure that’s when his narcolepsy set in.”

Mike babbles, “Well that won’t happen to us. None of my relatives will ride bitch on the Fat Bird 3!”

I squabble, “I am poultry in motion and you will never hear that from me! I hope this food coma day is better than last year when you decided to have a few friends over for what can only be described as Turkeygeddon. Just stick to the recipe and nobody will get hurt. Let me explain.”

“I heard it. Pouff! Pouff! Then the smell. A large plume of smoke started coming out of the top of the oven. Mike’s’ beautiful mini turkey, all slathered in three pounds of butter, was on fire! The baby bird began exploding from both ends. His homemade

stuffing was making loud noises, shooting out and slamming into the sides of the oven, knocking the door wide open. It started spewing white stuffing everywhere. I had never witnessed such a display of culinary chaos in my life!”

Mike stops me and says, “Okay my little yard bird. That version doesn’t really do the scene any justice. I like the poem you wrote better.”

I raise my wings and start reciting:

“There was something burning and it smelled a little fowl. I looked at the oven and flames were coming out of the cowl.

My cousin popped out of the range and rocketed into the air. It knocked every plate off the table and partly demolished a chair.

It ricocheted into a corner and burst with a deafening boom.

Then splattered all over the kitchen, completely obscuring the room.

It stuck to the walls and the windows, totally coating the floor.

My cousin was attached to the ceiling, where there had never been cousin before.

Stuffing blanketed every appliance, poultry smeared every saucer and bowl.

There was no way Mike could stop it, that burning bird was out of control.

Later he cleaned with displeasure and remorse talking to himself as he mopped.

That he would never again stuff a turkey with popcorn that hadn’t been popped!”

I turn to Mike and say, “You’ve spent way too much time on GobbleGoogle.com. I’m on a dinner roll and it doesn’t get any butter than this. I think you need to get my poultry wings in the wind, your stuffing soaked knees in the breeze, and the Fat Bird 3 wheels rolling down the road avoiding the gravy.

-SPYKE

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RONNIE and EMILY’S

CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION commercialism of the season. Thankfully, we can down-shift, Be Still and Be Thankful! decelerate, and truly focus on the things that are important in The fall season is a wonderful our lives. After all, it is vital to our emotional health and welltime to get outside and ride. It being! This idea of slowing down and being thankful reminds is fun to think about the cold me of a few verses in the Bible. weather clothing we’ll soon be In Psalm 46:10 we read, “Be still, and know that I packing in our saddle bags. We am God! I will be honored by every nation.” And then can anticipate shorter days and in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Paul says, “Be thankful in all longer nights, with some areas circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to bursting into color as the leaves Christ Jesus.” We see here that it is important to slow down, change and reveal beautiful hues be thankful, and focus on God. of fall. Other areas will find themselves with a cool breeze, whisking away the memories of the hot summer heat. As Teach’s Takeaway, cooler temperatures bring out the desire to take longer rides, it We need to slow down and be still before God. also brings out event organizers.

It is God’s will, or plan, for our lives to be thankful.

Fall is often a very busy time of year. During the cooler months, many groups choose to hold their biker events and Take the time to enjoy God’s blessings in your life. rallies. In early November, we see rides celebrating veterans Riding is enjoyable as it is, but the fall temperatures and for Veterans Day, and in late November to early December, changing of the leaves make it that much better. Use this time we see toy runs in preparation for the Christmas season. to relax and celebrate. Create new memories with those you As much as these rides and events bring happiness and joy love and don’t let the pace of the season steal away the joy of to its participants, truthfully my favorite time of the year is being with your family this year. Remember too that He is God Thanksgiving. and His will for you is to rest and be thankful. Ride on.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to slow the pace down.

Fellow Soldier in Christ, With a thankful heart, my wife and I ride our bikes to our

Wayne (Teach) Masiker family gathering with parents and siblings. We have the

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