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The Carolinas’ Full Throttle Magazine
19th Annual World Honda Chopper Meet
Story and Photos by Alan Dockery he North Carolina mountains draw folks from all over the world to come ride and play in our backyard. The last weekend of June, I joined a bunch of bikers, for the World Honda Chopper Meet at Riders’ Roost Motorcycle Resort, Ferguson, NC. I’ve attended this gathering for years, riding my favorite old Honda. The meet is mostly folks who ride older, single overhead cam CB 750s of the type made from 1969 to 1978. Later twin cam bikes and some newer Honda choppers, bobbers and customs were welcome. The meet is an internet community getting together in the real world. Most of the folks attending are members of the internet forum at www.hondachopper.com so they are known by their online names. Folks came from all over for the World Honda Chopper Meet. Red hauled in from Oklahoma. Dave rode down from Massachusetts. His bike confused my brain since the custom frame mounted Harley parts around the 750 SOHC engine. Travis came from Pennsylvania. I love his ratty CB750. Chuck and Mel are kinda the hosts and come every year from New Jersey. Jeff hauls his beautiful show bikes from Georgia. Tony came from Florida. We were glad to see Dave from Arkansas. Several of the folks that weekend came from the Carolinas with cool old Hondas. Dave left the GeezerGlide and rode Elvis. Barry rode up from Rock Hill. Zach brought Boogie Nights to The Roost. I dug Rodney’s Basic Black Bike. These bikes ain’t just for sitting around looking cool. Those folks like to ride and most of them don’t have roads like we enjoy. Some arrive a few days early since there are so many cool places to visit in Western Carolina and you can ride a different awesome road every day. Matt, John and Jay had to tell about their ride over the mountain a few times. North Carolina has many miles of roads, even state highways, that ain’t paved. Just because a road is on the map doesn’t mean it’s OK for motorcycles. They found Globe Road. It ain’t paved. It’s ruts and washboard. Then they met the crew scraping and spreading fresh gravel. Their two choppers and a Goldwing eventually made it to the bar, much later than planned. But they have a good
story to tell and photos of choppers in loose gravel. Saturday folks went riding to enjoy some local roads and stop for a cool beverage or ice cream. Some of those guys can really handle their choppers since our mountain roads can be a little scary for folks who don’t ride them regularly. Once everyone was back from lunch and the ice cream run, we gathered for a group photo. Riders’ Roost is a great place for photos along the creek.