Motorcyco Beau To all the readers of The Riders Mag, Happy Freaking New Year! May the year of 2014 be the best ever to all of you and may we have the opportunity to meet up during the riding season and please keep in mind to never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly! In keeping with tradition I started the new year out by actually leaving the far eastern regions of Eastern Ontario and headed down with five of my brothers to attend the North American International Motorcycle Show in Toronto and where this event has become the traditional way to start of the beginning of the year. I am never sure which is more enjoyable to me, the show itself or the ride down to attend it because it always amazes me how you start of the trip with a van load of bearded, balding, tattooed men and somehow arrive with a van load of laughing teenagers who have covered just about every bad joke there is to tell. For me, one of the highlights of this show is the opportunity for me to meet up with many of my colleagues from The Riders Mag. We all work so hard in our own individual communities that except for emails or the occasional phone call, we never get much opportunity to just hook up and socialize with each other and talk about what has happened in the year past and what we are expecting to do in the upcoming year so getting to talk with Critter, Al, Donnie, Manon and of course, the lovely Sherri O’Irish, it all made what was a great show just that much more greater for me. This year the Toronto show had a larger contingency of motorcycles and while I usually find myself spending most of my time circling the custom bikes and trying to imagine winning the lottery so
from the Far East.... of Ontario that is!
Blues with Groove
Blair OR
“Gardog”
Gardiner
I could afford to have all my motorcycles painted like some of the many works of art that were on exhibit throughout and also found myself very interested in the vintage area of the show where they had just about every motorcycle that I had and that covers more decades than I
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