Colorado, USA
The Realities Ride for children is a big motorcycle event in Old Town Fort Collins. According to several sources about 3000 bikes registered this year for the 100 mile ride and thousands more people attended the rally set on the streets of downtown Fort Collins. Highlights of the rally are a burnout pit, tattoo competition, bikini bike wash, strong man contest, beer garden, stunt show and lots of live music. Kudos to all who participated. That said, with me being a bit under the weather we did not roll out to ride with the 3000 in the brisk and breezy early morning air of Northern Colorado, but we did ride down to the rally later in the day and strolled through the vendors.
Earlier, we saw a good many riders roll by Vern's as they came off of the Horsetooth Dam part of the ride. Verns had its own set of issues today. Something serious happened and they had no electricity to part of the kitchen so anything that needed grilling or frying or even nuking was suddenly off the menu. We contented ourselves with an almost warm cinnamon roll and coffee.
The weather did not improve with the day, gray clouds rolled in and the winds kicked up. We took a short roundabout ride home from the rally and brought ourselves on home.
Today's Ride = 59 miles
Slide show of today's ride and some rally shots (38 photos):
Alternative link for this slide show
Realities Ride 2012 Video
Realities Ride Web Site
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