The Aging Rebel

The First Toy Run

The fine and revered institution of the motorcycle toy run is now in its 35th year. It all started in the long ago, “Biker’s Rights” year of 1973. And, unless you lived through it you can’t begin to imagine how strange life was then.  Try to imagine outlaws demonstrating in the streets, chanting, “Stop the [...]

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Do Not Go To Myrtle Beach

If you go to the Myrtle Beach Fall Rally, “The Pilgrimage,” this week -whatever you do, stay out of Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is the putative home to two biker rallies each year. The Spring Rally each May has drawn as many as 300,000 visitors. The Fall rally, which this year runs from [...]

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