What’s Been “H”appening April 23rd, 2006
by Chris Irwin, AGWA-Illinois Chapter H
It was a great day today. The forecast was perfect. As many of you may have noticed, I have not been around for a while. I have not been feeling myself and on Saturday I decided I had to drag myself out of it and get the bike out. It’s not been out so far this year.
There was a great crowd at Mickey D’s today. Our dinning expedition was to Hampshire,
Spring Garden restaurant. Cary took the
lead followed by Roy on his sidecar, Trudy on her trike, DreamCatcher, Joe W.
on his Harley, Chris riding her trike, Freebird, Malcolm with Kirsty in sidecar, riding Mr. Lucky,
Bob riding his wing, Bob S. riding his wing, Damien with daughter Becca on the
green wing, Gentleman George on his silver Goldwing, and finally, Ed on his
seafoam wing.
It took about forty five minutes to
get to the restaurant and the socializing began. Today, there were separate tables, so we all went into small groups. On our table was Damien, Ed, Malcolm and
Chris, Becca nad Kirsty had the table behind us so they could chat their way
and we could all talk together.
Breakfast was good although for once I was still hungry. I could have eaten a horse today, but time
was a waistin’ so it was off, off, off we go.
Most went home to complete chores but fortunately for us, we had caught
up so had time to play. There was a
swap meet being held in Woodstock, so George, Bob, Malcolm, Chris and Kirsty
went off to investigate. The weather
was perfect riding weather. Not too hot or too cold. The winds gusted well and we had to hang on to those big ol
machines but we managed. Woodstock was
absolutely crawling with bikes. The Harley dealer was having an open day as
well as the swap meet. There were bikes
everywhere.
The swap meet held a lot of junk as
usual but walking around and not spending money can be fun. The bike show was interesting. I was pretty sure the bike claiming to be
the Mike Hailwood ‘s racing bike was a fake, but who knows, or even cares? It was pretty cool, so long as you weren’t
buying it of course!
Anyway, safe riding everyone.
See you soon
Chris.