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White Rose
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Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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Location: Lucedale, MS
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: Image Driven Mag |
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OK ya'll. I need those pictures from Sturgis. I talked to Joesph from Image Driven Mag adn we are trying to get an artical put together for the next issue. What I need are pictures of each of us riding our bikes. some of you I got on the trip to Sturgis, but I don't have me, Outlaw, Walter, Black Hawk and Pitbull. So if any of you ahve pictures that can help me out that would be great! Please do not make the file smaller. The higher the resolution the better.
thanks,
Cindy
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idaho outlaw
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Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: north idaho, eastern wash
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: idaho outlaw |
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cindy, theres a pic of me riding into the campground in truckinupchicks pics
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White Rose
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Location: Lucedale, MS
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject: the article |
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Here is what I have writtne for the article. Please read it and let me know what ya think. I know they will edit it and much of it may be cut. I am also thinking about adding this to our web site as a history of how we bagan. what do ya'll think about that as well.
How do you let fear rule your life? Many times the way fear leaves its mark on our lives is by keeping us from doing things that otherwise, we would enjoy. But once in a while, we can take that fear and use it as a driving force to do or create something great!
In the spring of 2004, while living and working in Kuwait and Iraq, I woke up to a knife at my throat that progressed to a sexual assault. We were not allowed to have the key to the front door of our Villas or to our bedrooms. That was over 4 years ago and until this last August, I had not slept without a locked door between me and the world. Then even if the door was locked, I would get up several times during the night to double check them to make sure they were really locked, be it the door to my house, or the door on my truck.
I made the jump from the back seat of the motorcycle to the front last year, fulfilling a dream to ride my own bike. My fear, then became a hindrance to my fulfilling another dream, to ride my motorcycle from the coast of Mississippi where I live, to Sturgis for bike week. Hotel rooms for a week and a half were just out of the question, way to much expense. I would have to pack a tent and find campgrounds along my route and while there. I was terrified! You can’t lock a door on a tent. Anyone can unzip a zipper and walk on in.
About a year ago, while talking to Chris T and Meredith on Freewheelin’ about motorcycles, I expressed my desire to ride to Sturgis. There was one draw back though, “I don’t think it is to wise for a woman to ride up there and camp by herself. It’s a personal security thing.” I said. Not long after I hung up the phone, it was ringing. Henry Dorame, aka Buzzard, called and said that if I wanted to go to Sturgis Bike Week that I could ride with him and his crew. They would watch my back and make sure that nothing happened to me. I was ecstatic! Now I could make the ride to Sturgis, I just had to figure out how to make it to Buzzards place in Nebraska while sleeping in a tent.
That afternoon, I called into Carl P & the P Team show and told them about the offer that Buzzard had made. This was great! This is how it should be, drivers helping drivers. Who says that there is no camaraderie between drivers out here any more?! As I talked to others that I have met through the shows about going to Sturgis, many of them expressed the desire to ride with us as well.
That got me to thinking. I hear a lot of drivers talk about their motorcycles on the shows and on the CB. I wondered how many would like to ride and camp with us. I wondered if we could put something like this together and what kind of turnout would we have. Everyone keeps saying that truck drivers can’t organize themselves to do anything. Could we prove them wrong? I thought so.
I called Buzzard and told him of my crazy idea and asked if he minded if I invited the whole “Road Dog” nation to join us in Sturgis. He said he always knew that I wasn’t quit right, but loved the idea and jumped right on in. We didn’t know if we would have 5 or 100 people there, but we both thought that this was just what the drivers and the trucking industry needed.
A few days later I mentioned it again on Freewheelin’ and Carl P. The response was overwhelming. Everyone wanted more information. Later that day, as I talked to Bob Collier, aka Beirut Bob, we came up with the name “Road Dogs on Hogs”. That night, I put together our MySpace page to give what little information we had. The idea took on a life of it’s own and just snowballed from that day on. A month later, I bought the domain name that now host our main web site, www.roaddogsonhogs.com, and it kept growing. Everyone wanted to go, even if they didn’t ride a motorcycle.
Throughout the following months different drivers stepped up to the challenge of helping me organize everything. Robert Durfee, aka Black Hawk, after many talks about what kind of logo I wanted, found Sticker Steve in Barstow, California and got the design that we have now. From that, I designed our patch. Mike Morgano, aka Slider, spent many hours on the phone talking to several campgrounds. He found the Iron Horse Campgrounds that we used this year and will use again next year. Driver after driver offered their time and help to put it all together. The shows on Sirius allowed us to talk about “Road Dogs on Hogs” as much as we wanted and when Jonesey’s show started, we reached another wealth of drivers and word spread. By the time came for the ride, drivers had talked on the phone, through email and our forum and set up when and where they would all meet.
I picked up Jimmy the Junkman, Andy aka 96 Ultra, and Don Adamson aka Loose Nut and his family, as I made my way to Buzzard’s house in Nebraska. We arrived late in the evening to a house full of people. Slider had flown in from Pennsylvania that afternoon and Derrick had ridden up from Lincoln, Nebraska. Hugs went round and it was great to finally meet people that I have heard on the shows and talked to on the phone for so many months.
The next day was plagued with problems, but we all banded together, got things moved around. We left there with 5 bikes and 2 cages and rode to Mitchell, South Dakota where we met several other drivers, Bob Coer aka Old Dog, Dane Schroder aka Mutt, Penny Shockley aka Thumper, Tim Burke aka Bowtie Man, and Bubba. Once again hugs went round and connections were made. After talking for a while we saddled up 10 bikes and 4 cages and headed west, to Sturgis.
We arrived at the Iron Horse Campground around midnight and had to set up tents in the dark. There were a couple of drivers already there when we arrived, Sandra aka Truckin Up Chick and Tom Hanson. All through the week we had drivers like Terry Stevens aka Idaho Outlaw and Walter Twohorses, arriving and leaving, riding and partying, and just having a great time.
I also had a great support team in facing down my fear. Early in the week, several drivers sat with me in our little circle of chairs and helped me find the courage to enter my tent, close the zipper and try to sleep. It was not a good night of sleep, but through their support and reminding me that they were camped all around me and had my back, I was able to take that first step. And as time goes on, the fear will lessen.
I don't know how to put into words the feelings I have on how all of this has come together. I had a crazy idea and it has become everything I had hope it would. Don’t tell me that truck drivers can't come together on anything. Don't tell me that truck drivers can't get along. Don't tell me that there is no camaraderie in trucking anymore. Today, I see all that in our little group. We had truck drivers there from all over the country, from different backgrounds, and different aspects of trucking, and we had a great time!
Who knew that 40 people that listen to a trucking channel on a radio, and had never met before coming to Sturgis, could come together and have this much fun?! The world is a smaller place today because of these people and their love of trucks and motorcycles. Who says that truck drivers are not just one big family? I don't! Because this group of gear jammers just proved them WRONG!
And we will do it again next year!
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White Rose
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