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Hope everyone enjoyed time with family and friends over the holidays and got some riding in last week while it was warm 😃

I’ve got lots of good memories of making laps at Texas World Speedway on Honda V4 Interceptors, so when this 1986 VFR750F followed me home the other day, Janet was just shaking her head. I had to make sure “Stand by Your Man” was playing when she walked out in the garage 😀 86 was first aluminum frame, gear driven cams and yes it still had 16 inch front wheel.
It’s been on the coast so it needs some TLC, but it’s low mileage and all there 😀 It hasn’t run in the last 20 years or so, Janet calls the garage my office, she says I guess you’re going to be in your office a while!!!😂

Great time Saturday morning on the Houston Area #1 HOG Toy Run, was a little cold and windy 😃

I’ve had my 82 900F since it was new, it was roadraced then and then vintaged raced in 92 and 93, it leads a more sedate life now. 😀 Thanks to Randy Porter at Lone Star Metal Werx for repairing my front Dymag wheel that had some issues !!!!

Great ride Sunday with Bob and Paula Wolstead, Bob’s retired now, but was the best Honda service rep ever, taking care of dealers and customers in Texas for over 35 years !!!! 😀

Great time Saturday at the Texas Motorcycle Revival in Burnet at the Hill Country Motorheads Museum. There was a big turnout of cool bikes for the bike show and we saw lots of friends from the past and present. Janet was like a little kid, playing with light sabres, before daybreak working parking 😀
If you haven’t been to the motorcycle museum in Burnet you need to check it out www.hillcountrymotorheads.com

Perfect weather last weekend in Kerrville, for 2 days of amazing riding, with Steve and Celeste, Gordon, Maurice, Phil, and Vince. Good Times 😀

I’ve been published ha, my high school English teacher will be happy. After a great time in Vermont with the Honda F forum group last spring, I wrote a story and sent pictures to the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club magazine which they published in the October/November issue, lots of fun had by all 😀

Loving my RRR, it puts a smile on my face, but it needed a red stripe on the wheels, like I used to have on my race bikes 😀, Kenny got them fixed up, looks much better now 😀

Mary McGee, was the Grand Marshall at this years Barber Vintage Festival.
Mary is in the AMA Hall of Fame, as the first woman to hold a professional road racing license in 1960. She started racing off road professionally in 1963, after Steve McQueen said she should get off her pansy road racing bike and come out to the desert. Mary even raced the Baja 500 solo in 1975, passing 17 two man teams.
At 84 years young today, she’s an energetic sweetheart who told Janet you have to keep your hand on the throttle, your shoulders relaxed, your butt on the seat, and keep on riding !!!!
😀 Janet said oh no you shouldn’t have told Ronnie that 😂

Great time at the Barber Vintage Festival this past weekend in Birmingham, Alabama , where Janet’s 1975 Honda CB400F won 1st place in the 1970s Honda under 500cc category at the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club show and my 1970 Honda CB750 I restored 30 years ago, won 1st place in the 1970s Honda over 500cc category. Beautiful facility, amazing racetrack and museum, that everyone should visit 😀

Great ride Monday with Vince, George, Steve and Bob from the F Forum up the Cherahola Skyway and down 28 into Georgia.

Road trip, headed to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia for 5 days of riding, then to Barber for the Vintage Festival in Birmingham, Alabama next weekend, Janet had so much fun doing Deals Gap on the Monkey last year, she wanted to take the little bikes too, I said yes mam 😀 gotta peg the fun meter 😃

I’ve owned this 1993 CBR900RR since it was new, and it’s got lots of good memories, as it was road raced the first 5 years of its life. It leads a more relaxed life now, but during the last 3 years, it’s covered over 50,000 miles going down memory lane and was showing a little wear and tear, so my buddy Kenny made it look like new again, fixing a dent in the tank and repainting, repainting the lowers and fixing some cracks in the upper fairing and repainting. The front fender Kenny originally made in 1995, with built in fork tube protectors. It almost looks too good to ride now 😀
Always loved the red white and blue and the white wheels 😀

Nice relaxing Sunday ride to our favorite place for burgers outside of Fayetteville, Pivo’s Ice House. We’re getting ready for a week of riding soon in North Carolina and Tennessee, so it was time to give Janet’s CBR some TLC, so it got new tires, brakes, and chain and sprockets. When we got back home Sunday, Janet hugged her bike as she said I love my bike, it’s like new again !!😀😂

Some more pics from our Ride for Kids event this past Sunday, Blue Knights Texas VII showed up big time to take great care of us, was so nice to see some old faces and amazing peeps that have supported us since 1993!!!
Top Club was Houston Area HOG1 with an amazing $30,617, next was Sling’n For a Cure, Team Super Nova, GWRRA M2, and the Richter Family of Beaumont.
The Top individuals were Thomas and Dusty Moore raising over $8600, next was Paul Kent, Danna Fullen, Andy and Claudia Woodard, and Doug and Shelly Richter.
Thanks to everyone for your hard work and support, together we are making a difference in the lives of children battling brain tumors !!!!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2021 Houston Ride for Kids a tremendous success. It was a beautiful day and a great ride. Thanks to the Blue Knights Texas VII for escorting us on the ride, all the volunteers, who showed up early to make the event run smoothly, and all the participants that came and opened up their hearts and their purses and wallets, to make a difference in the lives of the children fighting brain tumors, and their families !!!
The announced total the day of the event was $73,200. HOG1 member Mike Tyson, generously donated back his $517 win/win money, and we’ve had some other donations come in since Sunday, bringing our total currently to over $75,000 !!!!
Thanks to everyone, who helped make this happen !!!!
Congrats to Joe Martin, from Kingwood, with the Ducati Club, on winning a new Honda CBR500R, Sunday night !!!
More details to follow 😀

Why we ride this Sunday, because all children battling brain tumors, like Nova, deserve more first days of school !!!
Help make a difference in the lives of the children battling brain tumors and their families by joining us this Sunday September 12th www.rideforkids.org/Houston for a ride you’ll never forget 😀

Want one of these ? Honda is auctioning off 3 zero mile brand new Repsol CBR1000’s to benefit Ride for Kids check out www.iconicmotorbikeauctions.com

Join us next Sunday September 12th for the 29th annual Houston Ride for Kids details at www.rideforkids.org/Houston. Registration is from 8-10am, with the police escorted ride departing at 10:30 am
Register online by September 10th for a chance to win one of 5 Honda’s being given away as Honda celebrates 30 years of supporting Ride for Kids
Garrett a few years back in my arms, will be there Sunday with his son 😃🙏

Great weekend with the grandkids in Dallas last weekend, Asher wanted to wear glasses like his dad😃 and only grandparents would spend $30 at Starbucks on Coffee, juice boxes, and cake pops 😃

Sunday was our anniversary. Janet promised me a ride, I promised her a nice dinner 😀 I am thankful and blessed !!!!

Why we Ride for Kids we ride for the precious smiles like Houston star Nova, as no child should ever have to hear the words you have cancer and no parent should ever have to fight that battle with their child. Help make the difference in the lives of children battling brain tumors by joining us at the 29th annual Houston Ride for Kids event Sunday September 12th. Preregister by Sept 10th, at www.rideforkids.org/Houston for a chance to win 1 of 5 motorcycles Honda is giving away, as they celebrate 30 years of supporting the Ride for Kids events across the United States. Registration is from 8am until 10am with the Police Escorted ride departing The Lone Star Community Center at 10:30am, with a beautiful, scenic ride up through the National Forest. There will also be a dual sport off road ride as well, bikes must be street legal as that ride starts and ends on road, but will include a loop off road through the National Forest. Please join us, I promise you’ll have a good time. If you can’t make the event and would like to support the Ride for Kids event you can make a donation here https://team.curethekids.org/fundraiser/3085079

Thanks to Houston Area #1 HOG for hosting their ride yesterday to Washington on the Brazos State Park to raise money for our Ride for Kids event. Great food, raffle prize winners, and more as 36 motorcycles participated to support our upcoming Ride for Kids event on Sunday September 12th

Janet loves her CBR600RR, and this past weekend it passed the 90,000 mile mark, I think she’s about gotten used to it, here’s to many more smiles and adventures 😃

JP celebrated his Birthday last night at the BMOA bike night !!
Happy Birthday to the legend, the Mouth of the South, the one and only JP 😀

Janet and I met some old friends and some new friends out in Alvin Saturday evening, where over 40 motorcycles participated in Harry Stafford’s
Road to Life Ministries Full Moon Ride with Blue Knights TX7, we had a great time, thanks Harry !!!

1000 Miles is what I answered when Janet asked, what do you want for your birthday ?
Most wouldn’t get that but she knew immediately what that meant 😀 So Saturday we headed to Gruene on one of my favorite rides and restaurants for lunch at the Gristmill restaurant www.gristmillrestaurant.com covering a little over 425 miles by the time we got home Saturday evening, Sunday we had lunch at Pivos Ice House outside of Fayetteville, www.pivosicehouse.com
as I rode my 76 CB750 around all the roads I enjoyed around that area as a kid covering a little over 260 miles, then yesterday I talked Janet into playing hooky from work on my actual birthday, as we rode a long backroad route around Lake Livingston and over towards Woodville, covering 325 miles by the time we got home yesterday evening. So she gave me my 1000 miles and many more smiles, was the best birthday ever !!!😀

Happy Birthday to the sweetest woman in the world !!!!

1000cc smile 😊 I got Janet this Repsol CBR1000RR for Christmas and I’ve been trying to make it fit her, I couldn’t get it as low as her CBR600RR, so she was a little apprehensive about riding it, as she says “it’s taller, it’s heavier “ So after Marc Marquez’s 11th straight victory at Sachsenring Germany yesterday, I told Janet you need to take the Repsol out for your maiden voyage to celebrate 😀
She succumbed to the pressure and said well if we don’t “go too fast or go too far “ smiling and knowing that neither of those requests were going to happen ha . We didn’t go that far, only 230 miles, but I think she’s now addicted to the smile that only a 1000cc sport bike can put on your face 😀 I love it when best made plans work out 😂