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Well, I done it...went a registered this morning to ride with a bunch of those other (the brand shall remain nameless...but mine was the ONLY Brit @ the pre-registration event!) motorcycles for the March of Dimes "Bikers for Babies", Kansas City 2012 100 mile run tomorrow. This is suppose to be the biggest B4B ride in the country w/something on the order of 5-8K riders participtating over the course of the day.

Needless to say a fair number of those other biker buggers were commenting on my BA at the registration tent! This should be an interesting ride. Pics to follow.....

Nope, I was at the pre-registration event on Sat as well so there was at least one other Brit bike there! I saw two other Triumphs the day of the ride, one other 07 Speedmaster and one of the Triumph sportbikes, but definitely the vast majority of bikes were HDs. It was a great day for a ride, thousands of other bikes. My first time riding in the event and thankfully no mishaps.

Scubachik....I also saw another Triumph...a Cream & Black Rocket 3 roll past me on I70 as I waited for the group I was going to ride with to show up. Yep, it was an epic day to ride in the company of 5000+ MC enthusiasts...regardless of their preferred ponies...and a real Triumph (pun intended) for the March Of Dimes organization with over $650,000.00 donations contributed to fund the important work they do in pre-mature infant care and a host of other infant health issues.

Here's a pic or two from the early portion of the day before I threw a leg over & joined the pack.....Black Beauty is the second cycle back in the photo.


Meeting up with the crew from work to ride into the Speedway.

Over 5000 riders registered for the B4B ride....a beautiful sight...acres upon acres of motor cycles .....mostly HD's


If I had to push an HD it would be this one (see below)....The headlight & spots were tinted almost like a two-way mirror...it was one sweet looking ride!


When I stopped in Tonganoxie to gas up...a rider on a custom hardtail HD was struggling to put the primary cover back one his shaker. I loaned him the proper tools to get er' done, and help push start (dead battery too) his scoot so he could head home.

Next year I'll have a GoPro camera for this ride...just to get some shots/video of the actual ride experience.