Triumphrat

Irishguy

Has anyone ever done this? I have been to various motorcycle functions, but none have ever really appealed to me. So perhaps I was inspired by the Barber Festival this weekend and I decided to draft up a proposal on the local craigslist:

http://bham.craigslist.org/mcy/1421713113.html

I have already received several responses. I'm curious to see how it turns out.

Nickwiz

Best way? Find a group of like minded mates who you ride with. Give yourself a name. design a badge and call it a club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl545RF6dXA

doogin

Start the club Irish. If you weren't so far away I would enjoy a ride or two with you guys.
Cafe Racer style motorcycles, vintage bikes and modern classics.
What is not to like?

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McQueen

A club can be really awesome and a total nightmare...often simultaneously.

Best bet is to find like-minded folks and go riding. Set up monthly rides. Have a monthly meeting/bike night. Go to moto events together. Voila!

If you want to take the extra step and have a name and a patch, do your research first. Seriously, do it.

Our club has had issues with people knowingly or unknowingly co-opting our name. Not cool. Most were settled without much of an altercation. But we're an easy-going bunch for the most part. Other clubs are not as tolerant.

Also realize, that the minute you put a patch on your jacket, you're responsible for everyone else who wears that same patch. Since we all run in motorcycle circles, this is a very important consideration. If a guy wearing your club patch wanders in to the wrong bar and runs his mouth to the wrong crowd, that reflects on you. And you'll have to answer for it personally.

This has happened. It's not pretty. So do your homework.

This is also why many clubs get on your a$$ if you just decide to use their name or something very similar.

Like I said, clubs can be awesome. But be careful who you let in. Best case, is just find a bunch of guys/gals to ride with and forget about patches and names. Just have some fun.

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Irishguy

You I have actually considered several of the things you have mentioned. I doubt very seriously we will have a patch.

This "Club" will probably be more like you second paragraph. Just a bunch of guys [& gals hopefully] that just want to get together, ride, wrench and have some beers, etc...

I have been following several of the "Gang Land" episodes on the History Channel recently. The last thing I want is for our little club to be riding around with some stupid a$$ patch on the back of our jackets, and cross paths with some 1%er motorcycle club. They then see a bunch of Regular Joe's like our group and actually think we are a motorcycle club. The thing about those type guys, is that you may beat up one of them in self defense, but there are hundreds more of his "brothers" who will hunt you down and take you out in any number of gruesome ways. No thanks. I'm just a guy who likes to ride motorcycles.

Nickwiz

Thats unlikely if you all have sense of humour and choose a patently daft name!

Like the Rufty Tufty Bike club !

Irishguy

I was reading a breif history of the Hells Angels the other night and one of the clubs they sprang from in the late 40's early 50's was a club named: "The Pissed of Bastards of Bloomington". I really like that name. Too bad it's already taken.

mglemans86

I started "The North Jersey Nortons" back in the late 70's We got up to about 25 members at one point. We did make tee shirts (I still have one but it has shrunk considerably) We did rides and drank beer and had an occasional meeting very low key "No Rules, Just Ride" Eventually it came down to a few of us doing all the work and as the guys had kids and sold their Nortons the club faded. I still regularly see and ride with the core group of 6 or7 after 35 yrs. If I want to do a long weekend ride I can usually get 3 or 4 to join in. We all have similar riding skills and have lots of laughs. I went away with 3 of them in September on our annual fall ride for 3 days and about 1k mikes. There are several Norton clubs in the Mid Atlantic and we attend their events.

Start the club and if your lucky like me you'll wind up with some life long riding buddies. None of us ride our Nortons much some not at all but we still have them.

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DanInAZ

1% clubs (ie: MC gangs) get all crazy if you call it a "MC club" instead of "riding club". ...also if you put a rocker on the back with a state on it. Do what you want but they are violently fanatical about little crap like that.

TIE-Pilot23

I ran into a little confrontation with a few "Outlaw" bikers about a patch I have on my jacket sleeve...

As a member of the Fifty Nine Club...I thought it would be fitting to have a BRMC patch on my jacket...



Illinois is the home of the "Outlaws MC" they have a similar club patch...
I was asked by a member what I was doing with "Charlie" (skull and pistons) on my jacket...



I explained the the background story to him and his club members that came up to join in the conversation...apparently it was a good thing I knew my stuff and the history behind it...
...it also didnt hurt that I was on a Triumph...and I knew the Outlaws grew up on IL RT66...











I also told them that RT66 from Gardner to Mclean was mine...and if I see them run through here again they were going to start paying some taxes...

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