What a great day to ride, beautiful weather and a great destination, with a lot of other riders all wanting to head up to Reynold's Museum in Wetaskiwin. Honda had a temporary display of their motorcycles from the 50's and '60's, but there are also a lot of other cool vintage bikes on display permanently so plenty to see for motorcycle enthusiasts. And lots of other cool stuff to see otherwise too, so one visit really just isn't enough and it will surely be a destination on some other ride days too.
We had a little 'breakfast' for the early birds who showed up at our friend's place at
Cycle Works Calgary. Thanks to
Fratello's coffee and
Corbeaux Bakery for the tasty treats. A perfect way to start the day!
We had a good group of people, including some valued clients of
BlueCircle, some folks from both the
Victory Riders Group and the
Indian Riders Group, and yours truly of course. We had several clients respond
to our shout out and say they'd also be heading to Reynold's from their own part of the province, and I met up with some along the way and we rode in together.
The official count at the gate was 1005 motorcycles, and quite a few were two up, so it was a great turn out and a success for the museum. Way to go crew! And way to go Ron and James, who stepped up and took the duties of Ride Captain, each for one of the two separate groups that went on two different routes up to Wetaskiwin. Not sure where I missed you riders on Hwy 21, when I tried to catch up after cleaning up my breakfast stuff at Cycle Works but it was a nice route. Loved the big sweeping curves on some of those hills down into the valleys and back up, plus the country air was nice. Well, except for the 2 dead skunks in that one section on the back roads !! haha!
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| BlueCircle not only sponsored with some free gas but also put out a spread of coffee from Fratello's and scones from Corbeaux, plus please take some water for the ride. |
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| One of our 'Ride Captains" , Ron deGraaff gives everyone the low down on the routes and safety during the ride. |
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| A pretty good turnout for the ride |
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| There was some pretty countryside on our route across to and up Hwy 21 |
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| Lots of bikes in the parking lot, with the official count being 1005 |
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| In honour of Fred Peck, this guy rides with BlueCircle client Tim |
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| Tim joined me on the ride just outside of Red Deer and showed me some nice back country roads as an alternate route for the last part of our ride into Wetaskiwin |
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| Ron and James were both 'Ride Captains' for each of two groups that road up to Reynold's, so thank you gentleman for helping out and getting everyone there safe and sound! |
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| Aside from the temporary motorcycle display put on by Honda, there's many cool old bikes permanently housed at teh museum, like this '46 Harley FL "Knucklehead". |
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| An old 'Indian' |
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| And another old 'Indian' |
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| This is where you fueled up in the old days. Imagine the glass container at the top of the one tank being full of gas! |
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| I loved the real wood panels and trim on this old 'Country Squire', which i remember being called a 'Woody Wagon'! haha |
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| The Drive-in, which is pretty much gone in this modern era. |
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| Honda had their display of bikes fromt eh 50's and 60's. |
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| Some real nice vintage bikes |
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| Cool styling in 1953 |
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| Honda definitely leaned to cafe style seating |
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| I particularly liked this old beauty, with the solo seat. |
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| Honda also favoured red! |
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| I wanted to go do the 'Barnstormer Special' ride in the biplane but too long of a wait for my turn considering it was a 10 minute flyover the grounds. |
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| Haha!! I did my Ang Murray imitation with this windburned look!! |
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| Yup, there was lots of bugs out there, especially as I got into the evening part of the ride on my way back. |
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