STAR Touring & Riding Chandler Chapter 393

Quartzsite Arizona

2012-01-28T17:39:00.000-08:00

Kick stands up at 7:30am from QT on Country Club near the 60. It was a 300 mile ride with 11 members, 2 friends and 11 bikes. It was pretty chilly in the morning but on the way home it warmed up to 75 -80 degrees. Quartzsite is quite interesting; it is somewhat windy and full of Snowbirds, RV's, Gems/stones/beads, banners & flags flapping everywhere and flea markets.

On the ride were members: NINJA, HOLLYWOOD, OTHER, DIABLO, CRASH, OUTHOUSE, #5, TRAPPER, ROOSTER, DAN THE MAN, FROSTY and friends; SLO-POKE (oh sorry, that's MR. SLO-POKE), and VANDAL.

Diablo, #5 and Outhouse

Tonopah was our first pit stop

Crash, Ninja, and Hollywood

Getting back on I-10

It was a great day for a ride!

Once we got to Quartzsite we headed to get some breakfast (where else????). Here's Trapper and Ninja trying to warm Crash up. Once inside the cafe, all ceiling fans had to be turned off! The hot coffee got her a little bit warmed up.

Last pit stop before heading back to Chandler!

Lots of traffic on I-10 heading home.

Here's Hollywood, Ninja, Outhouse, Crash, and Diablo. So sorry that there are not 13 people in this picture. 7 people had to leave Quartzsite by the time we emerged from the "BEAD TENT". It was a fun day!
Hope to see you on the next ride.... GOLDFIELD

NEMO's new bike

2012-01-22T12:11:00.000-08:00

NEMO GOT A NEW BIKE! It's a blue 2012 Yamaha V-STAR 950

"YOU GO GIRL"
Congratulations! Now you can keep up with the 'Big Dawgs'

Chapter Meeting/Charter Signing

2012-01-14T17:31:00.000-08:00

What a great turn out for our first meeting of the year! This was our Charter signing meeting with a ride to Cave Creek.

We had 90% of our Chapter members in attendance and 3 visitors! What a great turn out. A big thanks goes to TriplEEE, Crash, and Eight-Sixty for reading the 2012 Charter before the signing began!

Everyone came prepared for the signing which included having current STAR membership cards. Thanks goes out to 0ther, Candyman, and TriplEEE for helping members with the signing.

Cowboy and Diablo help members with the 2012 ride waivers.

Everyone really came prepared for the signing which really made it a quick process so that the ride to Cave Creek could get underway.

What a great group of people!

2012 Chandler 393 Officers: LOS Rep: Mindy "TriplEEE" Shapley. Treasurer: Terry "0ther" Caldwell. Secretary: Desiree "Crash" Galan. Sergeant At Arms: Jon "Candyman" Hubbard. VET Rep: Mike "Cowboy" Leon. Safety: Jay "Sugar Ant" Shapley. President: Gene "Outhouse" Galan. Vice President: Curtis "Diablo" Cornwell.

Here's everyone getting ready to start the Cave Creek ride.

What can we say ..... Chandler 393 has fun anytime we are together!

Here's everyone lining up to start the ride.

Candyman was our tailgunner today

Heading out

18 bikes were on the ride today. Cool in the morning, it turned out to be a beautiful Arizona ride!!

Updates

2012-01-07T15:13:00.000-08:00

Saturday, Jan 14th is our Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

This is our Charter Signing & Ride Waiver signing

You MUST have the following:

Your current STAR Membership card

Your Driver's License endorsement

Your Proof of Insurance

NO EXCEPTIONS.

2012 Ride Lists will be handed out at the meeting (see rides on right side of this blog)

The ride after the meeting is to Cave Creek.

First Week of the New Year!

2012-01-07T15:09:00.000-08:00

Oh Boy....Sorry its been so long since the blog has had any activity!

Here we are at bike nite @ Famous Sam's. It was a great nite! Crash's parents were in town and joined us.

What a great group! Crash.....LEAVE NEMO ALONE!!!!!

Here's Outhouse showing Big Chill & Tanya's kids the bikes.

Candyman & Diablo

Candyman, Turtle, Outhouse & 0ther were garage sailing on Saturday when they got a call from Allan & Ginger to have lunch at JOE'S FARM GRILL. It was a long wait in line to order the food but it was worth the wait!

Heading home from a great lunch!

Updates

2011-12-19T16:11:00.000-08:00

Here's a few updates:

Wednesday, Dec. 21st is Bike Nite @ Famous Sam's
Wednesday, Dec.28th is Bike Nite @ Golden Corral
Saturday, Jan 14th is our Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

This is our Charter Signing & Ride Waiver signing

You MUST have the following:

Your current STAR Membership card
Your Driver's License endorsement
Your Proof of Insurance

NO EXCEPTIONS.

2012 Ride Lists will be handed out at the meeting (see rides on right side of this blog)
The ride after the meeting is to Cave Creek.

Bike Nite for Dec. 14th

2011-12-14T20:06:00.000-08:00

Tonites bike nite was just a small group, but it sure was fun TALKING ABOUT ALL OF YOU THAT DIDN'T SHOW UP! haha... NOT really. It was a pretty nice nite.

There were only 9 people at bike nite. CANDYMAN, NEMO, WOODCHUCKER, EIGHT-SIXTY, DIABLO, BRUCE, OUTHOUSE, and OTHER. Not pictured is Trapper, he had to leave early.


Here we all are .... We met some (imaginary) friends! They were really nice! Well heck, we had to find friends to drink all the drinks that Stephanie (waitress) had set up for us in the room.

We hope to see everyone at the next bike nite. We will have copies of the 2012 ride list.

Christmas party

2011-12-11T19:07:00.000-08:00

This years 393 Christmas Party was held at the Cornwell's home (El Diablo & Nemo). After our chapter meeting some of went over to the home to help set up tables to get ready for a nite of fun!

Here's Tripleee and Crash figuring out where the table should be.

Here's Outhouse supervising so....

We let him help to put the tables out

Last but not least, Suzi Q offered to get rid of some land mines!

We really want to thank Diablo and Nemo for hosting this years party! It was a lot of fun! From the Chapter, Candyman presented them with this huge basket full of chocolates.

Crash trying to get everyone's attention to start the our version Newlywed Game

Here's our three couples; Eight-Sixty & Woodchucker, Jenn & Chief, and Big Chill & Tonya.

We can't say what the questions and answers were in this blog ... Let's just say, "What happens at a 393 party, stays at the 393 party"

0ther, Tripleee, and Turtle

Turtle & 6. 6 was well on his way to winning the 'bead' game! You go guy!!!

There was so much good fun! 2nd's & 3rd's ... No problem, grab a plate!

Oh boy, lots of varieties to choose from!

Outhouse & Crashes daughter, Savannah (Banana) and Candyman & Turtles daughter, Kristy (Evil)

Everyone did a great job of helping get the party ready.

It was so nice our friend, Paris.

I think there was another good answer to a question!

We had 43 people at our party this year! WOW... It was a great party with lots of laughs

This was our 5th Chandler 393 Christmas Party. These are just a few pictures, we have SO MANY more. Our Christmas party is a party that we really look forward to every year. Our gift exchange can get pretty funny too, why just look who ended up with an OUTHOUSE of there very own! Cowboy also received the 1st annual "Bag Of Coal" too! Well, till next year!

December Meeting

2011-12-11T18:17:00.000-08:00

December meeting was held at Golden Corral. We voted in new people. Welcome to our newest 393 members!

Chapter Officer's with our newest members: Tigger & Monster, Ninja & Hollywood (not pictured due to work schedule), and Big Chill. We are all happy to have you as members!

After a great breakfast, its time for the meeting

Outhouse winding down the meeting and getting to take the prospects out of the room so we could conduct the voting.

Nemo presents the chapter with our "First Place" plaque from the Chandler Light Parade. We sure put on a good time. Its hard to believe that we, Chandler 393, can bring so much fun and happiness to a lot of people during the parade.

Meeting over ... lots of visiting before heading the Nemo and Diablo's to help set up for the Christmas party.

Outhouse & Roster with our new member Big Chill.

BIKE NITE for DEC. 7TH

2011-12-06T23:50:00.000-08:00

Don't forget ... This week bike nite is at TACO TOTE (Country Club & Southern)

If you don't have a "2012 Ride Wish List" be sure to pick one up so that you can have it ready to turn into Cowboy at the chapter meeting Saturday.
If you have not responded to the Christmas party invite, please do or let Desiree know if you are going and what you are going to bring.

Don't forget to bring a Wrapped GIFT for the gift exchange. Must be at least $10.00.

Dec 3rd CHANDLER LIGHT PARADE!

2011-12-06T23:37:00.000-08:00

Oh what a day! It was cold, it was rainy, and it was awesome! We all did a great job in the 2011 Chandler Light Parade! More pictures will be added later.

Here's most of 393.

UP TO DATE INFORMATION

2011-11-30T20:39:00.000-08:00

Saturday, December 3rd: Chandler Light Parade.

Meeting at the Galan's at 1pm for last minute checks.
We will then head downtown to the parade staging area.
This is where the judging will happen
After the parade we will watch the tree lighting and get group pictures (now now I just heard you grumble about pictures, don't worry you will thank me later!)
NOTE: After the festivities we will going to IHOP @ Elliot & Alma School.

Sunday, December 4th: Chapter 113 is helping sponsor the 39th annual "Kicks 4 Kids".
Wednesday, December 7th: Bike Nite @ Taco Tote (Southern & Country Club)
Saturday, December 10th: Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

Bring your "2012 Wish Ride List" with you. The ride committee will be meeting very soon.

STAR B Que in Tucson, STAR days in Nevada and Winslow, Annual Picnic and Anniversary meeting are already slated in the respective months. You can check the STAR Touring & Riding web site (you can click on the web site located to the right on this blog)

Saturday, December 10th: Chapter 393's Christmas Party @ Diablo & Nemo's.

$5.00 per person, you will get a raffle ticket at the door.
An email was sent out with information including a side dish sign up sheet.

If you know what you want to bring, send Crash an email so she can get it on the list. This is very important so that we don't have too much of any one item.

Remember too, that we will be playing the 'gift exchange game'.

The cost of the gift should be no less than $10.00. Wrap or bag the gift. You don't have to put your name on the gift.

There will be some raffle prizes and a game or two also!
It will surely be lots of fun!

If you have any questions concerning any of the information above PLEASE contact:

Outhouse, Crash, Triplee or 0ther.

NOVEMBER 30TH BIKE NITE

2011-11-30T20:26:00.000-08:00

Had a great bike nite at Famous Sams! We were visited by Dennis Morse, Brian Bender and Steve Lashley from the Tucson Chapter. Also visiting us was Ali; Tiggers niece.

Here's the group minus Nemo and Diablo who had to leave bike nite early. Nemo had to get home and get some sleep cuz of that darned thing called "a job". Diablo had to get home to finish getting ready for a week of hunting!

Here's some of the guys discussing what rides they want to go on in 2012.

Tucson & Chandler come together!

The ending of a great evening of friendship and conversation!

Sugar Ant is ready for the Chandler Light Parade! Cool!!!

Getting ready to call it a night!

Thanks to our friends from Tucson for making the trip for our bike nite! You are welcome any time!

Dates to remember!

2011-11-26T18:59:00.000-08:00

Wednesday, November 30th: Bike Nite @ Famous Sam's.

Please be sure to pick up an "2012 Ride Wish List" from 0ther so that you can have it ready at our next meeting.
They will also be available at the meeting.
Completed "2012 Ride Wish List" should be given to Cowboy.

Saturday, December 3rd: Chandler Light Parade.

Meeting at the Galan's at 1pm for last minute checks.
We will then head downtown to the parade staging area.
This is where the judging will happen

Sunday, December 4th: Chapter 113 is helping sponsor the 39th annual "Kicks 4 Kids".
Wednesday, December 6th: Bike Nite @ Taco Tote (Southern & Country Club)
Saturday, December 10th: Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

Bring your "2012 Wish Ride List" with you. The ride committee will be meeting very soon.

STAR B Que in Tucson, STAR days in Nevada and Winslow, Annual Picnic and Anniversary meeting are already slated in the respective months.

Saturday, December 10th: Chapter 393's Christmas Party @ Diablo & Nemo's.

$5.00 per person, you will get a raffle ticket at the door.
An email was sent out with information including a side dish sign up sheet.

If you know what you want to bring, send Tripleee an email so she can get it on the list.

Remember too, that we will be playing the 'gift exchange game'.

The cost of the gift should be no less than $10.00.

There will be some raffle prizes and a game or two also!
It will surely be lots of fun!

If you have any questions concerning any of the information above PLEASE contact:

Outhouse, Crash, Triplee or 0ther.

Monster Garage

2011-11-26T18:41:00.000-08:00

The Chandler Light Parade is 1 week away so it was MONSTER GARAGE at the Outhouse! Lots oil changes and lots of help! 0ther, Triplee and Diablo got the PVC pipes ready to hang the 393 banners that will be carried in the parade. We got some of the lights out and the batteries still work from last year! NOTE: if you still need battery operated strands of lights check Walgreen's and Big Lots. You can get the batteries at the 99 cent store.

Diablo did a lot to help then he had to head home to get ready for "Family Pictures".

It was great visiting with Hollywood & Ninja.

Lots of bikes at the Galan home!

Picture was taken at the wrong angle, but you can see all the work being done on bikes.

Here's Cowboy, Chief, and Hollywood working on lighting

Next up ......

Today was the day to get bikes ready for the Light parade. Everyone will be meeting at the Galan home next Saturday @ 1pm to get last minutes things done. Then we will head down to the staging area of the parade. It should be a lot of fun!

2011-11-21T16:18:00.000-08:00

A big thanks to SQUEEZE & TRAPPER for offering VIP tickets for chapter members to see HOTEL CALIFORNIA in Queen Creek this past Saturday nite. It was SO MUCH FUN!

This was a pretty cool venue for the band...Right in front of a golf course!

You go Crash & Trapper!

Desperado....................

We were pretty up close with the guys

Welcome to the Hotel California ......

The band was great!

Encore

Again...Thanks Squeeze for the great invite

Yep....they did an encore

See you guys in Winslow, if not before!

Important Dates

2011-11-20T19:04:00.000-08:00

Wednesday, November 23rd: NO BIKE NITE
Thursday, November 24th: HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Saturday, November 26th: 10am, Monster Garage @ the Galan's. If you don't know how to get to Da Outhouse, call him!
Wednesday, November 30th: Bike Nite @ Famous Sam's
Saturday, December 3rd: Chandler Light Parade. Detailed information will be sent out by email. Hope you all got your insurance information emailed to the City! Call Nemo if you have any questions.
Sunday, December 4th: Chapter 113 is helping sponsor the 39th annual "Kicks 4 Kids".

For more information, please check out Chapter 113's website.

Wednesday, December 6th: Bike Nite @ Taco Tote
Saturday, December 10th: Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

Bring your "2012 Wish Ride List" with you. The ride committee will be meeting very soon.

STAR days in Nevada and Winslow (our annual overniter) are already slated for July and September.

Saturday, December 10th: Chapter 393's Christmas Party @ Diablo & Nemo's.

There will be an email sent out with more information including a side dish sign up sheet.
Remember too, that we will be playing the 'gift exchange game'.
The cost of the gift should be no less than $10.00.
There will be some raffle games too!
Please think about a side dish that you want to bring.
It will surely be lots of fun!
Be looking for the email with more information!

AJO ride November 20th

2011-11-20T18:29:00.000-08:00

12 Bikes on the ride. Folks joined us from Colorado and Globe. Fun day, somewhat chilly in the morning.

Checking out the Ajo ride route

Everyone listening up for last minute ride instructions

Also along on the ride was "Chiquita" our newest 393 Guard Dawg!

Kick Stands up! "Let's go"

Judge & Pat. Pat picked a cold day for her first ride with the chapter!

Cool seeing all the hot air balloons in the distance

First stop...... Gila Bend's Space Restaurant

Here's all of us getting ready to go in for a great breakfast!

It was nice seeing so many people on one of our last rides of 2011

When in Gila Bend .... you gotta stop at the Space Age! Here's Candyman with Monster & Tigger from the Globe chapter.

Almost time to ride the road!

Finishing up coffee and conversation before leaving

And on to Ajo!

Nobody messes with Da Big Dawgs!!!


Glad to see #5 on the ride since having a shoulder replacement. Hey, What a ride SuziQ!

NOTE: We are waiting on pictures taken at Ajo. Those will be posted very soon!

UPDATES

2011-11-16T20:23:00.000-08:00

LATE BIKE NITE @ RIVERVIEW is on Friday, November 18th.

Dinner: Golden Corral @ 5:30pm

Kick Stands Up @ 6:30pm to head to Riverview.

This is the last Bike Nite for the season, lets all go! Wear your vest to show STAR pride!!

CHAPTER RIDE on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19th to AJO

Email with details was recently sent out.

Kick Stands up @ 7am

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7TH BIKE NITE VENUE CHANGE:

We will be meeting @ TACO TOTE on Country Club & Southern in Mesa. 6:30pm

November 5th Bike Nite

2011-11-09T20:35:00.000-08:00

Bike Nite tonite was again at good old Famous Sam's! Nemo was late due to the fact she was attending the City of Chandler's meeting concerning the LIGHT PARADE. She brought back a lot of information that will be shared with all of us via email. The parade is Dec. 3rd, so make sure you mark your calendars for that date. There will be information sent to you too about the monster garage that will happen about a week before the parade to get your bikes ready for the slow ride down Arizona Ave! Its going to be a lot of fun! If you don't have battery operated Christmas lights ... get them as soon as you can. We are also trying to get some kind of matching Santa hats so that we look good!!! Banners will be pulled out to get them all lit up too! We can't wait for December 3rd! So look for your emails!!! NEMO: You are doing a great job at getting us all organized for the parade!

For those of you who didn't see the gift we gave our President of 5 years of Chandler 393, here it is! You can also see the participation stars. Thanks again Outhouse!!!

Here's Candyman and Outhouse with visitors; Monster & Tigger.

Enjoying a nice evening

Conversation before the food arrives at Famous Sam's

Let's Order First....then talk!!!

Happy Birthday to our JENN! Hope you have a great day!!!

0ther wearing the shirt of us riding in Globe and Nemo wearing our newest 393 shirt taken on the ride to Winslow

Having a good time!

2011-11-05T21:57:00.000-07:00

Its hard to believe its been 5 years since that day we gathered together in Downtown Chandler to sign the Charter to become STAR CHANDLER 393! Lots has happened since that day! People have come and gone but we are still a great group of family and friends!

This is on our newest shirt: Outhouse and Jenn did a great job! This picture was taken on the way to Winslow. If you didn't get a shirt and you want one, notify 0ther asap. An order is being placed very soon!

Here's Diablo saying a few words of "thanks" to Outhouse for being our President for the past 5 years. Diablo then presented Outhouse with a STAR ring from all of us. Many, many thanks to Gene. YOU ROCK, and all of "393 ROCKS ARIZONA"

We had a pretty good group of people at our meeting, held at none other than GOLDEN CORRAL!!!

Lots of great conversations before and after the meeting

Everyone getting ready for the meeting to start

Woodchucker and Nemo getting ready to cast ballots for prospective members

Always something interesting going on in 393!

With voting over with, Outhouse, Diablo and Candyman congratulate our newest Chandler 393 members; POPS and ROOSTER. Welcome and wear our STAR proudly!!

Trapper, #5 (happy to see him back, not on his bike yet. He is still recovering from a shoulder replacement), Dan da Man, Outhouse, and Diablo.

Judge and Nemo proudly putting their participation stars on their vest.

Good Times!

Nemo, Woodchucker, Outhouse, Mayhem, SuzieQ. Cool shirts people!!

Outhouse, Crash, Ginger, Terry and Alan.

Outhouse, Catherine (from the Globe chapter), Candyman, and Mark / da Big Chill (originally from Baltimore, MD). We hope you both had a great morning!

Fun Times!

Dan da Man, 0ther, Catherine, Nemo, Da Big Chill, and Candyman. Dan and Chill are holding the 2012 STAR Calendar. If you didn't get one let Outhouse know asap.

Dan da Man, 0ther, and Frosty (Hey Dan; Sorry your forehead kinda got cut off!)

Candyman, Outhouse, Rooster, and Diablo. Wow, we found out "Rooster can bake!"

SuziQ, 0ther, and Candyman were among three winners of awards from the President!


Its always good to see Everready (Paula).

We would like to thank everyone for 5 years of great times, great people, and great rides. We've had some fun on rides to Texas, California, Nevada, and all over Arizona. We never get tired of GOLDFIELD (great site for getting pictures next to Arizona's beautiful SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS) or ROOSEVELT (great pictures with the big blue bridge behind us), and who can resist a ride to PAYSON (especially since we get to stop and visit #5, 5 1/2, 6 and the rest of their great family), and then there's our annual ride to WINSLOW. There are so many other places in the great state of Arizona that we've done over and over again ..... cuz, who can get tired of seeing Arizona? Not 393! --- See you at the next 393 get together!!

Bike Nite Nov. 2nd

2011-11-02T21:13:00.000-07:00


Back Row: Sugar Ant, Judge, 0ther, Crash, Rooster, Jenn, Trapper. Front Row: Da Big Chill, Squeeze, Outhouse. Had a pretty good bike nite. Cowboy & Brenda left before we got a picture. Da Big Chill (Mark) is from Baltimore, he came to check us out! Hope to see him again soon!

See everyone Saturday at Golden Corral for our Chapter Meeting. If you don't know by now, its also Chandler 393's 5th Anniversary. See you there!

What's Going On

2011-10-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

Please mark your calendars for the following important dates:

Bike Nite @ Famous Sams. Come for a bite to eat and some great conversations with your fellow chapter members! Not hungry? Just come for the conversation! We'd love to see you! If you are interested in seeing Hotel California on November 19th, please bring $15.00 for a ticket. Trapper will be collecting.

Chandler 393 will celebrating 5 years as a Chapter on Saturday, Nov. 5th.

Wow it seems like just yesterday that we were in downtown Chandler signing our Charter to become CHANDLER 393!
Lots of things happening at the meeting, so be there!
5th Anniversary T-shirts will be at the meeting. Cost is between $11.00 - $15.00 (depending on your size). If you bought a picnic shirt, then we have a 5th Anniversary shirt for you to purchase!
We will taking a Chapter picture after the meeting.
We will be voting on new members, talking about our Christmas Party, the Chandler Light Parade and much more.
Be there, your vote counts!
All Chapter members are asked to try to make it to our Anniversary meeting!

Our ride to Ajo on Saturday, Nov. 19th has been moved to Sunday, Nov. 20th due to Hotel California being in town.

Don't forget CHAPTER PICTURE will be taken on Saturday, November 5th.

Hope to see you at the events!

EVENTS

2011-10-24T23:23:00.000-07:00

Mark Your Calendars For These Events To come:

Wednesday, Oct. 25th

Bike Nite at Famous Sams

Saturday, November 5th:

5th ANNIVERSARY Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral.

Odds N Ends

2011-10-24T23:18:00.000-07:00

FUN WITH CHANDLER 393

2011-10-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

Pretty Good Bike Nite at good ole FAMOUS SAMS

We got to meet "Squeeze", Trapper's new friend. Also at bikenite was a member from the Orange County Chapter (Now living in Arizona). Both Squeeze and OC seem cool! Hope to see more of both of them.

We couldn't let Diablo and Dex leave without a picture!

Outhouse was giving out a few back rubs (cool shirt Nemo)

"No, I'm not that hungry"

Here's everyone that was at bikenite (minus Diablo & Da' Judge, they snuck out). BTW... Trapper won 50/50 for the second bike nite in a row, Watch out Nemo! (NOTICE THE ORB IN THE PICTURE? YOU THINK THAT MIGHT BE "JOKER" SAYING "Hi")

Upcoming Events!

2011-10-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

Lots of events in the next few weeks! Hope to see everyone there!!!

October 19th & November 2nd:

Bike Nite will be at FAMOUS SAM'S

October 22nd:

Chapter Ride is the ORACLE LOOP
Kickstands up at 7am from QT on 60 & Greenfield
Ride to Superior to meet up with Globe riders
Go thru Kearney to Winkleman and on to Oracle
Grab some lunch in Oracle
Return to Globe and on home
Should be a very nice day for a ride. Don't forget SUNSCREEN.
This is the last ride for participation points for the year.

November 5th:

5th ANNIVERSARY Chapter Meeting @ Golden Corral. Would be nice to see as many members there for our party! And we want to take a "NEW" group picture to send to STAR for the website. Please plan on attending this one. THIS IS PRETTY SPECIAL TO ALL OF US!!!

Octobert 12th Bike Nite

2011-10-11T09:50:00.000-07:00

Wednesday's Bike Nite will be at FAMOUS SAM'S @ 6:30pm. Hope to see you all there!

2730 E. Baseline Road in Gilbert, Arizona (Lindsey & Baseline Roads)

393's 4th Annual Picnic

2011-10-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

First off ........

Chandler 393 would like to thank everyone who attended our picnic! Our STAR family is what keeps us motivated in having this annual event! It's great getting together with the Arizona chapters ....... what great friendships we have in all of you! STAR Rocks!

What a day! Over 100 STAR members and family showed up to the picnic! Chapters from White Mountains, Globe, Phoenix, Mesa and of course Chandler were there in force. You could tell 393 by the yellow t shirts!

It started off "Arizona chilly" and a little windy in the morning, but the day turned out great. We found out we didn't have electricity so Cowboy came through with a generator! Spaghetti, Meatballs, and Lasagnas would not have been too good cold. Thank you Cowboy and Brenda!!

We had some great Raffle items, thanks to our chapter challenge from Diablo! Cowboy did an awesome job creating some great STAR coat racks, keyring and business card holders. Sugar Ant made some terrific bone handled knifes. Thank You to each and every member who donated an item(s), and Thank You to Diablo for the challenge. Because of all the chapters, we were able to raise $428.00 for STAR Family Foundation! We were all so happy to present that money to STAR! Congratulations to everyone who won a raffle item(s). We also had a $168.00 50/50 that our "One Armed Bandit" won, that would be #5.

Thank you to all of 393 for everything you did to make this day happen! Everyone pitched in when needed. It was pretty cool because clean up was easy EVERYONE helped, it was done in no time at all...... What a great way to end a great day!

NOTE: The pictures were taken by 0ther, she was busy most the day so she didn't get many pictures. Eight-Sixty and Jenn took some great pictures so as soon as possible they will be posted here on the blog.

Chandler 393 members with family & friends.

Along with all us is (front row) Marlon (our new State rep), Alan & Ginger and Andi (new STAR rep in the Tucson office).

Chandler 393 Officers

STAR Chapter Presidents and STAR Representatives

Members from Phoenix. (Stay tuned.... We have pictures of all the chapters that were there, they will be posted soon)

Chief and WoodChucker

Triplee, Jenn, Pops & Mom.

Doughboy and Outhouse

0ther & #5. See we are wearing jackets....it was a chilly morning! #5 had a shoulder replacement, we were so happy he is recovering well and was able to make it to the picnic!

Eight-Sixy, #5, Crash, and Nemo

#5 and Crash.

Here's a shot of not even 1/2 the bikes what were there!


The day went very well, everyone got a chance to come together as one STAR group!

Are ya wondering what the theme for our 5th Annual ALL Picnic is gonna be? 393 is already talking about it!

Saturday October 8th

2011-10-02T20:31:00.000-07:00

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FUN???

If you are, then be at FALCON FIELD this Saturday. Its our 4th annual picnic and we are celebrating Italian style (Arizona Itallian style that is).

Lots of great fun in store

Lots of great food

Lots of great people to visit with

Lots of great raffles

and of course there will be a 50/50

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Cost of lunch is $5.00.

Raffle & 50/50 tickets

are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.

Some of the proceeds will be donated to "STAR Family Foundation"

Frosty & Dan DaMan's Moving day

2011-10-02T10:51:00.000-07:00

Dan daMan & Frosty moved from about McDonald and Pima to 7th (Street / Ave ?) and Thunderbird. Lots of members showed up about 8am to start loading trucks. The move was all done at about 1:30pm. They had food and drinks ready for us when it was all over.

It was moving day for Dan da Man & Frosty! Lots of 393'ers showed up with trucks and vans to help out. Lots of commotion on their street on Saturday!

Everyone pitched in to get all the belongings loaded.

Here we are unloading into the storage rooms

It was pretty nice to get almost everything moved in one load.

Don't know what Squirrel Killer did but Outhouse had to get the paddle after her!

Right where Cowboy should be.... SUPERVISING! No need to end up back in surgery!!!

Bike Nite September 28th

2011-09-28T23:15:00.000-07:00


Bike Nite at Famous Sams. Great crowd! We almost didn't have enough room. This was our biggest bike nite in quite a while. It was great to see so many of our Chandler 393 members, new people and it was great seeing Hollywood and Ninja!

ROF and Maureen are our STAR family from Canada. Its always great seeing them! They head back home on Saturday. Keep in touch!!!

ROF was 0ther's honorary "50/50" helper. ROF you did good!

Matthew drew the '50/50 Ticket' making Maureen the 50/50 winner! "Yep ROF, you did real good!" :-)

As always everyone is enjoying good food and good conversation with some good friends!

Chandler 393 will miss you both!

By for now!!!

Be Safe on your way back home! Hope to see you next year!

Annual Ride to WINSLOW Sept. 24 & 25

2011-09-28T22:45:00.000-07:00

Here's about half that joined us in Winslow. This is the 9/11 monument where we always gather before heading back to the valley. These structures / beams are from the Twin Towers and the flag that flies over them is a flag that has flown over the Pentagon.

Our ride started out in Chandler, meeting quite a few riders at a QT. Several riders joined us along the way to Payson. Here we are at Payson's Maverick gas station. 5 1/2, 6, Kelly and kids came to see us off. It's always great to see them!

Meeting & Greeting with friends some of haven't seen in a while. Members from Globe and from Thunder Mfg. came along for the ride too!

Everyone's bikes are gassed up and ready to go!

Turtle and 5 1/2 are "Birthday Sisters"!!! They share their birth date of September 25th.

So we had a great ride up to Winslow then stopped in at Falcons Restaurant for lunch. Here's Doughboy and Crash selling 50/50 tickets to our Globe friends. By the way, one of the members from Globe won the 50/50. Congrats!!!

After a great lunch we all sang "Happy Birthday" and had a birthday cake for #5 (Sept. 21st) and Turtle.

Tumbler and Sugar Ant rode to Winslow with us, but had to head back to the Valley after lunch.

We all stood in line patiently to get our rooms at the hotel.

Here's some of the bikes in front of the Super 8. I'm pretty sure we had the majority of the rooms!

Outhouse with our Thunder Manufacturing friends, Dave & Joyce (and Travis & his wife are in the background)

Dave, Outhouse, and Sly

Here's some our Globe friends

Outhouse and Da'Judge!

Crash & Nemo

Everyone getting ready to head to breakfast then to the 9/11 monument

SuziQ & Candyman

Spy, Jenn, Chief, #5, Turtle, and Trapper. Spy is our "Foreign Exchange Buddy from Kosovo". We really had a fun time with her while she was here! We will miss you!!

Trapper, Turtle, and Candyman

New & Old Friends

What a moment!

Heading on back to the Valley Of Heat! We had a great time with some great people. We hope everyone had fun and gained some great memories from this weekend's "Standin' On The Corner In Winslow Arizona" festival. This was the 14th Annual festival. A few members of 393 have been to every one of them! For some it was their first time!

Bike Nite for September 14th

2011-09-12T15:54:00.001-07:00

Bike Nite for Sept. 14th will be at back Famous Sams

2730 E. Baseline Road
Gilbert, Arizona
(Lindsey & Baseline Roads)

If you have not paid for your Picnic shirt, please pay Crash or Outhouse by Sept. 14th.
If you have not turned your Medical Form in, please give it to Crash or Outhouse on Sept. 14th.
If you have any donation items for our Picnic (This is our Diablo Challenge), Please give to 0ther at our next bikenite (Sept. 21st)

Sept. 10th Chapter Meeting & Winkleman Loop Ride

2011-09-12T15:48:00.000-07:00

Saturday's meeting was held at Golden Corral in Mesa. It was a good meeting with good attendance. Lots of great discussions.

There were 3 new prospective members that needed to be voted on, so after the meeting and before the 50/50 drawing we began the voting.

Here's #5 casting his votes while Diablo and Candyman tally the votes.

Outhouse, Candyman and Diablo welcome our newest members to Chandler 393; Jim "Trapper" Trapp, and Chuck & Miranda Pratt (Wood Chucker & Eight-Sixty). Congratulations!

Outhouse & Turtle

Everyone is getting ready for the Winkleman Loop.

Turtle, Trapper, Outhouse and Candyman

Here's some of the gals; 0ther, Crash, SuziQ, Tripleee, Nemo, Turtle, and Eight-Sixty

Crash, 0ther and Tripleee

The guys; Rhino, Judge, Pops, Outhouse, Chief, Dan Da'Man, Wood Chucker, Lumpy, Tumbler, Diablo, Sugar Ant, Candyman, Trapper, and #5

Dan Da'Man and Wood Chucker

Ride em all out!

On the way to a great day of riding

Everyone had a safe, fun day of riding! BTW.... any guess as to who won the 50/50???? It wasn't Nemo! It was Eight-Sixty!!! It always NEMO or a new member!!! Congrats :-)

Sept. 7th Bike Nite

2011-09-06T21:44:00.000-07:00

Hey Group... Don't forget that bike nite for Sept. 7th is going to be at MidWestern 4308 E. Main Street Mesa 480-924-5855

www.midwesternmeats.com/mwrestaurant

We will see you there!!

Strawberry Aug. 27th

2011-08-29T22:20:00.000-07:00

Part 1 of all the great pictures from our trip to Cowboy and Brenda's cabin in Strawberry! It was a fun day!!

Here's the whole group in Payson after eating breakfast @ Tiny's. 5 1/2 and 6 met us there for breakfast. Always good to see them!

Everyone saying their goodbyes to 5 1/2 and 6

Curtis "Diablo" Cornwell

Cindy "Nemo" Cornwell

Marlon, our Friend and fellow STAR member

Gene "Outhouse" Galan

Desiree "Crash" Galan

Jay "Sugar Ant" Shapley

Jim "#5" Vance

Steven "Tumbler" Shapley with son Stevie

Rob "Chief" Hanks

Bill "Judge" Justice

Here we come around the bend!

Pretty nice ride up

Sugar Ant was the tail gunner for the day

Here's Chuck "Wood Chucker" & Miranda "Eight-Sixty" along with their three kids

Mindy "Triplee" Shapley & Terry "0ther" Caldwell followed up in the van

Here's Jenn Hanks

Pulling up the rear .... "Cowboy" & Brenda "Dex" Leon

STRAWBERRY ride August 27th

2011-08-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

Chapter Ride: STRAWBERRY

Meet at QT on Country Club North of the 60

Kickstands up at 6:30am (we most likely meet up with riders as we go)

We will eat breakfast @ TINY'S in Payson.

After Tiny's we will head up to Cowboy and Brenda's cabin for a BBQ and relaxation.

At few members will stop by Walmart to pick up bbq'ing items then head on to the cabin.

BBQ items will be Hamburgers and Hot dogs with all the fixings, couple of salads, and fruit. We will have lots of cold bottled water. $5.00 per person.

3 New Postings

2011-08-17T22:04:00.000-07:00

Ok 393'ers .... There are 3 new postings tonite, so read them all .... lots of fun stuff and information on our 4th Annual All STAR Picnic! If you have questions on any of the topics please contact any Chapter Officer!

August 17th Bike Nite

2011-08-17T21:59:00.000-07:00

What a Bike Nite!!! We had a pretty nice sized crowd. Plus we had a great surprise visit from our friends Maureen & ROF. For those of you who don't them they are from Canada and they also belong to STAR. We are so happy to have them back for a few weeks! They are pictured here above Crash and Outhouse.

Can't believe how hard it is to get this big group organized for a picture! Its a lot of fun, right? Come on you guys, you know you love it!!! And you know it would not be a 393 get together without 0ther pulling out her camera!!!!

50/50 went to ROF and Maureen! Way to go! And we had some cool Canadian treats; MOOSE DROPPINGS and BEAVER DROPPINGS (muffin mixes) ..... Winners were Cowboy & Brenda and Crash & Outhouse.

It's sure nice to have our friends back!!!

We also had a birthday! Dan Da'Man will be celebrating his 29th Birthday on Sunday. Frosty brought some very tasty red velvet cupcakes to help celebrate. (Watch out cupcake wars ... we have a contender!)

Last but certainly not least ... a funny ending to a great nite! NEMO got a PONY RIDE and its not even WINSLOW time!!

Update on our Annual All Star Picnic

2011-08-17T21:26:00.000-07:00

The date for the picnic is OCT. 8th. So please everyone mark your calendars!
We have the Ramada reserved at Falcon Field (We will be having our Chapter meeting there before the picnic starts).
This years theme is "Italian". Outhouse hasn't reveled our "4th Annual All Star Picnic" T-Shirt. We are all anxiously waiting!!!!!
LOS will having a Picnic meeting Friday, Aug. 19th @ Denny's 6pm. This is opened up to all chapter members, so guys if you want to help, we will see you there!
Please bring all your thoughts and ideas to the Picnic Meeting!

Hope to see everyone on Friday, August 19th 6pm @ Denny's (next to our Golden Corral on Stapley Dr.)

Gila Bend Ride and Chaptr Meeting

2011-08-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

We met @ QT, kickstands were up at 6am on Saturday, Aug. 13th. Very nice ride to Gila Bend then back to Mesa for our Chapter meeting. Those on the ride were: Dan Da'Man, #5, 0ther, Diablo, Outhouse, Nemo, Crash, and Cowboy.

Fun Saturday ride with good friends! #5, Nemo, and Crash.

Here's Dan Da'Man and #5. We thought #5 would dance for us .. Nope ... Maybe next ride?

Getting ready to ride back to Mesa!

Cowboy had back surgery on Monday, Aug. 15th so he won't be riding for awhile. Good Luck and hope you have a fast recovery!

We had a pretty good turnout for our Chapter meeting. In this picture is a woman from Pennsylvania that wanted to have a picture to take back home to show she's a "Cool Biker Chick".

Here's Outhouse and Candyman with a soon to be Chandler 393 member: Miranda "860" Pratt. Next time you see Miranda, ask her how/why she got the name "860". So Miranda which do you like better? 860 or Eight Sixty

August 13th: Gila Bend Ride & Chapter Meeting

2011-08-10T21:41:00.000-07:00

DATE: August 13th

PLACE: QT @ Warner & Arizona Ave.

TIME: Kick Stands up @ 6am

Ride to Gila Bend

Chapter Meeting at Golden Corral AFTER RIDE.

Hope to see everyone there!!!

STAR Scholarship

2011-08-07T14:59:00.000-07:00

We, in STAR Touring & Riding Chandler Chapter 393 are very proud of Savannah (Banana) Galan for being the recipient of the first ever scholarship from STAR Touring and Riding. Savannah will be attending Chandler/Gilbert Community College, starting this month.

Presenting Savannah her scholarship is Alan and Ginger. For those that don't know, Savannah is the daughter of Gene & Desiree Galan, members of our Chandler Chapter 393. You may know them better as, "Outhouse" (our President) and "Crash" (our Secretary). Congratulations to Savannah!!! Congrats to the very proud parents, too!!!

2011-08-04T16:57:00.000-07:00

It was a great bike nite at the 5 & Diner (101 & Indian Bend Road). Lots of people, lots of fun!

Thanks to SuziQ for finding this place to meet for our bike nite. The menu was pretty good and they had some tasty "Blue Plate Specials".

Birthday boy 'da Judge'!!! We celebrated with a German Chocolate cake! Happy Birthday to Judge!!!

We had 18 people join us at bike nite. Pretty nice size crowd.

We had to be seated a 3 back to back booths, but it was still fun and we still got to visit!

Don't know what was so darn funny, but I'm sure it was a good one!

Ok 393, here's the newest craze for us. A new type of sparkly name bracelets. $7.00 at the new 'In Door Swap Mart" in Chandler. Cool!!!

Its always fun at our bike nites ..... Just sitting back listening to everyone is a great time too!

Winding down another fun filled 393 Bike Nite... See you next time!!!

AUGUST 3rd BIKE NITE

2011-07-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

REMINDER . REMINDER . REMINDER . REMINDER

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

DON'T FORGET

Wednesday, August 3rd, our bike nite will be at 5 & DINER in Scottsdale (9069 E. Indian Bend Rd). Here's the information on the 5 & Diner

http://phoenix.citysearch.com/profile/11354924/scottsdale_az/5_diner.html?brand=citysearch_sendfriend

More information will be sent out on where we will meet to ride over to 5 & Diner!

BIKE NITE July 27th

2011-07-28T20:31:00.000-07:00

Pretty cool bike nite. We were missing a few members, but it was still a great nite! Five people had on Chapter shirts and all three 'Chandler 393 All STAR annual picnic' shirts were represented! Crash has the 2008's "Run To The Pines", Sugar Ant has the 2009's "Fiesta", and Diablo has 2010's "Luau". Boy the memories of each of these are great! It should be interesting to see what 0uthouse has in store for all of us for our 4th annual 2011's All STAR "Italy theme" picnic (do they have outhouse's in Italy? hahaha)

We only took up one table at Sam's. Lots of laughter and conversations were going on. Oh and by the way "Jim" won the 50/50 again (second time in a row). Nemo has competition!!

Ok "who is doin' those 'rabbit ears' ?.... "

August 3rd Bike Nite

2011-07-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, July 20th and Wednesday, July 27th BIKE NITE @ Famous Sams.

NOTICE in Advance: Please mark your calendars to remind you of Wednesday, August 3rd, our bike nite will be at 5 & DINER in Scottsdale (9069 E. Indian Bend Rd). Here's the information on the 5 & Diner http://phoenix.citysearch.com/profile/11354924/scottsdale_az/5_diner.html?brand=citysearch_sendfriend

Please try to make it. It should be fun, as always!

Here we are in Prescott ..... You think we could get this many members or more to come to bike nite? See everyone Wednesday nite!!!

Family Helping Family

2011-07-18T12:44:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, July 16th quite a few 393'ers headed up to Strawberry to help Cowboy and Brenda with some work around their cabin. It's really cool that those who could make it to help out did!

The caravan started out in Chandler, with cars and bikes being added as we made it up to Payson. Once in Payson we stopped at TINY'S for breakfast!

"Okay, we think everyone is with us"

Here's the bikes and vehicles making the way up

Everyone pitched in with scrapping the old paint off before the painting began.

"Lookin' Good"

"Okay, time for a little rest". Cowboy and Brenda put out a pretty good lunch for everyone; Nice cool drinks, Sandwiches, Pasta Salad, tasty cake and more.

More scrapping and sanding

"Work, Work, Work"

"I think it's time for a break". Even tho there was work to do, it was great being 'away from the valley' for a few hours. THANKS TO EVERYONE who was there!

July 13th Bike Nite

2011-07-14T20:42:00.000-07:00

Great bikenite @ good old FAMOUS SAM'S. This picture was taken after some of the members left (COWBOY & BRENDA :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to: Doughboy, Crash, and Chief!

There were lots of guests at tonite's bikenite..... Family and Friends from Texas and Washington! Welcome

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Chief

HAPPY 29th Crash!!

HAPPY 40th Doughboy!! This little "Mini-Me" is Doughboy's youngest!

We get along so well! See everyone next week!!!!

New 393 Officer

2011-07-14T20:34:00.000-07:00

Chandler Chapter 393 now has a position in our group. SAFETY OFFICER: Jay "Sugar Ant" Shapley. (with Sugar Ant is Outhouse and Triplee in background). Way to go 393!!!

2011-07-10T17:06:00.000-07:00

ROOSEVELT LOOP RIDE: What a great 200 mile ride by the Superstition Mountains up thru Superior and around Roosevelt Lake past the big blue bridge then back to the Valley!! We had 16 people on the ride (10 Bikes). Members on the ride were: # 5, Brenda, Candyman, Cowboy, Crash, Judge, 0ther, Outhouse, SuziQ, Chief, Jenn, and Lumpy. Guest riders: Chuck, Harley, Jared, and Pops!

We stopped just passed the blue bridge for this picture.

This truck was nice enough to pull over a bit for all of us to get past him. (notice the people in the back of the boat? Isn't it illegal to ride in the back of a boat being towed?)

Beautiful views of Roosevelt Lake!

Here you can see the bridge in the background.

Last stop just past Punkin' Center before heading back to the valley. "What NO dance from #5?"

Back in Mesa for a Chapter meeting at Golden Corral after the ride. Everyone who went on the ride was at the meeting, also at the meeting were: Sugar Ant, Tripleee, Banana, Beth, Deimitri, MuuShuu, Kim & 1/2 along with their 3 little ones.

Relaxing after a good meal before the meeting starts. Minutes from the meeting will be sent out on email very soon.

July 6th Bike Nite

2011-07-06T21:13:00.000-07:00

WOW... we had a pretty big turn out for bike nite tonite! We didn't have our normal room since it was "Old Car Club" meeting nite, so they had a big table ready for us in front. It was great seeing everyone!

Here's the group with a some visiting people: Chuck, Bruce, Kristy (Evil), Dylan, Amanda (CookieDough), and Beth.

As always it was good food and conversations!

The social saying was "2006", Chief won the $10.00 gas card! Keep checking the SOCIAL box on the side bar... You never know when it will change!


Outhouse and Brenda! Cute!!!

Here's Candyman, Turtle, and Frosty!

Lumpy, Chuck, and Diablo

Frosty and Crash

Dan DaMan, Cowboy, and Chief.

BIKE NITE July 6th

2011-07-05T07:49:00.000-07:00

FAMOUS SAM'S

Saturday, July 9th Ride/Meeting

2011-07-05T07:44:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 9th ... Roosevelt Loop Ride and Meeting after ride.

Meet at QT on Country Club & Guadalupe. Kickstands up at 6:30am. Be sure to bring SUNSCREEN. The chase car will have plenty of water.

1st stop: GLOBE

2nd stop: PUNKIN CENTER

3rd stop: Golden Corral for our Chapter Meeting. The chapter meeting should be very informative so be sure to attend.

NOTE: If anyone is planning to ride with 0ther in the chase car please call her asap! Meeting place for riding in chase car will be 6:15am at Golden Corral.

June 29th Bike Nite

2011-06-30T18:27:00.000-07:00

Bike Nite at Famous Sam's. Fun evening mixed with a little rain! We missed everyone who couldn't make it!

Back: Rooster, Chief, Turtle, Jensen (0ther's step-grandson), 0ther, Candyman. Front: Jen, Crash, and Outhouse. Stoner left before we took the picture!

Getting ready to leave

The Candyman can!!! He won Crash this M&M racing guy from the "Claw" machine.

Little group but it was fun! We will be meeting at Famous Sam's next week.... Mark your calendars and WE WILL SEE YOU THERE!

Ride to Payson & Winslow ... June 25th

2011-06-27T12:11:00.000-07:00

6:30am Kickstands up at Warner & Arizona Ave's QT. Diablo joined us at Country Club & McDowell, Dan DaMan, SuziQ, Penguin, and Doughboy joined up with us at Beeline past Fountain Hills. Total bikes to Payson: 11 with 10 members and 3 visiting riders. #5 joined us for breakfast at Tiny's in Payson. #5 couldn't go on the ride since he is fighting off the ending of bronchitis. After a pretty tasty meal at Tiny's we headed towards Winslow. Penguin and Doughboy had some previous engagements so they headed back to the valley. Once we got to Winslow we checked out some of the shops, it was pretty sad to see Diane's Roadworks store (It was the original "Standin' On A Corner" store) empty. A few of us went to DQ for an Ice Cream while others walked down the street to check out a few stores. We met some new shop owners on the next CORNER down in Winslow, very nice friendly people. We also secured rooms for our September Winslow ride.

"Standin' On The Corner". Fun as always! Back row: 0ther, Candyman, Turtle, SuziQ, Diablo, Ninja, Hollywood. Front row: Crash and Outhouse.

On the road again!

Breakfast at Tiny's. Starting at left: Outhouse, Crash, Hollywood, Ninja, Penguin, Diablo, SuziQ, Candyman, Turtle, #5, Doughboy, Dan DaMan, and 0ther.

After Winslow we headed back to Payson, we stopped to see #5, 5 1/2, 6, and Kelly. We were met with great hospitality! They had Chipolte chicken, homemade salsa and all the fixings! And we had some great pizza too!! We were able to get rested and re hydrated before heading back to Chandler.

SuziQ takes a nap whiles Dan DaMan, Turtle and Diablo chat.

It was so nice just relaxing with great friends along with great hosts!

Jim (#5), Jody (5 1/2), Travis (6), Kelly and Kids.....Thank You so much for a great visit. We appreciate it more than you know!!!

Good times with 6!!!!!

Last gas stop before heading back to the valley.

Not too bad a price for gas!

It was a great day for a ride, being with great people and just having a great time! We missed everyone who were not able to make it, hope to see you on the next ride! Till we ride again!

Ride on Saturday, June 25th

2011-06-23T10:43:00.000-07:00

Meet at QT @ Warner and Arizona Ave.

Kickstands up @ 6:30am

FAMOUS SAM'S

2011-06-20T15:14:00.001-07:00

See everyone at

FAMOUS

SAM'S

on Weds nite!!!

Bike Nite .... June 15th

2011-06-16T08:36:00.000-07:00

It was another great bike nite at Famous Sams!

Here's Matt picking the lucky 50/50 ticket! Watching are Matt's dad, Chuck and Outhouse.

And guess who won the 50/50? Matt's Mom & Dad, Chuck and Miranda .... Congrats!

Till next bike nite .... see you then!!!

June 11th Sacaton

2011-06-12T09:27:00.000-07:00

What a great morning for a 100 mile ride! We met at QT, kickstands up at 6:30am. Lumpy brought along 3 friends to ride with us. We road up Arizona Ave. heading towards Sacaton. Once we got to Sacaton we stopped at the "MATHEW B. JUAN / IRA H. HAYES MEMORIAL PARK". Which unfortunately was closed since we got their so early. We then headed to Mesa through Florence to the 60, then on into Golden Corral for breakfast and our monthly chapter meeting.

NOTE: Mathew B. Juan was the first American Indian and the first Arizonan to be killed in WWI on May 28, 1918. On February 23, 1945, Ira H. Hayes was one of 6 Americans to raise the American flag on a tiny island at Iwo Jima. Ira Hayes died at the age of 32 on January 24, 1955 in Bapchute, Arizona. (FYI: Each year on the weekend closest to the date of the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi, the Ira H. Hayes American Legion Post 84 holds an Iwo Jima ceremonial event at the Memorial Park in Sacaton)

Here's the group plus a couple of visiting riders.

#5, Cowboy and Outhouse in front of the memorial.

Ira H. Hayes memorial.

From what we were able to see from the locked gate, it is a pretty nice memorial.

Guess who?

Outhouse conducting our monthly chapter meeting at Golden Corral. NOTE: There was good information discussed our meeting, from a chapter challenge from Diablo (dealing with our annual picnic) to emergency card information that was brought up from #5, plus Brenda offering to help get a 'real' first aide kit together for the chapter. Our minutes will be sent out soon, so for those of you who were not able to make the meeting, please be sure to read the minutes.

Here's one of our newest members with our Vice President, Diablo and President, Outhouse! Lumpy was unanimously voted in today.


Doughboy and Penguin were also unanimously voted in to Chandler 393!

Congratulations to all 3 of our new members! Welcome to STAR Chandler Chapter 393, we are glad to have you!

So, this was our first "Ride before our chapter meeting" because its that time of year when temperatures are going higher earlier in the day .... It went pretty well, and everyone still had the day to get those things done on your "to-do lists". We have a few more rides like this so we hope everyone thinks this is a good thing!

Until we meet again ...... RIDE SAFE

CHAPTER MEETING JUNE 11TH

2011-06-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

Don't miss the information that was posted earlier today on the ride/meeting this Saturday!

We are hoping to get as many members as possible to show up so that group pictures can be taken.

There will be great photo ops on the ride to Sacaton! Don't miss out!!

See you all there!

Bike Nite .... June 8th

2011-06-08T21:26:00.000-07:00

Bike Nite @ Famous Sam's started out kinda small, but we ended up with a pretty good group. Here's Outhouse and GUESS WHO?

Outhouse and the Candyman

Diablo, Stoner, and Rooster

Long time no see! Outhouse and Mrs. Keebler. She won the 50/50, way to go!

The group

Mayhem, Nemo, Outhouse, and Sleepy. It was good to see Mayhem is up and walking around.

Crash, Ninja, and Candyman

Cowboy, Turtle, and Hollywood

Ride & Chapter Meeting June 11, 2011

2011-06-08T17:12:00.000-07:00

RIDE to SACATON

Meet at QT on Arizona Ave & Warner Road
Kickstands up at 6:30am
Ride thru Chandler and then go on 87 into Sacaton.
From there on into Florence then back into to town.

MEETING:

We will have our Monthly Chapter Meeting at Golden Corral after the ride.
At our meeting will be discussing old and new business PLUS voting some prospective riders into the chapter.

We hope to see everyone @ QT!!

Cricket's Visit June 2011

2011-06-08T17:06:00.000-07:00

It sure was great seeing our friend Keith "Cricket" Larson. He flew out for Savannah's graduation and stayed with Gene & Desiree. Unfortunately JoJo wasn't able to come out with him.

Cricket wasn't here very long so he didn't get to see and visit too much. He was able to take in a "Swap Meet" in Phoenix.

Well Friend, Till we see you again! "ROAD TRIP TO TEXAS?"

May 25th Bike Nite

2011-05-27T20:56:00.000-07:00

We had a pretty good crowd at Bike Nite @ Famous Sams (about 20 people).  Marlon and Dave joined us from 113.  Here's 0ther, Marlon & Nemo selling 50/50 tickets.

By the way the 50/50 winner of the week..... CANDYMAN!

A fellow rider, Bruce decided to visit us.  We made a pretty good impression, this was his 2nd bike nite with us!

Hollywood and Ninja spent the evening with us too.  It was ninja's birthday .... and boy do we all sing good!

Joe and his brother were there too!  Always good to see them.

Enjoying some good company!

Here's our Famous Sams waiter passing around the good food.  It was nice to see Dave and Marlon, as well as Pops (Chief's Dad).


EEK... Don't know where that 'orb' came from. Maybe it was just a little windy and its a piece of 'sand or dust'!

See everyone at the next get together!

More Pictures of Prescott ride

2011-05-22T22:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a fun group of people to hang out with!

Early to rise to start a great day of riding back to the Valley

Woody, Dan DaMan, Crash, and Jenn

Penguin, 0ther, Dan DaMan, Woody, and SuziQ. Side Note: This was Woody's last ride with us for a while. He leaves Monday morning back home to Mass. Then He'll he on his way to a new job site in Ohio. Keep in Touch, Woody!!!

Lots of twists, curves and turns on the way to Winkenburg

What a beautiful day for riding

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Great Weekend, Great Ride! Great Memories!