{"id":1664,"date":"2012-04-29T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:00:41","slug":"blessing-of-the-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/29\/blessing-of-the-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing of the Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ago, after learning that I’d be down-state this weekend, Al suggested that we take our bikes to the Gibraltar Trade Center for the “Blessing of the Bikes” event. \u00a0I’d never heard of this before, but in a nutshell, bikers gather, eat hot dogs, and a priest blesses the bikes, people look at all the other bikes, then you leave.<\/p>\n

I had never seen so many motorcycles in one place. \u00a0The event announcer said that 1129 motorcycles were in attendance. \u00a0From what I could tell, almost all of them were Harley Davidsons. \u00a0I looked at about half of the motorcycles and counted just 4 Triumphs, including mine. \u00a0I was undoubtedly in the minority.<\/p>\n

The weather was nice, the\u00a0hot dogs\u00a0were good, and the bikes were interesting. \u00a0Good fun all around.<\/p>\n