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You girls ever heard of PMing each other... LOLOLOL

No...what's that???

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Last Chance to get tickets before this trip !

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Kicking it off this weekend. http://ridersonline.org/anybike

Click HERE for printable flier.

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The RiderDown Foundation will be showing the Leatt Neck Brace at our RIDERS 2nd Anniversary and 1st RIDEtoWALK Event. When you buy your Leatt from RiderDown Foundation you not only protect yourself... But the profit from the sale is used to Help Injured Riders.

Leatt & RiderDown: Helping Riders Up !

Come on out and check out the brace and please buy your brace from The RiderDown Foundation Store.

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1st Annual RIDEtoWALK held in Ocotillo Wells

We arrived in Ocotillo Wells on Thursday around noon with a broken leaf spring on the trailer. I want to thank West Coast Trailer out of Riverside for sending 2 guys out to fix it on Friday IN CAMP even though I was 1 full year out of warranty. In the market for a Toy Hauler ? Please give Tim your business. http://westcoasttrailer.com

I found Art from RiderDown in camp when I arrived. He made the 9 hour drive in time to greet Yoda and I when we pulled in.

Camp continued to grow all day Friday until we had about 60 people in camp. We had about 10 more roll in Saturday just for the Poker Run. Yoda pulled out the new RiderDown Ts and Hats for the folks and we got registration underway. The rolling check points with ride leaders carrying Playing Cards and Sharpies worked nicely ! I recommend it. We just handed out a strip of duct tape for a score card.



Everyone made it back to camp with only one bike needing retrieval due to breakage. Jimmy's (Smiley) buddy won the Saturday Poker Run and donated the prize money back. More about other winners below...

Our spaghetti dinner was a hit... especially the garlic cheese bread ! LOL Then we sent Yolanda out on a buggy ride while Joan & John broke out the fantastic surprise birthday cake made to look like her Honda 300 Quad and our famous lighted Palm Tree. This thing was amazing and took 14 cakes to make. Yoda was fighting back tears BIG TIME. We sang... she cried... The trick candles would not blow out... we all laughed... LOL

Then we broke out the surround sound and flat screen for the Saturday night movie showing of Spiderman 3... after which we had a little fireworks show.

The Sunday Poker Run was just one group of 10 but we had a blast. Greg fell out early due to his 2 stroke misfiring... We made our way out to Superstition without event. On the way back Art decided to show us how the Leatt Neck Brace works that RiderDown is now selling. I thought he was going for a pass on me in the wash but then he just up and threw himself off the bike and did some fancy brake-dancing in front of me. LOL

All kidding aside he did go sown pretty hard. But the Doctor has since cleared him of any broken bones. He'll be sore for a bit but is OK otherwise. After cleaning sand out of every orifice Art manned up and finished the last 10 miles back to camp and got to bed early. Poor guy had to drive home the next morning. Art is a GREAT guy and we are all very glad he is relatively OK from his thumping. :2thumbs:


A Few STATS

74 - RIDERS
62 - Adults
12 - Kids
52 - Bikes
11 - Quads
6 - Rhinos
8 - Tent Campers
12 - RVs and/or Toy Haulers
6 - Trailers

We raised just over $1800... with $400 in donations coming in along with Any Bike You Want Sweepstakes Tickets... over $300 in RiderDown T-shirt & Hat sales...


Honda EU2000i Generator Raffle

The Generator Raffle was won by Two Wheeled Texans (Steve Smith's Riding Group out of Texas). Steve flew out here to do the Husky Memorial Ride we had a few months ago. Steve bought several tickets with money collected from his gang with the stipulation that if they won the generator money would be donated BACK to Smiley Riley ! How cool is that ?! :2thumbs:

Second place and the HJC helmet was won by Ben Geissel from KTMTalk. I just spoke with Ben who has generously donated the Helmet prize back to Smiley !


Long Distance Award goes to Art Jurado from NorCAL
Art from RiderDown drove 9 hours from NorCAL to be here and support us. He brought some Leatt Braces to demonstrate... and he did just that on Sunday !




Poker Run Winners

Saturday
The Saturday Poker Run was won by Jim Parker of Parker Plumbing out of Long Beach and coincidentally Smiley Riley's long time riding buddy ! He donated his $120 prize money to Smiley !

Second Place was Karen Jones in a Polaris RZR from Beanz & Crackerz Racing Club. She and her husband Darren donated their $70 prize money back to Smiley !

Sunday
The Sunday Poker Run was won by Steve Reynolds and his father Don in a Yamaha Rhino... Second place was to Bob Touch on a TRX450R... Their prize money also sent to Smiley !
Steve Reynolds won

Selling RDF Stuff

We got some all NEW Team Color RiderDown T-Shirts that were a BIG HIT.

Sold 20 RiderDown Shirts
Sold 4 RiderDown Hats




Thank You

I can't tell you all how much I appreciate your help and support on this event. And I especially want to thank the RIDERS for allowing me to turn their Anniversary Party into a Charity Event and then step up to help make it a success !