day12a

It's 9:14am and my lovely and i have just road 67 miles west on highway 46, then south on the super slab 95 to meet up with these ruffians in Rockledge. My brother Larry, is on the far left, the only one with a Honda, but his friends have good taste. lol. Thats Bob, retired ex motorcycle cop from new england area and his riding buddy Dan. It''s grand to ride with Bob, his oneness with his bike when he's in the lead is a thing to behold. He has lots of good stories, once he told us that "Daytona is nice but it's not like it was in the old days. Things have calmed down." He told us of being on duty during Laconia riding four officers to a car all carrying ready to fire shotguns. "Oh ya, we had some long nights, back then." he calmy told us. Years since those days have had their affect on those adventures of his. Both Bob and Dan are active members of the 250 strong Space Coast HOG's that is sponsoring todays main course.
The Moving Wall Memorial. http://www.themovingwall.org/
It is a replica of the real thing in DC. But wowwie zowwie. There's controversy afoot. and maybe some events given some light. After reviewing their web page i find that the event i attended today is a "copy"... Yikes? What? Well, the info is all on their page so it must be true. Politics is one thing, but copywrite enfringement is another. Now, i'm most assuredly not here to say who or what is a copy. But i want to report the facts of the day as i saw them. In order if possible...
After leaving Rockledge we putt 10 miles north to Brevard Community College parking lot to find 2k bikers ready to pay tribute. Here is a good pic of Larry with his new air filter sparkling in the perfect florida sun, on his clean metric on the way to the bcc parking area. he tells me "for the toys-for-tots run we had 15k bikes last year and filled up the whole park". Todays crowd was the largest my lovely and i have ever been in.