The Road Rider

           Our main goal is to promote  motorcycle Safety and Provide Group motorcycle Rides to  club members.

We also donate money to people in need and charitable organizations such as the Pediatric Brain Foundation, Breast Cancer Research Center and the Adopt an Angel program throughout the year. However, our major reason for existence is to ride. During the winter months, we generally have a ride about 2 times a month; during the summer, 3-4 times a month. Rides are almost always on weekends, usually on Saturdays (although an occasional Sunday ride is held). There are also people who are interested in weekday riding weather permitting. Most of our rides are 1 day, anywhere from 200 - 300 miles total (although there is an occasional longer one or shorter one). A few of times a year we go on overnighters; so far we have gone to the Laughlin River Run, Moab, Utah, Zion and Bryce National Parks and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We had to cancel a couple of trips during the winter season as Mother Nature sometimes provides less than desirable riding conditions. In the summertime, we generally ride up north - Payson, Pine, Strawberry, Flag, etc. In the winter, we generally ride down south (Wickenburg, Phoenix area, etc.). We try to do a half dozen or so "moonlight rides" each year - whatever night the full moon falls on - to ride someplace to dinner and sometimes dancing. In the winter, we go on 4 wheels (it's warmer at night); in the summer it varies.

We have all types of bikes in the club - Harleys, Hondas, Suzukis, Gold Wings, BMW's. No crotch rockets yet - although that's only because no-one with one joined. The membership age ranges from around 40 to early 70's. Probably about 2/3 are retired; the rest of us poor slobs work for a living (thus the weekend rides). We have over 40 members, many Prescott residents although some are from both the Phoenix and Verde Valleys. On a ride, we'll have anywhere from 2 - 30 bikes, depending upon where we're going, the weather, etc.

We have a monthly breakfast meeting (generally on the first Saturday of the month) at the Golden Corral Restaurant (Frontier Village Shopping Center) 1901 East Highway 69 in Prescott. Meeting times for breakfast is 8:00am and the meeting starts promptly at 8:30. The restaurant serves an all-you-can-eat breakfast for around $7.00 per person (which includes waffles, eggs, meat and drinks) - the food is plentiful and delicious, and there is no waiting for service. Our club dues are $20 per year (pro-rated if you join after January) for the rider + $10 for a member-passenger. There is also a one-time $10 initiation fee, for which you get an AMA patch and a Club patch. {We are an AMA Chartered Club}. If your spouse/girlfriend/passenger also wants patches, there is also a $10 initiation fee - if she/he doesn't, there is no initiation fee.