I built my new 25' X 25' steel shop building behind my house 17 years ago.
16 years ago this month a few riding buds and I started gathering here on Friday evenings and have been doing it ever since.
We named ourselves "The Peckerhead Motorcycle Racing Team" and got some shirts made.
We have a secret handshake too but I can't talk about that!
We are all about beer, benchracing, BS and stogies. "The older we get the faster we were", that sort of thing.
We come from all walks of life...CEO's, carpenters, airline pilots, welders, accountants, SWAT cops, unemployed guys, retired guys, racers, ex-racers, wannabe racers, engineers, ex-fighter pliots, college students, motorcycle riders. That last one is the only thing we have in common. Ages range from 19 to 79.
No offices, no rank, no rules...except for one: There are no rules!
All kinds of bikes.
Sort of an accidental brotherhood with members in about 12 U.S. states, Italy & Mexico. We ride together (not all of us) and we watch each other's backs in lots of ways. A couple of members have died...we "circle the wagons" around their widows so nobody can take any kind of advantage of them and we have been asked to "approve" of a widow's potential suitor! He is a Peckerhead regular so he was in...we have no scruples.
A couple of our older guys are dying of cancer, dammit. We support them as we can but we get much more from them than they get from us. They both started riding in the late 40's and still ride every day they are able.
I will write something sometime about a phenomenon we discovered with them: Motorcycle Therapy!
We have no idea how many members we have, "meetings" range from 5 to 30 or so.
If you simply must know more, take a look here: http://www.peckerheadmotorcycleracing.com/
Anyway, here are some pics from a recent Peckerhead Friday Night:
Our beer table under a shade tree. Hundreds of initials & dates inscribed in the top.
"Jaybird" & ATK 610 street tracker.
Dan and the Land Shark. He's the pro motorcycle photg who took many of the (better) images I post on "Eye Candy".
This and the next 2 are Dante "Dan" Caranci, our little old buddy with cancer. Dante immigrated to Ellis Island when he was an infant. He was a career U.S. Air Force electronics specialist and A&P mechanic. We was "in the trenches for the last 5 A-bomb tests and one of the 1st H-bomb tests.
A lifelong rider, he is the nicest, sweetest man I know.
He stole Peckerhead beer...
The office.
Hotrod R100M "Mystic"
Berwyn (ex-flat track racer, had HD support) and "Pistol", an ex F-4 and F-116 jock.
Cont'd on 2nd post.
