Saturday, December 08, 2007

Toys for Tots MMRC Run


A small part of the starting field for the ride shown above.

(L to R) Deanna, Rhonda, Rick, Kris, Jermaine, Melonie, John.
We did the local Toys for Tots run, second year for the club, first year for me.
We met up at Starbucks, and rode down to Walter Park to the start point. The bikes were still rolling in steadily a half hour after the official start time. There were four parking lots full of bikes!

This fellow with the cool mask was one of a few thousand others we rolled with to the Pasadena Fairgrounds.....

Here we are gathered at the end. The weather was good, even a little hot for a December ride. Probably around 75 degrees. The police support was great, they shut down all Northbound lanes of I-45 for us!

The food choices were somewhat lacking at the end, so we retired to a country restaraunt in Deer Park for eats afterward. There we were treated to a chance to check out "Mike the Bike", June's trike, which started life as a 750 Honda Shadow.
In all we ended up with four members and five guests at the ride, to finish off the 2007 club rides.

5 comments:

Smoness said...

Oh, that was quick! Love the photos! :)

Anonymous said...

This is my first peek at the photos. Yay! They need to go in the website gallery.

I love that it's a Christmas Toy Run, and we're in Summer Gear.

And very sly of you to open your jacket JUST enough to see the MMRC logo on the front.

RMaxT said...

It's good to see some of my family out of the blue in these fotos: Rick O. & Kris O. I was looking for the site that had the video taken by the little R/C helicopter hovering over I-45. Any ideas what website it was located on?

Ride Free!

RMaxT said...

please post a response if you know about this video company and where the video may be available.

Tnx!
PAX,
Max.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.