I think for most of us it's just about the passion ....
The passion to build unusaul bikes,
The passion to ride the bikes,
and
The passion to make new friends.
I think Kenny or one of the other Freaks once said that all you have to do to be a member is to come out and ride. No dues, no set rules and no secret hand shakes
. Just get out and have fun with people who have like interests.
Last year, Kenny and his group instilled alot of interest in people all over the world with their bikes and goofy cruises. I know he hooked me pretty easily and Giggles followed right along. YYZMEC and his Canooks planned a ride around Hamilton Beach, Ontario, So after some forum talk, we decided to hit the road to Canada. We hooked up with Michigan native, Budzilla and cruised with the Canadians, who called themselves the FreakBike Militia- Golden Horseshoe Circle or FBM-GHC.
We had a ball that weekend, although the ride home sucked
. But we wouldn't have missed this for the world. So we are actually a spin off of Tony's group, FBM-GHC.
When we got back, Budz, Gigs, Nogoodnic, myself and others carried on lengthy discussions over starting our own chapter and what to call ourselves. We had some cool names as well as some scary ones thought up, but finally settled on Freak Bike Militia- Great Lakes. We did this so we could share dual citizenship with the Lake Ontario guys as well as include guys and gals from the other states bordering on the great lakes.
We held our first ride in Holly Mi. (my hometown) just before Xmas and had a decent turn out. I think it was around 12 crazy people. We also had the Pixie Cage Matches that night.
We recently held our 2nd cruise in Detroit along with checking out Autorama. YYZMEC and Frisbee came over from Canada and spent the day with us, making this a TRUE international cruise! Thanks Guys! :wink:
On April 29th we are planning to have a FBM-GL booth at the AnnArbor/Saline Bike show, as well as a cruise or two that weekend.
So now after all this rambling, I think our version of FBM is just a group of people who get together to enjoy life on two and sometimes three wheels, talk about their bikes and eat carrots. Tony can explain this!
At this time, I would like to invite any of you guys and gals to consider yourselves members of our chapter no matter where your from! Just build a rat bike, chopper, cruiser or freak and get out there and ride! 8) Send me some pics of you and your bike, your cruise or anything else Freak Bikeish! I'm putting together a website and hoping to get it going in the next few weeks.
I would like to thak KennyP and Tony for inspiring us mitten men to become the best Freaks we can be!
I would also like to the RatRodBikes as well as ChopperBicycles.net for providing these forums and allowing us to hook up with all the bike nuts around the world!
Chainsaw