Text Box: Chopper’s Parting Shot Let’s be serious for a moment. Get a paper and pen out and get ready to write down a number to put in your wallet, purse, saddlebag, or save in your cell-phone. If you’ve been drinking and shouldn’t be riding (or know someone who has), call Dial A Ride at 1-888-342-5743. They’ll get you AND your bike home. Cheaper (it’s FREE) and smarter then riding if you have been drinking and getting a DUI or having an accident. Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride, Inc. is a free service available in the state of Minnesota on weekends and holidays from 6:00 PM on Friday through midnight on Sunday starting the last weekend of April through the last weekend of October. Including the legal holidays of Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. Motorcyclists in the state of Minnesota who call the toll free number, 1-888 DIALRID(E) or 1-888-342-5743 during the hours of service, Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride Inc. will dispatch a volunteer equipped to transport the motorcyclist, passenger, and their motorcycle from a public establishment to the rider's home or local accommodation. Motorcycle Dial-A-Ride, Inc. is supported by the efforts of ABATE of Minnesota, Inc. (American Bikers for Awareness Training and Education), motorcycle organizations, businesses, and a group of over 200 volunteers statewide who respond to provide this free service. Seriously, write the number down today and keep it with you. It could really help you or a bro. Now let’s ride! Text Box: Motorcycle Riding Season Beginning to Wind Down I know, it’s depressing, but the fact is, it’s really tough to ride your motorcycle year ‘round in Minnesota. Yeah, I know, it can be done and you know a guy whose brother in law’s cousin’s friend knows a guy who rides year ‘round. But hey, take a break, watch a football game, go hunting, go to a hockey game, ice fish, shovel some snow, go skiing, or snowmobiling. That brings me to my next point, snowmobiling. ChopperDave, while he seems all-knowing at times, knows less about snowmobiling than SuperDave, who will be writing a guest column once the snow flies (well...I mean...after the snowmobile riding season begins since it has snowed a couple times already). Trust me, SuperDave can be your link to snowmobiling information just like ChopperDave is to motorcycling. SuperDave recently attending the HayDays Snowmobile Grass Drags and Swap meet and is beginning to form some opinions regarding the make and model of machine he will be riding this season. SuperDave is concerned about finances in this rebuilding year, but if he is anything like ChopperDave, his ride will be smoking’! Hang on folks, winter is almost here!

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Chopper’s Today
Text Box: Ask ChopperDave Text Box: This month’s 1st question was asked by a “sometime reader”. “ChopperDave, I really think you need to find a real job because it looks like you have way too much time on your hands. Maybe you should take up knitting or gardening. It’s very relaxing.” ChopperDave sez: The “Ask ChopperDave” section of “The Cycles Page” is for questions. Hence the word Ask. Maybe “sometime reader” should spend less time gardening or knitting and a little more time READING. ChopperDave is too busy to read everything aloud to all his readers. Next question. Little Mikey asks, “ChopperDave, ‘What does RKC stand for? Is that a new kind of chicken wing at Hooters? ” ChopperDave sez: RKC stands for all things American. You know, Apple Pie, Harley Davidson, Chevrolet, … things like that. As far as the chicken wings at Hooters...wait...they serve food there? Enough questions, let’s ride! Text Box: ChopperDave Out and About

Pictured above is “Little Mikey” and his friend “sometime reader” at Hooters.