You would think the Organizing committee ment it
Look at another Plus, it wont be there next year

Yours, once again reminded why HOG is just a moneymaking crock.......
sorry I missed that one, so I will see you next year?

 I'm a pretty green rider and had my first HOG ride a couple of weeks ago down south through the national park, across the Sea Cliff Bridge to Shellharbour. It was a big group (up to 100 bikes) and frankly for me a bit of a thrill.  Everyone I spoke with was pretty good and it was well organised and safe. I'll do one of the Youth on the Streets rides this month as well. Maybe I'll grow out of it as I get more experienced but so far so good. The best social riding group anywhere though is via this forum.

 Posted By Phantom on 08 Mar 2010 7:28 PM

I'd agree with this line of thinking

since our sponsering dealer went bust and HOG tried to shut us down, we found out the organisers of the chapter made it a Inc. body, so now we are not a official HOG chapter but a group of Harley riding enthuseists, we are all international members, some of our group have joined the Adelaide chapter, we have lost a couple of members that didn't get along with everyone but thats teir choice,

the main thing is WE ARE ALL STILL RIDING

 

Soapbox, i bought a new bike from the above-mentioned dealer and as such was offered a membership to the HOG chapter you speak of, i agree that it looks good on paper. After recieving emails and news letters regarding planed rides etc i looked further into it and was put off by the idea of some clown wearing an appropriate patch leading and dictating the pace of the ride. (correct me if im wrong please) I have seen you guys in action at the recent car/bike show , i found it hard not to laugh as some hobbit like character strutted into the bar wearing a leather vest covered in badges, im not sure why SOME HOG members feel it nesecary to adopt such an attitude. Im glad you guys are all still riding as for me thats what its all about. 

                                                                                                                                                        Barney.

 

I doubt that it's reasonable to blame the local HOG committee for the weather but I wasn't there so I won't make judgements. As far as the rest of the comments, it's just the same old same old............... heard it all before........ everybody quick to criticise but slow to put their hand up and get involved in helping to organise anything more difficult than finding their next beer.

Having just done my first HOG State Rally in WA I can say that it was brilliantly organised, excellent route, top quality company, superb food and luckily supported by 3 days of 35 degrees. Lots of genuine support and great humour from the Albany HOG guys and a lot of excellent visitors from interstate. It was a blast, best long weekend I've had for years. Haven't heard the slightest criticism from anyone yet.

Don't let me spoil this post though.....................

 

 

I have been a HOG member now for 15 years and have generally enjoyed the experience and managed to meet and make many new friends at HOG Rallies.
The last HOG rally in Tassie i missed but have been told that it was not a success and was the first national rally run by "experts" in events. in the past it was run by HOG memebers who ride a lot, know how we like to party and dont have all these rules to stop our enjoyment. We like to party, we like to ride so anyone who wants to makes all these rules to stop our enjoyment just makes the future of rallies and HOG look very grim
This year national rally will be at Mt Bulla in Vic in december and many people i know (including myself) will not be attending.
I will be attending the QLD state rally in My Isa in August. I know most of the members and have travelled with them to other rallies and we have a challenge each year in Renner Springs, with Darwin ,Alice Springs and Mt Isa attending each year
It should be a great rally as they really know how to party and are so very hospitable.
I understand the problem with staggered riding formations and there are a number in my own club that i would not want to ride in front or behind me
in Darwin we have many harley riders who will not join HOG or ride with them for the same reasons as others has said on this post.
It is an individual thing but every club has its posers but again each club has its hard core riding group than do enjoy the long rides (3-4000klms) as we have to do to attend interstate rallies.
its not everyones cup of tea but it does give one an opportunity to ride with others who enjoy riding their harleys

I'm VERY surprised to hear a bad comment about the Tassy Rally as everyone I know who went said it was fantastic! That's with the exception of 50 plus degrees on the Nullarbor riding home! I really think that some people need to be a little more open-minded in their comments. Bucket already

hates my guts because I'm a HOG member yet he's never met me. I won't lose a lot of sleep over it though!!! )

Being a member of HOG doesn't imply anything about a person and nor does it EXCLUDE every other way of riding! I enjoy riding with mates with any brand of bike and I like riding alone too. All folk on 2 wheels have a love of riding so I won't be putting shit on any of them. I WILL put shit on

people with tunnel vision though!!!

 

 

 

I really don't know where you guys are coming from!!! We have NOTHING like this behaviour in Perth! The Road Captains DO NOT big-note themselves. There are virtually NO rules except the staggered riding formation. Not ALL of us have badges and pins. I have none. We all have a lot of fun and I have never yet seen any agro. I just don't understand all this crap!!! Maybe we're just a bit retarded in the West!!! I respect the comments of you all but please don't make assumptions that the whole HOG world is like the experience you had. It's not.

 

I agree sincerely with the last few comments. I have the utmost appreciation for the guys and gals that spend a heap of their own private time to organise events but I have a stack of other things that take up my own personal time. In 7 years of HOG I have never been to a chapter meeting but have been on a shitload of rides. Nobody has yet complained about that and I know that they never will! My life is all the better for the good company and good experiences and I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks.   

my only gripe with HOG is when our sponser dealer shut down, we were shut down, like the knife through the support line

the Guys from the committee (Im on the committee) are still in touch and we still organize rides with the rules we were under with HOG, we see the rules as a way of keeping safety and order to the rides, the road captain is the front guy who is the pace setter, nothing more
even the much feared 1% clubs have a road captain.

Sitting on the fence , this thread is great ..  

I am a HOG member and have been since July last year. I specifically joined to go to the Tassie Rally and I have been grinning from ear to ear ever since. I’ve been to all the meetings and I try and get on all the rides when family and time permits. Everyone I have met through HOG have been great and I have made numerous new friends because of it. I have never met any of these posers and or show ponies and as for the politics well there is politics in everything and as I don’t get involved it doesn’t concern me. oh I have a vest with badges on it, some from my former military unit, rank and insignia and others associated with HOG and I wear it almost every time I’m on the bike. Its great conversation piece where ever I stop even at the traffic lights. But why would it bother you, I wear brown boots instead of black, who gives a shit. Yes I understand why HOG was started but really I’m part of a group of more than a million members world wide. That’s pretty amazing in its self and to think that I can meet new people from all over the world with the same interests as me, Harley Davidson’s and riding them. thats cool!

Gruvy
 

These views on HOG are through my eyes.
I am a member of HOG & have been for 2 years, I enjoy it so much so I just joined up for another 3 years. I go on as many of the day rides as possible but don't wear pins & badges as that does not interest me nor have I attended a monthly meeting, yet these decisions of mine have never been a problem with any of the other members of HOG Perth. I have even asked the Director fella of HOG Perth if it is compulsory to attend meetings, his answer was no it's personal choice.
I have met heaps of fantastic people through HOG & have yet to meet "one of those posers". As much as I would love to attend a rally, family commitments have put a hold on this for the time being (helping wife raise our kids) as every member I speak to has nothing but good things to say about them.

Cheers
Mal

if there were horny lookin sex starved female riders itd be worth goin on their rides especilly pitchin up the tent .there a bit like boy scouts covered in badges ,bandanas,flags,and the rules ,follow the leader ...down the road in peckin order .

we certainly flushed em out hahaha

HOG ralley NSW, only once  - on my Buell; they didn't like it

HOG rides - two, spent most of my time lifting bikes off the road when the riders fell off

Getting a chance to look at old farts Dressing up as the Pirates of Millwalkee - Priceless

This picture at a Hog ride so as Sister Mary said "Pray for the Knobheads" cuz they all need it LOL

Don't know much about HOG or even want to. Quite happy doing my own thing but there was an article or two in the latest HD that made my eyebrows head skyward.

One even had a moan about there being no "parade of flags"......wtf???? 

Crackers..... I read that too and had to wonder........!!!!

Getting a chance to look at old farts Dressing up as the Pirates of Millwalkee          Pisser...

Look, I live in the Isa and I can tell yer that all the statements made here about "beauty challenged" women are.......CORRECT !!!!

Glass or shiney objects will not even throw a reflection here, for fear of burnin a blokes retina's.

Specially trained teams deputized by the local council are employed to patrol the streets to round up "fuglies" in an attempt to beautify the town.

The original purpose of the famous smokestack  was a recepticle to incinerate said fuglies (back in DLux's grandaddy's day). However they dicontinued this practice when they realised the

ash fallout was causing severe health issues to the local townfolk and the beautiful people from surrounding areas (like Julia Creek).

 

People think Mount Isa has a lead health issue, well I'm here to tell you its residual fall out from those early burnin's all those years ago!!

HOGgies be warned, August is the anniversary of those first burnin's, thats why the rodeo is in August (what better way to celebrate a sacrifice than by ropin sum cattle and ridn a bull) and always

around August there is a decline in the health of people in the town. Some say it is the old fugly curse come back to haunt us, others say its just influenza caused by the early onset of Winter.

Either way hoggies beware!!!

 

Or you could just head out and find that is generally a boring place to ride a bike, shockin roads and potholes you could lose a 21inch wheel in.......

 

Damn, I need a dictionary...Who said HD Forums was'nt educational!!