This year we will be meeting at Stoney Lonesome Motorcycle Club in Columbus, Indiana, just south of Indy. Stoney Lonesome will offer a suggested donation breakfast. Registration and breakfast will start at 7:30am. We will plan to have kickstands up at 9:00am and will leave in small groups of 8ish riders. Lunch is included with your ride. Dinner will also be available for a suggested donation after the ride at Stoney. Camping will be available Friday and Saturday night for $5 per night fee before and after the ride for those interested. Water, Showers, Kitchen are available for those choosing to camp. No power hook ups for campers. Generators welcome. Gas is available every 60-80 miles along the route. Please arrive fully fueled up.
The ride will take us south. We will stop for an included lunch around 12:30pm at a friend of the ride’s property west of Bloomington, IN.
We will do our best to keep each group to 8 or so riders, avoiding a long parade type ride. Ride is rain or shine!
GPX tracks will be emailed to a week or so before the ride. Online registration will close Thursday, at Noon. Walk up registration is welcome day of ride, but please register online if you can as it helps with planning. Walk up registration is $40 (includes lunch). Tshirts are $25 day of ride.
Please bring cash for suggested donation meals, tshirts, stickers and walk up registration.
If you have any more questions please email ridersforstriders@gmail.com
Start- Stoney Lonesome Motorcycle Club – 14000 W. State Road 46 Columbus, Indiana
*Read the report from the 2015 ride below*
May 16, 2015
Indianapolis, Indiana
The second annual Riders for Striders took place on May 16, 2015. The local Indianapolis 500 Qualification day was cancelled due to the rain, but Riders for Striders went on! A little rain wouldn’t stop this tough group of charity riders! Registration opened at 9am and the rain showers had moved off, we had cloudy skies and temps in the lower 70s. Cycle Outfitters, our ride starting point host, set up a fantastic spread of free donuts and coffee! The the threat of rain for the day didn’t keep registered riders home. At the start of the ride we had 38 motorcycles. 34 Adventure Motorcyclists, and 4 Street Motorcyclists. I believe the forecast kept the street riders home, but everyone who was there had a great positive attitude and was ready to ride and raise some money to get the kids of Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital some Strider Bikes!
We had two routes this year for the second annual ride. An Adventure route (on road/off road) and a Street route (pavement) were available this year. We did our ride a little different than most charity rides. Instead of a parade or escorted ride, we had 10 ride leaders with the routes in their GPS. We paired up the riders into groups of 6-8 motorcycles. This way we can have riders paired up with their experience level. And this allows each group to go their own pace, stop where they want and improves the safety of the ride.
We rode south out of Indianapolis, and headed towards Bloomington, Indiana. RevSport in Bloomington was our lunch stop destination. The ADV group had some creeks to cross, wonderful gravel roads through Yellowwood State Forest, and more gravel through the Lake Monroe area. One benefit of the less than ideal weather….the rain showers kept the gravel dust free!
I was fortunate enough to have my Dad, who flew in from Tucson, AZ for the ride, and my 5 year old son join me in my Ural sidecar rig! Pretty cool to have three generations riding in one machine through the gravel and creeks!
The group met up at RevSport for a donation lunch. Moody’s Butcher Shop in Center Grove, Indiana donated 40lbs of pork for the lunch!
Just after lunch the rain started to pour! All riders kept a positive attitude, zipped up their rain gear and headed back out for the north bound portion on the ride. I was very impressed with all the riders maintaining a positive attitude and just carrying on with the ride like it wasn’t raining! Good waterproof gear really helps too!
The adventure group hit a snag on the north bound route inside of the Hoosier Nation Forest. A tree had fallen across the road. Now, most riders might let this obstacle ruin their ride, but not this ADV group! The ADV groups just worked together, and since they were riding off road bikes, went around the tree. Some even said going around the tree made the ride even more fun!
The north bound portion of both routes ended at Taxman Brewing Company in Bargersville, Indiana. Taxman was a fantastic host! They opened up their upstairs area just for the riders. It was nice to get out of the rain and everyone enjoyed chatting about the ride. Our total ride distance was 155 miles round trip.
We raised enough money to purchase 41 additional Striders for the kids of Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital. Planning for next year’s ride has already begun! We are hoping for better weather next year, but I was very impressed with this year’s turn out!