Catholic Motorcycle Riders

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Hello again,
I’m sorry to tell you that back in early 2005 I found the Knights of St. Michael and actually flew to Michigan to meet with them.They disbanded shortly after that and took down their website which was www.knightsofsaintmichael.org.

It’s probably a good time to start a new organization!

Blessings,
Joanie
 
GodBlessJoanie said:
Hello again,
I’m sorry to tell you that back in early 2005 I found the Knights of St. Michael and actually flew to Michigan to meet with them.They disbanded shortly after that and took down their website which was www.knightsofsaintmichael.org.

It’s probably a good time to start a new organization!

Blessings,
Joanie
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Might explain why I haven’t gotten a reply to my e-mail.:ouch:
 
I think maybe hosting a ride at our local parishes may be the thing to do. The name isn’t important as the ride. It could even be open to non-catholic riders.
 
GodBlessJoanie said:
Hello again,
I’m sorry to tell you that back in early 2005 I found the Knights of St. Michael and actually flew to Michigan to meet with them.They disbanded shortly after that and took down their website which was www.knightsofsaintmichael.org.

It’s probably a good time to start a new organization!

Blessings,
Joanie
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Yes, I kind of figured that… I live in Michigan and did some searching about them and couldn’t find anything that was current. (including their website) I wasn’t sure though.
As for starting a new club… as wojo said… there is more to a MC that meets the eye. Im not saying I won’t start one. I just know its a lot of work. Its something that I would need support for and something I would take seriously. Not seriously like some MC clubs that won’t let you get the colors unless you have been a member for 5 years and have been to every meeting and every event etc… (I wouldn’t even be able to get the colors of the group that I started…) 😉

Looks like I have some work to do over the winter…

In Christ
Scott
 
If anyone plans to come down for Bike Week (Daytona) this upcoming year, let me know. We’re close by and like to go, so it would be great to meet up with our Catholic riders.

Peace!
 
Alphonsus_John said:
I think maybe hosting a ride at our local parishes may be the thing to do. The name isn’t important as the ride. It could even be open to non-catholic riders.
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We can start by just riding to Mass! Ride to any Catholic event that weather permits. Believe me, that will get the attention of other riders and you will at least strike up conversations, contacts, friendships, etc that you can build off of informally. Another neat next step would be to have a motorcycle blessing. We’ve been doing that at my parish for a few years now and we’ve tried to incorporate rides afterwards.
 
As for starting a new club… as wojo said… there is more to a MC that meets the eye. Im not saying I won’t start one. I just know its a lot of work. Its something that I would need support for and something I would take seriously.
In Christ
Scott

Most likely would have to be an RC (Riding Club). Riding to The Mass would be the most important function, after all it’s supposed to be about motorcycle riding and The Faith. I don’t see myself as a missionary of any kind - I would rather leave that to the clergy. Yearly gathering in Ave Maria in FL would be great… and pretty important - cool patch 🙂
 
Wojo said:
As for starting a new club… as wojo said… there is more to a MC that meets the eye. Im not saying I won’t start one. I just know its a lot of work. Its something that I would need support for and something I would take seriously.
In Christ
Scott
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Most likely would have to be an RC (Riding Club). Riding to The Mass would be the most important function, after all it’s supposed to be about motorcycle riding and The Faith. I don’t see myself as a missionary of any kind - I would rather leave that to the clergy. Yearly gathering in Ave Maria in FL would be great… and pretty important - cool patch 🙂

Yes, that sounds good to me…
FL may be a bit far for me to ride, but Im sure we could come up with other good rides. 👍
 
Norseman82 said:
We can start by just riding to Mass! Ride to any Catholic event that weather permits. Believe me, that will get the attention of other riders and you will at least strike up conversations, contacts, friendships, etc that you can build off of informally. Another neat next step would be to have a motorcycle blessing. We’ve been doing that at my parish for a few years now and we’ve tried to incorporate rides afterwards.
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I do that fairly often; even did it last Sunday. It’s probably quite the dichotomy to have some 6 foot 3 inch dude in black leather praying the rosary.

If I tried start a group at my church, it would be an open ride sort of thing. No club, no president, no colors. Just people, bikes, road.
 
I used to ride to Mass a lot, but it became a hazard when I’d try to leave the Church after Mass and I’d be in competition with all those cars trying to get out of the parking lot in a hurry! LOL!

Actually, I’d stay after Mass to pray the Rosary.

Also, the Christian Motorcyclists Asso. www.cmausa.org have a well organized membership. I appreciated the fellowship, but that ended when they accused me of practicing idoltry because I was devoted to the the Blessed Virgin Mary.

<> Oh well…
I’d be happy to offer my administrative services to anyone who wanted to start a Catholic/Christian Motorcycle Club.
Blessings,
Joanie
 
Greetings all !

I have actually been looking for a Catholic Riding club. This is getting to be a real need. I have ridden with other Christian bicycle clubs. ALthough they are generally accepting, Its not like riding with Catholic brothers and sisters.

I live in Tampa, FL and would love see this fly…

There is a great deal to having something like this work. I ran a secular scooter club for 4 years… it passed into the ether since no one wanted to share the responsibilities etc. I learned a great number of lessons in that time.

Ave Maria isnt that far ( for me 🙂

Sooooooo… where is everyone on this idea ?

Mark
 
Mark,
Not much happened wince last posting.
There is a lot of questions that need to be asked before anything like this will go forward:
MC or RC ?
Harley’s only or anything goes ?
Patches or just a loose group for now?
This is just a few to start.
Mark, you said that you’d run a club. You know what it takes to be a member of motorcycle group. You know the biker world, the rides, runs, outlaw MC’s, Police games, etc etc.
Anyway, here is my son with his V-Rod and my Road King. I rode from WA , my son from UT and we meet in Oregon and spend day riding trough parts of Hells Canyon. We had a blast.!!
Ride On
Wojo
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My suggestion is just to bump this thread every now and again. If enough people are interested, maybe make a small patch someone can sew on a jacket or a sticker for their bike.

A Catholic Motorcycle group is a good idea, but I would dispense with the RC/MC b.s. There’s no need for officers, limiting what kind of bike someone cand ride, etc. This thread could serve as a “website” until enough people are interested. To gain interest, perhaps it would be a good idea to contact some of the more prominent catholic blogs and ask if they could reserve a spot to link to this thread.

One thing I’d like to do personally (and plan on at some point), is to organize a parish ride (maybe combine it with a charity thing). Get some flyers posted up, put them in your parish and neighboring parish’s bulletins and then do the ride. It might work, it might not.
 
WOW!
I wish you guys lived closer to New York!

Lemme know how it goes. I’d be happy to offer any and all admin services.

I think a small patch might be in order – how about something that includes the Papal flag?

Blessings,
Joanie
 
I’m in Stamford. I know of two people in my parish alone who ride and I’m sure there are more.

But the folks I know who are into riding dont’ go much for the “club” thing. I can’t speak for them, but for me it’s like I have enough silly rules at work and in the reserves. I prefer my riding to be relatively rule free (apart from safety and courtesy).
 
Alphonsus_John said:
My suggestion is just to bump this thread every now and again. If enough people are interested, maybe make a small patch someone can sew on a jacket or a sticker for their bike.

A Catholic Motorcycle group is a good idea, but I would dispense with the RC/MC b.s. There’s no need for officers, limiting what kind of bike someone cand ride, etc. This thread could serve as a “website” until enough people are interested. To gain interest, perhaps it would be a good idea to contact some of the more prominent catholic blogs and ask if they could reserve a spot to link to this thread.

One thing I’d like to do personally (and plan on at some point), is to organize a parish ride (maybe combine it with a charity thing). Get some flyers posted up, put them in your parish and neighboring parish’s bulletins and then do the ride. It might work, it might not.
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I agree with you. We have a few people that are interested right now and they are spread out all over the country. Im not worried about the RC/MC thing and Im out if you need harlys only (I think that is kind of pretentious anyway). I like the idea of using this site to gather interest. I don’t know anyone to ask on this site to pin this but I think it is a good Idea…

In Christ
Scott
 
Baxman said:
I agree with you. We have a few people that are interested right now and they are spread out all over the country. Im not worried about the RC/MC thing and Im out if you need harlys only (I think that is kind of pretentious anyway). I like the idea of using this site to gather interest. I don’t know anyone to ask on this site to pin this but I think it is a good Idea…

In Christ
Scott
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The idea of an “Association”, with as suggested possibly someone ebstablishing a web site/ forum page and maybe designing of an association pocket patch. Then if groups form in parishes or different cities they could use the Association Name, yet be independent. If it would get that far, then maybe more organizational business could develop and be ironed out.:cool:
 
Alphonsus_John said:
I’m in Stamford. I know of two people in my parish alone who ride and I’m sure there are more.

But the folks I know who are into riding dont’ go much for the “club” thing. I can’t speak for them, but for me it’s like I have enough silly rules at work and in the reserves. I prefer my riding to be relatively rule free (apart from safety and courtesy).
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Hi there,
Actually you’re less than an hour from me as I’m in Orange County NY. I used to work part time in Danbury CT at Cliff’s BMW.

The Christian Motorcyclists Assoc. was great in format (well organized) and their rules were few and standard – based on safety when riding and courtesy towards each member.

The problem I had was that besides being anti-Catholic (which is why I was the ONLY Catholic in the group apart from those who “left the Church”) – their ministry what hollow --meaning that if you tried to get someone to know Christ (even by your silent example) you were NOT allow to talk denomination. If I’m not allowed to offer someone the saving power of Christ’s love through the Eucharist… then what’s the point??

As I’ve said before, I can work full-time on any of the admin requirements. I’m good at it, well organized and have run many a database from my home office.

Blessings,
Joanie
 
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