{"id":24727,"date":"2019-10-02T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=24727"},"modified":"2019-10-03T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:12:01","slug":"distinguished-knuckledraggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=24727","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Knuckledraggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flying Booger and Wankers Aweigh represented the Baja Arizona Knuckledraggers Hash House Harriers Riding Club<\/a> at the annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride<\/a> in Tucson last Sunday. The DGR is an international charity event established to raise money for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health, with organized rides in hundreds of cities around the world (678 rides this year alone, with over $5.5 million raised). The Tucson event, as it has been for the past three years, was exceptionally well organized and attended, with over 100 riders, many on classic and vintage motorcycles, almost all decked out in their dapper best. Yours truly and Wankers included!
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\nWankers and I don’t have classic rides, but we did our best in the dapper duds department, as you can see from the above photos. We were joined by a mutual non-Knuckledragger friend, Just Kirk, whom you can see in the photo with Wankers. And before I go any further, let me remind you that you can see full-size photos on Flickr by clicking on the small images in this post.
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Southwest Rangers, our for-hire uniformed motorcycle escorts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\nThe organizers of the Tucson DGR, as they have in the past, arranged for a local motorcycle escort service, the Southwest Rangers, to ride with us and clear the route, which amounted to blocking cross traffic at all the intersections we had to cross in and around Tucson. They did it by stationing escorts to block intersections until all 100+ motorcycles had gone through, with other escorts leapfrogging ahead to block the next intersection, sirens wailing and lights flashing. On a 70-mile ride through and around Tucson, we only had to put our feet down twice, once when we pulled into the beer check<\/strike> mid-point refreshment stop at Brandi Fenton Park, and again when we got to the on-in<\/strike> end, the Barrio Brewery in the historic 17th Street warehouse district.<\/p>\n

This short video shows a portion of the ride through downtown, not far from the start. You can see some famous Tucson landmarks if you look closely, and also see our escort riders leapfrogging ahead to clear intersections.<\/p>\n