December 5, 2009
Today we were standing at a street corner when Santa rode by on a Harley Davidson, followed by Donner on a Beamer, Blitson on a Kawasaki, Prancer on the yellow crotch rocket, Dancer was riding the classic Black Shadow, Vixon was relaxing on a Can-Am, and I swear Rudolf was bringing up the rear on a shining red Honda. Antlers proudly displayed, all were bearing gifts, to the children of Hobart, but maybe I am confusing you a bit, let me start what I found out later. When standing at the street corner we witnesses about a thousand motor bikes of all shapes and sizes came rolling into town, and many of them were dressed up as santa, reindeer, and in a couple cases, even Elmo.
What I was witnessing was an event called toy ride. It is a fundraiser in which a whole bunch of motorcycle riders get together and make a whole bunch of noise riding into Hobart. Essentially any motorbike in Tas is fired up and ridden into hobart by old boys, riding their toys. Everyone says it is a fundraiser, in which many people bring in children's toys and donate them to charity, which they do, but from the way everyone acted, it was more a reason for everyone on 2 wheels to get together to show off their toys, some things never change. It was still a really cool thing, the noise was almost as loud as the waves that were crashing at fossil bay. I have never seen that many motorbikes together in one place at once, there were some real classic bikes, some really fancy bikes, and more importantly some very funny characters riding them. Many individuals dressed both themselves and their rides up in the Christmas spirit, some as reindeer, some in santa costumes, and with some surprised looks from the crowd, even a couple of Elmo's were riding shotgun. But to give them credit, they did bring in quite a few toys to donate to the Salvation Army. Everywhere I looked there were motorbikes parked in the street and their riders laughing in groups in the bar, I imagine a couple people I know would have been drooling at some of the masterpieces sitting on the side of the road. Anyway, it was really cool and served the double purpose of letting old boys show off their toys, and allowed the salvation army to raise money and toys for the less fortunate allowing everyone dressed as Elmo to have a ball at the same time, why didn't we think of it before hu? Anyway heading out of Hobart tomorrow, and won't be back in cell phone or Internet range until probably next week. Goodnight.
Today we were standing at a street corner when Santa rode by on a Harley Davidson, followed by Donner on a Beamer, Blitson on a Kawasaki, Prancer on the yellow crotch rocket, Dancer was riding the classic Black Shadow, Vixon was relaxing on a Can-Am, and I swear Rudolf was bringing up the rear on a shining red Honda. Antlers proudly displayed, all were bearing gifts, to the children of Hobart, but maybe I am confusing you a bit, let me start what I found out later. When standing at the street corner we witnesses about a thousand motor bikes of all shapes and sizes came rolling into town, and many of them were dressed up as santa, reindeer, and in a couple cases, even Elmo.
What I was witnessing was an event called toy ride. It is a fundraiser in which a whole bunch of motorcycle riders get together and make a whole bunch of noise riding into Hobart. Essentially any motorbike in Tas is fired up and ridden into hobart by old boys, riding their toys. Everyone says it is a fundraiser, in which many people bring in children's toys and donate them to charity, which they do, but from the way everyone acted, it was more a reason for everyone on 2 wheels to get together to show off their toys, some things never change. It was still a really cool thing, the noise was almost as loud as the waves that were crashing at fossil bay. I have never seen that many motorbikes together in one place at once, there were some real classic bikes, some really fancy bikes, and more importantly some very funny characters riding them. Many individuals dressed both themselves and their rides up in the Christmas spirit, some as reindeer, some in santa costumes, and with some surprised looks from the crowd, even a couple of Elmo's were riding shotgun. But to give them credit, they did bring in quite a few toys to donate to the Salvation Army. Everywhere I looked there were motorbikes parked in the street and their riders laughing in groups in the bar, I imagine a couple people I know would have been drooling at some of the masterpieces sitting on the side of the road. Anyway, it was really cool and served the double purpose of letting old boys show off their toys, and allowed the salvation army to raise money and toys for the less fortunate allowing everyone dressed as Elmo to have a ball at the same time, why didn't we think of it before hu? Anyway heading out of Hobart tomorrow, and won't be back in cell phone or Internet range until probably next week. Goodnight. 
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