20th Annual MMOC Ride Recap As the crow flies, Gilroy to Bakersfield: 157.5 miles. Same debarkation and terminus points via freeway and primary roads: 216 miles. The scenic, memorable and no-doze MMOC road-path: 371 miles. Buried deep within a chasm in central California lies a winding ribbon of asphalt roadway encapsulated by the heavenly Los [...]
19th Annual MMOC Ride Recap When LAPD’s Bob Hossfeld and His Own Self came up with the cocktail infused concept for an annual MMOC ride at the September 1994 Radisson Hotel San Diego Convention, many poo- poo’d our liquid brilliance as just hot air. One month later eight riders assembled on the central coast and [...]
MMOC Honor Guard Article By: Don Winslow The Municipal Motorcycle Officers of California has officially welcomed a motorcycle honor guard squad into its fold. Our intent is to promote MMOC throughout the State and provide exposure to all aspects of the general public. This unit is comprised of both active and retired Motor Officers, all [...]
18th Annual MMOC Ride Recap Somehow touring California, Oregon, Nevada and even Arizona seemed so passé when MMOC could initiate an entirely new life-style to the inhabitants of Utah. When Brigham Young led the first band of Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake Valley July 24, 1847, the U.S. Government was not too keen on multiple [...]
17th Annual MMOC Ride Recap Life is but a series of ups and downs thrown at us, with curves dealt for good measure, too. In my mind's eye, a motorcycle ride-route should also be curvaceous, undulating and by all means mirror a roller coaster E-ticket ride, with the exception of the, ahem, inverted portions, dontchano. [...]
16th Annual MMOC Ride Recap Dateline: Williams, California Tuesday, July 14th, 7:30 PM. Thirty two bodies are trying to cram into four chase vehicles to deliver our weary souls to Louie Cairo’s excellent Italian restaurant one mile distant. It’s been five hours since our merry gang met poolside in 105 degree heat to welcome the [...]
15th Annual MMOC Ride Recap The Jailhouse Blues, Smoky Mountain High and You Can’t Get There From Here On the appointed day, fifteen riders from two states representing nine California jurisdictions converged on the smoky yet “lovely” town of Willows, California to kick off our 15th Annual trek through scenic mountains of the Northwest. The [...]
14th Annual MMOC Ride Recap How do you define “gratification”? I would submit it is the pleasure of seeing an endeavor 14 months in planning come to fruition, incident and friction free, with accolades spewing forth from participants young and old alike, both in tenure and age. Others, like Paul Salerno or perhaps Bob Holland [...]
2nd Annual MMOC Southwest Ride Recap Let’s begin our recap of this year’s excellent adventure in “beautiful downtown” Westley, Ca. on Monday morning, October 1st at 7:30 am where Mark Murray, Burny Matthews, Rhoda and this esteemed Blovinator met up with Doug Foss and Steve Armbruster who ventured 620 miles south from Salem, Oregon on [...]