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Spring has Sprung Poker Run/Bike Show April 9th

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Mar 272011
 

Presented by Twisted Whiskers. Spring is in the air and it’s time to open that garage and go have as much fun as possible while still wearing your clothes. If it has been a while since you’ve had such a time, then you haven’t been to a Twisted Whiskers event the last couple of years. This April though, Dutch and his band of misfits are sounding the rally cry once again and inviting everyone on two wheels to join them for their 3rd Annual Sunnyside Up Café “Spring Has Sprung” Motorcycle Poker Run & Bike Show. The event starts with breakfast at the Sunnyside Up Café and ends with lunch at the Players Pub, and in between you will find yourself along the winding, scenic loop through Northeastern Pinal and Southwestern Gila counties. However, if you have been to a Twisted Whiskers event, you know that the ride is the part of the day that passes the time in between the laughs, high jinks, and mischief that tend to ensue. It’s the moments off their bikes that keep riders flocking back to these runs. If your curiosity isn’t peaked enough yet, then maybe the promise of cash prizes, raffle drawings, and trophies for the bike show will entice you to come join in the shenanigans in Catalina, AZ. First bike out is at 8:30 am, costs are $35 per couple, or $25 for a single rider (Includes Breakfast, Lunch and T shirt), and as usual, all proceeds go towards a great cause, this time supporting Honor Flight WWII Vets. Let’s face it, you’re going to go for a ride that day, so you might as well make the best of it. 7am
Sunny Side Up Cafe
Oracle Road
Catalina, AZ
520-260-9786

Honor Flight Arizona

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21st Annual Shriner Poker Run April 3rd

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Mar 272011
 

The Tucson Sabbar Shrine Motorcycles is having their Annual Poker Run again this year. The Poker Run is on Saturday April 3, 2011. First bike out @ 8:30 am. Last bike out @ 11:00 am. Poker hand cutoff and last bike in @ 2:00 pm. High hand $500.00. Second best $300.00. Low hand $200.00.

Pre-event donation $10. at the door $15 per person. Breakfast available @ 7:00 am. Lunch, Burgers and dogs from 12:00 – 2:00 pm.

Grand Prize this year 2011 H-D Dyna Super Glide Motorcycle. Second prize a Beretta AL391 Urika Semi-Automatic 20 GA. Shotgun. Tickets are $10.00 each.

If you plan on riding “Please Post a Comment” so others will know you are going.

 

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2011 Fourth Ave Street Fair April 1 – 3

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Mar 272011
 

There are two Street Fairs per year, one in spring and one in winter. The next Street Fair is April 1, 2, 3, 2011. Hours are 10 am to 6 pm each day. The Street Fair takes place between Ninth Street and University Blvd. along Fourth Avenue.

Click here for a map

Free to the public, the Fourth Avenue Street Fair brings together 400+ arts and crafts booths, 35+ food vendors, 2 stages, street musicians, food, jugglers, street performers, the Free SPIKE kids hands-on-art Pavilion, face painting, balloons, and tons of other fun activities, then packs them into three days of celebration.

Fourth Ave. Street Fair

SWPMTC March 31 – April 3rd

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Mar 272011
 

To All,

For those who are going to ride to Las Vegas we will meet @ the Chevron Station, Exit 236 on I-10 @ 7:30 a.m. on Thursday 3/31 and returning on Sunday 4/3.

If you will need gas fill-up as soon as you get there.

Kickstands up @ 8:00 a.m. We WILL depart @ 8:00.

If you are planning on going on the ride “Please Post a Comment.”

Suncoast Hotel and Casino

9090 Alta Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89145
(702) 636-7111

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Restaurant Information

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Mar 242011
 

This page is dedicated to restaurant information.  I have listed a few restaurants that might be of interest to our members to go for breakfast, lunch or dinner rides.  I will leave this on top of the first page for a month.  It will then move to BKAZIX Rides Page.

Please feel free to “Leave a Comment” with any restaurants that you might like to see us go to.

Eclectic Cafe at Tanque Verde and Sabino Canyon – Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Gus Balon’s 6027 E. 22nd St. – Breakfast
Cow Palace – Amado – Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Frog & Firkin – Dinner
Gentle Ben’s – Lunch/Dinner
Zachery’s Pizza – Dinner
Bison/Witches – Lunch/Dinner

I’ve also found a Tucson Restaurant Guide that has a lot of restaurants in Tucson a comments from people who have gone to some.  You could use these as a guide to where you might like to eat dinner.

 

Top 15 Motorcycle Roads in the U.S.

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Mar 242011
 

By Robert J. Hawkins

Originally published March 16, 2011 at 5:46 p.m., updated March 17, 2011 at 2:40 p.m. San Diego Union Tribune.

The open road and the motorcycle were made for each other on either the fifth or sixth day of creation, before God rested – by taking a road trip on a very early model Harley, I’m told.

This I believe.

If you do, too, then you might be interested in the list of the Top 15 motorcycling roads in America, published in the April edition of American Motorcyclist magazine.

American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and its website tapped the considerable experience of its 230,000 members to come up with the list, we’re told. Members nominated 100 roads, according to AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman.

Not surprisingly, a Western leaning gives a full-throttle feel to the list. Several, including the Pacific Coast Highway run through California.

Here is the AMA’s Top 15, and a short list of honorable mentions. The magazine, of course, goes into detail on each road trip:

(#15) Washington Route 129 and Oregon Route 3, Clarkston, Wash., to Enterprise, Ore.

(#14) Ohio Route 170, Calcutta to Poland.

(#13) California Route 58, McKittrick to Santa Margarita.

(#12) U.S. Route 33, Harrisonburg, Va., to Seneca Rocks, W.Va.

(#11) Natchez Trace, from Natchez, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn.

(#10) Angeles Crest Highway, California Route 2.

(#9) U.S. Route 12, Lolo Pass, Idaho and Montana.

(#8) California Route 36.

(#7) Cherohala Skyway, North Carolina and Tennessee.

(#6) Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana.

(#5) California Route 1, Pacific Coast Highway.

(#4) U.S. Route 550, from Ouray to Durango, Colo.

(#3) U.S. Route 129 — The Tail of the Dragon — on the North Carolina-Tennessee border.

(#2) Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina.

(#1) Beartooth Highway, Montana and Wyoming.

Honorable mentions:

 

Highway 12, Colorado

Route 191, 180, 78, Arizona, New Mexico

U.S. 191 (Alpine to Morenci) Arizona

U.S. 16A South Dakota

U.S. 50, Nevada

Farm to Market 336, Texas

 

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