NEW CHAPTER RIDE SIGN IN GUIDELINES
1. The road captain, or designee, will sign everyone in. Contactless sign in will be done, remember also you will need to show your membership card with current HoD sticker. With the change in procedure please arrive early.
2. Everyone should maintain social distancing at all gathering spots (rest stops, destinations or at the dealership).
3. Each person should bring personal supply of sanitizer, mask, or disposable gloves, as needed.
REL/MLK Day Ride
1/18/21
Closed Ride*
Destination: Wintzell’s Oyster House, Guntersville
Depart HOD, KSU at 9am
200 miles round trip
All current HoD HOG chapter members are WELCOME!!!
Description of route: Backroads
Road Captain: Booty 205.616.1950
As with all rides remember to arrive on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a full fuel tank. Must present your current HOG membership card with the 2021 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Tuesday, Lunch Ride
1/19/21
Closed Ride*
Destination: Lloyd’s, Hwy 280
Rider meeting: 9:55 am KSU 10am
Route: All backroads, approx 65 miles
All social guidelines apply both at dealership and destination.
Road Captain: Lellwyn 205.914.4052
All social guidelines in effect at HoD and destination.
Please follow social guidelines on this site when checking in and taking breaks. Let’s ride and have fun.
As with all rides remember to arrive on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a full fuel tank. Must present your current HOG membership card with the 2021 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Wednesday, Lunch Ride
1/20/21
Closed Ride*
Destination: White House, Warrior
Depart HOD
KSU at 9:30, 125 miles round trip
Description of route: Backroads
Road Captain: Booty 205.616.1950
As with all rides remember to arrive on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a full fuel tank. Must present your current HOG membership card with the 2021 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Valentines Day Ride
Saturday, 2/6/21
Closed Ride*
Destination: Bright Star Restaurant, Bessemer
Depart from HOD
Approx 60 miles in an hour 50 mins.
Departing from HoD. KSU promptly at 9:15 am. Rider meeting 5 minutes before.
The route will be back roads thru Leeds, Cahaba Village, Hoover, Birmingham and Besemer.
Comments: Lunch starts at 11:30, hence the need to leave promptly and arrive with time to “freshen” up after the ride before eating. The monthly meeting will be at Bright Star after lunch. As always, all social guidelines will apply. All members need to show their national card with a current 2021 chapter membership sticker.
Road Captain: Phillip 205.821.6199
As with all rides remember to arrive on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a full fuel tank. Must present your current HOG membership card with the 2021 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
RIDE 365
Ride 365 is the mileage program for HOG. Be sure to stop by the dealership and register your bike with Mike to start earning rewards for you and the chapter. All you need is your National HOG number, last 6 digits of your vin and a picture of your odometer to get started. Stop back in throughout the year to update your total miles. Remember to have your 2021 mileage entered for the new 2021 year. This can be done at the front desk at HoD. After registering you can go online to members.hog.com and sign in with your personal HOG info and view your mileage and the total chapter mileage. Remember to update your mileage through out the year as we watch our mileage rise. Also turn in your final mileage by 12/31/2021.
As of 12/31/2020 with 321,000 miles recorded we were ranked 43 of 341 chapters Nationally, and ranked 9 of 107 chapters in the Southeast market.
As of 12/31/19 with 344,098 miles recorded we were ranked 44 of 341 chaptes Nationally, our National Average 5,294 miles, Rank 64th, Southeast total 344,098 miles, Rank 9th.
Our final number and rankings as of 12/31/18 we logged 708,853 miles and were ranked number 14 of over 531 chapters nationally. In our Southeast region we were ranked number 3 of 105 chapters.
* All Heart of Dixie HOG rides are Closed Rides. “Closed” Rides or Events are defined by Harley Davidson HOG as:
Closed: local Chapter members with current Membership Enrollment & Release on file and one guest per Chapter member (guests do not out number local Chapter members) (Copied from HOG Chapter Handbook 2018)
For membership verification you must have your current National HOG card with the 2021 Heart of Dixie HOG membership sticker attached.
As with all rides, remember to arrive for the riders meeting on a Harley-Davidson with a full fuel tank and empty bladder.