Tuesday Ride
Closed Ride*
Lunch Ride
5/17/22
Destination: Hancock BBQ, Selma
This ride will start at Petro Exit 100 I-20/59. Ride meeting at 9:55. KSU after meeting.
Route is all back roads with a nice break on the way.
Have a empty bladder and a full gas tank.
Comments: All social guidelines will be in place for meeting, break and destination locations.
Road Captain: Garrett 205.540.6285
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 2022 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Wednesday Ride
Closed Ride*
5/18/22
Destination: Margarita Grill, Pelham
This ride will start at HoD. Ride meeting at 9:30. KSU after meeting.
Route is all back roads. Estimated mileage is 95 miles. Estimated time in the saddle is 2.5 hours. This estimate will vary according to group size. There is one scheduled break.
Comments: This is a nice Shelby county tour. This will be the most memorable ride this year. Don’t you dare miss it! Celebrate!
Have a empty bladder and a full gas tank.
Comments: All social guidelines will be in place for meeting, break and destination locations.
Road Captain: Philip 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 2022 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Saturday Ride
Closed Ride*
5/14/22
Destination: 50 Taters/round trip back to HoD
Ride will depart from HoD and return to HoD.
Rider meeting at 9:25 am and KSU will be shortly after.
Route is all back roads.
Estimated mileage is about 270 total miles. Estimated saddle time is about 6 hours. These estimates are subject to group size. There will be one break on the way out and one on the way back.
Road Captain: Philip 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 2022 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Sunday Ride
Closed Ride*
5/22/22
Destination: Top O’ The River, Rainbow City/Gadsden
Ride will depart from HoD.
Rider meeting will be at 9:55 am with KSU ASAP.
We will do as we have before and ride straight through with out a stop. Plan to arrive at the restaurant by 11:40 and beat the local lunch crowd.
We will be meeting Birmingham HOG, in Odenville in a shopping center for them to fall in behind us. Do not plan to stop and get off the bikes. This will allow for us to keep our rides separate according to HOG guidelines. Let’s mingle with the other chapter and have a great lunch/fellowship.
Route is all back roads.
Have a empty bladder and a full gas tank.
Comments: All social guidelines will be in place for meeting, break and destination locations.
Road Captain: Lellwyn 205.914.4052
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 2022 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Arkansas Trip
Closed Ride*
6/23-27/22
Arkansas Road Trip
June 23-27 – Arkansas Road Trip. Current plans are to ride to Russellville, AR on Thursday, June 23, then ride the Pig Trail (a 50 States, One Nation ride) and on to Harrison, AR as our base for the rest of the weekend. Return Monday, June 27. If interested, contact Road Captain, Larry N (205-482-2652). We will have a planning session with interested members in April (date/time TBD).
Let’s ride and have fun.
Have a empty bladder and a full gas tank.
Comments: All social guidelines will be in place for meeting, break and destination locations.
Let’s ride and have fun!!!
Road Captain: Larry 205.482.2652
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 2022 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 2022 mileage entered for the new 2022 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 12/31/2022.
Ride 365 as of 12/31/2021
National rider average: 5,233 – Rank 106
National total miles: 261,164 – Rank 65
Southeast region: 261,164 – Rank 15
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 chapters 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 2022 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.