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.
Tuesday Ride
Closed Ride*
9/21/21
Destination: Main St. Cafe, Clanton
Daily Specials and general menu.
Ride departs from HoD.
Meeting time and KSU: meeting at 9:25, KSU immediately after.
Ride is all back roads.
Let’s ride and have fun!
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 2021 Heart of Dixie sticker attached. Rain cancels ride. Allow yourself enough time for personal needs, (restroom, socialize, etc.)
Wednesday Ride
Closed Ride*
9/22/21
Destination: Main St. Tavern, Montevallo
Ride departs from HoD.
All HoD HOG members are welcome. Have a empty bladder and a full gas tank.
Rider meeting at 9:25. KSU after meeting. All backroads.
Comments: All social guidelines will be in place for meeting, break and destination locations.
Let’s ride and have fun!!!
Road Captain: Keith 205.288.1713
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.)
Saturday Ride to Bell Buckle, TN
9/25/21
Closed Ride*
Destination: Bell Buckle, TN
Depart from HoD at 7:00 am.
We will ride to Bell Buckle for lunch and maybe ice cream. This will be an all day ride. 200 miles one way, 4 hr riding time. I would like to keep our stops as short as possible.
Route will be all some interstate then back roads, interstate to Trussville, hwy 79, hwy 231, hwy 82 in TN. Return to HoD by reversing route. Feel free to return on your on. Estimated time to return to Pelham is 4-6pm.
Bell Buckle online info: https://townofbellbuckle.com/
Two stops are planned to allow for fuel and breaks.
Travel times/mileage are:
1st leg: break/fuel 65 miles, 1:30
2nd leg: break/fuel 65 miles, 1:15 (from HoD 130, 2:45)
3rd leg: Bell Buckle, 60 miles, 1:15 (from HoD 190, 4:00)
These times/mileage are for planning purpose’s, actual may vary. Please use this to determine your individual needs.
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 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 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 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.