ABATE Statewide Tour Adds Extra Interest To Your Colorado Rides
OK, you’re going to be riding around Colorado as much as possible this year no matter what. Are you interested in an something that can perhaps introduce you to places you’ve never been, and that might also put some cash in your pocket?
The more you get around Colorado this year the greater your chance of winning some cash.
Here’s the deal. ABATE of Colorado is doing a fundraiser, for the second time, where you can purchase ($15) a Colorado Statewide Tour 2012 Passport Book that lists 178 businesses, points of interest, events, and other things. Each time you go to one of these you document it–receipt, signature, photo, whatever–and at the end of the year you turn your book in. For every five points you have checked off you get one entry in a drawing with three prizes: $1,000, $500, and $250.
Now, we all know that the odds with a drawing are that you will not win. Although three somebodies in this case will win. So while winning would be sweet indeed, it’s only a remote reason for playing. The real reasons are two-fold: Discovering new places or revisiting cool places you’ve been before, and raising money for ABATE.
The first reason needs no explanation. Why should you care about funding ABATE? Well, it seems like every legislative session that some bill gets introduced that motorcyclists get very interested in. Some we like, some we don’t. If we like them we want to support them; if we hate them we want to fight them. ABATE is our proxy in that effort. No motorcycling group in the state has more influence down at the gold dome.
Enough about that. What are some of the spots on the list? Here’s a random selection.
- Corral Sports Bar in Brush
- Barbour Ponds near Longmont
- Beecher Island Battlefield south of Wray
- Sunset Inn in Pueblo
- R’s Pizza in Silver Cliff
- Hovenweep National Monument near Cortez
- All ABATE Campout near Ignacio Sept. 1-3
- The Bike Shop in Sterling
- Motobreck in Breckenridge
As I said, random. So how many of those places have you been to? Here’s your chance to go someplace new.
So I bought my passport book. I’ll be checking off spots any time I can. And who knows, maybe I’ll win some cash. But I’m not banking on it.
Biker Quote for Today
You can’t be lost if you still have half a tank.
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