{"id":10666,"date":"2021-12-16T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2021-12-14T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:18:07","slug":"welcome-to-the-ofmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/welcome-to-the-ofmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The OFMC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The OFMC, back in 2005, when there were more of us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I’m going to do something here I’ve never done before. I’m putting out for the public the link to the OFMC website<\/a>. For 15 years or for however long I’ve been doing these stories of our rides I have kept this site private, for members only. But I figure now, what the heck.<\/p>\n

It’s fairly crude and pretty basic. I created this site at the same time I built the overall Motorcycle Colorado<\/a> website, but the Motorcycle Colorado site has had a total make-over and the OFMC site has not.<\/p>\n

Of course, we started these trips long before I ever imagined the concept of a website. What the heck is an internet? So first thing I had to do was recreate all the earlier trips. And for some trips, despite my best efforts, I have been totally unable to come up with any photographs. So I did the best I could.<\/p>\n

The way it’s set up should be pretty self-explanatory. The home page introduces the guys and below is a list of all the trips with links to their pages. The list of the guys is way out of date, too. At this point only Bill and Dennis and I continue doing these trips. Everyone else except Ray has stopped riding, and Ray was never a core member, he just came along a couple times for parts of the rides.<\/p>\n

I probably ought to prepare you for the photos from the first trip. We were new at this and had a lot to learn about packing and gear and generally preparing for a ride. So when Bill and John and I stopped for the night at Rifle Gap State Park<\/a>, and saw there was a stream to go swimming in, we did not have swimsuits. So you’ve got pictures of overweight, middle-aged men in their underwear. I’m sure John would be especially embarrassed to see that I’m making this public. Too bad, John.<\/p>\n

Of course, back then I was shooting with a film camera, so all these old images had to be scanned in. You can tell if you go chronologically just when I got my first digital camera.<\/p>\n

So it’s been fun. We’ve taken this annual trip 32 times now. And at least a few of us aren’t done yet.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

100 reasons not to date a biker: 12. We invite our biker friends over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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