The Good, The Bad, And It Could Get Ugly

Saturday, hot sticky left nut stuck to some other appendage, over 100 hundred motorcycles and a police escorted convoy that stretched for a little over 2 miles. Going through stop signs, red lights, intersections with police road blocks, breaking the speed limits in most cases and that was just getting there.

Saturday morning a few of us gathered over at L/A Harley with a group from the Combat Veteran's Motorcycle Association for a benefit cruise to the Camp Wauvus Campus of the Kieve/Wauvus Organization in support of a program for combat veteran's who need a little down time for R&R with family.

Being greeted with open arms was a surprise and our hosts could not have been more accomodating in all aspects of our day. This event is a must for anyone who feels the need to support veterans and for anybody who doesn't feel the need, after you attend this event you will feel the need. If you missed this, you really missed something good.

Belgrade is not something good, in fact it was bad.

Starting with no sign on the road that showed the entrance which was hidden by the Fire Trucks on display at the entrance for some reason. Then the $5.00 dollar footlong that turned into the $8.00 passenger along. Pulling onto the field, sighting the Porta-Potty large enough for ballroom dancing or reenacting any chapter from the latest rage, "Fifty Shades of Gray" told me it was Belgrade. Finding the Class area parking under the pine trees was a little insulting. Just because we ain't shiney doesn't mean we are in love with SAP.

Judging was at its finest with the judges walking up and down the row I was in, actually not looking at stuff except the number of the car and walking away. I saw that particular judge take an entire 10 minutes to judge 8 cars. We as spectators actually think that one class was never looked at because it only had one car in it and that car is a definite top 5 car on any day and was never considered for their top 5 because they couldn't be bothered.

2 trailer queens consisting of an Impala Clone and a freshly done Belair, a NEW Challenger  and a purple Charger were 4 of the 5 and the Healy we all know and love rounded it out.

If your going to judge cars judge them. Judge them ALL. Not just the stuff you want. Only the ones that deserve to be Top 5 Cars should be Top 5 Cars. The NEW Challenger should have been sent packing because wheels aren't special or unique. The Healy was a no brainer. The Clone is just that, a Clone. and the judging just plain SUCKED. There was more than one overlooked car, class and participant as we saw it and the Organizer/Boss needs to step down or come up with a way to stop the bleeding.
Belgrade needs a major revamping and probably a few more participants after this year, as there were some pretty pissed off people leaving.

Social media told me that Macworth was wet. I mean Noah's Ark wet. But thats just social media.