Monday, September 3, 2007

8th Touch-Meeting Harley Davidson Event at Parada, Saku (25 August 2007)

- Never Stop Dreaming -

Alrite here's a summary of the event. It all started in Friday 24th August 2007, Grant and I rode our little farm terrorizing scooters to Saku to visit Eric and hope that he had some plans for the nite...well it was a wasted trip guzzling up almost 1/3 of my fuel. So in the end, there was no plans from Eric's side and we can't possibly go anywhere as Eric's mode of transport was his trusted Gary Fisher bicycle which of course, was unbelievably fast when ridden by Eric...SICK!

And so Grant and me rode back to our deserted town which was believed to have ZERO night life and we thought our Friday nite would be wasted stoning in our little farm shed...along the way, we kinda stopped in a quiet alley deciding what to do when there is this little pub glimmering at the corner of our eyes. In we went and so the story begins...

We begin our beers at the counter completely ignoring the rest of the other Japanese in there...and after like around 15 minutes, one of the really cool chap couldn't resist asking us where we were from as the Japanese lookalike me was talking ENGLISH to Grant, possibly the only white man in the place. We chatted with me being the amatuer translator of course...haha and there this cool chap, KENICHI promptly invited us to the event. An instant agreement was striked between Grant and me...and the rest...haha PICTURES of the event the next day of course...haha

In we come to Parada, ushered by the members of the TOUCH event which Kenichi was presumably the lead organiser. It's the 8th event to date.



Here is little Kenichi in the middle..


Kenichi talking to the fellow Harley riders



SUPER cool Kenichi San


And here is this really sweet lady who works at the little pub near my place which of course was one of the event promoters...she's HOT!


The rest of the Touch family...


Grant the man with the Green limited edition ARTICLE LION T-shirt courtesy of Kuroshishi and Samurai restaurants with the 2 event promoters...




And so the hordes of roaring Twin V engines poured in...


With hot lady bikers too...



And then came a vintage American classic...


With a bad ass driver and his family, endorsed by American, Grant!


Even the pets came with FULL gear...



And this little fella came out of the tents to catch the party...


And so here are the bikes starting off with a Kid's quad...




Of course not to leave out our SWEET little farm terrors...at the end of the Harleys..haha



At it's peak with around 1200 bikes gathered for the event from all over Japan which part of the reason this year was to help the Niigata quake victims.


Lastly SweEeEeeeeeeeT Harleys' girls (Yes these hot girls ride BIG, FAT and LOUD Harleys...!) proudly posing for me...haha





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