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07-12-2007, 08:42 PM
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| Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: www.ericwhitfieldart.com
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Hey! Sweet! A "Bikers in Recovery" zone -- I dig it!! My name is Eric...road name: Slash. It's cool to have found you all...and ...OK..here's the deal -- My first bike was a gift to myself when I entered recovery 11 years ago - I love to ride my scoot. I love being sober. I recently got together with a couple guys who share these passions and we started a local (Utica, NY) chapter of A.R.M. (Association of Recovering Motorcyclists). ARM is an international brotherhood (NOT an MC as we claim no territory) that loves to celebrate and share recovery and loves to ride bikes. I do not want to go further into it here..as I am not here to be a commercial...but if you live between Albany and Syracuse and are interested in learning more - please email me through my profile. Thanks -- I am really excited to have found this li'l corner of the internet!
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07-12-2007, 08:51 PM
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| Don't get undies in a bunch  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Shore MA
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Hello Slash glad to have you aboard. There are a few who pull up to the curb here. I am sure you will find they are great people to know. I will be passing your way come Labor day I hope. Some nice riding in NY. I took the e-mail out as we try not to encourage people putting e-mails in a public post.
__________________ * I asked God to spare me pain. God said "No", Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.  Recovery Related Acronym B. E. S. T. = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today? |
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07-12-2007, 08:59 PM
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| get it, give it, grow in it  Join Date: May 2007 Location: Calif coast
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Welcome SLASH. I am a Calif. gal but I did get up your way, Albany, this past January (brr brr brr brr ) Great to hear from someone who is demonstrating a great fun life in sobriety. I look forward to learning more about your ESH.
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07-13-2007, 08:36 AM
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| Casual Hero and Raconteur  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Welcome aboard, Slash. Plenty of room at the curb, and the coffee pot's on!
__________________ Bill J. from Austin Rigid rat shovel (AKA "The Bitch") Ratted-out Evo FLT (AKA "The Bagger") The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, and I'm trying to get there as fast as I can!  |
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07-13-2007, 09:28 AM
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| Forum Leader  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family!
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Welcome Slash, glad you're here! I always appreciate hearing from other parents, and how cool that you're an addictions counselor too!
__________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---*WOW-What a ride*!" |
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07-13-2007, 10:24 AM
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| Have we seen a person fail...  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S.S. Marie, Ont. Can.
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Welcome Slash. Grad a coffee and set a spell. Good people here,with good recovery...The more the merrier...
__________________ Rarly 2002 FLHTC "Annie" " as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same"... Nelson Mandela |
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07-13-2007, 01:10 PM
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| Casual Hero and Raconteur Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA
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I visit other groups in the area, as I'm able, but I can count the riders I've seen on one hand, and those were either flaky as hell or downright unfriendly. Maybe it's my deodorant?  My current home group is Living Faith, which was also a biker hangout back in the '80s. We used to have pancake breakfasts there on Sunday mornings, and the lot would be packed with bikes. Now there are just three or four riders who attend Sunday morning meetings with me. I don't know where the rest of the sober riders have gone, but I sure miss that camaraderie. When were you down here? We probably know folks in common.
__________________ Bill J. from Austin Rigid rat shovel (AKA "The Bitch") Ratted-out Evo FLT (AKA "The Bagger") The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, and I'm trying to get there as fast as I can! | |
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07-13-2007, 05:54 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Missouri
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I'll have to check my deodorant Bill. Welcome Slash, you play a mean guitar. | |
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07-13-2007, 09:50 PM
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| Casual Hero and Raconteur Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Early in my sobriety, a friend told me my greasy ol' Harley was just another vehicle for carrying the message. I took that to heart, and try to bear it in mind. If I'm not welcoming others the way I'd like to be welcomed then I'm not using my bikes for the purpose my HP intended. We're not a "clique" or "club" - we're people trying to stay clean and sober a day at a time, and if I'm not being "the hand of AA" when others reach out, I'm just taking up space.
__________________ Bill J. from Austin Rigid rat shovel (AKA "The Bitch") Ratted-out Evo FLT (AKA "The Bagger") The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, and I'm trying to get there as fast as I can! | |
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07-14-2007, 08:25 AM
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| Biker  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the West Valley, AZ.
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Glad you are here and good luck with A.R.M. Do not get discouraged and just stick to YOUR principles. You know, what got you where you are!? | |
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07-15-2007, 09:54 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: www.ericwhitfieldart.com
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What a brilliant welcome! Thanks to you all...That is what I dig about recovery (one of the many things anyway) -- Bill J - I actually missed the heyday of Bouldin. I was a regular there in 1996. I got sober at the Westlake young person's meeting when I was 24. I spent hours upon hours at Flipnotics drinking coffee and Moonquake shakes... I worked at the Roadhouse Cafe on South Lamar until it closed. |
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07-15-2007, 12:34 PM
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| Casual Hero and Raconteur Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Slash, Even though I live north (35 & 183) I still make Westlake meetings on occasion. They have one of the better schedules in town. That's also the one place in town I've run into Bouldinites I knew 'way back when. Oddly enough, it's also the place I've met some of the motorcyclists I mentioned above - the flaky and the attitudinally challenged.
__________________ Bill J. from Austin Rigid rat shovel (AKA "The Bitch") Ratted-out Evo FLT (AKA "The Bagger") The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, and I'm trying to get there as fast as I can! |
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