The Tribe MC

Just a reminder to everyone that you need to get your membership dues in right away. Membership to The Tribe is $18 (chai) per year. Your membership includes all of the prestige of being a member of The Tribe as well as a membership patch. In addition, founding memberships may be purchased for $54 (triple chai). Your founding membership includes an extra “Founding Member” rocker for your club patch. This is a one time offer — your membership dues of $54 must be in before Yom Kippur (Kol Nidre is on 24 September) — to be considered a founding member. No “Founding Member” rockers will be available after this time. This is your opportunity to help bootstrap the club and receive the recognition you deserve.

Send your membership checks to:

The Tribe Motorcycle Club
%6613 Elgin Lane
West Bethesda, MD 20817-5443

Checks should be made out to The Tribe Motorcycle Club.

Tribemates — we had an awesome ride to Gettysburg on Sunday. Many thanks to ride rabbi Matt Rosenstock for the excellent route and the excellent weather. Eight bikes in all rode together. In Gettysburg, we met up with our brothers the Semites On Bikes, a Jewish motorcycle group in Baltimore. They showed up 14 bikes strong. Who could imagine a group of 22 Jewish motorcycles invading Gettysburg? Strength in numbers, baby!

Here are a few pictures from the ride:

Group Photo with Statue of Abe Lincoln

Lunching at The Plaza Restaurant

Jay e-mailed out a very nearly final design of The Tribe MC’s patch. We’re finalizing a couple of minor items and will begin to order and distribute them to members.

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A 3-inch by 4-inch patch will be given to all club members with membership, while a larger 8-1/4-inch by 10-1/4-inch may be purchased.

Just a reminder that the calendar has been updated with the latest info about the Gettysburg ride this Sunday, 22 August 2004. Be sure to check the calendar page regularly for the latest information. As ride information is released, previous website entries will be updated. You can always get the latest information from the calendar page, where the entries will be linked.

Our ride rabbi, Matthew Rosenstock, announces the following information for The Tribe’s participation in the Ride 4 Kids on the 19th of September 2004.

The Tribe will meet at Corner Bakery next to the Montgomery Mall in Bethesda at 7:15 AM, take off for Columbia at 7:45. We can take the back roads (about an hour’s ride) or the highway (about 40 min ride).

The route for this ride can be downloaded here.

Ride 4 Kids Start Location:
The Mall in Columbia
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway

Start Time:
Registration Opens: 8:00 a.m.
Registration Closes: 9:45 a.m.
Ride ends around 11:30-noon

Then lunch, talk about the cause, have a few people who currently have, or survived brain turmors talk. The event ends around 1 to 1:30 pm.

Our ride rabbi, Matthew Rosenstock, has announced a ride for Sunday, 22 August 2004 to Gettysburg PA. The ride will start at the Park-N-Ride at the corner of I-270 and Quince Orchard Road in Gaithersburg. Meeting time is at 9 AM. The ride will take us into Gettysburg for lunch.

From Matt:

This ride will start and end at the Quince Orchard Park-n-Ride which is at 270 and Rt 124. I scouted my original ride plan and the return trip was not much fun. So, I changed the return trip to roads I know a little more about and can trust to be paved.

My hope is to leave Gettysburg by 1:00 and be back to the Park-n-Ride by 2:30 or so. We’ll have some time in Gettysburg to walk around and have a leisurely lunch. On the way back, if we need to stop for fuel, let me know during lunch. Otherwise, it will be a non-smoking, non-stop flight back.

For those of you who don’t know where the Park and Ride is, here are directions from I-270:

The Park & Ride lot is west of I-270 and south of MD-124.

From NORTHBOUND I-270: Use Exit 10 (MD-117 West, Clopper Road). DO NOT GO TO EXIT 11. At the end of the ramp continue west on Clopper Road to the traffic light at MD-124/Quince Orchard Road. Turn right (east) on MD-124/Quince Orchard Road. After passing under the railroad bridge, turn right at the traffic light into the Park & Ride lot.

From SOUTHBOUND I-270: Exit 11 (MD-124, Gaithersburg). The exit ramp widens to 3 lanes - the CENTER LANE takes you across MD-124 at the traffic light into the Park & Ride lot.

Click here to download the route.

Below is a photo of several Tribe members on our ride on the 25th of April. That ride was a “name” ride, stopping by roads with Judaism-related names. Here we are gathered alongside Shalom Lane.

Third from the left, in the brown leather jacket is Jay Rubin, club president. Fifth from the left, in the yellow and orange riding suit is Henry Winokur, club treasurer/secretary. Third from the right, in black leathers and red do-rag, is Jeffrey Kay, club vice president.

An informal gathering of The Tribe is happening on Sunday, 8 August 2004, at Barbara Fritchie “Candy Stick” restaurant. The restaurant is located at 1513 West Patrick St., Frederick, MD. Plan on being there at 8 AM. A map to of the restaurant location is here.

Riders coming from Northern VA and Maryland suburbs of DC will meet at the Food Lion in “downtown” Darnestown MD. The group will leave at 7 AM sharp. Directions are as follows:

From VA:

American Legion Bridge, then 495 N. to River Rd. [MD 190]
River Rd. west for about 11 miles to Seneca Rd. [MD 112]
Right on Seneca Rd until it ends the stop light in Downtown Darnestown. The Food Lion is across the street from you.

From NW DC:

Out River Rd., [MD 190] as above

From Bethesda, etc.:

Democracy to South Glen to Glen Rd.
Take Glen Rd. till it ends at Query Mill Rd. Turn Left.
Take Query Mill Rd. till it ends at Esworthy Rd. Turn Rt.
Take Esworthy Rd. till it ends at Seneca Rd. [MD 112] Turn Rt.
Take Seneca Rd until the stop light in Downtown Darnestown. The Food Lion is across the street from you.

Folks coming from points North should go directly to Frederick!