Just wondering. In my spare time, I've been designing one, but wanted to get a feel from the group about how that'd go over before I post my work for criticism cause if everyone thumbs it down, maybe I'll just have the embroidery place next to my office make one for me!



Link to image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/127455/doctor2.jpg

Here's a vest mockup. If the rockers make people anxious, I can remove them pretty easy.

Link to image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/127455/assembled%20vest.png

Jonathan wrote:
Just wondering. In my spare time, I've been designing one, but wanted to get a feel from the group about how that'd go over before I post my work for criticism cause if everyone thumbs it down, maybe I'll just have the embroidery place next to my office make one for me!

Jon, there's one already...

and you can buy it here..
http://www.nopork.com/shop_product.asp?id=RSC001&grp=apparel

kaisayson wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
Just wondering. In my spare time, I've been designing one, but wanted to get a feel from the group about how that'd go over before I post my work for criticism cause if everyone thumbs it down, maybe I'll just have the embroidery place next to my office make one for me!

Jon, there's one already...

and you can buy it here..
http://www.nopork.com/shop_product.asp?id=RSC001&grp=apparelI mean a back one. That's a little small to put dead center on the back of a vest.

Lets see yours. ..... (hush Jona)

whet the heck post it up lets see it

the patch not your back

Jonathan- make sure you know all the unwritten codes before putting a patch on your back. Make sure "MC" isn't on it. And no rockers. Just sayin'. It's easy, especially when riding in a large group in unfamiliar territory to get into 'situations' with the dominant club. And running with similar patches on your back gets more attention. This past weekend our group got stuck in the "world's longest garage sale" on US 127 in KY. They take that stuff seriously down there- garage sales that stretched for miles on both sides of the road with all the stop-and-go traffic. We turned into a tavern to cool off, parked in a long line along the building, and just me and a Bikers for Christ M/M (motorcycle ministry) member stayed outside to watch the rides. Within 5 minutes, an advance guard of Iron Horsemen MC (1%'ers) rode in. Shortly there were a dozen more. We were at their hangout parked in their parking. And they were having a benefit in an hour for a member. They were clearly irritated that we were in their parking places, and inspected each bike thoroughly. Several members of our group are Black Pistons MC members (1%) and had stickers/coozies on their bike. The Iron Horsemen are apparently affiliated with the HA. It was very tense for awhile, but Robb, my M/M fellow rider knew the Iron Horsemen (he had done some weddings and funerals for them) and smoothed things over by dropping names. We eventually got invited to stay for the benefit and help dunk strippers in the dunk tank, but we declined as we had 150 miles to go. Also declined on buying their support t-shirts but some guys did buy raffle tickets. Any attitude by any of our group, or the wrong patches on jackets would have resulted in "Get your f'ing bikes out of our spots NOW!", and these guys certainly could have backed it up. I was glad to get back on the road, and the leader just asked us to let him know the next time so they could make us their guests on our way through....
John Scribner

John, that happen to a group I was president at the time ( no longer a member ). Star Touring & Riding has a three patch backpatch and that got us into some hot water when we went into a town with Banditos at a festival. I don't wear but a single back patch now, the "support our all 4 services" patch. Kai

Arkansas is a Bandito state. All MC's and ALL affilate groups have to have approval of the Banditos. They have a meeting in Little Rock once a month and All MC's and ALL affilates have to have a represenitive attend. If you have any kind of rocker with your state name or a 3 piece on your vest and you are not part of the approved groups you will be aked to remove it. Most of the time you will be asked nicely,the first time but you will remove it. One way or another. Sounds kinda silly to some, but that's the way it is around here and it's that way in most states.

OBMF wrote:
any attitude by any of our group, or the wrong patches on jackets would have resulted in "Get your f'ing bikes out of our spots NOW!", and these guys certainly could have backed it up. I was glad to get back on the road, and the leader just asked us to let him know the next time so they could make us their guests on our way through....
John Scribner
John, it seems the logical thing to do in a situation like that would be to just move the bikes if asked to.

kaisayson wrote:
John, that happen to a group I was president at the time ( no longer a member ). Star Touring & Riding has a three patch backpatch and that got us into some hot water when we went into a town with Banditos at a festival. I don't wear but a single back patch now, the "support our all 4 services" patch. Kai
Bushman52 wrote:
Arkansas is a Bandito state....sounds kinda silly to some, but that's the way it is around here and it's that way in most states.
kai, Bushman, it just seems not silly, but pretty petty to do something like that to a group with similar interests. I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know, and I understand the average intelligence/mentality of people like that, but I'd rather bow to someone's sense of entitlement attitude and move on doing what I like rather than give a sense of entitlement attitude back. Unless someone conveys a "someone got killed for no other reason than wearing a 3 piece non-MC patch" I'd be willing to hedge my bets on just being run off if something wasn't recognized. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for not rubbing people the wrong way on purpose, but the last thing I expect to do is walk into some place shooting off my mouth and showing off a patch.

My intent is to make RSC a national recognized group of riders on the road. If that's a bad idea, well that's what I created this thread for. I could jut a easily create a different group name, foregoing this one, but to belong to something synonymous with helping out other riders would be pretty cool, cause that's what we do here, and it's what I'd do if I saw someone broken down on the roadside, too.

OBMF wrote:
Jonathan- make sure you know all the unwritten codes before putting a patch on your back. Make sure "MC" isn't on it. And no rockers. Just sayin'. It's easy, especially when riding in a large group in unfamiliar territory to get into 'situations' with the dominant club. And running with similar patches on your back gets more attention. This past weekend our group got stuck in the "world's longest garage sale" on US 127 in KY. They take that stuff seriously down there- garage sales that stretched for miles on both sides of the road with all the stop-and-go traffic. We turned into a tavern to cool off, parked in a long line along the building, and just me and a Bikers for Christ M/M (motorcycle ministry) member stayed outside to watch the rides. Within 5 minutes, an advance guard of Iron Horsemen MC (1%'ers) rode in. Shortly there were a dozen more. We were at their hangout parked in their parking. And they were having a benefit in an hour for a member. They were clearly irritated that we were in their parking places, and inspected each bike thoroughly. Several members of our group are Black Pistons MC members (1%) and had stickers/coozies on their bike. The Iron Horsemen are apparently affiliated with the HA. It was very tense for awhile, but Robb, my M/M fellow rider knew the Iron Horsemen (he had done some weddings and funerals for them) and smoothed things over by dropping names. We eventually got invited to stay for the benefit and help dunk strippers in the dunk tank, but we declined as we had 150 miles to go. Also declined on buying their support t-shirts but some guys did buy raffle tickets. Any attitude by any of our group, or the wrong patches on jackets would have resulted in "Get your f'ing bikes out of our spots NOW!", and these guys certainly could have backed it up. I was glad to get back on the road, and the leader just asked us to let him know the next time so they could make us their guests on our way through....
John Scribner


1%'ers with "stickers and coozies". awesome i wonder if they have fingerpainting at the clubhouse. good job standing your ground. its public parking, not private.