Oregon Trail

I just got back home from Oregon, where they recently held their annual May Awareness Rally. Despite the predicted bad weather, it turned out to be a good day for riding.

The best part of the trip was meeting with the folks from BikePAC and from the Hub City chapter of ABATE of Oregon. You'd expect them to be kind of down after having their latest repeal bill die in committee, but it wasn't like that at all.

Instead, they were a whole lot wiser from the experience. Some of the best lessons in life are also the hardest, and they are certainly stronger after what they went through.

More importantly, they are also all the wiser. So after the rally we all put our heads together, taking it all in from one end to the other. And the path they have chosen is clear. It's time to break out of the cycle.

Most MROs do the same thing over and over. Work their tails off all year long, only to find themselves right where they started from. So they try harder the next year, and end up back at square one.

Bikers in Oregon are different. With all that rain, you know they're persistent. But they also know how to adapt. And that's exactly what they're doing.

It was good timing that I finished writing the Repeal Machine Handbook in time for my trip up to the Beaver State. And once they took a look at it, they understood that it was the most direct path to repealing the helmet law, once and for all.

The good news is that you don't have to be from Oregon to get on the path to freedom. Anyone can use the Repeal Machine Handbook. And by using it, you will find your self hot on the trail that leads to freedom.

-Ride2Repeal@gmail.com

PS: Special thanks to Don and Al, Nic and Mel, all the Hub City members for their hospitality, and especially to the girls up there who know how to get things done.