History

Founder was J.D. Hartley...

His tale...

About 1996, while sitting around at our weekly sales meeting at the old Fairfield Cycle Center in Fairfield, CA,
one of the salesmen asked why we didn't have a non-Harley riding group. He had worked in Southern California,
and while there, had helped to plan trips for mostly Japanese bikes. Since there are organized groups like H.O.G.,
Honda Riders of America, and others, what could we do to bring together non-club riders? There are riders of many
different types of motorcycles that aren't interested in joining a club, but would like to ride in a casual group.
Our first step was to ask our regulars if they would be interested in a riding group that had no president, officers,
by-laws, monthly meetings, or dues. Just riders on every type of bike, getting together once a month for a casual ride.
The response was "sure, sounds great". The first rides were short. We usually rode to the next town for breakfast
or brunch -- thus our name, Breakfast Riders. Later the rides got longer, and lunch was the food stop.
But, we kept the name. Our first ride was what we called the "4 Bridge Run". We had 10 bikes on this first ride.
During the next 2 years, we had between 10 and 15 bikes at each run. The turn around came on our ride to Alice's
Restaurant in July of 2000. We had about 22 new riders, plus the regulars and had a caravan of 35 motorcycles.
From that ride, we have had new riders at every run and have maintained a close group. There were sport bikes,
road bikes, and the big cruisers. BMW's, Hondas, Suzuki's, Harleys, Kawasaki's, and Yamahas.
We even had a 'club' web page via AOL (or was it Yahoo?).

Grumpa's story

In 2001, J.D. stepped down and Les Kurtz (aka Grumpa) took over...
J.D. stopped showing up for the rides and running the group when other factors took front stage in his life.
He and C.J. were moving to San Diego to help start a new church.
{We miss ya, big fella}
The number of riders were getting fewer and fewer. The group was almost dead. I took up the challenge to do
the newsletters and revitalize the group. It took almost a year to get the group back to ‘normal’ number of riders --
from 5-20 per ride. We had tried an overnighter ride in 2000, where there were over a dozen riders! We tried again in
2001 and only 2 showed up, Lamont and me. We went anyways and had a great two days of riding. We have had
barbeques and dinner parties, though both have stopped due to not enough interest. (They may be back!) We try to
get to many benefit rides and spread the image of ‘bikers are ok folks’.

Our newsletter sponsor has been Fairfield Cycle the whole time. We thank you greatly!

In 2002 (or 2003), we had a web page created for us by Tom Clougher. This was a great boon for the group.
In 2004, Tom got busy on other tasks and the web page went 'stale'. In late 2004, I talked one of my co-workers
into writing a new web for our group. It came up in early 2005 -- live on the web again. And Fairfield Cycle agreed
to also sponsor the web page as well -- again a big Thank You.

So! If you enjoy riding, meeting fun people, and want to enjoy a day of motorcycling, we are the ones for you.