All Ancient City Chapter rides, events & activities are suspended until further notice.

The time has come, perhaps a bit late, but by unanimous vote your Primary Officers, some Secondary Officers along with some members input "Ancient City Chapter will not endorse, promote or actively pursue Group Riding and other Activities until this current pandemic passes"

Here's some obvious rational from your Primary Officers:
"My preference would be to temporarily suspend all club activities.  Socially responsible to do so given the severity of this outbreak, rather than anything JAX & OP HOG does or doesn't do. Nothing prevents members from arranging informally to ride with others."

"I think it is prudent to suspend activities to help stop the spread of this virus. I think members who want to ride will do so individually.  This is scary stuff. Stay safe,"

"This is out of concerns for the safety of our members as well as the public image of our chapter to all those that observe our activities. It is in times like this that we should be leading by example from an overall organizational perspective and support the guidelines prescribed by our government leaders. What individuals may or may not choose to do should be entirely on them"

"Considering that things are not looking up for the near future this is the prudent action to take.  The lives we save may be our own.  If one chooses to ride please do it safely and with respect to others as we always have done"

Many of our Chapter members have already "self-isolated" and have indicated they will not be group riding until it's deemed safe to do so.  The number of riders has constantly decreased over the past month and I, for one, will continue to ride but not in a large group environment.  At my age, for the sake of me and my family,  I simply can't afford to take the chance!!

We have left the Calendar open and active on the web site so if you should decide to ride take a look at "what might have been".  Every Road Captain has put a lot of time and pre-ride efforts into those rides and as much as it pains us to yank the rug out from under them I know they understand.  My apologies to specifically Rodney and Wes who just recently added or changed their upcoming rides.  My thanks and gratitude goes out to every Road Captain that has worked so hard to make us a great Chapter!!

Our Chapter is not going totally dark, just fading into the background for the immediate future.

You all know how to contact me and other Chapter Members if you want, or need, to and our Facebook Page will remain open as a source of communication between Members.

Lastly, due to this decision, there will be NO ride sign in sheets required if you get together with a few others.  No waivers, no "nothing" as it pertains to normal Chapter procedure.  You ride at your own risk and neither the Chapter or Harley-Davidson endorses or condones group riding until this decision is reversed somewhere down the line.

Stay safe, remember we're all in this together and wash your hands often!!!

Take care, I'll miss you all but only for a while I hope!!!
Fred.