History of Nitrous Mike's 6th Annual
9 11 MEMORIAL MOTORCYCLE PARADE & FUND RAISERS 2001 to
2006
San Francisco, California, United States of America
2006 PARADE FLYER IN PDF FORMAT 334kb
911_PARADE_2006_FLYER SF.pdf for San Francisco and all other areas
911_PARADE_2006_FLYER SONOMA.pdf for Sonoma County, Ca Participants
In
memory of the Pentagon & WTC victims, police, fire fighters, emt's, families
and friends.
The Last Parade Date was SUNDAY 9/10/2006
SAN FRANCISCO
The 911 Parade is now complete and no parade dates are scheduled for the future. Thank you all for 6 years of support, NitrosMike
To
All Motorcyclist, Bikers, Police Officers, Fire Fighters, EMT's, & Public
Servants
You are invited. Bring your motorcycle, police car, police bike, ambulance
or fire truck.
No registration fee - free event. Donation not required but is most appreciated.
Meet at Dudley Perkins HD (all makes motorcycles welcome)
123 So.Van Ness, S.F. SUNDAY 9/10/06. Meet
at noon; parade at 1:00pm prompt. In Sonoma County meet at Michael's
Harley Davidson parking lot 7601 Redwood Dr, Cotati, Ca at 10am leave
for San Francisco at 10:30am
Patriotic parade is down Market Street, thru Fisherman’s Wharf
and ending at Crissy Field near St Francis Yacht Club.
Share a moment of silence under the extremely large 50 by 30 foot American flag.
Photo opportunity - bring your camera. We would like to see all the motorcycles
going down the street with flags on the bikes or red, white and blue decorations.
Police and fire department escort. This ride was
a great success last 5 years. This is simply a support ride to show strength,
solidarity, and unity against terrorism. 2005 web site editorial and pictures
can be viewed at http://www.davidgriest.com/911/index.html
All Americans, all make motorcycles, all supporters’ welcome.
I Love America! Always have and always will! Please fly the 
USA flag on your home, office,
car and bike.
NitrosMike has a special request. "Please be prepared to make a minimum $10 donation
at the beginning of the parade. Donations will be collected outside of Dudley
Perkins, 123 So. Van Ness, SF, USA. Thank you!" Questions? NitrosMike mailto:sf911@sonic.net
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Donators & Helping Hands 2001 & 2002 & 2003 & 2004 & 20005 & 2006
News flash 9/17/05 The event was made extra special for burn-injured children who were given the opportunity to ride the parade route on a 1961 Orrene fire engine. This engine made a 3500 mile two week road trip from Brewster, New York last September, towing a 1939 Mack fire engine from Pohonahay, Pennsylvania. McPherson recruited James Whitecastle, private owner of 114 fire trucks, to provide the rig for these child survivors.
Dudley Perkins Harley Davidson 123 So. Van Ness, S.F. Thanks Tom Perkins 415-703-9494 Dudley Perkins Harley Davidson
Maritime Museum Golden Gate National Parks Headquarters at 900 Beach (cross street Polk). Thanks GGNP John Cunnane
Enormous 50x30 flag put up by the SF Fire Department Bureau of Equipment.
Fire Engine Escort and Fire Ladder Truck displaying huge USA flag at the Maritime Museum. Thanks Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Deputy Chief Kochevar and Captian Pete Howes SFFD.
Permit and Police escort. Thanks Officer Flaherty, Captain Corrales & Captian Casciato SFPD Traffic Company & Sgt Ossio SFPD FOB
Dudley Perkins No Parking Signage Thanks Officer Flaherty & SFPD Traffic Company
Maritime Museum Parking Thanks Officer Scott Gains and Central Division SFPD - you did an awesome job!
Michael's Harley Davidson Inc. 7601 Redwood Dr. Cotati. Thanks Michael's Harley Davidson 707-793-9180
Messengers MC, Central Valley, CA clean and sober motorcycle club. Messengers Central Valley M/C
Pathfinders MC, San Jose Bay area clean and sober motorcycle club. Pathfinders MC, San Jose
Jayme and Tiny Griest 9 11 Parade Photographers. David Griest.com Thanks Tiny and Jayme
Jim Whitecastle private collector/owner of 114 fire engines. Provides rides to burn injured children in the 911 Memorial Motorcycle Parade. Thanks Jim
Yardbirds Hardware Store Santa Rosa USA flag donation for the parade. Thanks Manager Mike Ross
NitrosMike Greatful Patriotic Scot-American and Clean and Sober biker. Thanks Big Mike
A message of "Thanks"
from NitrosMike September 2005
I want to thank everyone
that attended the 5th Annual 9 11 Memorial Motorcycle Parade 2005
in San Francisco, especially those that donated to the Alisa
Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. It was a great success.
We had a large turnout as usual. Dudley Perkins HD did a great job hosting the event by providing the staging area and they had plenty of coffee and donuts for the participants. My deepest thanks to Tom Perkins. We had bikers from as far away as San Diego and long distance rider went to a fella from Louisiana. The participants went all out this year decorating their bikes in red, white and blue and there were some really enormous flags on the bikes. In particular there was one flag from ground zero that Angelo from Novato flew from what looked like a ships mast on his bike adorned with bull horns and he rode this thing on the freeway! You have to see the pictures to believe it. The kids from the burn foundation rode along in the parade on Jim Whitecastle’s fire engine at the front of the pack with the Pathfinders MC and Messengers MC providing an honor escort. The parade, Angelo and his huge flag, Jim’s fire engine with the kids, Pathfinders MC, Messengers MC and parade participants were on TV news channels 2 and 4 at 10pm. The event was viewed by tens of thousands of spectators who just loved it. They screamed “God Bless you, I love America, Remember 9 11” and waved to the bikers as the passed by. Thousands of photos were taken.
I had a personal motorcycle police escort provided by Scott Satrom and Kelson McKlain who came all the way up from San Diego to lead the parade with me. We lost our customary SFPD motorcycle police escort near the beginning of the parade because the President of Cambodia flew in right as we took off and they had to go protect him. We did fine on our own and we didn’t need any protection LOL.
At the Maritime Museum we had a really special display of 9 11 history, missing person fliers, the 9 11 Bead Quilt, and an especially 9-11 painted ambulance provided by my friend Mitch Mendler, vice president World Memorial. Mitch transported all this from San Diego for us and the people of San Francisco. Thank you Mitch. We ended the parade at the Maritime Museum with a patriotic speech by NitrosMike, the Pledge to Allegiance, the song God Bless America by Suzie Hart and moment of silence for the victims and heroes of 9-11 under a huge flag displayed by SFFD Ladder Truck 16. I am looking forward to next year and I am thinking of September 9, 2006 a Saturday, as the Memorial Parade date. Please consider scheduling club motorcycle runs, campouts and other events around this date so that we can have a large turnout to show the citizens that we have not forgotten our heroes and to let the survivors of the victims know we continue to honor their loss.
You can view the 2005 Parade Pictures at http://www.davidgriest.com/911/
Links to Editorials, photos and
Magazine articles of the 2004 Memorial Event
"The 4th annual 9 11 Memorial Motrocycle Parade was an outstanding success in 2004 –
the best ever. I was honored to ride along side of my fellow patriots. We sent
out a strong and positive message to the World that we continue to honor the
heroes and victims of 9-11 and that we will not forget them and their families."
NitrosMike
The event was on TV channels 2, 4, and 7 at 10pm and 11pm on 9-11-04.The 9-11 Memorial Motorcycle Parade also made the front page of the 9-12 Sunday Chronicle this year. They did a very nice article with photos which can also be reviewed on line at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/12/MNG2S8NOHU1.DTL click the pictures there to see more.
The event was also promoted by the San Francisco Examiner.
Excellent photos of the entire event taken by Jayme Ross can be reviewed on line at http://www.davidgriest.com/911/index.html Jayme has done an outstanding job for the last four years and Tiny runs the website. There are some really emotionally moving shots that you don’t want to miss. Thank you Tiny and Jayme!
There will also be articles and photos in the Thunder Press U.S.A. and Street Biker U.K. in the October issues. These are both top rated biker newspaper/magazines in their respective countries. The Thunder Press is free and available at most US bike shops.
The 9-11 Memorial Motorcycle Parade T-shirts sold out instantly.
You have my personal invitation to the 2006 event. As in the past the event is free. No registration, no waivers, and no hassles. An awesome opportunity to honor the heroes and victims of 9-11 with your fellow patriots. Same time 1pm – same place Dudley Perkins HD.
For more information on the 2006 Parade Go to www.google.com type in 9 11 Parade or click here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=911+parade You will be shown results 1 - 10 of about 1,980,000 pages related to 911 Parades. The 911 Memorial Motorcycle Parade is at the top #1 and #2 spots because it is simply the top rated 9 11 Parade in the country. Hope to see you there this year. If you click here you will see 1,980,000 pages and the parade will be listed in the upper top ten
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=911+parade
Thanks for viviting, NitrosMike
9 11 Memorial Motorcycle
Parade Founder and Organizer
Comments and questions maybe directed to NitrosMike mailto:nitros@sonic.net