I decided to go ahead and ask this question. Do you belong to your local hog chapter? The national hog? or both? I am currently a member of the miami chapter. i have not been able to make a meeting in about a year now and because of my work schedule i can not participate in many of the events. I know its only 20 bucks a year to stay active but is it worth it? I do like being a member of the national HOG. i have gotten benefits and discounts with that membership. just thought i'd throw it out there for your opinions

 

I am not a member. Due to working midnights and weekends I can rarely attend events let alone meetings unless I take time off work.

 

When I got my Springer, I got a membership to the H O G. I have the same problem that you do, my work schedule plus I bought the bike 90 mi from home. I think that there are some good things about the H O G, but I just don't have the time to participate. I am going to try and make the rally in Billings next year. It will be my first and it will be interesting to see what they do.

 

National member, have not looked much into local yet.

 

Yes I am a member of H O G but,haven't much time for the meetings.I usually ride with a couple other clubs or other friends.I should partipate more often.We do some charity runs in the community ie: lightening run ,flood run,etc.We ride these for the cause,but not fond of many of the inexperienced riders.100-4000 bikes can be dangerous.

 

National member only. Haven't given much thought to joining local. I really prefer to ride alone or with a buddy of mine. Not much of a group kind of guy.

 

Sorta. My wife and I are officers in our local CMA chapter so most of our time is spend doing CMA stuff. I go to HOG chapter meetings and help at their charity events when time allows.

 

I'm the Road Captain in the local CMA chapter, so don't have much time for anything else. I do work the local HD shop's open house as parking lot security, traffic control, handing out tickets for drawings, etc. But the HOG folks generally cringe whenever I show up on my old Sloptail. Guess I don't meet the chrome criteria. [8D]

 

no!

 

Both... I was a member of only the National Chapter for a long time and had attended one local meeting, but wasn't impressed. Earlier this summer some of my local member friends invited me to come to a meeting (not knowing that I had been before) and it was completely different. I attend about 2/3 of the meetings, but can't make most of the events BUT I have made some more good friends. The first meeting I went to was not very well attended, several officers were absent and I didn't know but one person there. I think the difference is that the next time I went I knew 10 to 20 of the people and it was well attended and everyone was great....