Memorial weekend beer bust draws big crowd

The Cavaliers kicked off Memorial Day weekend with a great beer bust that was crowded with plenty of locals and visitors.

The May 23 event was a huge success for the club. We had a big crowd with tons of people out enjoying the start of the three-day holiday weekend on a beautiful, mild spring night.

Locals and visitors had a great time at our Memorial weekend beer bust, including Joe from the Knights d'Orleans, and Rich from Northern California. Most photos this page by David.

Lots of locals came out including many of our friends from the Knights d'Orleans and the New Orleans Bears. We're always grateful for the generous support of our friends from our brother clubs.

We also had lots of guests from out of town, including our good friend Michael from Jackson, who rode down on his Gold Wing.

Rich from California wasted no time making himself comfortable in the warm spring weather at our beer bust.

Most of the Cavaliers were on hand, too, including Poncho, William, Mike D., Doug, George, Mark, Collin, David, and Michael W. It all made for one great big party!

And we made out like bandits, especially due to the efforts of Doug and Mark pushing those 50/50 raffle tickets, which was won by a good friend from Washington, DC, who very generously donated back the entire proceeds to the club! Thanks, Linwood!

Cavaliers Founder David congratulates Linwood on winning $84 in the 50/50 raffle. Linwood generously donated his winnings back to our club. Photo by Michael W.

All the while Poncho was taking orders for his wonderful Cavaliers T-shirts. They were extremely popular, with Doug and Mike, and Poncho and I all modeling them for the crowd. We found that one benefit of the embroidery is that people keep rubbing your chest.

Michael's famous Internal Combustion chili was a big hit, and he and I just kept on pouring beer for the thirsty throng. Amazingly the keg held out longer than we did, and we stayed open well past our usual closing time of midnight.

We also took the opportunity to celebrate upcoming birthdays for Doug and Guy. We regretted that Guy wasn't able to join us.

Word continues to spread about the Cavaliers, and the beer busts are a great promotional tool for our club. When Mark and Doug were selling 50/50 raffle tickets, they talked to John Taylor, Mr. Louisiana Leather 1995, who's getting a Honda Shadow ACE 750 in a few weeks. He emailed us after the beer bust now we're looking forward to having him join us on a ride soon.