11th Annual Murrysville Blessing of the Bikes, and the ride that followed

[spongebob218]

7000 bikes. There was so many people there this year it was standing room only...everywhere. I wanted to get some pictures from atop Murrysville FDs ladder truck, but the line was so long the ceremony would have been over by the time I got on it. Naturally, most bikes were cruisers, mostly HDs, but there were more sportbikes there this year than last time I attended. All these bikes caused just about every restaurant nearby to be crowded afterwords as well. We rode 50 miles to Indiana, PA and still found about 50+ bikes in the Restaurant parking lot when we arrived.

A small portion of the bikes in attendance.
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A rose amongst thorns. I only saw 2 other Stroms all day.
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The ride afterwards with good company. Black was the color of the day.
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[garry]

I had my Sport-Touring.Net "Meet and Eat" in Clearfield that weekend. Great weather. I live in Murrysville and the sound of thousands of bikes firing up when it's time to go is pretty cool. Several friends of mine attend every year.