Red River 2023

[DustyDave]

Loaded El Indio up Thursday afternoon to ride from my house at 6200 feet up to the bike meet in Red River at 8700 feet

Sailed right into Questa and pitched camp. El Indio is only 83 years old this year

Don't know why the photos are sideways this same combo has always been fine?
Not a lot of bikes yet but Thursdays are usually slow

What else could I want for dinner BBQ Beer a mountain view and a town filling with bikes

Dusty

[DustyDave]

Friday was a little busier
Interesting craft project at the Red River Brewery
Sailed right up the hill into town got in line for breakfast then some broad riding with the Banditos made me pose with El Indio then sent them to me so here are a few of her photos. El Indio was definitely the most photographed bike there.


Altogether a good day except when the screw that holds the float to the lever arm in the Linkert vibrated loose inspite of the Loctite.
Dusty

[DustyDave]

Coming up the hill Saturday El Indio was running kinda strange then just stopped the universal ignition switch was not making any contact. After a while I had about 10 or 12 bikers show up one had a wire crimp set and another had a roll of 14 ga wire and another had a VOM. so I'm turning it on and off with a wire that runs straight to the coil and so far the ignition switch still turns the alternator and lights on. Still got to breakfast by 10:00.
Proof that you can get an old Triumph up to red River and proof that a much older Indian made id on its own.



I was planning to staying and taking pics all afternoon but I kept seeing Banditos and Water Dogs wearing guns and structing around and it was so crowded that was killing my old knees to ride a bike length and stop with a foot clutch so I headed home.
Quick as I turned the confuser on I found that those Idiots killed three people and wounded five others
Dusty

[DustyDave]

3 dead, 5 injured as biker gang shootout erupts in Red River, New Mexico

Three people were killed and five others were injured when a shootout erupted between two outlaw biker gangs at the annual Red River Memorial Day Motorcycle Rally in New Mexico, police said.

As tens of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts converged on the Taos County resort town for the annual event and live music festival, members of the Bandidos and Water Dog biker gangs got into a fight in which multiple rounds of gunfire were traded between the two groups, New Mexico State Police Chief Tim Johnson said at a news conference Sunday morning.

The shooting erupted around 5 p.m. Saturday on Main Street on the east side of Red River when a confrontation occurred between members of the two biker gangs, Johnson said.

He said the fight was apparently over a photograph members of one of the gangs took with another outlaw biker gang in Albuquerque a few days ago.

Dusty



Johnson said all eight people shot in the episode, including those killed, were members of the two biker gangs.

"I'll apologize initially to the law-abiding citizens that came to Red River to have a good Memorial Day Weekend, not the gangbangers that are ruining it for all of them, but for everyone there will be zero tolerance from this point forward," Johnson said, adding that even people caught jaywalking will be subject to arrest. "This is not going to happen again this weekend because we're not going to allow it."

As many as 28,000 bikers were expected to arrive in Red River this weekend for the 41st annual motorcycle rally.

[BuddhahoodVato]

"Y" que, you wanna bang, you bang.

[Whoremonger]

Booze , guns, grown men acting like gang bangers, a sure fire recipe for disaster. Throw in laws that allow everyone to open or concealed carry a gun and you can be sure incidents like this will occur. So glad cali has not gone that route YET.

[Viewfindernoise]

Sounds like a hell of a way to kill a weekend

[docmel]

I always carry, period. It aint a gun prob. Its a people prob...

Outside of that, Red River Run sucks. Over crowded, over rated, over priced: Really nothing there, a single main drag thru a valley. Gorgeous country, thats it

[Whoremonger]

Guns not a problem when responsible level headed people carry. Unfortunately not everyone that carrys fit that category. That is when they become a problem

[Stonedjesus91]

Cant blame it on the guns, if it were a gun problem there would be alot more deaths. Deffinatly a people problem

[DustyDave]

Cant blame it on the guns, if it were a gun problem there would be alot more deaths. Deffinatly a people problem

I suppose they shot them with a club or their finger! I think that being able to strut around carrying a gun had something to do with it, having a gun available when they got mad had something to do with it, law enforcement being so thin in the middle of town had something to do with it, They being gangers had something to do with it, felons, wife beaters and the mentally ill having the right to have a gun had something to do with it. The NRA I have a right people are gonna cost me my guns I wrote the NRA a few years ago and asked them to cancel my lifetime membership and to not send me anything until Wayne La Pew is gone and they stop taking foreign money and stop influencing our elections.
Dusty

[Stonedjesus91]

Even if they didnt have guns on em they would find a way. Been carrying for years, been mad a few times, i didnt shoot no one, never thought about shooting anyone. Years ago some gang member stabbed some other ol boys at sturgis, deffinatly a people problem not a weapons problem.

[Stonedjesus91]

The NRA is a sham though. Not trying to argue or piss anyone off either! Hopefully i didnt make you mad.