Jay McNabb:  

rts. It is not about fighting at all, and my instructor and the students are truely my extrended family. They helped me build my school as I had helped my instructor and there is nothing that I wouldn't do for them. However, not training has allowed me to stay home at night and spend time with my kids and family. It was hard to train 3 to 4 times a week from 7:00pm to about 11:00pm and go to work. By friday I was dead, but it felt so good. I now ride motorcycles. I had crashed one on the freeway doing 100mph in the early 80's, and it took 18 years to get on another one. I bought my first Harley in 2002 and then another one in 2006. I ride all of the time and am a member of Tacoma Hog, which has about 1200 members and we do all kinds of charity rides that are just a blast. You wouldn't think of bikers that way, but they really do alot of good. We have done rides for Children Hospital, gone to the Orting soldiers home to help them fish in a derby, delivered christmas presents to a homeless shelter for battered women. This year we took 85 easter baskets to St. Anns church and sat there while the kids opened them. Sometimes you'll catch one or two of us with a tear or two. The kids are great. We did a ride to Olympia for a Toy Run a couple of years ago and there were 6800 bikes. You don't hear about it much on the news. Just a bunch of bikers you know, but hey, it's all good and it's for the kids anyway. Would be nice to improve the image of a bikers though. I have started to take my grandaughter with me and she even helped with the easter baskets this year. She's a good kid and soon I'll have to decide how to take turns with my grandson too. That's about the major stuff going on in my life. The kids are grown up and gone, they don't listen to me much anyway, not like I used to listen either. Pay backs! My son just got married, contrary to what I said, so I'm not saying anything about them having kids.