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The Chicago rider’s calendar isn’t counted in years as much as in seasons. Rather than months, we mark the passage of the season from event to event. It’s weeks counted from one Pints & Pistons to another, months from one Moto Monday at Five Star to another, or so many annual events that we look forward to each year. One of those events is the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride.
Started in Australia, the DGR began with the photo above: Don Draper on a motorcycle. It then evolved into an international ride raising awareness and money for prostate cancer research. Besides the dapper duds, what makes the DGR unique amongst moto events is that it happens on the same day all over the world.
With my shirt pressed, my vest on, my tie tied and my Bonneville growling underneath me, I headed for Twisted Spoke to attend my very first DGR. I arrived just before the group was set to take off, and the streets around Grand and Ogden were teaming with well-dressed riders. Bikes ranging from small scooters to large motorcycles were lined up everywhere in sight, and in every nook and cranny of marginally legal parking spaces around Twisted Spoke.
Because Twisted Spoke is a pretty busy intersection, the plan for the ride was to head out from there in as orderly a fashion as we could muster, then actually regroup at Motoworks before departing for the ride proper, which would end near Isle of Man.
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