The Tattered Flag Run is not a large, organized run. It's a casual ride the chapter does twice a year as part of a Breakfast Ride in May and November. At each stop riders roll the dice. High score wins at the end of the day. To be eligible to win temporary possession of the trophy you must be a "coma" chapter member that has never won it before. If you already had the honor of winning you can still roll the dice for a sidepot. No one is excluded from playing for it.
Winner gets possesion of the righteous relic, the retired chapter flags, for 6 months. They also get to choose the starting location for the next run where it is surrendered back to the next winner. On the board that holds the flags are metal plaques with the winners' names permanently affixed. The winner will have to wait for their name plaque to be made and attached but their prize will be awarded to them within a week or so of the run.
A Breakfast Ride is simply a ride that anyone may attend that has its meeting time and place set and voted on at a business meeting. Sometimes the destination is set to coincide with other motorcycling events happening that same day. As the name implies, it starts at a place that serves breakfast, and from there the participants decide the direction it will take, unless other plans are made at a business meeting.
When the chapter sets a date for a ride it also declares whether the mileage accumulated will count toward the chapter's "In-the-Wind" program which now has its own page with all its rules posted too.
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May 1996: A happy group after a long day of rollin'.
Nov 1996: Doug Olsen accepts the flag from coordinator Marty Lee.
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