It’s worth mentioning here (for the couple of you still on the RSS feed) that we’re about a month away from Slaughterhouse 30, Chicago’s annual scooter rally.
Thirty years… man. I never tire of reminding everyone that the first Slaughterhouse was my first rally, and I’m the only person that’s been to all of them. I joined the planning team for SH3-SH8, then took a few years off planning when M.K. was born (still attending, of course). I got back into planning for SH16 and have been pretty heavily involved ever since. It’s a hell of a lot of work, but I’m really proud we’ve not only kept it alive this long, but also kept it exciting, original, and personal. We’re welcoming folks that have been coming for decades, guests from around the U.S. and world, and riders who weren’t even born when we started!
Which brings us to this year. It’s still a month off and we’ve already got 200 registrations. It looks like we’re going to cut it off at 250 to keep it manageable. We’ve got a lot of really top-notch merch included in your registration fee (although as we pass 200, there’s less and less merch, the sooner you register, the more you get). And there are still some BIG surprises coming. Thanks a bunch to Sean McNamara who really stepped up this year and whipped our budget into shape. Even with a higher registration fee, we’re offering not only more for your money, but more than pretty much any other rally out there. Hope you can make it!