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Show The Park Record Wed/Thurs, July 1-2, 2009 C-5 • Continued from C-1 Answers for Today Motorcycles let locals B R A T Z A U D 1 0 H b_ D 0 A R M Y JL live free "Culturally, it's changed substantially," Vangeison said about motorcycles. Lyons photos portray what Vangeison, and the motorcycle community in general, call "the one percenters" or gang members. [The term was coined to emphasize that 99 percent of motorcycle riders were law abiding citizens and only one percent were outlaws]. One of the subjects of Lyon's work is CowBoy, or Ivan Dunsdon, a Utahnative who lived in the Midwest for a few years after he was drafted into the army. CowBoy attended the event at the Kimball, chatted about the exhibit and signed photos of himself. Born in Bingham, Utah, CowBoy now lives in Salt Lake City. He has been riding motorcycles for his entire life and continues to ride with the Sundowners Motorcycle Club, a longrange motorcycle club that has members in seven states across the country. "We ride free. We don't have to hide nothing. We don't have to hide our colors," CowBoy said of the Sundowners. CowBoy said he had firsthand experience of the motorcycle culture's evolution. He thinks Lyon exhibit "portrays the Midwest in a unique way. There was no friction between clubs. "We had our parties at these AMA [American Motorcyclist Association] events. All the clubs would go to the events." CowBoy said Lyon's photos show a time before gang violence became the norm between motorcycle clubs. "That's how we got to know each other from other groups ... We supported each other like that," CowBoy said. He said that relationships between motorcycle clubs grew more violent and tense, but recently tensions have started to ease as gangs become more respectful. "We get no friction 'cause we make no friction," CowBoy said of the Sundowners. "Respect begets respect." CowBoy said the community has learned over the years that violence and crime "draws jail, and you can't ride if you're in jail." While able to separate gangs, motorcycles also have the potential to provide a basis for unity. "Motorcycles bring us all into the same frame of mind and it's a brotherhood." Throughout the years and experiences, CowBoy has continued to ride and said he will -always have a motorcycle-mentality. "I structure my time to make my free time available to ride and be around people who ride." He loves riding in Utah because "you can ride 100 miles on the Interstate and everything' changes around you. It's one of the most colorful states." Other Utahns, especially those riding out of Park City, have had different experiences with motorcycles in their lives. Mclntosh, who rides with VTX Riders out of Salt Lake, said that growing up in Los Angeles, he thought bike riders were "scary; something that was unfamiliar." He has had his current bike for six years and has driven it all over the • R A^ A L E so L T I E|N L A 1 Reef's Kitchen • 710 Main Snret (Marriott Plaza) Old Toum ' 435-658.0323 DAVID RYDER/PARK RECORD Stephanie Saltas, reflected in her bike's mirror, watches the group take off from the Kimball Art Center on Saturday. West, from California to Glacier. "It unleashes a different side to my personality; a good side, don't get me wrong, he said. "What it does for me is it gives me a release." Saturday for his first time on the road since the weather cleared up. Growing up in Houston, Texas, he has been around bikes for most of his life and feels there's no place quite like Utah to hit the open road with friends. We get no friction 'cause we make no friction," Cowboy said of the Sundowners. "Respect begets respect" CowBoy said the community has learned over the years that violence and crime "draws jail, and you can't ride if you're in jail." Vangeison, a software salesman, attended a motorcycle event in Elko earlier this month and said he found "everybody from the toothless wonders to bank presidents and they all have one thing in common and that's biking." When asked what draws him to motorcycles he responded "one word: freedom." Ivan Radcliff, a local U.S. bobsledder. also came out on "When you are with experienced riders and when you are able to just go through turns and you know what that person's going to do and he knows what you're going to do, it's just a great feeling to have and to see and observe," Radcliff said. Julie Hooker, a school teacher at TMIS, is new to the motorcycle scene. After attending the Evanston Rally, her first motorcycle event, the previous weekend, she said her altitude toward bikers had changed. The first thing she noticed at the rally was the expensive Hudson jeans worn by another woman, and she saw there were "very different cultures coming together." "When you start to look at it, there's these really different groups of bikers," Hooker said. "They look rough around the edges but they're really good people." Vangeison even bonds with his daughter, Allie, over bikes. A Park City High School junior, Allie has her own chaps and wants a motorcycle. "It's hard to find something to get a 16-year-old to enjoy," Vangeison said. When asked if he was concerned about introducing his daughter to the counterculture behind motorcycles, his response was, "No. She likes the fringe." But there's something about the open road that only bikeriders can understand. According to Vangeison, when it comes to why people love motorcycles, "If you have to ask, you'll never know the answer." ADOPT A NEW PET FRIENDS OF ANIMALS in The Park Record i * Entrees -Receive a complimentary entree when you purchase another entree of equal or greater value. 'Valid only wirh purchase of drinks and appetizers. •Gratuity added to pre-discoum local. 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