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RICHIE’S RISE: MOTO-THERAPY AND THE HEALING
POWER OF THE VETERANS CHARITY RIDE
though when an IED exploded under his Humvee in 2005 leaving Neider with a wrecked spine and hearing loss. The E-5 Sgt. was “Medically Honorably Discharged” two years later but the spinal injuries continued to haunt him and he ultimately lost the ability to walk. A tsunami of emotions followed, the pangs of PTSD inflamed by the loss of his legs. In 2011, he thought he’d ridden a motorcycle for the very last time.
by Bryan Harley | Aug 20, 2021 For Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys Richie Neider stood out in the room, not because of his wheelchair but because he was the quietest. It was the first time participants of the 2017 Veterans Charity Ride to Sturgis had gotten together so you couldn’t blame a guy for feeling a little uneasy in a room full of strangers. As everyone introduced themselves and conversations started springing up, Richie’s steely reserves slowly began to chip away. Before the night was over, a small fire had been ignited in Richie’s eyes, a cinder sparked by the thought of embarking on a cross-country journey to the Sturgis motorcycle rally with a posse of wounded veterans.
Then came the game-changing trip to Sturgis with the Veterans Charity Ride. One morning at camp the vets got Richie on a special Indian Scout, one outfitted with hand controls and a Champion sidecar, and he got to experience the thrill of riding again. Don’t think that smile has left his face since.
Each day spent on the road in a Champion sidecar, the sun warming his face, wind rustling his hair, Richie’s wry sense of humor and magnetic personality began to rise. He and fellow VCR member Robert “Doc” Pinkham, who piloted the Indian Chieftain Richie’s sidecar was attached to, became fast friends.
No sooner had Richie returned home to Arizona from the 2017 Veterans Charity Ride than the proverbial wheels were spinning. Turns out the shop that built the red Indian Scout he’d ridden in Sturgis wasn’t far from his home, so Richie approached Azzkikr Customs’ John Meade about building his own. He scored a 2018 Indian Scout Bobber from Double D’s Performance in Scottsdale along with an Avenger sidecar. As word about his ambitious project spread, so did part donations from top companies like wheel maker RC Components and Bassani Exhaust.
“At pit stops, he’d grab my wheelchair for me, either the one set up for off-road use or the one for on-road. Doc would always say, ‘Which of your two chairs do you want?’ He got to a point where he was like, I need to give you a nickname, and I’ve been Richie “Two-Chairs” to my VCR buddies since.” Nothing brings people together like sharing the open road, and over the next nine days, the veterans forged through blazing triple-digit heat in the Mojave Desert witnessed the breathtaking beauty of Zion and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument collectively before blazing a trail over the Colorado Rockies. Flag-waving families lined Main streets in small-town parades at the end of long days, honoring the roving band of heroes as
the troupe traveled across the western states. By the time they reached Main Street Sturgis, the quiet, reserved fellow from that first day was gone, the road-tested Richie rejuvenated with a new zeal for life. This confidence led to the desire to ride a motorcycle once again. Richie loved to ride so much that
“Richie worked with me basically, I’m going to say for the last six months, full-time. If I was at the shop, Richie was at the shop,” said Meade.
at age seven he’d already built Richie became known as a his own mini-bike with a Briggs & hang-around at Azzikr as the Stratton motor. project came together. Neider “After that, I just kept getting into set up his Scout Bobber much bigger and bigger stuff and got like the original, the rear and into street bikes.” sidecar brakes controlled by the He plunked down the money for a Honda CBR600 and said “the Richie’s Rise rest is history.” This all changed Continued on page 2
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left hand and the front brake by the right. His custom Indian has a parking brake, too, its button on top of the headlight housing. They ditched the Scout Bobber’s stock clutch for a Rekluse centrifical clutch and a jockey shifter so Richie can grab the shifter’s grenade-shaped grip tightly and bang through gears manually. The scoot features custom floorboards to secure his feet on while the high slung handlebars are a reflection of Richie’s newfound can-do attitude. While he’s gone to great lengths to make the Indian Bobber his own, it’s the performance-based upgrades Richie talks about most excitedly.
on it and this is how it came out,” it made somebody happy, and added Meade. that was my whole goal, to show Decking it out in a P-51 Mus- that you can still get out there and tang-like paint job was a fitting do this stuff. I mean, hell, for the choice for a veteran who had longest time I gave up on riding “When we got the bike, we dy- begun to once again spread his because I didn’t want to go to a noed it and got 74 horsepower at wings. Richie returned to the Vet- trike. To be shown that I could do the back wheel. After the addition erans Charity Ride the following a sidecar with a cool set-up and of a Trask High Flow air filter, year, this time as a mentor and have it personalized to me, that Bassani exhaust, a Power Com- sidecar pilot. For the trip he’d made all the difference.” mander 5, and tuning by John it proudly be rocking his own cus- Richie said Ruiz had such a good bumped up power output to 97 tom Indian Scout Bobber, the time that he now wants to trick horsepower,” said Neider. “We 2018 Veterans Charity Ride dou- out his own ride. were messing around outback a bling as an opportunity to shake “They actually stuck Freddy on little bit and I probably left like a down his new rig. Joining him in one of the blue Indian Roadmas100-foot black streak!” the sidecar for the adventure of a ters, riding around in the campWhile the hop-ups get Richie’s lifetime was Jose “Freddy” Ruiz, ground. It was pretty cool to see blood boiling, the custom Avenger Staff Sergeant, US Army. it from this side because they did sidecar is the big attention-steal- “Freddy had literally died and they the same thing to me. He was just er. Azzkikr whipped up a one- brought him back. And his menoff fiberglass tail, added a pair tal capacity, he had to relearn to Richie’s Rise of headlights to the front, then walk and talk, feed himself, bathe Continued on page 3 mounted a metal rack on top of himself and all that kind of stuff,” the back panel for his wheelchair. said Neider. “We mocked it up a couple of “Soon as they put him in the months ago and once they got sidecar, he had a smile from ear the lights in, they said it looked to ear. I imagine that’s what my like a face, so they drew a mouth smile looked like, too. Apparently,
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wheelchair mount on it so my wheelchair can go with me. Holy shit does that thing want to go!”
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constantly smiling and happy and enjoying himself and for me, that made the trip because all I wanted to do was help somebody else understand that they can keep going forward, they don’t have to stop wherever the VA says this is as good as you’re going to get.”
Back in March, he also got to go snowmobiling in Buena Vista, Colorado, thanks to Monster Energy Monster, a longstanding sponsor of the Veterans Charity Ride. Though he’d never been snowmobiling before, it didn’t take long before he was fearlessThese days Richie’s wrenching ly ripping up Colorado’s steep on other people’s bikes, particu- slopes as he’s “been trying anylarly veterans interested in riding thing and everything out.” again. Since participating in the VCR “I’ve helped others do a sidecar program in 2017, Richie has also set-up. Also did a Can-Am Spy- helped start an informal group der where I helped move the called the VCR Alumni Program. foot brake up to the handlebars For the past couple of years, so that he’d have hand brakes they’ve invited other vets who because he’s a paraplegic,” said have gone through the program to join their ride to Sturgis and Neider. stay in a cabin. He also got to work on the Veteran Charity Ride’s red Indian “It’s usually my buddy Jack who Scout, the same one he rode in I met through VCR, myself, Sturgis, diagnosing why it was Wardog, and Ian Freeman,” said acting up and installing a new Neider. “We do the run every year and are usually joined by a Rekluse clutch. couple of new people from the The same guy who used to jump program. We do it outside of VCR out of perfectly good airplanes for but go to Moab first and hang out fun has also found a new outlet with the new vets in the VCR profor his thrill-seeking side. Richie gram, get them all hyped up to recently bought a Can-Am Mavdo their trip, then we take off and erick X3 Max X MR, a high-perdo our route. We’ll meet them at formance side-by-side with 195 Devils Tower in Wyoming then do horsepower. the ride into the Indian dealer“It’s stupid fast. As soon as I got ship and Main Street Sturgis with it, I ordered the hand controls them. It shows that there’s life and installed them. The race after VCR, but we’re still a part of shop here in Phoenix made a the VCR family.”
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duction to racing came from her family being race fans that have Do you like to see your favorite gone on to promote races and do racer, car, bike, or race moment? marketing for race associations That moment captured in a pho- and race teams. Once she came to that makes you wish for more to the track, she was bit by the or dream of being that racer. We race bug, wanting to capture evsee that moment thanks to a race ery moment. photographer. They spend hours in the hot sun, along side a track, Since starting she has had many in the pits or on the starting line of her pictures featured online snapping hundreds of pictures for with race pages as Cycle Drag, the one shot that makes the cut. Drag bike.com, Western Pro Extreme Association and more. So, what do it take to be a track Her photos have been featured photographer? Good Equipment, in articles and on race flyers. a good eye and patience. A track Race teams use her photos for approval and waiver to get up their sponsorship packets, marclose to the action as it is risky keting, and fans. Teams and race business. Let us meet a up and associations are using her to get coming track photographer, Chel- those great shots we all love to sea Mc Millon. She has turned her see. She is making her mark in love of photography into a busi- the race world. If you would like to ness, Mystic Way Photography. see her work go to her Facebook Chelsea has always had a love of photography. She often carries a camera with her on a road trip, Behind the Lens party, or scenic drive. Her introContinued on page 6
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