Welcome
HISTORY:
We are a group of guys who enjoy riding and fellowship with all types of motorcycle riders.
We are not 1%ers We are not a cop club. We are not a Motorcycle Club. We are a motorcycle Riding Club "R/C". We meet once a month and have group rides a few times a month. We are community oriented bikers with a common interest in motorcycles. We participate in community fundraisers such as the Boys and Girls Clubs of Blount County and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of East Tennessee.
There were a handful of friends who ride motorcycles that gathered in Knoxville to talk about starting a riding club in the summer of 2006.
We had several follow up exploratory meetings to see if there was an interest in starting a club. There were 12 guys present. These twelve are our Founders. Within the next several weeks we established that there was interest and we thought of names and finally voted on the name of our group. We went through several names and ended the night with “Dixie Iron”.
We also elected by vote three "Founding Officers" for the group. We elected Mike as our first and founding President, Johnnyo as our Founding Secretary/Treasurer, and John as our Founding Sergeant at Arms. Other officer positions were filled in the months to come.
in January of 2007 we became known as Dixie Iron Riders (We are a Riding group so the word Riders was adopted.
Why Dixie Iron? Dixie is a region of the southern and eastern United States, comprising the states that joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. We are proud of our southern heritage. Iron, is best known as the metal that gave us weapons and tools, and whose ability by means of alloys and heat treatment to suit itself to every application makes it the primary metal of technology. Iron is the most frequently encountered metal in daily life.
In the meetings to follow several members brought forth drawings to be considered as our patch. After reviewing several hand drawn patch ideas. We chose by vote a drawing of a patch that we'd like to use. This patch would represent a lot of different things. One being the iron cross from our Christian backgrounds. The cross is made to look like Iron strong and made to last. The waving American flag represents our freedoms as Americans, to give thanks for those freedoms and to show respect to the men and women who serve our great country. The other flag is our Dixie Iron Riders flag. The Red background represents the Great State of Tennessee. These two flags are being held up by two axe handles. The axe handles are serving as a handles of knowledge while the blades signifies our sharp wise leadership over our group.
On April 19 2007, The Dixie Iron Riders became a Non Profit / Not for Profit Corporation / Organization in the State of Tennessee.
On May 14, 2007 The Dixie Iron Riders Organizational Charter was officially registered at the Blount County Courthouse by Penny H. Whaley, Register of Deeds Blount County, Tennessee..
Early spring 2008 the Founding Officers met with our two local Motorcycle Clubs to establish updates about our group and to ask for their blessing of our organization and patch.
On March 24, 2008 Dixie Iron Riders have been blessed by the governing Motorcycle Clubs of the great state of Tennessee...
and on April 2, 2008 we sewed our patches on.
On January 17, 2009 Dixie Iron Riders have been blessed by the Tennessee Confederation of Clubs to be a state approved Motorcycle Riding Club.
On March 2, 2009 Dixie Iron Riders Club Patch, Logo, website, and club name is now under Copyright Certified in accordance with title 17, United States Code.
Registration Number VAu983-220.