Welcome To The Southern Cruisers Riding Club Hill City Chapter

SCRC – Club History

After being out of Motorcycling for almost 15 years, a man named Rick Perry decided to buy a new bike and to start enjoying life just a little bit more than he had been. After a few weeks of riding alone he knew there was still something missing - The Brotherhood of Biking.  

It was at this point that Rick decided to start a new Motorcycle Riding Club in the Memphis area.  The reasons were to meet new friends and to get the people riding together and sharing the thrill of Motorcycling in a manner that was acceptable to all. 

Around July 10, 1998, the name Southern Cruisers Riding Club was born. Rick developed a small website on the net and started a SCRC Forum so we could all have an online meeting place to discuss plans for rides we were setting up. During this time we were working on a Club Patch and went through about a dozen different designs before we all decided on the Current SCRC Club Patch.

Shortly after the Memphis Chapter started to form, Rick was contacted by Jerry "HIP" Longdon from the Knoxville area about the SCRC. Eventually they decided to open a Chapter in Knoxville, TN just to see what would actually happen. Lots of decisions were made at this time about how to run the Southern Cruisers including a NO DUES style club, not to give the Club a bad name and to keep it all clean and legal.

A little time went by and everything seemed to be going well for the two Chapters.  Then Rick received a phone call from Tim Jones in Rome, GA.  His first words were something like this "How about a Georgia Chapter"!  Still kinda shocked that someone would want to start a Chapter of the Southern Cruisers other than himself, Rick got the Rome, GA Chapter going. After a few phone conversations with Tim, he told Rick that he designed websites for a living and that he would gladly set up the Southern Cruisers with its own Domain Name and build and maintain the site for us.  Still in shock from all of this, Rick agreed and Tim built "http://SouthernCruisers.Net" and that's when everything started happening.