Motorcycle group says Canfield event that starts Thursday is family-oriented

CANFIELD — Promoters of a motorcycling association event at the Canfield Fairgrounds this week say enthusiasts shouldn’t hesitate to attend.

They say the event here is in no way similar to last month’s meeting of rival motorcycle clubs that led to nine people being killed and 18 wounded in Waco, Texas.

The Gold Wing Road Riders Association is having its annual Buckeye Rally from Thursday through Saturday at the fairgrounds, to which the event will return next year and possibly in 2017.

“There will not be anything like that,” said Roy Jones of New Springfield, GWRRA Northeast Ohio

assistant director, referring to the Waco incident. “We’re not a gang. We are a chapter of a social organization,” he added.

“They should never hesitate to attend a Gold Wing function,” his wife, Becky Jones, also a GWRRA Northeast Ohio assistant director, said of motorcyclists. The association is “family-oriented,” she added.

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