So we thought, why limit us to Costa Rica, our chosen home away from home? Hell, the club was born in Nicaragua, and we know other bikers there. Most of us had been to Panama at one time or another and we know other bikers there; Honduras also.Gitanos Central America was born
We feel free to ride with whomever we choose, wherever we choose, and free to ride with other more formal clubs, if we’re invited.
We will only fight for one rule: no rules. We know it will be very hard to accomplish. It will take special people to pull it off. But then,
Who's more special than a Harley rider?
So you see, Gitanos is almost not a noun, not a person, place or thing to hold in your hand. It’s a concept, a notion, a thought, and a goal. It’s freedom of the mind. It’s a good idea...
While enjoying the 2002 Nicaraguan Rally put on by our Pistones buddies, a few of the guys were sitting around the pool at the Colonial Hotel in Granada. We were enjoying the in-ground pool bar, having a pre-dinner beverage as biker’s often do, and Gitanos Central America was born. We all had a few things in common, and we all felt comfortable with one another.
First and foremost, we all love to ride our Harleys. Second, we are all, by definition, gypsies, in Spanish, Gitanos. Third, most of us do most of the scheduled rides and or trips. Forth, we all had English as a common spoken language, not necessarily our mother tongue.
We started the idea (not novel, to be sure) in Nicaragua, with a guy from California, whose Mom is from Costa Rica, a guy from Canada whose Canadian Mom lives in Mexico, a guy from Holland, a gal from Wisconsin, a Cuban-American, a Mason-Dixon boy from the USA, and two great Ticos. Gypsies, Gitanos all.
Although most of the ‘out-of-country’ bikers make a sincere attempt at mastering Spanish because after all, it’s the mother tongue of our chosen home and that respect is due, when your mother tongue is as diverse as Holland and Canada, or as diverse as California and Washington, D. C. or Milwaukee and Miami, spanglish comes in real handy. We all have that language in common. We all like to participate in rides/events. And pretty much all of us want to take our bikes to the rest of Central America.
