Blue's Angels: How To

Welcome to the Blue's Angels website. The Webmaster for this site is Blue's son and keeping his father’s dream alive is a passion. Blue's entire family loves to read the adventures for the Angels. There are over 150 people that receive updates from the Blue's Angels website.

In December of 2018, after 15 years of running the website on software called "SharePoint", the website was moved to more modern software run by Google called "Blogspot.com"

The process of updating information on the site has gotten easier as well. All anyone has to do is to send the blog an email and it gets posted within minutes. To get the email address to the blog please contact the webmaster and he'll email it to you (it can't be posted to the site or automated "bots" would find it and start sending span to the website)...

There is ONE known limitation. When you email your updates to the website, there is a size limit that is related to the number and size of pictures you include. A maximum of 10Megs of images can be emailed at one time. If you have more than 10Megs send them in batches of a few at a time so everyone can enjoy seeing them.

About the Blue's Angels

The “Blue’s Angels” was formed in 1995 by John H. Kelty. The name of the group came from John’s original 1993 1500 cc blue Goldwing which he named “Blue”. The "Angels" was chosen because all the riders are all such good little boys with their toys, and most of all because we wanted prayer involved as we rode and socialized.

Blue’s Angel's started with six bikes from the Golden Vista Resort in Apache Junction, AZ. and four from West Phoenix. There are now over 40 active, enthusiastic guys and girls. Every time “Blue” met a new person at Golden Vista he asks “why don't you buy a motorcycle?” Many did!

Blue’s Angels strive for comradeship while doing a fairly dangerous hobby and enjoying every minute of the time we ride. Blue loved people and wanted them to all feel the joy of riding as he did.

In the Spring of 2012, Blue handed the leadership of the group to Bill (Dollar Bill) Barrington who did so with the mutual agreement that it remained "Blue's Angels" and that while he would coordinate the rides and the general direction of the riders, John Kelty remained "THE MAN"

Unfortunately after over 20 years of riding nearly 250,000 miles, Blue succumbed to cancer on November 11, 2014. Up until his last days he loved to ride and it was his hope, as well as his families, that the Angels remain together and continue riding and loving the open road as much as Blue did.

The Angels have no specific restrictions of membership. The only requirement would be that members maintain a safe bike. All riders are encouraged to complete a motorcycle safety course. To be an official member one must invest $12.00 to buy a Blue's Angels Cap. After that huge expense, there are no dues or fees.

The main goals are:

- to keep the group going forever

- to keep it simple and informal

- to keep the prayers flowing for all in need