Broken Souls 219 Inc.

09/03/2026

When the Community Steps In

A local woman needed help.

She already had a mobility ramp, but time and weather had taken their toll. The ramp had fallen into disrepair. Instead of asking what could be done to help her maintain the basic freedom of getting in and out of her own home, the community where she lives reportedly wanted to charge her a monthly fee because of the ramp’s condition.

Whether such a charge is even lawful is a question worth asking. But there is a bigger question: What kind of society looks at someone struggling with accessibility and sees an opportunity to send them another bill?

That is the difference between looking at people as human beings and looking at them as entries on a ledger.

When the Broken Souls MC heard what was happening, we didn’t need a committee meeting to decide whether she deserved help. We got to work.

Because solidarity isn’t something you hang on the wall or print on a shirt. It is lumber in your hands. It is boots on the ground. It is working beside your brothers, sisters, neighbors, and community until a problem that seemed impossible to one person becomes manageable when carried by many.

The old ramp wasn’t just broken wood. It represented a material barrier standing between a woman and her independence.

So we intend to remove that barrier.

That’s what community means to us. When somebody is down, you don’t stand over them asking what they can pay. You reach down, help them up, and get to work.

Broken Souls MC
Ride with a purpose. Ride for your community.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

09/02/2026

The Broken Souls MC is hitting the road September 19th, and everyone is welcome to ride with us.

We’ll start the morning at The Other Side in Freeland with breakfast and the Bloody Mary bar. Registration starts at 9 AM, and kickstands are up at 11 AM. From there, we’ll spend the day riding, making stops, sharing some miles, and finishing back at the Cabin for entertainment, food, and drink specials.

This isn’t about how expensive your bike is, what patch you wear, or where you come from. It’s about people getting together, enjoying the road, and supporting a club built around serving its community.

Ride with a purpose. Ride for your community.

September 19th | Registration 9 AM | KSU 11 AM

BROKEN SOULS MC — Brotherhood Through Service.

08/25/2026

Yesterday was another reminder that community isn’t something you simply live in—it’s something you build.

The Broken Souls, in partnership with United Way of Saginaw County and several members of our community, came together to build a mobile wheelchair ramp for someone in need.

There is something important in that work. A pile of lumber doesn’t become a ramp by itself. A person struggling with accessibility shouldn’t have to wait for the market to decide whether helping them is profitable. It takes working people willing to give their time, their labor, their tools, and their knowledge for somebody else.

That is what solidarity looks like in the real world.

Not a slogan. Not a social-media post. People standing shoulder to shoulder and doing the work.

We’re always grateful when our community partners, supporters, and neighbors show up and lend a hand. Every person who carried a board, drove a screw, measured a cut, or simply came out to support the effort helped make somebody else’s life a little easier.

Because none of us gets very far alone.

Building community takes a community.

Much respect to everyone who showed up yesterday.

Broken Souls MC — Ride With a Purpose. Ride for Your Community.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/20/2026

More Than the Work

The Broken Souls have never been afraid of work. We build ramps, feed people, haul lumber, turn wrenches, and put our backs into the community whenever there is a need. But solidarity isn’t measured only in boards cut, meals served, or hours volunteered. Sometimes it is measured in laughter, music, and simply showing up for one another.

Today was one of those days.

We traded the tools for some time together and headed out to a community event in the park to watch a local band play. No project to finish. No problem to solve. Just good music, good people, and a chance to enjoy the community we spend so much time serving.

There is something important in that. A community isn’t just a collection of houses and businesses. It is people sharing the same ground, raising families, working, struggling, celebrating, and building memories together. If we only show up when something is broken, we’re missing half the point.

Broken Souls isn’t only about service. It’s about belonging. It’s about building relationships strong enough that when somebody does need a hand, nobody has to wonder whether someone will show up.

Today, we showed up for the music, the laughs, and each other.

Tomorrow, if somebody needs a ramp built or a meal put on the table, we’ll show up for that too.

That’s community. That’s brotherhood. That’s solidarity.

Solidarity!

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/18/2026

Today in Freeland, the sound of saws and impact drivers carried through the neighborhood as the Broken Souls went back to work doing something we have come to love—building mobility ramps for people in our community.

To some, it might look like lumber, screws, sweat, and a few hours of hard work. But we have learned that a ramp is rarely just a ramp.

It is independence for somebody who has been struggling to leave their own home. It is relief for a family carrying more weight than most people ever see. And for those of us building it, it is proof of what ordinary working people can accomplish when we stop waiting for somebody else to solve our problems and start solving them together.

That is the contradiction of our society: we live surrounded by enormous wealth and technology, yet sometimes a neighbor still needs a handful of people willing to show up with tools.

And people do show up.

That is what we love most about this work. It brings brothers, families, friends, neighbors, and strangers together around something bigger than themselves. Nobody asks what you own or what title you carry. There is simply work that needs doing and people willing to do it.

Today we built mobility ramps.

But what we were really building is community.

Broken Souls MC — Ride with a purpose. Ride for your community.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/17/2026

This past weekend’s ramp build hit a little different for the Broken Souls.

We’ve built ramps for strangers who became friends. We’ve shown up at homes where people needed a hand and expected nothing in return. That is what community service means to us. But this time, the work came home. This ramp was for the family of one of our own.

There’s something powerful about watching brothers come together with lumber in their hands, sweat on their backs, and a common purpose in front of them. Nobody had to ask what was in it for them. Nobody was keeping score. A member’s family needed us, so we showed up.

That is brotherhood stripped down to its simplest form.

A patch can represent many things, but its worth is measured by what the people wearing it are willing to do for one another and for their community. This weekend, that meant cutting boards, driving screws, carrying lumber, and making sure a family had a safer way into their home.

To everyone else, it might look like another wooden ramp.

To the Broken Souls, it was something more.

It was a reminder that service starts in our own communities, brotherhood carries obligations, and when one of our families needs a hand, they should never have to wonder whether that hand is coming.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/16/2026

More Than a Teddy Bear Run

There are some rides you remember because of the miles, some because of the machines, and some because of the people beside you. Then there are rides that remind you why you ride in the first place.

Every year, the Broken Souls MC and the American Legion Riders come together for the Covenant Kids Teddy Bear Run, and every year it becomes something we look forward to a little more.

Look at this picture and you see people from different walks of life standing together with arms full of teddy bears. Different patches, different backgrounds, different stories—but one purpose. Doing something good for kids who could use a little comfort during a difficult time.

That is what brotherhood and solidarity are supposed to mean.

A motorcycle patch can tell the world where you belong, but it doesn’t tell the whole story of the person wearing it. Character is demonstrated through action. It is found in the miles somebody is willing to ride, the work they’re willing to put in, and whether they show up when their community needs them.

The teddy bears themselves may seem like a small thing. But to a child in a hospital, something soft to hold can mean considerably more. It can be a little piece of comfort in an unfamiliar room and a reminder that people outside those walls are thinking about them.

That is why we keep coming back.

The Broken Souls and the American Legion Riders understand that our organizations don’t have to wear the same patch to stand shoulder to shoulder. Not every brother shares the same colors, but good people recognize good work.

We are proud to be part of the Covenant Kids Teddy Bear Run, proud of everyone who helps make it happen, and grateful for the opportunity to put our motorcycle culture to work for something bigger than ourselves.

We’ll ride plenty of miles this year. We’ll share plenty of laughs and make plenty of memories. But these are the days that matter.

Different patches. One community. One purpose.

Until next year, we’ll keep riding with a purpose.

Solidarity.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/12/2026

More Than Stuffed Animals: Brotherhood in Action

There are moments in motorcycle culture when you are reminded what brotherhood is supposed to mean. It isn’t measured by the motorcycle beneath you, the miles you’ve traveled, or the patch on your back. It is measured by what you are willing to do for somebody who may never be able to repay you.

The Broken Souls MC was proud to once again donate a large collection of stuffed animals for children battling cancer, working in partnership with the Sanford Legion Riders.

To somebody looking from the outside, they might just see a pile of teddy bears. But material things take on meaning through the human relationships behind them. To a child facing hospital rooms, treatments, fear, and uncertainty, something as simple as a stuffed animal can become a companion. It can provide a little comfort on a day when comfort is desperately needed.

That is why this cause means so much to all of us, and especially to Shane, President of the Sanford Legion Riders. His dedication to this effort reminds us that the strongest people in our communities aren’t necessarily those who talk the loudest about what they believe. They’re the ones who put those beliefs into practice.

There is an old working-class principle that says solidarity isn’t charity from above. It is people standing beside one another. That’s exactly what we see when motorcycle clubs, Legion Riders, families, businesses, and ordinary working people pool what they have to make life a little easier for somebody else.

Motorcycle culture has always contained this contradiction. The public often sees the leather, motorcycles, tattoos, noise, and patches and assumes it knows the people underneath them. Yet some of the hardest-looking men and women you’ll ever meet will ride across the state to put a teddy bear into the hands of a sick child.

Those of us who have spent years around this culture understand something that photographs can’t always capture: the patch doesn’t make the person. The person gives meaning to the patch.

That’s why Broken Souls looks forward to this cause every year. We don’t do these things because we expect recognition. We do them because a community is only as strong as the people willing to show up for one another.

To Shane and the Sanford Legion Riders, thank you for continuing to carry this cause forward and allowing us to stand beside you. To everyone who donated, collected, transported, organized, or simply helped spread the word—you helped turn a stuffed animal into something much greater.

You turned it into a message to a child:

You aren’t fighting alone.

Different patches. Different roads. One community.

Brotherhood. Service. Solidarity.

Broken Souls MC — Ride with a purpose. Ride for your community.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!

08/09/2026

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BROKEN SOULS MC

Our support clothing store is officially open.

When you wear Broken Souls support gear, you’re doing more than wearing a shirt—you’re helping us continue the work we do in our communities.

A portion of every purchase goes directly back into our community service programs. That means helping us build accessibility ramps, support families and neighbors in need, and put resources back into the communities we ride through and call home.

We’ve always believed that solidarity is something you practice. Working people looking out for working people. Neighbors helping neighbors. Brothers, sisters, friends, and supporters putting their hands together to accomplish something bigger than any one of us could accomplish alone.

If you believe in what Broken Souls stands for and want to help us keep doing the work, check out the support store at the link below.

Wear the support. Support the mission. Strengthen the community.

BROKEN SOULS MC
Ride with purpose. Serve with solidarity.

Store link below 👇

Online ordering for Broken Souls Fan Wear 2026 ends on Mon, Aug 24, 2026 (9:59 AM EDT)

08/07/2026

There is something powerful about a beautiful day filled with purpose. While others see a weekend beginning, we see an opportunity to build something that matters.

Today, the brothers and sisters of Broken Souls gathered side by side, not for recognition, but for responsibility. Lumber became possibility as hands measured, cut, drilled, and assembled the accessibility ramps that will soon find their way into the homes of neighbors who need them. Every board fastened into place represents more than a ramp—it represents the belief that a community grows stronger when ordinary people refuse to leave one another behind.

No one asked who would get the credit. No one stood above the work. Men and women shared the labor equally, each bringing their own skills, experience, and determination. That is how real change happens—not through empty promises, but through collective action rooted in mutual respect.

This weekend, these ramps will be installed, restoring freedom of movement and a measure of independence for members of our community. The work may seem simple: a few pieces of lumber, a handful of bolts, a day’s worth of sweat. But beneath that simplicity is something much greater. Every hour volunteered is a reminder that working people possess an incredible ability to solve problems when they organize around the needs of their neighbors instead of waiting for someone else to act.

Broken Souls has always believed that service is more than charity. It is the practice of building the kind of community we want to live in—one where people stand together, share the burden, and leave things better than they found them.

Today we built ramps. This weekend we will install them. Tomorrow we will find another way to serve.

Solidarity is not just a word. It is something you can build with your own hands.

We are only able to do this work for our neighborhoods because of the generous support of the community. If you ever feel like getting involved, please contact a Broken Souls member or simply donate www.brokensouls219.org

Solidarity!