Rosalia motorcycle run reaches end of the line

With sponsors pulling out because of the recession, members of the Rosalia Motorcycle Association have decided to cancel the town’s annual motorcycle rally.

“Unfortunately, we’re just not going to be able to put it on this year,” Kelly Messinger, a member of the Rosalia Motorcycle Association, said.

Messinger said the recession has hit the motorcycle industry particularly hard. That hit the pocketbooks of the association, which relied heavily on corporate sponsorships to put on rallies the last two years.

Association president Brody Babb previously told the Gazette the group was in the hole $1...