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1 District NE/SD - Chapter O October 19, 2018 Gold Wing Road Riders Association Officers & Staff Directors John & Cheryl Papson cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com Treasurer George & Cheryl Lapka George.lapka@centurylink.net Newsletter Editor Jim Drawbaugh jdrawbaugh@msn.com Web Page Editor John Papson cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com Membership Enhancement Coordinator Rick & Robin Saunders rs10473@gmail.com Sunshine Lady Angie Vogt angelavogt@rocketmail.com /50 Raffle Jeff Vogt jefferyvogt@rocketmail.com Couple of the Year 2018 Jeff & Angie Vogt

2 Come join us for a gathering of Friends for Fun, Safety & Knowledge! NE-O Get-Together, Third Saturday of the month. Our next Chapter meeting will be Reminder. Tomorrow!!! Oct 20, Sat Oct 20, Saturday ~ Chapter meeting We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. Just off of U.S. Route 75 (Kennedy FWY) and Cornhusker Rd. We will have a private meeting room and of course, the really good news is, ALL YOU CAN EAT!!! Breakfast at 8am. Meeting at 9am. After meeting rides are back. Directors: John & Cheryl Papson cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com Hope to see you there! Birthdays & Anniversaries October Birthdays October Anniversarys Jim Drawbaugh Oct 03 John & Cheryl Papson Oct 01 Bill James Oct 14 George & Cheryl Lapka Oct 16 Nancy James Oct 19 Jim & Nancy Drawbaugh Oct 17 Bob McCorkle Oct 29 Herman Brown Oct 31 November Birthdays November Anniversarys Deona Schut Nov 02 None Bob Roberts Nov 03 Al Scranton Nov 09 Todd Schut Nov 20 What s Happening in Chapter O From the Directors Desk John & Cheryl Papson Chapter "O" Directors

Chapter O MEETING DATE & LOCATION CHANGE! THIS JUST IN due to circumstances beyond our control, Phoenix Food & Spirits, (Phoenix 370) will no longer serve breakfast.

3 Chapter O MEETING DATE & LOCATION CHANGE! THIS JUST IN due to circumstances beyond our control, Phoenix Food & Spirits, (Phoenix 370) will no longer serve breakfast. Once again Chapter O will be changing the meeting date and location. Our next two Chapter Meeting will take place on (the 3rd Saturday of the month) Saturday Oct 20, at 9:00am. Breakfast at 8:00am. We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. Just off of U.S. Route 75 (Kennedy FWY) and Cornhusker Rd. We will have a private meeting room and of course, the really good news is, ALL YOU CAN EAT breakfast buffet!!! Only $8.99 for adults and $7.99 for seniors. Eggs and omelets made to order, includes soup, desert and salad bar. Coffee and Juice is included in the price. Member who recruits the most new members in 2018 gets one year of membership to GWRRA paid for by the District. Same thing for the Chapter that has the most recruits in 2018 gets their dues paid for by the District. We look forward to our new meeting place and any new members or visiting guests. Please contact me if any members are interested in volunteering to fill a position or helping out the chapter. Another District event you won t want to miss. Event: GWRRA Medic First-Aid, FA and CPR Training When: Saturday, November 17, 2008, After NE-O monthly Get-Together; NE-O will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill located at 1511 Gregg Rd Bellevue, NE. (just off of Cornhusker Rd

4 and Rte 75). Breakfast will begin at 8 AM and the Get-Together at 9 AM. Buffet is all you can eat or you can order off the menu. Everyone will relocate to the training site after the meeting. Training Site: Nebraska Medicine - Bellevue (BMC) 2500 Bellevue Medical Center Drive, Bellevue NE (Located on the South West corner of NE SH 370 and 25th St.) Lower Level Conference Rooms (Class Rooms A, B and C) Training: Medic First-Aid FA and CPR Cost: ONLY $20.00 per person (IF you find it cheaper we ll price match) Instructors: Lance and Diane Brozek Time: 11:00 AM to Finish Lunch: BMC Café RSVP by Saturday November 10 to cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com Chapter O Christmas Party Chapter O Christmas Party will be Saturday December 1 from 5-10pm at Hy-Vee Located at Stony Brook Blvd (Stony Brook and 144th Street). The cost is $10 per head with the Chapter picking up the remainder of the cost. Please RSVP by November 18th by cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com or call (402) and leave a message. The gift exchange will be $20 per couple. (Black Friday sales are great for this event). Christmas Party Menu Salad with Ranch or Italian dressing Turkey or Beef Potatoes and Gravy Almond Green Beans Rolls and Butter Cake Coffee, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Coke, Pepsi We will be announcing the 2019 Couple Of the Year and rewarding the person with the best Ugly Christmas Sweater along with 2018 Chapter Challenge certificates. Fun and games with a gift exchange, who could ask for anything more. Hope to see you there. Mark your Calendars for Sunday, December 9. One of our community services this year will be helping out Empty Tomb Ministries by providing a meal for the homeless community. This organization operates as a storefront church to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to support the

community with food, clothing & assistance. This event is for a good cause and we are hopeful for a large participation number.

We have some members with training and membership due, and we would like to get set up with training dates to get everyone current. Feel free to join in the levels program at any time.

We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. We ll see you again on Saturday. Thanks to all, for the help and support you give.

5 community with food, clothing & assistance. This event is for a good cause and we are hopeful for a large participation number. We ll have more information on this event as it becomes available. Any personal certification requirements for the GWRRA Rider Ed Levels Program can be discussed individually. We have some members with training and membership due, and we would like to get set up with training dates to get everyone current. Feel free to join in the levels program at any time. We look forward to seeing you next month at our Chapter Meeting on Saturday, Nov 17, at 9:00am. Breakfast at 8:00am. We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. We ll see you again on Saturday. Thanks to all, for the help and support you give. Chapter NE-O Directors John & Cheryl Papson The Phantom Educator What does this have to do with this? Well, it may be time for this: That tread type may be a little aggressive for the winter riding we may do around here if you even keep the bike ready for a winter outing. Many folks do not and that s ok. It all depends on what you

are comfortable with and how much ice water you have in your veins.

If you don t ride or are thinking of hanging up the chaps for a few months, how can we keep the edge on.

I guess maybe we could be rustier that we thought we d be. How do we fix this? Several ways come to mind immediately: 1. Set aside an hour a day to sit on the bike in the garage.

6 are comfortable with and how much ice water you have in your veins. Some of us do ride occasionally during the winter months, although Poor Richard s Almanac is predicting cold and a lot of the white stuff this year. If you don t ride or are thinking of hanging up the chaps for a few months, how can we keep the edge on. I mean we don t want to go out for a ride on the first springtime day and jump on the bike only to find we are staring at the passenger s seat instead of the windshield. OOPs. I guess maybe we could be rustier that we thought we d be. How do we fix this? Several ways come to mind immediately: 1. Set aside an hour a day to sit on the bike in the garage. Assuming you have a heated garage that is. Maybe you could use that hour to polish it. That would keep you warm but it may be so slippery in the spring time that you slide right off the seat. Or 2. Plan on attending one of the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows. Minneapolis is the closest one in February, but you could go to Long Beach, CA, or Dallas, TX or NY or Chicago and have a great time ( It would also give you a reason to take a trip during the doldrums of winter. You could spend energy anticipating and talking about attending prior to to the show and talk about all the new bikes and events you attended afterwards. If you do go, you ll want to fill out a lot of the cards requesting additional information from vendors. A hint is to make up a sheet of address labels. It saves a lot of writing. 3. Visit your favorite dealership once a month. Throw a leg over the different bikes. If they won t let you do this they should not be your favorite dealership. Talk about what s new, what s good, what s bad and oh yes what you can afford. Or not. It s up to you. 4. Subscribe to your favorite motorcycling magazine and curl up with it on the cold winter nights. I like Motorcycle Consumer News, Rider and Road Runner. If you are an American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) member, and in my view everyone should be since they advocate for us, you would receive American Motorcyclist magazine and of course as GWRRA members there is Wing World. Lots to do and you don t have to limit yourself to one thing. You could do two three or all of them and many more things that I haven t mentioned. Where am I going with all this you may ask? Well, it is said and taught in every motorcycling program that riding a motorcycle is 80-90% mental and only 10-20% physical. Keeping the mind sharp is an important aspect of motorcycling. If you think about motorcycling, motorcycling travel, or just plain old riding around the block you are keeping your head in the game which is extremely important. When the April showers give way to May flowers put all that ethereal knowledge to use while brushing up that 10-20% of your skill set by taking a riding course. Refresh those skills you ll be glad you did! Now who wants to go to the Long Beach, New York,, Dallas, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Washington D.C or Chicago?

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2318-2418, all of size 425/65R22.5. The sidewall steel body cords may be exposed, which can cause unexpected rapid air loss during use.

Tires - Other than Passenger Cars." Rapid air loss can increase the risk of a crash.

7 Long Beach, CA New York, NY Dallas, TX Cleveland, OH Minneapolis, MN Washington D.C Chicago, IL Check your tires, possible recall. Synopsis : Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC (BATO) is recalling certain Firestone FS818 tires with date codes , Bridgestone M854 tires with date codes , Bridgestone M860A tires with date code 2518, and Bridgestone M864 tires with date codes , all of size 425/65R22.5. The sidewall steel body cords may be exposed, which can cause unexpected rapid air loss during use. As such, these tires fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 119, "New Pneumatic Tires - Other than Passenger Cars." Rapid air loss can increase the risk of a crash. BATO will notify owners, and replace the tires with a comparable replacement, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule. Owners may contact BATO customer service at The Phantom

From Our Members Mississippi River Fall Ride 9/20-23/2018 Mississippi River Trip 1,101 miles 9/20 to 9/23/18: It has been eight years since the last Mississippi ride almost to the day.

8 From Our Members Mississippi River Fall Ride 9/20-23/2018 Mississippi River Trip 1,101 miles 9/20 to 9/23/18: It has been eight years since the last Mississippi ride almost to the day. Six of us went on the trip, Bill & Nancy, Jim & Nancy, Jeff & Angie, Bruce & Bella and Les. Many of us ride together and this time fellow riders Al & Marlene couldn t make it they were missed. We need more riders so you will see a new addition in the pictures our new riding companion RYDER. He rides and enjoyed the whole trip. Thursday 9/20/10: Met at JC Penney s in Council Bluffs, clutches out at 3:15 PM. The weather was hot in the 90 s and very windy as we headed East on 92. Our goal was to make the motel in Pella, IA before dark. We were traveling around beautiful Red Rock Lake around 6 PM and made it to the motel as the sun was setting. After dinner at Culver s, we settled into the motel and then got together in the lobby for some of Jim s homemade Irish Cream. Great taste! So much so that we finished it all off the first night but, we had fun socializing and talking about tomorrow s ride. Friday 9/21/10: Clutches out at 8am after our continental breakfast, 59 degrees outside, overcast and very windy the high for the day was 61 and always cloudy and windy. We headed north out of Pella and made our way on state and county roads while missing big cities. East of Tama, IA, we started getting some nice riding and scenery on the bluffs. We rode this road (Y13 and C9Y) high on a ridge for miles with huge valleys on both sides. By 1130 we

pulled into Balltown, IA which is on the Mississippi river. Great food and Great scenery! Not much changing color yet but the landscape dotted with farmsteads was beautiful.

There was lots of flooding on the MS River which we would continue to see for the next few days. We then crossed the river to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and traveled up north along the river on US35.

After dinner, some of us stayed up and played a game called Farkle. We had a great time talking, laughing and seeing Bill lose every game. [I still thought it was lots of fun].

Saturday 9/22/10: Next morning after the continental breakfast we continued north up Wisconsin s Great River Road (Hwy 35). At 9 it got up to 49 degrees and the dense fog had finally lifted.

9 pulled into Balltown, IA which is on the Mississippi river. Great food and Great scenery! Not much changing color yet but the landscape dotted with farmsteads was beautiful. After lunch we continued north on the Great River Road (C9Y) to Pikes Peak Park, south of McGregor, which overlooks the Mississippi River. There was lots of flooding on the MS River which we would continue to see for the next few days. We then crossed the river to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and traveled up north along the river on US35. We then took back roads in WI to our motel in Onalaska, WI just east of LaCrosse. We arrived around 6 PM and everyone was cold and hungry. Luckily there was an Arby s just behind the motel. After dinner, some of us stayed up and played a game called Farkle. We had a great time talking, laughing and seeing Bill lose every game. [I still thought it was lots of fun]. Since it was only going to be 40 degrees at 8 AM we all agreed to leave at 9. Saturday 9/22/10: Next morning after the continental breakfast we continued north up Wisconsin s Great River Road (Hwy 35). At 9 it got up to 49 degrees and the dense fog had finally lifted. Nice part was the sun was out and NO WIND- Yea! We continued to see flooding the entire day up the river on the WI side and down the river on the MN side. Before crossing the Mississippi into MN we stopped at the Nelson creamery. Many of us bought WI cheese curds [yes they were fresh and squeaked when you ate them]. Then Jeff and Angie noticed a WI beer they liked and checked to see if we had room to carry a couple cases. Yep, we managed to get the beer into two of the trailers and off we went. Crossing into MN at Wabasha we headed north to the Lake Pepin overlook. We then headed south and decided to have lunch at the same place in Kellogg that we ate 8 years previously. It is a great little restaurant [Town and Country Cafe] with very good food. The owner was a lady that hunts and there were pictures on the walls with her kneeling by the black bear she just shot. The black bear was stuffed and in the corner with other deer she had shot. Back on the road heading south on Hwy 61 and then went cross country to Lanesboro, MN. Lanesboro was really busy and

We continued south through New Hampton to Decorah, IA to see the Eagle nest [the one on You Tube] and Fish Hatchery.

10 even had a little parade re-enacting a WWI parade welcoming the troop s home. Turns out every Saturday in September they have something going on. This Saturday it was Lady s Day along with a golf tournament, and much more people everywhere downtown. We continued south through New Hampton to Decorah, IA to see the Eagle nest [the one on You Tube] and Fish Hatchery. Turns out the high winds had blown the nest down but, we did see two of the Eagles flying overhead. After walking around the Fishery we headed East to our motel in Mason City, IA. Tried to stop and see the covered bridge in Rock Falls that Nancy s dad originally built in 1969 but with the flooding the park was closed. Pulled into the motel around 7PM and walked across the parking lot to eat at Applebee s. Late night so all headed to their rooms for an 8 AM start tomorrow. Sunday 9/23/10: 8 AM: 59 degrees sunny and it even felt warm and did warm up during the day without much wind until Carroll, IA. We took a combination of county roads and Highways east to Algona then south to Fort Dodge. We then rode west and south on county roads to Hwy 30 when we finally stopped for lunch at one of the NE-O sponsors Dairy Sweet in Dunlap, IA. Great Pork Tenderloins for all except Bruce he had a plain hamburger. After ice cream [Nancy D definitely needs her ice cream], we continued south through BeeBee town, the Ridge Road and into Crescent, IA for our gas stop and then home. We all had a good time and all were tired but looking forward to our next group ride.

Thanks to all the riders [Ryders] that ventured out to have a good time just riding the motorcycles in the heat, the cold and the wind. Bill and Nancy James GWRRA motorcycle riders.

11 Thanks to all the riders [Ryders] that ventured out to have a good time just riding the motorcycles in the heat, the cold and the wind. Bill and Nancy James GWRRA motorcycle riders CHAPTER CHALLENGE ~ Nebraska Historical Markers ~ This year s challenge is to visit as many Nebraska Historical Markers as you can. There are more than 573 markers in the state and more than 100 markers just in Douglas County alone. We will award certificates at 3 different levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. Visit 25 markers for a Bronze level, Visit 50 for Silver and 100 for the Gold level. Certificates will be awarded for each level at the Christmas party. A picture (or selfie) of the marker number will be proof of visit. For more information visit the website THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE at You can find markers by state, county or city and get directions to them all. ============================================================================ Calendar of Events

12 Oct 20, Sat. Tomorrow!!! ~ NE-O Get-Together, Third Saturday in October.. We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. Just off of U.S. Route 75 (Kennedy FWY) and Cornhusker Rd. Breakfast at 8am. Meeting at 9am. Nov 17, Sat. ~ NE-O Get-Together, Third Saturday in November.. We will meet at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, located at 1511 Gregg Rd, in Bellevue. Just off of U.S. Route 75 (Kennedy FWY) and Cornhusker Rd. Breakfast at 8am. Meeting at 9am. Dec 9, Sun ~ Fundraiser Mark your Calendars for Sunday, December 9. One of our community services this year will be helping out Empty Tomb Ministries by providing a meal for the homeless community. This organization operates as a storefront church to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to support the community with food, clothing & assistance. This event is for a good cause and we are hopeful for a large participation number. We ll have more information on this event as it becomes available. For more information and flyers, visit the Chapter 'O' Website at District NE/SD Website at ****************************************************************************************** If you know of anything that is going to happen in the future, please John & Cheryl Papson cornhuskerjohn@yahoo.com. The more we know, the more will go. So let s keep everyone in the loop. Keep an eye on the Web site happenings page for ice cream and dinner runs. *********** Visit the web sites below for more GWRRA news.

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GWRRA. Donna and Ross Jimenez. NE-SD District Newsletter Volume 5 No. 10. District Directors GWRRA NE-SD District Newsletter Volume 5 No. 10 October 2018 District Staff District Directors Donna and Ross Jimenez 308-631-5295 Assistant Director SD Dallas Risling 605-665-7526 Assistant Directors