Gold Wing Road Riders Association Friends for Fun, Safety & Knowledge

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1 Gold Wing Road Riders Association Friends for Fun, Safety & Knowledge B-3 BUZZ OH-B3 B-3 STAFF Chapter Director pending Assistant Chapter Director Rob Stufflebeam Chapter Rider Education Gary & Karen Ballou Assistant Rider Education Amanda Stufflebeam Member Enhancement Mary Bayes Historian Sue Gundy Treasurer Frances Pallos Newsletter Editor Tom Eden Motorist Awareness Karen Ballou Special Events Esther Ford Sunshine Lady Connie Ratliff Web Master Bill Ford Ride Coordinator Position available Chapter of the Year Coordinator Bill Ford Chapter Chaplain Ken Daft B3 Meets the 1 st Saturday of each month except September or December at 9:00 am. Join us at 8:30 am for light refreshments and Coffee at the Village of Obetz Community Center, 1650 Obetz Avenue, Obetz, OH B3 Couple of the Year: GWRRA National Staff President GWRRA Anita and JR Alkire president@gwrra.org Deputy Director Jack Wagner Jwagner10@cox.net Region D Directors Lloyd and Becky Glydewell lglydewell@att.net District Directors Rudy and Linda Copeland director@ohiogwrra.org Southeast Section Assistant District Director Randy Young randyyoung@windstream.net District Educators Robert G & Angela Williams ohioeducator@ohiogwrra.org Page 1

2 Index of Articles Page 3 Southeast Section ADD Randy Young Page 3-4 Asst. Chapter Director Rob Stufflebeam Page 5 Member Enhancement Mary Bayes Page 6 Motorist Awareness Karen Ballou Page 7-8 Rider Education Gary Ballou Page 9 Chapter Statistics Page 9 Newsletter Editor Tom Eden Page 9 Special Activities Esther Ford Page 10 Birthdays and Anniversaries Connie Ratliff Page Upcoming Rides and Activities Page 11 Ride Article by Bill Ford Page Ride Article by Margaret Moore Page 14 Southeast Section Chapters and Gathering Locations Page 15 Member items for sale Page 16 Our advertisers, Iron Pony Page 17 Region D Michigan Rally Flyer Page 18 Region D Michigan rally Registration Form Page 19 Buckeye Time Out Flyer Items of interest in the month of July: July 2 U S Army Air Corps established 1926 July 4 American Independence Day July 16 First Test of Atomic Bomb, Trinity Test Range 1945 July 21 First Moon Landing and Moon Walk by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 1969 July 27 Korean Armistice signed 1953 July 28 World War I began 1914 Happy 4 th of July! Page 2

3 Hello Chapter B3, Due to personal reasons, Margaret has stepped down as Chapter director of B3. Until a new Chapter Director has been appointed, I will be conducting the B3 gatherings. As you may or may not know, when a chapter director steps down, the entire team is also dissolved, with the exception of Rider Ed., MEC, and the Treasurer. Margaret's existing team has agreed to stay on in the interim until a new chapter director has been appointed. Anyone wishing to put for considerations for any position on the Chapter Team, please see me at the gathering. I would like to have a list of names to give to the new C.D, whoever he or she may be. This way, the new C.D. will have time to get a chapter team together when they are appointed.. As always, if anyone has any question or concerns, please feel free to text. or call me anytime. ( , or randyyoung@windstream.net) Randy Young Southeast Section Assistant District Director Rob & Amanda Stufflebeam Assistant Chapter Directors Greetings B-3! Have you ever been out riding or riding from Point A to Point B someplace, then ran into traffic. Bad traffic! And it s hot like, mid-90 s hot. As you creep up, then up, then up a bit more, your hand begins to cramp on the clutch. The radiator fan comes on. You catch a view up ahead - and see the line stretches into the distance. Well crap. So you re listening to the radio, and your trusty navigator on the back seat (i.e., your wife/spouse/co-pilot) gets on her trusty smart-phone to try and find an alternate route. Eureka! If you get off the interstate at this exit, and go down this road, etc. etc., you may be going through side streets & what not, but at least you re moving right! BAM! Another accident or block of some kind appears in your path and it s STILL mid-90s. You cry out loud as the fan on the Wing comes on and sweat pours down your face inside your helmet. (Continued on next page) Page 3

4 Such is what happened to Amanda and me on our way home from the Buckeye Rally. You may recall we hadn t intended on going up to Mansfield, since we were obligated to attend the Origins Game Fair downtown. But a last minute schedule in our volunteer schedule saw us with Friday off, and we decided at the last minute to make a day of it. Mansfield s only about an hour & 45min away we reasoned we can ride up, meet with friends, talk to some vendors, and make a day out of it. So that s what we did. We arrived the rally in about two & a half ours, having missed a turn. Good ole Siri on Amanda s smart phone corrected our course, then when we went to register, we discovered we didn t have our GWRRA membership cards on us, and we certainly don t have our numbers memorized. We d emptied out our wallets & her purse to just carry cash & ID s with us to the Game Fair. Sigh. Many kudos s to Linda Copeland for recognizing us in the registration room & vouching for us. An enterprising lady (I didn t catch her name) just looked us up in the Gold Book. Nice thinking. :) So we joined up with our B-3 friends, enjoyed some great hot dogs along with other fixings brought along. Off to the vendors with help and advice from Ben & Wendell, Robert & Bob, Pam, Mary, Sue plus Gary & Karen - we got a few things put on our bike. We wish we could have stayed longer. We left the Rally around 3pm to head back to Columbus, making it to the Polaris area at about 4:15 where we hit our first traffic snag. Long-story-short, we got home finally at 6:60pm. It seemed everywhere we turned there was another accident. The radio told us of other accidents in our path, no matter which path we intended to take. We went down through Westerville, then parts of Gahanna and Whitehall, before finally making it back home. The lesson learned in all this? Try and do everything you can to stay cool. Stay hydrated. Instead of staying out on the road and fighting traffic as we did, maybe just pull off and get inside where its air conditioned for a while. We did get some water and pulled over at Hoover Reservoir and rested for a time, but it wasn t long enough. When we geared back up and rode out, the radio was saying those accidents were still being worked, and were still blocking traffic. Anyway, if we had gotten inside and cooled off stayed off the road a bit longer, maybe we d have had less hassle. Lessons learned eh? Ride safe and cool B-3. :) Rob & Amanda Stufflebeam GWRRA OH Chapter B-3 ACD Page 4

5 MEMBERSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY Our Chapter was saddened to learn of the death of one of our most valued members..."someone ELSE". SOMEONE s" passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill...'else' has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, "SOMEONE" did far more than a normal persons share of the work...whenever there was a job to do, CD, ACD, RIDER'S ED, MEC' were always helping out at functions, one name was on everyone's list...(let SOMEONE ELSE DO IT.) Whenever leadership was mentioned, this wonderful person was looked to for inspiration as well as results...(someone ELSE CAN DO IT.) It was common knowledge that "SOMEONE ELSE" was among the most liberal givers to our Chapter..."SOMEONE ELSE" was a wonderful person, sometimes appearing super human...were the truth be known, everyone expected too much of "SOMEONE ELSE"...Now "SOMEONE ELSE" is gone!!!!! And we wonder what we are going to do... SOMEONE ELSE" left a wonderful example to follow, but who is going to follow????? Who is going to do the things "SOMEONE ELSE" did???? This was found on the last and only entry of a GWRRA Chapter site that is now gone forever... Let us "ALL" make sure that our Chapter stays strong...always keep building our Chapter membership and the membership for GWRRA... Check your cards for your renewal dates, and always try to participate in the Chapter events...always keep a "Membership Kit" in your motorcycle, your car, and or your truck...invite everyone you meet that rides a motorcycle (They do not have to have a motorcycle) to join us at our Chapter Gatherings and or a Chapter event... Page 5

6 PLEASE KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS: Bill Ford: Will be going thru two more rounds of Chemo before they can follow thru with the transplant... Evelyn DeLong: The family has had another loss of a loved one... Ken Daft: Going thru the pain and aftermath of the Shingles... Robert Vogel: His father has many health issues... Should I have missed anyone PLEASE let me know... MOTORIST AWARENESS DIVISION Karen Ballou NEXT ADVENTURE At the publishing of this in the July newsletter, Gary and I will be half way through our Canadian adventure, assuming there were no breakdowns thus far. So, since I am furiously prepping and probably packing too much, I will keep this article short. There is an extremely large crop of orange cones and barrels this season. What isn t torn up is probably being repaved. Pavingtheway.com is still an excellent source of where the long term constructions projects are in Central Ohio, along with closed roads and time frames. For statewide current traffic conditions, try OHGO.com. It shows accidents, slow speed areas and traffic jams. The data seems to be very up-tothe-minute. Roads that haven t been repaved are in fair condition. Roads in construction zones are out and out hazardous. If you are on 4 wheels, slow down. If you are on three wheels, slow down more. The jarring is teethloosening. If you are on two wheels, it may be better to find a different route. However, that being said, we were on I-75 in Michigan over the weekend and the condition was horrid. When we crossed the Ohio state line, the car was so quiet; we just looked at each other and said WOW! We also just had the case of Tires that wear out faster than you think. Most everyone knows we have a Wags trailer that was originally for our dog, but is now mostly my travel suitcase. Since the trailer is going with us to the Canadian Maritime islands, Gary took it to our friend Tom, and they greased and repacked the bearings, or something like that. As they looked at the tires, the bars were beginning to show through (Continued on next page) Page 6

7 (my apologies if I said that wrong). Those tires would not have finished the whole trip, even though those tires didn t have more than 5,000 miles, probably much less. It pays to look. Hopefully, he has found the tires and someone to replace them. Apparently, little trailers don t have many places to get serviced. Please be careful out there. Motorcycles are moving targets to some and they are in a hurry to get where here they are going. ASSISTANT RIDER EDUCATION DIVISION Amanda Stufflebeam Filling in for Gary Ballou Summer is here and so is the heat. Here are some things to consider as the temperature rises. Your body has mechanisms in place to keep your temperature within a fairly small range. Two of the most important mechanisms are (1) the ability to move hot blood from the body core to the skin (known as shunting) and (2) the ability to sweat. It is the shunting of blood to the skin that makes your face look red after exercise, but it can also lower your blood pressure and make you feel dizzy. Sweating is the key to body cooling through evaporation, but it also increases the need for fluid replacement to prevent dehydration. Keep in mind that you may not be thirsty until after you are already seriously dehydrated, so you must drink water before, during and after hot-weather exposure and exercise. As dehydration increases, the common symptoms of heat-related illness begin to occur. These include headache, dizzy-ness, muscle weakness or cramps, nausea and vomiting. The symptoms may not occur in a certain order, so you could get seriously ill with very (Continued on next page) Page 7

8 To prevent heat illness on the motorcycle, keep the following points in mind: Wear lightweight, light-colored, protective clothing. Mesh jackets and other breathable fabrics (like Kevlar) are a great summer alternative to leather. Use hot-weather accessories like cool vests and neck coolers. If you don t have these things, spray some water on your clothing. You can even dampen your helmet liner with a little water before putting it on. Be sure to open the vents in your helmet to allow air to flow across your head. Cover up! It may seem like you d stay cooler in shorts and a tank top, but there are two things wrong with this thinking: first, this type of clothing offers no protection in case of a crash, and second, it has been proven that you actually stay cooler when the sun is not beating down directly on bare skin. Consider this: you stay cooler under a shade umbrella than you do in the direct sun, right? Well, think of your long sleeve shirt and long pants as shade umbrellas for your skin. And don t forget the sunscreen. Sunburn lessens your body's ability to cool itself by sweating. Drink lots of water before, during and after the ride. You'll know you've had enough to drink if you urinate every two hours or less, and your urine is clear-colored (like weak lemonade). Drink every minutes. Don't wait till you're thirsty. And by the way, coffee, tea and soda pop don't count as fluid-replacement drinks. They are diuretics and cause you to Urinate away more water than they put into your body. If you have any chronic medical condition or take medicine frequently (for blood pressure, thyroid, depression, seizure or others), please consult with your healthcare provider about your possible increased risk for heat illness. Make sure the medical information sheets you carry on your bike are up-to-date. Don t ride beyond your comfort. If you need to take a break, whether you re riding alone or in a big group, do it. Find a shady spot, an air-conditioned rest stop, restaurant, or other cool place. Get off the bike and rest. Eat or drink something cold (here s where ice cream comes into play!). Taking your shoes off for a few minutes not only allows your feel to cool, but it helps the body release heat. A special thanks to current REGION F EDUCATOR, Mike Burke for this great guide. DRESS FOR THE SLIDE NOT FOR THE RIDE Chapter B3 Rider Ed Assistant, Amanda Stufflebeam Wear your helmet every time you ride. Page 8

9 Chapter statistics for the month Current First Aid/CPR 22 Current Road Captains 17 Levels Program Current in Level I 14 Current in Level II - 0 Current in Level III - 5 Current in Level IV -14 Attendance at the June activities 3 Chapter gathering, 26 members, 3 guests S. E. Section Picnic, 8 members 10 Chapter ride to Ohio Veteran s Park Clinton, Ohio, Park, 7 members Buckeye Rally, 16 members 22 Mid-Month get together, 18 members 24 Lunch Ride to Farmer s Daughter in Urbana, 12 members 25 Visit to Chapter X 25 - Lunch at Millstone BBQ NEWSLETTER EDITOR Tom Eden If you have an article that you would like to have included here, send it to the Newsletter Editor, Tom Eden, at traveler1@columbus.rr.com. Articles could be about a ride you went on, an event you attended, something you purchased for your bike that you think is really great, or anything you feel would be of interest to your fellow members. We sincerely welcome contributions from our members. For Sale ads, by GWRRA Members only, are also welcome for submission. Deadline for submissions is the 20 th of the month. Special Activities Coordinator Esther Ford The next Event for us to try to help for the Obetz community will be the Zucchini Festival Parade. We are asked to help with the road guard. The Chief of police coordinates with us and lets us know how we can assist them. Please volunteer with this if you can. Thanks for remembering the food pantry. We have been doing a good job. It is much needed in the summer; a lot of children are fed breakfast and lunch at school. Ladies lunch July 13th, 12:30pm will be at Cracker Barrel on SR 256. Hope to see you there! Esther Ford Page 9

10 July Birthdays July 7 Mary Bayes Anniversaries July 1 Bob and Suzan Sestito July 3 Mike and Cecelia Chambers July 21 Ed and Pat Richards July 28 Brian and Carolyn Sittler Give Connie Ratliff, , or Margaret Moore, a call if any get well or sympathy cards need to be sent. Up Coming Activities Greeter for JULY Ed Richards For a complete ride schedule see the chapter web site This is your chapter. The events scheduled are not just for the officers. One of the goals of GWRRA is FUN. It isn't as much fun without you there. The tentative schedule for 2017 has been planned, but there is space for more. There are some FUN and Exciting activities scheduled. Please be a part of your chapter. If you have ideas for rides/activities let a chapter team member know, as there is plenty of space to add activities and destinations Gary Ballou s Canadian Atlantic Provinces trip continues 1-9:00 am, Chapter gathering, Obetz Community Center, Lunch ride to Crosstown Creamery, Tarlton, Ohio 4 Independence Day Holiday 8-9:00 am, meet at Frisch s, Chapter ride to Mott s Military Museum, 5075 S. Hamilton Road, Groveport, Ohio Lunch at Flyer s Pizza, Groveport following tour. 15-8:00 am, Pediatric Brain Tumor Ride for Kids, meet at Frisch s, ride to Honda Marysville Motorsports, 630 Coleman s Crossing Boulevard, Marysville, Ohio 20 7:00 pm, Mid-Month get together, Obetz Community Center 22 8:30 am, meet at Frisch s, ride to visit Chapter N2, Frostie Drive Inn 424 Washington Street, Sabina, Ohio. Lunch will follow at Young s Dairy in Yellow Springs. 25 6:00 pm, meet at Frisch s, ride to Whitt s Frozen Custard, 551 W. Coshocton, St. Johnstown, Ohio. Page 10

11 August Gary Ballou s Canadian Atlantic Provinces trip continues 4-9:00 am, Chapter gathering, Obetz Community Center, Lunch ride to Crosstown Creamery, Tarlton, Ohio Michigan & Region D Rally, 101 Recreation Ave., Evart Michigan. Theme is 1920 Beach Party. 15 6:30 pm, dinner and dessert ride, Pizza Cottage and Gypsy Joe s, 2237 W. Fair Ave. Lancaster, Ohio 17 7:00 pm, Mid-Month get together, Obetz Community Center 19 9:00 am, meet at Frisch s, ride to Boat House in Marietta for lunch 26 10:00 am, meet at Obetz Athletic building, 4175 Alum Creek Dr. volunteer assistance with Obetz, Zucchini Parade Wing Ding Gaylord, Texas A ride article by Bill and Esther Ford On May 27 th, Margaret led a nice ride, the scenery was beautiful, sky was clear blue and with temperatures in the mid 80's, it was a perfect day. The park has been updated since our last visit. There is a wonderful picnic shelter with grill, a new put-put course, and tennis court and 1 1/2 basketball courts have been refreshed. We enjoyed our brown bag lunches in the shelter, and talked with other visitors. On our return route we rode though Hocking Hills to get ice cream in Tritons at the Creamery, it was a B-3 outing so we had to enjoy some wonderful Ice Cream. Then we journeyed on home. Every day out on our Wings is a great day, especially if the weather is perfect and ends with Ice Cream. Looking forward anxiously to the next ride. Bill & Esther Ford See pictures on next page. Page 11

12 Ohio Veterans Memorial Park Clinton, Ohio June 10, 2017 June 10 th was a beautiful, warm day with just a few clouds in the blue sky for the ride to the Veterans Memorial Park up in the northeast town of Clinton, Ohio. There were 7 of us from B-3 once Bill and Esther arrived after his visit to The James for a couple of shots. We finally got on the road about 9:40 AM. The route was planned by Bill to go by way of the back roads starting with following Rte. 204 almost to its end then we turned north on Rte Nice road, but surprise it ended at US 40. Now what? Well we went left for a while, then right for a few miles, and then left and right on some newly resurfaced roads or some old bumpy roads with lots of pot holes. Several of the roads had a lot of nice curves and lots of hills. All of us had GPS units on and sometimes they gave conflicting directions. Bill kept pushing NE until he got back on to the track he had planned. Finally about 12:30 PM we arrived in Warsaw where we stopped at a local diner named Roberta s Diner. The food was great; the server was attentive and got all our orders correct. Once we had rested, filled our bellies and emptied another we were back on the road. At one point we were passed by an impatient driver who showed us his intelligence quotient of 1! We traveled for about another hour and took another rest stop about 20 minutes away from our objective. Once back on our bikes we found our way to the extremely well designed and constructed Ohio Veterans Memorial dedicated to all service members who gave their lives in the military service of this country during all the wars and conflicts since the Civil War. We spent about 45 minutes walking and taking photos then remounted our reliable steeds and got back on the road towards home with a couple of stops along the way. One stop was for fuel in three of the bikes and a stop for Ice Cream at the Velvet plant in Utica. Back on the bikes we returned to Rte. 62 west then to Rte. 661 south, but Bill and Esther continued on Rte. 62 to Johnstown. Once in Grandville we turned south on Rte. 37 at the I-70 west ramp where Wendell and Sue continued towards their home in Millersport. Ben, Mary and I headed west towards our homes in Grove City. I arrived home about 8:40 PM after stopping at the Turkey Hill at Rte. 62 and I-270 for fuel. By the time I pulled into the garage I had traveled 309 miles in a little less than 12 hours. See pictures on next page. Page 12

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14 Here is a link to the Ohio District web site where you will find a link to their latest newsletter. Here is a link to the Region D web site where you will find a link to their latest newsletter: SOUTHEAST SECTION CHAPTER MEETING PLACES AND TIMES Chapters Location When Meeting A-3 Marietta, Ohio gathers at Shoney s Restaurant, 44 Acme St., Marietta, Ohio. Dinner at 6:00 p.m. gathering follows. Chapter web site B-3 Obetz, Ohio gathers at Obetz Comm. Center, 1650 Obetz Avenue, Obetz, Ohio. Light refreshments at 8:30 a.m., gathering follows. Chapter web site F-3 Lancaster, Ohio, gathers at Deb's Corner Cafe. Located on the corner of Broad St. and 6th. Ave. in Lancaster, Ohio Dinner at 6:00 p.m., gathering follows. Chapter web site O Newark, Ohio, gathers at Stacy s Buffet, 833 S. 30th St., Heath, Ohio. Dinner at 6 p.m., gathering follows. Q-2 Circleville, Ohio, gathers at Huffman Homestead, 6906 Old Tarlton Place, Circleville, Ohio. Chapter web site X Hocking Hills, Ohio gathers at Davidson Hall, Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. Time 1 st Thursday 7:00 p.m. 1st Saturday 9:00 a.m. (except Sept. & Dec.) 3 rd Tuesday 7:00 p.m. 2 nd Thursday 7:00 p.m. Last Sunday 1:30 p.m. Y Our friends at Chapter Y in Mount Vernon gather at Alison s Finer Diner at Upper Gilchrist road in Mount Vernon 3 rd Saturday 9:00 a.m. At the time this newsletter was published, the Region D Traveling Plaque was at Indiana Chapter B in New Albany, Indiana and the Ohio District Traveling Plaque was at Ohio Chapter OH-F, in Fairborn, Ohio. Page 14

15 Member items for sale 2008 Goldwing Trike and Dart trailer for sale Loaded, GPS, CB and lots of Chrome $24,000 or best offer Need more info call. If we don't answer please leave message. Wendell Gundy phone To advertise in the B3 newsletter, contact Newsletter Editor, Tom Eden, at Page 15

16 Please Patronize Our Advertisers To advertise in the B3 newsletter, contact Newsletter Editor, Tom Eden, at Recent expansion at Iron Pony has provided: a two level Honda showroom, a two level Triumph showroom, newly added brand Hyosung on a second level, an expanded Suzuki showroom on a second level, an expanded Kawasaki showroom on the first level, an expanded service department and a two level preowned bike showroom. Come visit our two story Honda sales area and view the 74 touchscreen Honda Shopping feature that lets people choose and see the specific unit they are interested in. Page 16

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19 Buckeye Time Out Camping, Games, Cookout Friday-Saturday September 15-16, 2017 It s time once again for the annual Ohio GWRRA camping and kick back weekend! Friends for Fun, Food and more Fun Pastime Park, Plain City 370 N. Chillicothe Street, Plain City, OH GPS: N W Cost to camp? $25 per night; Senior (over 65) $22 Don t camp? Make it a day ride on Saturday to join in the fun at Pastime Park. Any questions please contact: Rudy and Linda Copeland 5278 St. Rt. 29 E Sidney, Ohio or rcopeland@earthlink.net or lkcopeland@earthlink.net Page 19