Friends!!! For!!! Fun!!! Safety!! Knowledge Gold Wing Road Riders Association Michigan * Region D * Chapter MI-G * Midnight Riders Chapter G Gathering Cheshire Grill 2162 Plainfield NW Grand Rapids, MI 49505 Sunday June 9, 2013 Breakfast 8:30am Gathering For more information, or to be added to our phone tree, please contact one of our Chapter Staff. June 2013 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 Cheshire Grill 3 Staff Meeting at Emmert s 4 5 Plant some flowers somewhere 6 7 8 Pay it forward to someone 9 G s Gathering 10 11 12 Enjoy life 13 14 15 16 Father s Day Brunch at McKenna s 17 Wing Ding Meeting at Bostic s 18 19 20 21 22 MI-G2 s Spud Run 23 Cheshire 24 25 26 Cruise Night 27 28 T-Clock your 29 Grill Special GW 30 Cheshire Grill OR Leave to Wing ding Ride/Activity Information 2 CD s Articles 3 Rider Ed Info 4 Just Because 5 For Sale 6 Word Search 7 Birthdays/Anniversaries 8 Staff Connect 9 Sponsor Advertisements 10, 11,12 Chapter G Web Site: www.gwrra-mi-g.org 1
Events for June 2013 We are planning a Raspberry Pie Ride sometime. It was supposed to be June 1, but due to the lack of nice weather, it has been cancelled!!! We will reschedule.!! June 2:! Time:!! 8:30am Breakfast at Cheshire Grill,!!!! Ride After depending on weather June 3:! Event:!! Chapter Staff Meeting All Welcome!!!! Please Note time/place change!! Time:!! 6:30pm Let s Plan our Riding Schedule!! Place:!! The Emmert s house 482 Hubbard NE June 9:! Event:!******! Chapter MI-G s Gathering ******!!! Time:!!!!!!! 8:30 am breakfast, business, then possible ride!! Place:!! Cheshire Grill June 16:! Event:!! Happy Father s Day Brunch at McKenna s in Lakeview!! Time;!! 10:00 am Meet at the Mobil Station at 14 Mile & Northland Dr. June 17:! Event:!! Wing Ding Meeting to discuss our trip!! Time;!! 6:30. at the Bostic s, 1492 Kinney Nw June 22:! Event! :! MI-G2 s SPUD RUN!!!!!! Time:!! 10:00am!! Place:!! Meet at Zinzer School on the corner of Leonard & Kinney June 26! Event:! Cheshire Grill Operation Injured Soldier Cruise Night!!!! Show off our bikes, help serve hot dogs, promote our Chapter G!! Time:!! 4:30-8:30!! Place:! Cheshire Grill June 30:! Event! :! Ride to Wing Ding!!!!!! Time:!! 7:00am Breakfast and Leave at 8:00am!! Place:!! Meet at US131 and 76th Street Mobil Gas Station COMING EVENTS:! July 3-6! Wing Ding Greenville!!!! Aug. 1-4! State Rally/Convention!!!!! Aug. 16! THE Midnight Ride 2
CD Report Report for June. In the month of May, we had our ARC class & everybody had some fun. We also took a few rides. I had a lot of fun on our ride selling tickets at Sobie Meats. Of our Rainbow Connection tickets that we have, we have 40 tickets left to sell. I think I have 20 sold, so hopefully we will we will find someone willing to buy 20 tickets. But for now we need to start looking at June. We will be busy in June. On June 30th, some of us going to Wing Ding in South Carolina (that s in Greenville). We will be riding around the country, around Greenville and also other places. We will have fun, but for now we need to worry about the rides we have lined up for June. So for those of you reading the article, read our newsletter and you will find rides for June listed. Hopefully, we have a good turnout. We have been getting a lot of trikes on our rides. I feel kind of lonely sometimes being the only 2 wheeler showing up. It would be nice if a few more 2 wheelers joined the ride. But still fun to go riding. No matter when or where. Hopefully, the rain will slow down and we will be able to do more rides. I would like to know if you would like a bag lunch ride. More bag lunch rides. Or we can stop at a park then have lunch and ride on. Let me know at our gathering. Your CD EZRA. COMING SOON!!! The MIDNIGHT RIDE!!! Yep, it s JUNE already and time to prepare for our Midnight Ride!!! On May 23, we met with Janet from the St. Ignace Chamber of Commerce, Mindy from The Visitors Bureau, and Mark owner of the Mackinac Grille!!! Of course it rained and we HAD to take the truck!!! Anyway, Randy & Cheryl from Chapter MI-N came with us to decide how to park motorcycles at the restaurant. There will be 3 double lines for the breakfast buffet. The breakfast is $6.00/person. It is a hot breakfast and the menu is on our brochure. We also discussed the bike show. There will be a Mayor s Choice Award, plus 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes. Ballots will be provided by the Chamber and will be a one dollar donation for JDRF. For the Light Parade, they will provide a map for the route and staging area, since it will start in a different place. Mark will have a tent placed in the front of his restaurant for the vendors, put up on Thursday and ready for Friday setup. So, vendors will be able to sell on Friday AND Saturday. We will need volunteers to distribute the voting ballots and be in charge of the donations. AND one more thing: Mark said they also own an ice cream place!!! He does have an ice cream wagon and may put the wagon near our vendors!!! How great is that? We will see how all this works out. Just PRAY that the weather cooperates!! PLEASE!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Janet, Mindy, Mark, Randy, and Cheryl!!! assists with our Midnight Ride to benefit JDRF. Thank you, Marilynn AND everyone who 3
Harry Emmert Rider Ed RIDER ED GIMME 5 PICKING A LINE-------WHICH ONE TO USE? By Paul Creger Taken from THUNDER ROADS magazine April 2013 Volume 9 Issue 6 Imagine your riding down a winding country two -lane. The sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and the ride is perfect. You stop for lunch or dinner at a one intersection town at a Mom and Pop diner where Babs, the waitress with the beehive hairdo, calls everyone Darlin and knows everyone in town. I mean, that s why we ride, right? It certainly isn t so we can run up and down the superslab in traffic and go to the double arches-have-it -your-way-choke-and puke. it s the country roads, feeling the breeze, watching the countryside go by, small towns and the great people you meet along the way. In Michigan, too many of our fellow riders are involved in single motorcycle accidents in curves. In fact, most of the single vehicle accidents involving motorcycles in the U.S. occur in a curve. We all know someone who had a crash where they went off the road in a curve. When you ask them what happened, they say something like, I don t know. Or, I was just going along and the next thing I know, I was in the ditch. So, why did this happen and what can we do to help ourselves? Two things will make a great deal of difference: 1) Looking where you want to go, and 2) Picking a good line. Now when I talk about picking a line, I m not referring to what you re going to use on the waitress with the beehive hair. She s probably heard it anyway. What I AM talking about is the path your going to take to get through the curve. The key to picking that good line? LOOK where you want TO GO in the road, not at what s around the edges. If you ve ever noticed, when you turn your head to look at something, your bike tends to go that direction. C mon, admit it. It happens all the time. Look at the scenery on the side of the road, and the bike goes to that side of the road. Look at the accident on the other side, the bike goes that direction too. The key to traveling through curves safely is to look where you want to go. If you look at the big tree right on the edge of the road while you re in the curve, there s a good possibility you re going to meet that big tree, and it might not be the meeting you want to have. That s why you have to look THROUGH the curve, past the big tree, to where you want to go. There are basically three different kinds of curves you re going to encounter; constant radius, increasing radius and decreasing radius curves. To be continued next month. Submitted by H, Emmert, Rider Ed. Chapter G 4
Along with Antimatter, and Dark Matter, we ve recently discovered the existence of Doesn t Matter, which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever. But isn t that why we ride? CJ Shroll, Jeff Altena, Howard Stob and Mark and Diane DeHaan just like to ride. They took a 1500 mile ride to Knoxville TN for a Ride/Barbecue weekend May 17-19. Pictures are on our web site. Are there any special rides you want to take? Let us know. Tour Master Sonora Air Mesh Jacket. Hi-Visibility Yellow XL Tour Master Jacket Features : - Three quarter length, Armor-Link mesh material and 600 denier Carbolex combine with 1680 denier ballistic polyester in the impact areas - Comfortable, mandarin style collar - 360º Phoslite reflective piping and Tour Master s signature reflective rear triangle increase nighttime visibility - The microfiber lined collar and cuffs are soft yet durable - Adjustable, elastic and snap sleeve take-up straps at the forearm and bicep help secure elbow armor and material - Removable, CE approved armor at the elbow and shoulder with an articulated triple density back protector - Aqua-Therm two-stage waterproof and insulated liner can be configured or removed to best match comfort needs - Zippered chest map pockets, hand warmer pockets, internal pouch pocket and mobile media pocket 5
For Sale Tour Master Sonora Air Mesh Jacket. Hi-Visibility Yellow XL Tour Master Jacket Features : - Three quarter length, Armor-Link mesh material and 600 denier Carbolex combine with 1680 denier ballistic polyester in the impact areas - Comfortable, mandarin style collar - The microfiber lined collar and cuffs are soft yet durable - Adjustable, elastic and snap sleeve take-up straps at the forearm and bicep help secure elbow armor and material - Removable, CE approved armor at the elbow and shoulder with an articulated triple density back protector - Aqua-Therm two-stage waterproof and insulated liner can be configured or removed to best match comfort needs - Zippered chest map pockets, hand warmer pockets, internal pouch pocket and mobile media pocket - Adjustable waist belts, with TPR pulls, fine tune the fit - Includes a jacket/pant zipper attachment with the pant side included Excellent condition. New one costs about $200.00. Will sell mine for $75.00. Too big for me. Contact: Howard Stob 616-538-1087 6
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June Birthdays 28! Cathe Taylor June Anniversaries 05! Lyle & Sherry Wright 24! Ezra & Marilynn Bostic Do you love to ride? Join us for the 35th annual Wing Ding, July 3-6, 2013 Greenville SC www.wing-ding.org Michigan District Rally/Convention. Click here to get the: 2013 District Rally Registration.pdf LOCATION: MIDLAND MI FAIRGROUNDS AUGUST 1ST - 3RD 2013 COPS & ROBBERS! Be There! 8
Region D Directors Roger and Penny Hurley 937-698-4443 RHURLEY3@woh.rr.com STAFF CONTACTS Treasurer Marcia Emmert 616-363-2159 emmert.sr@comcast.net Rider Ed Harry Emmert 616-363-2159 emmert.sr@comcast.net Michigan District Directors Kim and Sandy Bargeron kimtbar@aol.com Assistant District Directors Farmer and Teri Rodgers 231-893-4108 mrandmrsfarmer@yahoo.com Michigan District Educators Bruce & Melissa Thayer Michigan District Trainers Vicki and Ed Philo Chapter G Directors Ezra and Marilynn Bostic bosticez1@sbcglobal.net 616-791-4587 Chapter G Assistant Directors TBA Chapter G 2013 Couple of the Year Bob and Jane Ungrey 616-784-6563 bobungrey@ymail.com Web Guru C.J. Shroll 616-437-0305 cjshroll@aol.com Greeters & Attendance John & Sharon Smith Phone Tree Coordinators Pete and Sherry Wright 616-361-6287 Advertising Department Harry Emmert 616-363-2159 emmert.sr@comcast.net Newsletter Editor Howard Stob 616-538-1087 mr.wingman@me.com Midnight Ride Vendors Howard Stob 616-538-1087 mr.wingman@me.com Chapter G Brag Book Jane Ungrey rungrey@sbcglobal.net 9 Chapter Photographer Steve Cooper 616-682-9822 District Couple of the Year 2013 Bill and Linda Diffin were selected at Wingless Weekend 2013 Region D Couple of the Year 2013 Mike and Penny Kadinger were selected at the Region D Rally Chapter G Website http://www.gwrra-mi-g.org GWRRA National Website http://www.gwrra.org/ Region D Website http://www.gwrra-regiond.org Michigan District Website http://www.gwrra-mi.org
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YAMAHA HONDA SUZUKI 616 453-5467 616 988-8213 Direct 616 791-9255 Fax 2807 Lake Michigan Dr. NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 www.foxshawmuthills.com For specials and our ride schedule check our web page: foxpowersports.com 4.19 - Ladies Only Night 4.27 - Appreciation Breakfast 4.28 - Lakeshore Blessing 5.11 - Mom's Rose Day 5.19 - Baldwin Blessing 5.25 - Parts Unlimited Truck 6.22 - Men's Only Day SKI-DOO SEA DOO CAN-AM SPYDER We would like to make everyone aware of the brake recall Honda has issued on 01-12 GL1800. We at Shawmut Hills would like you to know we are here to inspect your brakes on a while you wait service. We would like to take care of all your scheduled maintenance at the same time and to thank you for your business a FREE OIL CHANGE will be given to anyone having their scheduled maintenance done at this time. Summer Hours M & F 9-7 T - Th 9-6 Sat 9-3 GWRRA MI-G Ezra and Marilynn Bostic 1492 Kinney NW Walker MI 49534 Address