Director s Letter and Interview.... 3 Treasurer s Letter.... 4 Birthdays..... 7 Minutes......... 7 Gramma s Ride Pictures.. 8 Calendars.......... 9-10 Member Support........ 11 Loma Linda HOG Officers.... 12 Quaid Harley-Davidson Dealership 25160 Redlands Boulevard Loma Linda, CA 92354 Phone: 909-796-8399 Fax: 909-796-8609 www.quaidharleydavidsonlomalinda.com H.O.G. U.S. Phone: 1-800-258-2464 LLHOG Website: www.lomalindahog.com LLHOG Facebook page: www.facebook.com/lomalindaharleyowners
Hello to all my fellow hog members, hope you a r e doing well! This letter has two-parts, the f i r s t part is regarding the breakfast after last month's meeting. I am so grateful for all of you who came and went on the ride (see front cover). It was an awesome time! I enjoyed the support that you gave me and I will do my best to not let you down. Like I said at the last meeting, if you have suggestions for breakfast locations we can ride to after meetings, just let me know. Also, regarding rides in general, if you know of a destination or attraction that would be interesting or different, let me know via email or text. Now part 2. Just got back from our Sunday ride to Ramona. Ten bikes went roughly 250 miles. It turned out to be a beautiful day. Hope to see the numbers increase when the weather is more pleasant. The day s temperatures ranged from 50 to 60. So in closing, once again be safe, ride safe, and see you at the next meeting. Ramona Ride Interviewer: Tell us a little about yourself. by Gregory L. Robertson Lawrence: I was born and raised in Southern California. Grew up in the South Whittier area. It was me and my brother, who is almost four years younger than me, and my mom and dad. When I was seven my dad bought a small garbage company, and that s what we did. I was a sanitation engineer for those years. Dad needed me to work for him, so I got out of school at the age of 16 and took the high school proficiency. School for me was a vacation, because when I wasn t in school I was working. We lived where our route was and people saw this little kid wearing a green army cap, driving the truck. Interviewer: Was that during the era when you had to jump off the truck, pick up those big cans, and dump them by hand? Continued on page 5
Just another reminder to the chapter that our yearly dues are due now. You can fill out your form and bring it to the next chapter meeting on February 21st (10 a.m.), or drop it off at the dealership at the upstairs office. We are starting to plan the April, Quaid s Open House and Loma Linda Autism Poker Ride. We need all the help we can get from the chapter members to pitch in and work on the different committees to make this a successful event. Your director, Lawrence, and I, visited the other HOG chapter officers to show support of their premier events so they can support our rides. It s pretty sad when we only have 10 sign-ups at our own Loma Linda poker ride and events. We are trying to turn this chapter around and have more rides and volunteers to make this happen. Your help would really make this chapter great again. Any input from the chapter as far as rides, events, social gatherings, etc., would really be helpful. Also, our HOG officers (except me) will be at Harley Officers Training the same weekend that we are having our Autism Ride. I am going to need your help to make this happen. And remember, it s our ride and we need it to be a success for the autism kids. Let s all pitch in to make LLHOG the best HOG chapter, so ride to have fun and see you at the chapter meeting. Randy Kim, Treasurer
Continued from page 3 Lawrence: Fifty-five gallon barrels. Yea, that was exactly what I did. Some of the trucks we drove had the lever-lock braking system, so I would throw the lever up, hit the brake, jump out of the truck and grab a barrel, pulling it to the front of the truck as it stopped. It was a flow of motion, ya know. Back then I could take a 55 gallon barrel in each hand and just pick it up and throw it into the bucket in the front of the truck. Nowadays everything is automated, so these guys don t know what real work is! I did that until I was 24 and then quit working for my dad and went to work for RTD, driving public transit in LA, and I m still a prisoner there. I m trying to get early parole! I enjoy my job, but it s just not fun anymore. Interviewer: Tell us about your experience with motorcycles. Interviewer: What s a day like in that kind of job? Lawrence: I get up about 3 or 3:30 and I leave around 4. I start work at a little after 5. With the schedule I have now, I get off work at 6:30 in the evening. So I have a two hour split in the middle of the day. Lawrence: I ve been driving since I was seven. In fact, the first thing I learned to drive was a motorcycle. The very first bike I rode was a 67 or 68 Harley Davidson 90 cc Italian-made model. It kind of looked like a moped. The last one I saw was on the TV show Rick s Restorations and I saw one in Colorado in the Durango Shop. They had one up in the rafters. Dad took me to a church parking lot and said, Okay, here! Go! So I rode around the parking lot in first gear until I ran over a cement parking divider. The next time, he took me to my elementary school parking lot and I m putting around and he said, Put it in second gear! So I put it in second gear, but he didn t tell me to back off the accelerator, so when I popped the clutch I pulled a wheelie. I was hooked! I went from the Harley to a 1968 Kawasaki 175F3 and then he bought me and my brother 1975 Honda ST90s, if I remember right. Little automatics. Then in 79 I got my Kawasaki 650 street bike. I tried to make it look like a Harley. It had a custom paint job and I took off the rear shocks and put on Harley Davidson chrome twisted struts which gave it a rigid ride, ya know. I put headers on it so that it had a little bit more of a sound. It was a wannabe Harley. Interviewer: What was your first big-engine Harley? A 2005 Road King. I now ride to make up for all the lost time not having a Harley. Interviewer: Obviously, you always had a love for Harleys. What made you love Harleys so much? Lawrence: The sound. The look. Just the environment of it. I wanted that to be me every time I saw one go by. Now I have a 2012 Road King. I had my 05 until November 2012 when I got hit on the freeway in the carpool lane. I survived, the bike didn t. My right leg got hit between the bike and an SUV. So the leg was broken, ankle was broken, foot was broken, half the toes were dislocated, the tip of my right index finger was broke, and there were other things. I have two metal plates with fifteen screws in my right leg. The foot still to this day has some issues, but I just have to deal with it. Continued on next page
Just like I tell everybody when they ask me, Are you still going to ride? I say, Yea, if you get in a car accident, are you going to quit driving? I would like to die in my sleep when my time comes, but if I have a choice, if it s not going to be in my sleep, let me be on my bike on the road, ya know. Interviewer: What was your favorite ride? Oh, my God! They re like all my favorite rides as long as I m on the road! But most of my favorite ones involve my daughter. She rode a lot with me. We ve been to the California Redwoods; we ve taken Highway 50 across Nevada on The Loneliest Road. The longest trip we took was for three weeks. We took our time on Highway 10 and went all the way to Louisiana to visit family. We went all the way to South Carolina, saw a friend and saw the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Then we cut up through Tennessee and Kentucky and went all the way up to Sturgis. We saw Mount Rushmore and Sturgis about three or four weeks before the actual event. Then we went to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and straight down the 15 home. A little over sixty-six hundred miles. We enjoyed every minute! We had rain and wind, but it was all good. The coldest weather I ve ridden in was 26 degrees. That was my first ride in the spring of 2006 going across country. I would still do it! Interviewer: Where do you want to take the chapter? Interviewer: What do you see as the future of the HOG chapter and what kind of bike do you think you will get if you ever get another one? I d like to get a second Harley. I ride mine to work every day as long as it ain t raining. So every day that s a total of 75 miles I put on it. But yea, I d like to get either a Wide Glide or something I could run back and forth to work on or just jog around on and then save the Road King for more of the long distance touring. Personally, if I could afford it, I wouldn t mind having half a dozen different bikes. I like a lot of them. Out on the road! I know everybody is excited and I ve got a lot of thank yous just for the first out-tobreakfast ride. We ve got a lot of rides coming up. I m shooting for at least one Saturday and one Sunday of every month as starters. I want to go from a day ride to an overnight ride to a week ride. If other people have rides they have been on, I would like them to share them with me. There is so much to see here within just the States. We don t need to go overseas to see anything. If you enjoy natural beauty and natural history, it s here. Carlsbad Caverns; Grand Canyon; Old Faithful; the Redwoods; all kinds of stuff out there. When you own a Harley, it s like you automatically adopt a whole new family. Out on the road, we would stop at these little mom and pop stores for a soda and people would approach us and say things like, Hey, nice bike, or My dad rode one, or My uncle had one, or I had one. There are no color lines, there are no difference in nationalities, everybody is Harley connected. I bought my 05 in Las Vegas and I ran out of gas when riding it home. It was in July, so it was hot. There were at least a half a dozen vehicles that pulled over and people wanted to know if I needed anything. I was offered Gatorade, water, and even beer. Owning a Harley gives you a whole new family. The chapter is my family too. I m hoping we can increase our family and our activities. Everybody s gotta give effort, ya know.
Howard Autrey 2/2 John McDowell 2/2 Susan Bean 2/6 Lawrence Tubbs 2/8 Tom Lucero 2/10 Matt Casey 2/12 Chuck Jannelli 2/16 Jaime Gomez 2/16 Gary Miller 2/22 Sandy Lopez 2/23 Terry Harrison 2/23 Butch Araiza 2/25 John Madrid 2/27 John McQuater 2/28 Curtis Bivens 2/? HOG Meeting, Jan 17, 2016 Called to order at 10:09 a.m. Director Report Need an activities directory Need a road captain other than Dan s Wednesday rides Need safety officer Need LOH - Sandy Lopez will do it Working on getting Saturday and Sunday rides lined up, Lawrence read a list of potentials Next Sunday (24th) Ramona ride from Goody s Maybe a ride on February 13th February 18th 5 day Arizona ride - see Bully Please send ride ideas Let s get out and ride!! Sign up sheet so we can try to get people involved again Ride Times November through March - 10 a.m. April through October - 9 a.m Ride to grandma s after the meeting today Treasurer Report Randy is out 3970, income 887 expenses 595, balance is: 4402.43 - motion by Bully and seconded by Jim Newsletter Want to do it in color, does anyone know anyone that can print it at a decent price? Could we buy a printer - probably too expensive Use the dealership printer?? - Talk to Brandon Bear with us for getting printed newsletters out Adjourned at 10:34 - Motioned by Sonny, seconded by Bully Safety Watch your tire pressure, especially doubled up Assistant Director Report Read last meeting minutes that were missing from the newsletter - motion by motion by Bully, seconded by Jim No transition dinner this year Possibly moving meeting location, still thinking about it Death valley March 11 to 13 - see Butch
1 2 3 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 21 Loma Linda HOG Meeting 10 a.m. Chapter Ride after meeting 22 Arizona Ride 5 Days 28 29 23 24 4 5 6 11 12 13 18 Arizona Ride 5 Days 19 Arizona Ride 5 Days Chapter Ride KSU at 8:30 20 Arizona Ride 5 Days 25 26 27 KSU Kick Stands Up. Chapter meetings and Chapter Rides are at Quaid s Harley Davidson.
1 2 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 Death Valley Ride I Love My Harley Photo Shoot 20 Loma Linda HOG Meeting 10 a.m. Chapter Ride after meeting 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 31 3 4 5 10 11 12 Death Valley Ride March 11-13 17 18 19 24 25 26 Chapter Ride KSU at 8:30 February 13 is the I love my Harley photo shoot from 12-3! There will be a short ride before the event. KSU at 8:30 a.m.
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LOMA LINDA HOG FREEDOM FLYER QUAID HARLEY-DAVIDSON 25160 REDLANDS BLVD. LOMA LINDA, CA 92354 PHONE: 909-796-8399 VISIT US @ WWW.LOMALINDAHOG.COM OR ON FACEBOOK @ LOMA LINDA HARLEY OWNERS Director Lawrence Tubbs 909-200-7089 HDRider1963@hotmail.com Treasurer Randy Kim 909-831-9431 hwni@aol.com Road Captain Dan Hirtz 909-961-7427 danslmc@hotmail.com Photographer Darrel Bedwell 909-882-1975 berdoohog@gmail.com Assistant Director Butch Araiza 909-644-2417 Butch.araiza@gmail.com Activities Officer Barry Valdez 909-578-2902 barryvaldez@msn.com Safety Officer Bryan Hartnell 951-205-0016 bhartnell@hlmlawyers.com Secretary Rick Anderson 909-794-6754 jetta01@hotmail.com LOH Officer Gina Ripley 909-275-9859 ripleygc@outlook.com Membership Lynn Hirtz 909-260-3622 danslmc@hotmail.com Newsletter Editor Greg Robertson 909-856-8031 HOGwildDeuce@gmail.com