NATIONAL, REGIONAL

& DISTRICT TEAM

DIRECTOR GWRRA

Ray & Sandi Garris

DEPUTY DIRECTOR EAST

Bob & Nan Shrader

REGION “A” DIRECTORS

Jim & Sue Jackson

FLORIDA DISTRICT

DIRECTORS

Bill & Gina Berry

863-860-4484

ASST DISTRICT DIRS.

Harry & Lynn Anderson

321-952-1448

CHAPTER FL2-D STAFF

CHAPTER DIRECTORS

Harry & Lynn Anderson

321-952-1448

RIDE EDUCATOR

John Cain

321-728-2821

TREASURER

JoAnne Davies

321-254-8079

SUNSHINE LADY

Lyn Cain

321-728-2821

MEMBERSHIP ENHANCE-

MENT COORDINATOR

Ron & Susan Adkins

321-751-9233

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Richard Mitts

321-952-4487

RIDE COORDINATOR

Lynn Anderson

321-952-1448

CONTENTS:

Directors Comments pg. 1

GWRRA Events pg. 3

Birthdays/Anniversaries pg. 4

Ride Coordinator pg. 5

Ride Educator pg. 6

Meeting pg. 7

The Wall Memorial pg. 9

FL1K Rally pg. 10

Wine Run Article pg. 11

Roadside Kick Tire pg. 13

First Aid pg. 14

For Sale pg. 17

Advertisers/ Supporters pg. 19-20

Meetings - First Tuesday of each month. Currently meeting at : MeMaws on Babcock in Palm Bay.

Eat, Chat and Mingle at 6:00pm. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm

Gold Wing Road Riders Association

June 2017

FL2D

Newsletter of Harbor City Wings Melbourne, FL

First off, a great big thank you goes out to the 17 people that

attended the First Aid Class. We also had 2 more from Co-

coa show up which made for a great class. Would also like

to mention how wonderful the venue was where it was held.

Thanks to John Cain (ride educator) who set everything up,

including the banquet of food and drink he brought. GOOD

SHOW JOHN!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of John, he has had his knee surgery and on his way to recovery. I

hope it feels a lot better than it did before.

Would like to mention that Mike Roben is home from the physical therapy and

is doing great. A shout out to John Sevelius, he also just had a knee replace-

ment. Hope everything is going good for you John.

And last but not least……..on May 10th , Harry fell and ended up with a com-

pression fracture in his lower spine. It hasn't been easy but he is SLOWLY GET-

TING BETTER. The Doctors say about 3 months. Boy oh boy I should call this

the American Red Cross article.

Good bye to our snow birds and hope to see them next year….The good lord will-

ing and the creek don't rise.(remember who said that??????)

See you at the meeting. Oh that reminds me…..this is double points month for us,

so be sure and let our guest sit at the main table.

Harry and Lynn Anderson

C.D. FL2D

Melbourne, Fla

ADD Florida District.

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Ok guys and gals, could I have your attention

over here!

GWRRA MOTTO: Friends For Fun, Safety and Knowledge

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Jan 8/2017

Florida District GWRRA Events

To view our FL2-D Calendar, click on Present Calendar Posting.

Georgia District Rally, Wingin at the Races June 22 to June 24

Florida District Rally March 22—24th, 2018

Birthday’s Anniversaries

6/1 Horn, Tom & June

6/11 Wilson, Richard & Brenda

6/15 Mitts, Richard & Linda

6/22 Jackson, Edward & Joyce

6/23 Gavigan, Mike & Peggy

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6/1 Ed Lindsey

6/4 Barb Tosti

6/8 Joanne Davies

6/13 Maria Bernal

6/18 Linda Roben

6/19 Bob Steiner

6/30 Richard Mitts

6/30 John Buffington

If we missed anyone, please give your dates to Harry

Anderson for the files. After all, “if you no share, we

no share”

Ride Coordinator

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The circle of life……………

Age 4…. success is…..not peeing your pants

Age 12….success is….having friends.

Age 16….success is….having a drivers license

Age 25….success is….having sex (married)

Age 35….success is …having money

Age 50….success is….having friends

Age 60….success is….having health

Age 70….success is …having sex (hopefully)

Age 75….success is …having a drivers license

Age 80….success is….not peeing in your pants

I think we all have passed thru each and every one of these phases. (Hopefully not the last

one yet.) Did you happen to notice that Friends came up twice???? There is a reason for

that. You see no matter where you go or what you do, having friends plays a great part in

your life.

At the risk of sounding morbid, I must ask you…. How many times have you read or seen

on T.V. about a murder , suicide, or act of cruelty. Well nowadays that is every day. But

what is usually the one thing used to describe the person involved??????? ANSWER:

They were a loner. Why they were loners, I haven't clue, but it does make a good case for

having friends.

I know all of you have friends, some friends are close friends, some are good acquaintan-

ces, and some are what we call causal friends. No matter the category they are in, it is nice

to know we have friends.

Let me say this to you…..Gold Wing Road Riders Association. That's right. It appears in

our motto "Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge". Every time you go to a rally or a

"meet and eat"… there they are….YOUR FRIENDS.

I have talked with many people that, while on trips have broken down or had an accident

….got out the Gold Book and made a call to a complete stranger for help and learned that

this was a friend they just hadn't met yet.

So just remember, with GW there is ALWAYS friends. Maybe even friends that don't mind

if you pee your pants.

Remember FRIEND; Watch out for the guy behind the guy in front of you.

Because that guy is you and we want to keep you as a friend.

Lynn Anderson

Florida ADD

Rider Education

Bike vs. Trike Stopping Distances

I got to thinking (yeah, I know how dangerous that can be) about bike stopping distances versus trike stopping

distances. This issue is part of my ongoing dilemma about how best to mix and space trikes and bikes in group

rides. Several factors affect stopping distances.

You may recall from my previous braking articles (yeah right!) that the number of brake pistons engaged di-

rectly affects stopping distances. More brake pistons = shorter stopping distances.

Looking at only the number of brake pistons engaged, it appears that the two systems are similar and if both

hand brake lever and foot brake pedal are engaged simultaneously, as they should be, then the two-wheeler

might have a slight edge of one piston (9 vs.8)

Number of Brake Pistons Engaged

On the other hand, the trike does have a braking advantage in ground contact patch size (three patches vs. two)

and weight on the rear wheels, both of which increase braking force. But the trike is heavier and for motorcycles,

increased weight usually equates to increased stopping distances.

So where are we? Anecdotally, it looks to me like a slight stopping distance edge for the 2-wheeler. Unfortu-

nately I can find no reliable, published, data on the topic. As soon as my new knee settles in, I plan to do some

controlled minimum stopping distance tests to establish a base line for my trike and compare those numbers to

published 2-wheel stopping distances.

I would greatly appreciate any reliable data on the subject that any of you may have. Unfounded opinions are

interesting but of little real value.

Let’s discuss the topic at the next gathering.

John Cain

FL2-D Chapter Educator

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Bike or trike Hand brake

lever only

Foot brake

pedal only

Both hand brake lever and

foot brake pedal

simultaneously

2-wheel 2010 Honda GL1800 5 6 9

CSC Cobra trike kit on a 2010

Honda GL1800 5 7 8

Chapter Meeting

(Last Month at MeMaws)

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Viet Nam Wall Memorial Followed by

Beef O Brady’s

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Lakeridge Winery Harvest Festival Kick Tire, Saturday, June 10th, 830AM

By Ron Adkins

Anyone interested in taking a ride, touring a winery, eating good food, browsing arts &

crafts, and having fun? Did I mention there’s wine?

In 2016, Charlie and JoAnne Davies, Susan, and I rode our Goldwings to Clermont, Flor-

ida, to visit the Lakeridge Winery Harvest Festival (https://www.lakeridgewinery.com/

Events/event.php?id=13152380049539) . We had a great time!

Lakeridge Winery’s flagship festival has the ever popular stomping of the grapes, all ages

welcome to participate! While there last year, JoAnne Davies participated in the timed

grape stomping contest against two others

to see who could stomp the most grape

juice into the plastic gallon jugs placed

below the barrel. Charlie, Susan, and I

cheered JoAnne loudly, but sadly JoAnne

came up short (c’mon, JoAnne, grow

some more! ) Above is a stock photo

(©Lakeridge Winery) of the grape stomp-

ing contest from the Lakeridge Winery

web page. We would have used JoAnne’s

photo from last year’s grape stomping but

she advised us if we ever did publish that

photo, it would be upon pain of death

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After the grape stomping contest, the four of us browsed the arts & crafts display, talking to

the different artists and craftsmen (and craftswomen) about their handiwork. A quick guess-

timate is that there were about 50-60 booths last year.

It was then time to eat. There’s different types of food, from

Mexican to BBQ. We all got our lunches and then sat down on

the grass under a tree to eat. We shared the shade tree with the

Cocoa Goldwing Chapter. Fancy meeting them, there! There

was a live band going the entire time we were at the Winery

(about 2 – 2 ½ hours). The music was good. Many people bring

chairs or blankets to sit on to listen to the music, so keep that in

mind when you’re packing your Goldwing for the ride.

Then, it was off to the winery tour. There are two parts and you can do either or both. One

is sort of a history tour of the Winery. You get to hear about the Winery’s history from a

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tour guide and watch a short video. Interesting information, especially if you’re surprised

that there are vineyards and wineries within Florida (take that, you Napa Valley wine

snobs!)

The second part of the tour is the Winery itself. You pick up

a wine list and description at the start of the tour and there

are several wine stations along the way. They give you little

plastic shot glasses. At each wine station, you can choose to

sample the wine at that station (or not) and they give you

about 1 - 1 ½ ounces of wine. There are about 5 or 6 wine

tasting stations as you wind your way among fermenting

tanks to each of the stations. Along the wine tasting tour you can mark down on your wine

list which wines you are interested in purchasing (bring your own pen). Susan and I are

lightweights and usually have a mild buzz by the time we finish the wine tasting. There are

spit buckets at each wine station; but, seriously?!?

At the end of the tasting tour, you pop out of the Winery into

their wine/gift shop. Each of the wines you tasted on your tour

are sold there, along with other wine essentials, like cork-

screws and glassware.

The wine shop has these nifty cardboard box carriers for your

wine bottles; each carrier can hold up to four bottles. If you

ride a GL1800, you’ll find you can fit one bottle carrier into

each saddlebag for a total of 8 bottles. You can, of course, fit more into your trunk, but

that’s where we move our ride gear to make room in the saddlebags. If you ride a GL1500,

your mileage may vary as to how many bottles will fit.

Admission is $3 per person and the admission proceeds go to local charities in Clermont

(nice touch!). The wine prices run from around $8 to $25 per bottle (or thereabouts), most

being in the $12-$15 range. Neither Susan or I are true wine enthusiasts or sommeliers, so

the wine tastes just fine to us. And, it’s nice to support a local (relatively speaking) busi-

ness.

We’ll be attending the Harvest Festival on Saturday, June 10th, leaving the Race Trac gas

station at the intersection of US192 and I-95 at 830AM sharp; the gate opens at 10AM. It

is slightly over a two hour ride each way (Google Maps says 2 hrs, 5 mins). We’ll travel

US192 west to Kissimmee, to US17 west through Champion’s Gate, to US27 north to

Clermont. Lakeridge Winery’s address is Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards, 19239 U.S. 27

North, Clermont, Florida 34715.

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CPR and FIRST AID CLASS

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“Push and Shove” time!

A BIG thank-you goes

out to John Cain for

setting up the GWRRA

FL2-D First Aid and

CPR class. We had 19

participants and 2 in-

structors. The setting at

FIT was perfect and I know we all learned or supple-

mented our knowledge of CPR and First Aid. We are now

prepared for another 2 years. Thank you for all you do

for our chapter, John.

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SEE YA!

NEEDS A NEW HOME

Suzuki Bergman 650 Scooter

Manual or Automatic shift

Approx. 16000 miles—Very Good Shape

Giva Trunk with storage under seat

Two windshields

Heavy Duty Bike cover

Shop manual

Synthetic Oil

Always garaged

New Battery

CB Radio

Excellent Gas Mileage.

Call Dick or Brenda Wilson

716-640-4031 or 716-386-4821

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May I have your attention please!…………... A Very Special Thanks to Charlie Davies and JoAnne Davies.

They take this publication, make it web ready, and then put it on our

Web Site. Without them, we would not be able to enjoy this on our

computers. Many thanks for a fantastic job.

A special thanks to our members who submit articles. We love the support and the good

information. Send them to Richard Mitts rm32904@yahoo.com

2004 Honda Helix CN250 - $1750

New tires. Runs excellent. Addon backrest and luggage carrier. Cigarette lighter outlet (for GPS). Will

provide all maintenance records and owners manual. 14000 miles. 350 lbs.

engine displacement (CC): 250

fuel: gas

odometer: 14000

paint color: yellow

title status: clean

transmission: automatic

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