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CA2S News Flash: Smitty had back surgery on Apr 19. We wish him a quick recovery, so he can get back riding! Mike Melby (Chapter Educator) is updating his records. Check email for details and reply! Chapter Garage Sale June 15-17th at the Watt’s. Save your stuff!!
Chapter CA2S
Gold Wing Road Riders Association Region F / California District
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Come join us Tuesday night, May 8 at Holders Country Inn 998 S De Anza Blvd , Cupertino Dinner @ 6 PM Meeting @ 7 PM
Poppies of Antelope Valley
Gold Wing Road Riders Association
Region and District Staff
Region F Directors Bill & Janet Agnew 719-275-4860 [email protected] District Directors Anita & JR Alkire 858-922-2251 [email protected], [email protected] District Educators Ralph Richardson/Susan Layman 858-541-1176 [email protected]
Chapter CA2S Staff Members Chapter Directors Jim & Sherry Carr 408-923-0740 [email protected] Ass’t. Chapter Directors Cliff Handley 408-365-7018 [email protected] Chapter Educator Mike Melby [email protected] Chapter Couple (COY) Virg & Sue Midkiff 408-252-7777 [email protected] Chapter Individual (IOY) Douglas Loyd 408-259-8334 [email protected] Tour Director Virg & Sue Midkiff 408-252-7777 [email protected] Newsletter Editor Danny Shewey 408-729-0548 [email protected] Treasurer Douglas Loyd 408-259-8334 [email protected] Photographers Herbert & Claudia Birthelmer 408-378-3148 [email protected] Web Master Rich Wallace 209-827-1783 [email protected] Chapter Store Verdi Jercha 408-247-1701 [email protected] Membership Coordinator Jim & Sherry Carr 408-923-0740 [email protected] Ride for Kids Douglas Loyd 408-259-8334 Collection Manager [email protected]
Check out our website at: http://www.ca2s.org
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Meeting Date & Time Chapter Meeting Location
1st Saturday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:30 AM
Ca1A Greenhouse Cafe, 1169 Commerce Ctr Dr., Lancaster
3rd Sunday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00AM
Ca1D Elks Lodge, 8108 E. Alondra Blvd., Paramount
2nd Saturday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1F Broken Yolk Café, 1851 Garnet Ave., San Diego
1st Sunday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1I Covina Bowl, 1060 W. San Bernardino Rd., Covina
Last Saturday, 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:30 AM
Ca1K Lulu's Café, 16900 Roscoe Blvd., Van Nuys
4th Saturday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1L Corcoran’s Restaurant, 611 E. Grand Ave., Arroyo Grande
2nd Sunday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1M Elks Club, 2055 Elks Drive, San Bernardino
3rd Saturday 8:00 AM Breakfast 7:00 AM
Ca1N Gramma BB's, 539 Vista Bella, Oceanside
2nd Sunday 8:00 AM Breakfast 7:30AM
Ca1Q Hof's Hut, 7005 Knott Ave., Buena Park
1st Sunday 8:00 AM Breakfast 7:30 AM
Ca1R Knowlwoods Restaurant, 14952 Sand Canyon, Irvine
3rd Saturday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1S Mike's Fiesta, 2350 S. Victoria, Ventura
3rd Sunday 8:00 AM Breakfast 7:30 AM
Ca1V Johnny Reb’s, 15051 7th St., Victorville
1st Sunday 8:30 AM Ca1Y Elk's Lodge, 905 E. Ocean Ave., Lompoc
1st Saturday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca1Z Home Town Buffet, 40390 Margarita Rd., Temecula
1st Saturday 8:00 AM Breakfast 7:00 AM
Ca2A Neilson's Restaurant, 137 S. M St., Tulare
3rd Sunday 8:45 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
CaC Denny’s Restaurant, 7900 Collegetown Dr, Sacramento
2nd Wednesday 7:00PM Dinner 6:30PM
Ca2E Carrows, 1484 E. Shaw, Fresno
4th Saturday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00AM
Ca2G Peach Tree Restaurant, 1080 N. Beale Rd., Marysville
2nd Saturday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:30AM
Ca2J J.J. North’s, 2050 Diamond Blvd., Concord
4th Sunday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca2K Country Waffles, 2390 N Texas St, Fairfield
2nd Saturday 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca2N “Your Place”, 14715 Mono Way, Sonora
3rd Saturday 8:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM
Ca2Q Gianna’s Restaurant, 833 E. Stanley Blvd., Livermore
1st Saturday 9:30 AM Ca2R The Cedar House, 7511 Pacheca Pass Rd., Hollister
2nd Tuesday 7:00 PM Dinner 6:00 PM
Ca2S Holder’s Country Inn, 998 DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino
Ca2U Unknown
California Chapter Meetings and Locations
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NOTE: If you supply your own shirt, the price for the logo is $15.50 plus S&H of $5, name is an extra $4. ORDER: Only one item, per person, per line, please.
Ca2S Chapter Stores Order FormCa2S Chapter Stores Order FormCa2S Chapter Stores Order Form Customer: __________________E-Mail: ________ Phone: ____________
Item # Description Price
Sm—2X
Price 3X (Larger on Request)
J1 Chapter jacket a Fleece b Quilted
$100 Special pric-
ing V2 Chapter Vest
w/ Patches (large back, top/bottom rockers, chapter logo) 45
No patches 20
S3 TWILL LONG SLEEVE white—100% woven cotton w/ collar men’s (M—3X) women’s (SM—1X)
41 43
S4 POLO SHIRT, Short sleeve, white knit—100% cotton men’s (M—3X) women’s (SM—1X)
27 30
S5 POLO SHIRT, Long sleeve, white knit—100% cotton unisex (M—2X)
27 30
S6 HENLEY SHIRT, Long sleeve, white—100% cotton w/ cuffs, no collar unisex (M—3X)
28 34
S7 DENIM LONG SLEEVE Light weight, stone wash, Lt. Blue unisex (SM—3X)
37 40
S8 DENIM SHORT SLEEVE Light weight, stone wash, Lt. Blue unisex (SM—3X)
36 39
S9 DENIM LONG SLEEVE Med. weight, stone wash, Dk. Blue unisex (SM—3X)
43 46
M10 Chapter HAT with Ca2S Logo a white b blue & white
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M11 Kool-Scarf, various colors 6
M12 Neck Scarf, royal blue 4
M13 NATIONAL patch, 10 in. 12
M14 Ca2S patch, 4 in 6
M15 ROCKERS, for 10 in patch (each) top CA2S—San Jose bottom
8 (ea)
M16 CPR certified patch member non-member, solo non-member, two-up
3 7 10
M17 ATTENNA FLAG 15
LINE ITEM Item # SIZE/style QTY. Price Name
$4 extra for name Sub Total
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Totals
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OUR REGULAR MEETING PLACES
Monthly Meetings—The second Tuesday of each month. The meeting starts promptly at 7 PM, and is over by 9 PM. Holder’s Country Inn, 998 S. De Anza Blvd, Cupertino. Business meeting, Safety Talk, 50/50 raffle, General camaraderie. Any rider of Honda Gold Wing and Valkyrie motorcycles, or anyone who just loves to ride. TGIF - Friday night short ride to dinner MEET- 6:30-7 Every Friday night at Valco shopping mall - lower parking lot behind and across the street from JC Penny's Rides going NorthEast - Mervyn's parking lot on E. Calav-eras Blvd. Milpitas (hwy 237 & 680) Rides North to SF - Mercado Theater Santa Clara on Front-age Rd. off Great America Parkway. This is the meeting place for rides that take us North along Hwys 101 or 85 (San Francisco, Marin, Eureka). Rides South - Holiday Inn at Bernal Rd and 101 South. Please note all meeting places except (TGIF Friday night rides) are subject to change, both in location and times to meet. If you are interested in a ride or event and have ques-tions, please call or email any staff member noted in the newsletter or on the web. http://www.ca2s.org.
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Chapter Director’s Message "Twas a calm and peaceful evening in a camp called "Buckskin Joe" And the whis-key it was flowing with a soothing gur-gling flow "Wait",what am I Saying? This is a motorcycle chapter and we don't say things like that. Yes, we don't smoke and we don't chew and we don't go with girls that do. Our chapter won the Bible. Weelll, dragging myself back to reality.
It's been a good month, we are slowly getting Rodeo Roundup stuff for our Bid to win the Table center piece prize at the District Rally. ( What a mouth full) And, we had some good rides such as the "Rally In the Valley" which I got to go on. Looks like we have decided to have another "Garage Sale" as our fund raiser this year so even though we have pretty much cleaned our selves out for the past 2 years, lets look at relatives and neighbors For possible goodies to sell. I have already stolen my next door neighbors TV set. Well shucks, guess I'm out here, so til next time, Uncle Jim Boob the Magnificent or, xxxxxxxxxxx
Ride Update We had a good time at the Police Competition in Pacific Grove today. Two bikes, 1 van, 7 people. The day started out sunny and warm, then got cloudy and cool. Pacific Grove was more crowded than we anticipated, but it was quite a
celebration. We arrived in time to watch the parade, then walked down to the vendor area for a bite to eat. Then back to the competition arena where we watched 8 teams complete two practice runs and two competi-tion runs on the course. Finally, the Oakland Drill Team performed.
Very nice. Film at 11. 4
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From our Rider Educator WILD HOGS RAISES THE CURTAIN ON OLDER BIKER SAFETY ISSUE Art Reflects Reality as Aging Boomers Return to Motorcycles — and Crash ST. PAUL — Public safety officials say the new film, “Wild Hogs,” accurately reflects the dramatic increase in the popularity of motorcy-cling among older men. But the experts warn that the silver-screen treatment overlooks rider training and the true life-and-death crash statistics of older motorcyclists being played out on roads across Minnesota and the nation. The film, which opened recently as a box-office leader, features Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy as a “group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle group.” “The filmmakers have it right—boomers are returning to riding big-time,” says Kathy Swanson, director of the Minnesota Office of Traf-fic Safety (OTS). “Older riders are getting into motorcycling again, or for the first time, without changing their driving attitudes or seek-ing safety training — and that’s resulting in increased deaths.” According to OTS, motorcyclist deaths—especially among older rid-ers—continue to rise as overall traffic fatalities decrease. In 2006, motorcycles represented about 3 percent of registered vehicles in Minnesota, yet motorcyclists accounted for 12 percent of the total 486 traffic deaths. And nearly 60 percent of those motorcycle fatali-ties were riders age 35-54. Swanson adds that in addition to wearing protective gear such a hel-met, jacket, boots, and gloves, the most important step a new or re-turning biker can do is take training courses. Recently, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters called for more training among riders and cited that the crash rate among motorcyclists in the 50-plus age group has increased by more than 400 percent in the last decade. Nationally, motorcycle fatalities have more than doubled in the last 10 years and now account for more than 4,500 deaths and 78,000 injuries annually. ### The above was taken from the Minnesota Motorcycle Safety Center web site.
From our District Directors, We started looking at our calendar and real-ized that almost every weekend through July has a ride or event for GWRRA. The good news is that means we’ll be on the road and seeing each of you soon, and that is why we do this. But as I thought about this, I started thinking about the longer rides that we will be
taking soon and I started watching the “rhythms of the road”. What exactly does that mean? Once I understood this, it makes riding in groups a lot more fun, so let me explain. This past weekend when we went to the Rendezvous with Q, we had the opportunity to ride with another Chapter. We blended into the group quite well and since we were with folks who were Road Cap-tains and had taken Group Riding through GWRRA, there were simi-larities right off that made us comfortable within the group. But, on a short ride, the true “rhythm of the road” is not felt as much, but it is there. As a note, Chapter Q put on a fantastic ride through Orange County ending at a beautiful park and if there was a “reward” for best food, they would take it hands down with ribs, chicken, standing pork roast and a tri-tip carved to your liking, WHAT A SPREAD!!!!! Fan-tastic job Chapter Q! As we get ready to go to Region Rally and Wing Ding, we need to un-derstand what we like on the road. You see, you can really like or love your friends but if you are not compatible with their riding style and you don’t figure that out, you’ll have a miserable trip. So what does it mean, “rhythm of the road”? Well the rhythm starts with communica-tion. Within your group, what do you expect from the participants? When you stop for gas, do you gas and go or do you gas and rest, snack and relax. This is a huge issue in the dynamics of the ride. So next time when you’re getting ready for a trip short or long, think about who you will be riding with, have you ridden with them before, do they ride like you, stop like you? Then talk about the ride, when are the planned stops, where’s lunch and how long will we be there and of course, is there shopping! .
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Birthdays
Jim Sidow 3 Cliff Handley 11 Mitch Zolezzi 27 Al Badoux 30
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I thought “rhythms of the road” only dealt with riding styles and could the group ride successfully together and although that is a major component, these other issues are equally as important. Such as, do you chat on the CB? You know, pointing out the sites, talking about the day, verbally sharing the experience of the ride with your fellow riders. The other as-pect is certainly riding style. Are you a blaster or do you like to take in the scenery? So if you’re planning a long trip with someone, start talking with them now. Set ground rules that you can all agree on, communicate your needs, including medical needs and eating schedules, and then start planning. Do you have different bikes in your group with smaller gas tanks or do you have a smaller tank and need to stop? Do you get up early or are you a night owl? Do you like to saddle up and ride 100 miles before breakfast, or do you want to eat and then ride? Did you bring breakfast stuff to eat in your room and we’ll have a community breakfast? Communicate, com-municate, communicate and then program those GPS’s, or grab a map and go out and enjoy that touring bike, the best touring bike in the world and have a great and safe trip! So when you see the seminar, “Rhythms of the Road” offered at Region, Wing Ding or the District Rally, take the time to check it out and hear the experiences of these riders. Share your experiences and let’s learn from each other for safe and fun trips on our GoldWings! We’ve started our planning and are meeting and communicating with our traveling companions, so get with your travel mates and let’s go riding! Until we see each other on the road…All aboard! Anita and JR Edited to fit. Full article is at: http://www.gwrracalif.bizland.com/
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