MARYLAND RETREADS

MARYLAND RETREADS

Ron & Sharon Richards, Reps. Allen & Donna Droneburg Asst. Reps

618 East Main Street 7904 River Run Ct. Thurmont, MD 21788 Frederick, MD 21701 [email protected] [email protected] & 301-271-5031 [email protected] 240-409-6589

Volume 20 Issue 4 April 2019

Happy Spring

Our March breakfast was a little snowy, but that did-n’t stop 31 Retreads and 5 guests from coming out to share fellowship, and good food. We had a spe-cial guest that does not do mornings! Linda Welsh joined us for breakfast, Art had a tough job getting her up and about! Glad to see you here Linda. We also had Pappy here today, great to see him as well. Allen and Donna invited their friends Sid & Tess to join us for breakfast, we welcome them and hope they decide to visit us again. Also we had a special little girl Miss Alice who was joined by her Grandma and Granddad thank you to all who came. We enjoy seeing each and every-one of you.

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S&S Maple Camp Tour

On March 2nd we took a trip to S&S Sugar Maple in Corriganville. The Retreads are always anxious to start a new riding season and 2019 is no exception. Patsy coordinated a visit with Leo and the S&S Sug-ar Maple camp. The time was right for the trees, so Saturday morning four car loads of Re-treads head-ed to Corriganville Maryland. A nice day for a drive. Off we went to just outside of Cumberland to a little country town call Corriganville. There we met up with Leo, a spry gentlemen in his eighties, who gladly gave us a tour of his families pride and joy. Leo is a

great talker and he certainly kept us interested, telling and showing us everything about making maple syrup. He showed us the old fashioned way to tap trees and explained the modern method. He liked the old tap and bucket best and

he still uses them today. He explained how tempera-ture, wind and rain effect production. Leo even demonstrated his sugar meter, everyone was looking

at the blue lines in the gauge, however, one of us had some trouble. We accused her of being blind the rest of the day. Then out of the field and into the cooking room. First, the reverse osmosis machine that removes over 50% of the water from the trees nectar. This speeds up the process and reduces the possibility of burning the syrup. Then the boiler where the nectar is cooked down to the final product, sweet all natural Maryland syrup. Although the boiler was manufac-

tured, Leo had installed some of his own ideas in the system to improve productivity and reduce cost. He’s a pretty smart old country boy. Now off to the pack-aging room where the syrup is bottled. A unique filtering device

that heats the syrup and then forces it through 17 fil-ters before hitting the bottles. Man is that stuff pure. Finally, off to the sales room, or more accu-rately put, the storage closet where we were able to purchase his product. If you haven’t had any, you are sure missing the best syrup you will ever put in your mouth. Leo made us promise to stop by on our travels with the bikes for a visit sometime. Syrup is available for purchase year round. Now hungry, we headed to my local fa-vorite, DeAtrie’s for some really good grub, my favorite is the steak and cheese, and fellowship We ended the day at a little surplus store I like in La-Valle, they have anything and everything you may need. Men stuff and women stuff too.

We also heard that they all made friends with this adorable puppy at the gas station. And they all had trouble letting him there, but as I understand he is a very good buddy to a little boy. Thank you Jeff & Patsy for leading the ride and making it a good day for all.

Ron & Sharon

Game Night March 30th, 3pm - UNO Night at Ron & Sharon’s home. Pizza will be on the menu for dinner, chips, pretzels, munchies & dip. Soda’s, water, iced tea and coffee will also be available.

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Member & Friend News

Hal & Dottie & family, Dottie’s Mom passed away March 21st. Buddy, Charlie D. and Chuck Cramer.

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Let’s Get Together For Dinner April 27th 1pm Dutch Country Restaurant, 946 Balti-more Street, Hanover, PA 717-632-1616. May 11th 4pm Mrs. Gibbles, 7325 Molly Pitcher Hwy., Greencastle PA 717-375-4522.

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Other Upcoming Motorcycle Events

Rolling Thunder May 26th, This will be the last time Rolling Thunder will be in DC. God Bless America Ride Sunday June 2nd. Regis-tration: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM. Cost: (to be an-nounced) per person. Where: Travel Center, I-81 & Rt. 16, Greencastle, PA. Departs is set for 12:00 noon - Destination: Martinsburg VA Hospital, Mar-tinsburg, WV. Gettysburg Bike Week July 11-14th. All Gettysburg Bike Week events are held at the Allstar Family Fun & Events Complex exclusively. 2638 Emmitsburg Road Gettysburg, PA 17325

Oh What Fun We Had!!!! On Saturday March 16th we had our annual bowling out-

ing, we had a very good turnout 19 Retreads in all came to the bowling alley, 14 of us bowled and we have 5 spec-tators cheering us on (or laugh-ing at us). It was

a great afternoon. We did have 1 first time ever bowler and that was Dottie, she did pretty well for herself. Some of us were a little stiff the next day, but what the heck we had a good time. Thanks to Lynn & Au-gie for setting this up for us.

Congratulations Ron & I were the winners of the door prize (which was a total surprise to us), Lynn & Augie. and our guests Sid & Tess were the winners of the 50/50. Sid & Tess wanted to donate their back to our charities. Thank you.

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Thank you for your Donations We had a good turnout of pet food, blankets, towels and even toys to be given to the Washington County Humane Society. Dottie dropped the items off and they were very grateful to receive these items. Thank you all very much for the donations.

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Dinner Outs

On March 16th, after our bowling outing 17 Retreads headed to Mission BBQ in Hagerstown for some delicious food. It just so happened that it was Rick Baum’s birthday and Joanne brought cupcakes for everyone, we all enjoyed cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday to Rick, what a nice end to a great after-noon. Thank you Joanne for the cup-cakes they were delicious.

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April Birthday’s

April 7 - Barb Crowley April 9 - Bonnie Cramer April 11 - Betty Heltibridle April 14 - Chuck Cramer April 16 - Charlie Dahler April 22 - Gary Long April 22 - Ron Richards

2019 Retread Rallies

Future International & other rallies being planned.

Flyers will be available as we receive them.

May 16-19—Eastern PA Rally, Bird in Hand Pennsyl-vania. Early Registration May 15.

June 18-20—Retreads 4 Corner Rally, Pueblo, Colo-rado.

July 15-17—Western PA Rally, Erie PA The Quality Inn & Suites Conference Center now has a block of rooms reserved. The room rate is $65.00. The rooms have two queen beds or a king bed. Check-in is Sunday, July 14th and checkout is Thursday, July 18th. The hotel phone number is 814-864-4911 If you have any questions, e-mail me at [email protected] or call 814-796-6664.

July 29-Aug. 1—International Rally, Spearfish South Dakota.

September 17-19—New England Rally, Rutland Ver-mont.

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2020 Retread Rallies June 15-18 2020 International Rally—Johnson City, TN

Mark Your Calendars

1st Sunday of each month break-fast (except December) 9am, Mountain Gate Restaurant, off Rt 15 just South of Thurmont, MD. Monthly after breakfast group rides are planned. If inclement weather, ride will be postponed until later in the year. If you have a ride you would like to lead or a suggestion for a ride, please let us know.

April 7th 9am - Breakfast at Mountain Gate. Craig & Jan will lead a ride after breakfast 2 wheels or 4, this is a Cabin Fever Ride scenic ride.

May 5th 9am - Breakfast at Mountain Gate, after breakfast and a short meeting CMA will be here to provide our “Blessings of the Bikes”. After that Allen will be leading a ride to Waterford, VA. (3hr ride in-cluding a stop at Nutter’s).

September 14th Eastern PA Picnic.

September 28th Maryland Retreads Picnic.


For Sale

2001 Gold Wing, triked by Motor Trike. Illusion red, 120,000 miles, very good condition, many extras and gar-age kept. Asking $9,500. Phone Leroy at 717-334-7856.

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2005 Harley Davidson Road King Classic $6,000 OBO Black Cherry Paint (Custom Pin-stripping on rear fender). True Dual exhaust (Vance & Hines). Corbin solo seat with back rest (black ostrich print) Mothersc luggage rack (for solo seat) HD custom console Harley two-up Touring Seat (not factory seat) Leather trunk (Harley custom tube mount) Removable liner bags for trunk and saddlebags Chrome Saddlebag Rails Saddlebag Guard Bags (with original water bottle, never used) Extra Screamin’ Eagle Slip on exhaust pipes Harley Rain Cover Detachable two-up windshield HD Leather Windshield pouch HD custom passing lamp/turn signal mount License plate relocated Factor Security System Chrome rear brake caliper Aftermarket Chrome rear shocks HD Rear Shock Pressure pump Rear Turn Signal/Aux Brake light conversion 1450 CC 34,866 Miles Clear Title Can switch from Full touring set-up to a Solo ride in minutes.

Contact: [email protected] or message: 240-291-2383

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2004 HDFLHTCUI Trike w/2016 California Side Car (warranty on side car still valid). Dark Blue $15,000. Call Shelley Beall 301-943-8718.

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Laughter is the Best Medicine


Maryland Retreads Application/Renewal Form Retreads Motorcycle Club International, Inc.

AMA Charter 3233

Visit us at www.mdretreads.weebly.com to learn about our group. Please type or print clearly

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Please return application to Ron & Sharon Richards, 618 East Main Street, Thurmont MD 21788

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MARYLAND RETREAD MOTORCYCLE CLUB Ron & Sharon Richards Maryland State Representatives 618 East Main Street Thurmont, MD 21788

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