GWRRA NY Chapter “T”
March, 2015 Newsletter
http://www.gwrra-ny-t.org/
Chapter T meets at the Vienna Hotel on the corner of
Rt. 13 and Rt. 49 on the fourth Thursday of the month.
Join us for a bite to eat @ 6PM with the meeting to follow at 7PM
DIRECTOR of GWRRA:
Ray & Sandi Garris
Rider Education Director:
Tony Van Schaick
Region B Directors
Tom & Renee Wasluck
Region B Educator
Al & Vicki Stahl
NEW YORK DISTRICT STAFF :
District Director
Steve & Katy Nutting
Asst. District Directors
Gary & Donna Cork
Shawn & Dawn Hayes
District Educators
John & Pam Van Deusen
District Leadership Trainer
Shawn & Dawn Hayes
District MAD Coordinators-TBA
District Choy Coordinators
Pete & Marielle St. Amour
District Couple of the Year
Bruce & Doreen Krebs
District MEC
Pete & Marielle St. Amour
District Public Relations
Linda Waterman
District Treasurer
Eileen Guile
Newsletter Editor
Phil & Tammy Coons
District Webmaster:
Clark & Linda Clemens
NY District Website:
http://gwrra-ny.org/
NY District Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/nygwrra
Checkout the
Latest News from the N.Y. District:
http://gwrra-ny.org/news.htm
& GWRRA National’s News Letters
http://gwrra.org/enewsletters.html
Chapter T Staff:
Chapter T Director: Ted & Janice Zamorski \ [email protected]
Asst. Director: Linda Clemens 315-762-4339 \[email protected]
Treasurer: Jack & Joan Bisgrove 315-339-2452 \ [email protected]
Ride Educator: Jim Thayer \ [email protected]
Tech advisor: Dave Secor 315-725-7618 \ [email protected]
Asst. Tech Contributor : Lester Bennett \ [email protected]
Newsletter editor: Jim & Trish Thayer \ [email protected]
2015 Chapter Couple: Jim & Trish Thayer
MEC: Linda Clemens 315-762-4339 \[email protected]
Recording Secretary: Sally Williams \ [email protected]
Sunshine Coordinator: MaryAnn Bennett 315-339-4344 \ [email protected]
Webmaster: Clark Clemens \ [email protected]
Photographer: Dan Brown \ Au9411@verizon,net
4 Cash
Points
Birthdays:
March-3 Jack Bisgrove
March-18 Joan Bisgrove
March 22 Janice Zamorski
March-23 Bill Sweatman
March-24 James Learned
Anniversaries:
As of 2/25/15
We have 9 points
Monthly Gathering
50/50 Winner
Gerry Thompson
Congratulations to All!
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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-- Is it over yet!!! Lost count how many
days we had below zero- too many that I want to forget. But there
are 19 more days before SPRING—Really!!!!
Chapter T’s Director’s
Corner
We had 18 members brave the cold to favor our February meeting.
I hosted the meeting without my “sidekick”, my wife Janice, who had cervical disk surgery on Wednesday the 25th and she is coming along well.
All the PA lottery tickets have been sold and I thanked the membership for everyone who bought one and supported this and
wished them luck.
We had a discussion on several items that the were brought up at the Region District Meeting that was held in Syracuse in
January regarding the upcoming BI-State:
First of all:
Steve Nutting discussed the Bi-State Convention in Syracuse. He explained the high cost of booking a convention. He stated that
the NY District is charged $7,000 for the Syracuse Bi-State conference space. It receives reductions for each room members reserve,
and each meal purchased during the convention to offset the $7,000. We have been asked to heavily promote attendance this year.
We will not chair any parts of the event this year, but are asked to volunteer to help the chapters who are in lead positions.
Chapter “D” will be organizing the ride schedule. They are planning both guided and unguided rides, both morning and afternoon rides, and, dinner/lunch rides. Maps for directions and GPX files will be made available.
Steve asked the Officers to ask our members the following questions:
a. How do you feel about changing the date of Bi-State away from the first week in August to perhaps May or early June to take
advantage of off-season rates? This could be possibly combined with the Ride In.
b. How do you feel about going to southern New Jersey next year?
c. What are your thoughts about separating from NJ and having a NY only convention?
They are looking for volunteers again at Americade this year. Required are Two 3 hour shifts which gets you the wristband to
get into Americade free all week. They are doing these longer shifts due to the fact that they are being charged for all the excess
wristbands
Moving on..The traveling plaque is still at Chapter K- we had
silence on this event and moved forward.
Weather was not favorable but a few of us were able to attend
Chapter D’s Chili outing on February 8th at the Chittenango Fire
Department. . It was good refresher course along with some fun and
great food with friends Again, Rick Reardon and John VanDeusen
did a great job.
We had our ride event meeting on February 21st, and some
interesting suggestion for rides came out of it.
The
updates so far are on the next page.
This is also a good time to plan to update your emergency
cards and first aid kits for your bikes.
Ride Safe>> Ted and Janice
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NY Chapter “T”s 2015 Event Schedule
So Far?
March
8th- 9:00 AM- Buffet Breakfast Ride with Chapter D at Mapleview Family Restaurant,2023 SR 104 & I-8121st - 9:00 AM- CPR Training- Chittenango Fire House,Chittenango,NY
April
4 th, -Saturday- WNY Training Day. at the Batavia First United Methodist
Church at 8221 Lewiston
Road in Batavia, NY.
May
2 nd – -9 AM- Saturday-PLP Joint Venture with Chapter “D” and “T” at the
Green Lakes State Park-Dish to pass
3 rd –Sunday - rain date for PLP
15 th – 17 th -NY District Ride In- Chapter “U” -Jamestown, NY
17 th -Miracle Ride- Syracuse
19th- Motorist Awareness night- 5-7PM-Chittenango Mkt in the Park-Ice cream
ride to North Pole
30 th – June 6th is the Warrensburg Bike Week
25 th – Memorial Day Parade, Vienna, NY - ride and ice cream stop
June
3rd-7 th - Americade, Lake George- Chapter T ride up day? weather permitting
20 th - Tech Day at Bonnie and Cindy's
18 th - 20 th-GWRRA Reno Rendezvous, Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, Nevada.
July
8th - Saturday –11:00 am- -Picnic at Linda and Clark’s- Dish to pass23rd thru 25th - GWRRA New England Districts Rally, Ramada Lewiston
Hotel & Conference Center, 490 Pleasant St., Lewiston, Maine.
31 st- August - 9th-Sturgess
19th – Ride for Kids-Old Forge- 8:30 AM- sign up at Deerfield FD
August
6 th -8 th – Bi-State Rally- Liverpool,NY
16th- Sunday -11:00 AM- Chapter “T” picnic-Forrest Park-Raymond Woods
Pavilion--Bring Dish to pass
29 th - Brooks B'Bque-then ride to Norwich Car Museum with Chapter D
September
3 rd -6 th - GWRRA Wing Ding 37, Huntsville, Alabama.
12 th - Curtis Museum- Hammondsport,NY with Chapter D
17 th -20 th - NY District Ride-Out- Chapter N- Saratoga Springs
December
12 th - Annual Christmas Party- At the Franklin Hotel
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From Motorcycle Consumer News,
July, 2010
This article from a few years ago seems to give some insight to help us prepare our favorite rides for the upcoming spring.
Well when it gets here anyway.
I hope you enjoy it. (Jim T.)
A few days ago, a friend from the East Coast stopped by the house for a couple of days during a coast-to-coast ride. He had come through some nasty rainstorms during the previous couple of days, and noticing that I had a power washer in my garage, asked if hecould clean up hisbike while here.
I set up the washer, and we pulled his bike out onto the driveway. We sprayed it down with a low-pressure solution of Simple Green, let it soak for a bit, rinsed it
off and then got to work rubbing down every square inch with microfiber towels. No matter how much the sellers of specialized cleaning agents claim you can just
"spray it down, rinse it off and ride away," we all know that isn't true. The only way to get a bike clean is with good old elbow grease. Soap solutions will help loosen up
the dirt and bugs, and you still need a good, low-pressurerinseattheend,butin-between,itneeds lots of hands-on detail work.
So anyway, we were both down on our hands and knees, working away, when he said something interesting: "I hate riding a dirty bike," he said, "but the real
reason I dothisisthatitistheonly waytoreallygetintimate with your bike."
"Aninterestingobservation,"Inoted."Butwould you care to explain it a bit more?"
"Sure," he said. "If you really clean your bike, your hands and eyes are going to touch and observe almost every square inch of it. If there is a small fluid
leak somewhere, you're going to see it. If a body panel is loose, or a wire dangling, you're going to find it. If one of your tires is low, or showing an uneven wear
pattern, you're going to spot it while you're clean-ing the rims. Short of actually removing the body panels or partially disassembling the bike, it's the best physical
examination you can make."
I thought about that for a moment and realized just how right he was, though I had never really considered it before. In fact, as we were cleaning his bike, I
noticed an uneven wear pattern on his rear tire and pointed it out to him. And now that I thought about it, a few months earlier I had spotted a small seepage on the underside of my bike's radiator the last time I was scrubbing down my bike. Tracking it, I found that the drain plug on the radiator was leaking slightly. Because I
found it early, it was an easy fix, but if I hadn't spotted it while cleaning the bike, it could have turned into a major problem on my next trip out into the desert.
I know there are a lot of you who go through this process while your bike is at home,
in-between rides, which is admittedly the easiest and most convenient way, but I'd like to make
the argument that it can also be important during a trip. Some of my friends chide me pretty
badly about cleaning the bike while on the road, as they consider the build-up of grime during a
tour as a sort of "badge of honor," to be shown off to others. I find this to be espe-cially true of
dual-sport riders, the practice having attained almost a cult-like status among the owners
of BMW GS models in particular. Although I understand their thinking, and have been known
to stop and take pictures of my own bike when it got particularly disgusting from a hard ride
through less than favorable conditions, I still tend to disagree with the practice of not cleaning
it up. And in fact, I encountered a perfect example to bolster my position just last month. I was
riding cross-country from Florida to California and had ridden through three days of heavy rainstorms. The bike and trailer were really filthy, so when the weather turned nice again, and
I spotted a do-it-yourself car wash in a small town I was passing through, I stopped to clean
everything up. After hosing everythingdown, I pulled thebike into the shade to do the detail work with asupplyof microfiber towels I carried with me. (By the way, if you
haven't tried them yet, microfiber towels may be the greatest thing to come along for cleaning bikes in the past 20 years. The first one I ever bought cost me $20 at a
rally about seven or eight years ago, but just last week I boughtapackof 16 for $14.95atCostco.) Anyway, as I was polishing the chrome wheels on the trailer, one of
the lug nuts rattled when the towel passed over it. Uh-oh. Sure enough, the lug nut had worked loose. In addition, not five minutes later, while cleaning off the handlebars, I noticed thatthe screwholding oneofthe handlebar end weights had backed halfway out of its hole. It only took a minute to get out my tools and snug down both the
lug nut and the handlebar weight, but I don't need to tell you the possible consequences of continuing for another 2000 miles without having discovered these problems. Especially the loose lug nut. This had happened to me once before, years earlier, and though the wheel was never in danger of falling off, the stud wallowed out the hole in the wheel so badly that the damage could not be fixed. It cost me a new wheel.
For guys who perform their own maintenance, this kind of "getting intimate" with the bike probably wouldn't be too significant, simply because they get
even closer to their machines on a regular basis. But for those of us who tend to let shop mechanics perform nearly all of our repair and maintenance work, the act of
cleaning the bike takes on a much greater importance. Especially on the more modern touring and sport-touring mounts, where the bodywork conceals so much
of the inner workings. That's why, in recent years, I have taken to pulling off the more easily removable panels, and cleaning the undersides. It's not that I'm anal
about getting the dirt off the backsides of these panels, but it allows me a quick inspection of things like the battery cables (to see if they are corroded), the coolant level, the color of the brake fluid, etc. The last time I did this, a couple of months ago, pulling one side cover revealed that two of the rubber grommets holding the panel in place were torn more than halfway through. A couple of replacements cost me about $6, but if I hadn't noticed, the panel would have eventually
blown off in traffic, and replacing it would have cost me over $300.
Certainly, the act of thoroughly cleaning your bike is not a cure-all, or even what might be considered a definitive safety check. But it goes a long way in the
right direction, will help you discover minor problems and deal with them before they become major ones, and in my case, at least, instills a certain degree of
peace of mind when I'm out on the road.
I tend to relax and to trust my machine more because we have become intimate.
—Fred Rau
Visit us at
WWW.MCNEWS.COM
(P.S.) Don’t forget about Western N.Y. Training Day in April.
Fill-in Registration form on last page.
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Bikers Workshop Series
GL1800 Rubbing Trunk Lid Fix.
TECH CORNER
with Lester Bennett & Dave Secor
By Steve Saunders.
In the first production year of the Honda GL1800 Goldwing, several gremlins reared their ugly heads in the new motorcycle. One of the
most common complaints was the trunk lid rubbing against the base. Eventually the little wear tabs on the base would wear down
enough so that the side edges of the lid would rub against the base and wear the paint off your expensive Goldwing and Honda know
how to charge for these items. The most common cure for this (and I've no idea who initiated it in the first place, but I know it wasn't
Honda) was soon doing the rounds on the Goldwing forums. This involved inserting a thin hose inside the rubber weatherstrip on the
inside of the trunk lid. The thin hose favoured was the type that is found attached to the filter pumps in fish tanks.
Like many other GL1800 owners, I got hold of some of the
hose and did the job. It worked fine - for a few months. Eventually, the weight of the pillion passenger and the trunk spoiler
made the lid sink again and I removed the rubber hose and just
put in a new one in the nick of time. It was still in the Goldwing when I sold it, but I decided that a stronger tube would be
needed for my next GL1800. Read on for the new cure.
Here is the new hose being
shoved through from the
right side of the Goldwing. Some WD40 or similar on the hose first makes it easier to insert. Tip; You
don't want the hose to go all the way around (it will go almost half-way before getting stubborn, pushing it all the way around may make the lid difficult to close) you only need it to go as far as the sides
anyway, so only push it as far as you can into the sides and then cut the hose. Then just insert the rest
of the hose into the weatherstrip from the left side. When you can feel it all along the side of the
weatherstrip just cut it off as well.
After the job is done, see if the lid will close the same as it did before, ie a gentle drop from 75100mm or with a gentle push on the lid. If you have to slam the lid to close it, just adjust the two
latches in the GL1800 LID down a bit and this will give a perfect fit. The two pictures here show
my 03 trunk lid gaps, over a year since I fitted the new hose and the gap is still perfectly even all the
way around. I've fitted the same 7mm hose to several GL1800's (some with the added weight of a
spoiler, rack and handle on the lid) and they are all still "gapped" perfectly.
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Hello there!
We would like to thank you folks for selecting us
as your 2015 COY. We are very appreciative of
your belief in us and we will do all we can to be
a good representative of our Chapter. Our
GWRRA slogan does mention “FUN” and that
comes very easy for us. While we can be serious
when need be, we do enjoy having a few laughs
along the way. Speaking of laughs:
A boy is doing badly in math so his parents send
him to a strict Catholic boarding school. To his
parents’ delight his grades skyrocket. On their
next visit they ask him what his new school does
that the old one didn’t. “They’re much tougher
here,” he says. “As soon as I saw that guy nailed
to the giant plus sign, I knew they meant business.”
Jim & Trish
Though the weather kept some members home,
Chapter “T” had a respectable showing at Chapter
“D”s Chili Cook Out and Training Day.
We look forward to seeing even more of you at the
March 8th breakfast at the
Mapleview Family Restaurant.
I-81 north exit 34 at State Route 104
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Goldwing Road Riders Association
Western New York District Training Day
Saturday, April 4, 2015
9:00AM
Batavia First United Methodist Church, 8221 Lewiston Road, Batavia, NY 14020
Rider Name: ___________________________________________
Co-Rider Name: _________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________
City, State, Zip: _________________________________________
Phone Number: _________________________________________
GWRRA Membership No.: ________________________________
Chapter: _______________________________________________
Seminars (Please select which seminars you wish to attend)
______ Helmet Myths
______ Motivating Volunteers
______ Managing Change
______ Know Your True Colors (Leadership Styles)
______ Co-Rider Seminar
______ How Can I Participate in GWRRA
______ Trailering Seminar
______ Helpful Information for New Members
______ Medic First Aid/CPR (Full day course)
______ University Trainer Development Program (Full day course)
The Medic First Aid/CPR class is limited to a maximum of twelve students. There is a $25.00 registration fee.
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Lunch Reservations: $13.00 per person, includes morning coffee and pastries __________
If you are interested in registering for the University Trainer Development Program, you must reply to
me by March 21, 2015 as materials need to be ordered for the course. Please ensure that you send in the
separate UTDP registration form if you wish to take this course.
Please send your completed registration, along with your check for the meal, made out to GWRRA New York
District, to Shawn Hayes, 518 Seabrook Drive, Williamsville, New York 14221 by March 27, 2015.
Email any question to Shawn Hayes at [email protected] or call Shawn at (716) 560-6571.