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! 1 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 2 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 3 J NY Ch im Thayer apter T Educat or NY “T “Rider Education Page: 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. 4 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. 5 Sun 1 Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed Thu Fri Sat 4 5 6 7 March 2015 8 Chpt.”D” 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 Breakfast Ride at Mapleview Family Restaurant 2023 SR 104 & I-81 15 CPR & First Aid Training 9:30 at the Chittenango F.D. 22 23 24 29 30 31 Sun Mon Chapter T 27 Gathering at the Vienna Hotel Dinner—6:00 pm Meeting 7:00 pm 26 25 Tue Wed Thu 28 Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 April 2015 Western NY Training Day see last page 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Road Captains 20 21 22 23 Chapter T 24 Gathering at the Vienna Hotel Dinner—6:00 pm Meeting 7:00 pm 25 27 28 29 30 Course 10AM location TBA (April 18th) Rain date 26 6 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 7 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. $ 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.
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