Ellary & Holly Kah- Asst. Chapter Director David Bierman...
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The dinner ride on May 11 was quite successful. 129 Center Cut had good food but was too noisy. It was difficult to hear the person next to you. But we all had a good time in spite of that.. Thanks to Jim Fairman for planning this event. Due to an erroneous bad weather forecast for the Memorial Day weekend the rides were can- celed. It was too bad since the weather turned out to be beautiful. The June 8 dinner ride will be to The Birchwood Grill in Kenosha and not The Shanty in Wadsworth as stated at the chapter maeeting. An employee at The Shanty was mistaken in taking the reservation as it’s their grand re-opening night and they are having a special celebration. If you’re interested in old issues of Wing World magazine contact Paul Konczak at [email protected]. Tom Doran has a beautiful 2012 Level 3 GL1800 for sale with only 7100 miles on it. If interested contact Tom at [email protected] or call him at (847) 812-1603. Lastly, we say good-bye to Jim and Judy Letarte. They are selling their trike and going RV’ing. We thank them for their service to our chapter and wish them well for their future. June has a breakfast ride on the 1 st , a dinner ride on the 8 th to The Birchwood Grill in Kenosha , the chapter meeting on the 21 st , the La Crosse trip on the 25 th and the Amazing Chal- lenge on the 29th. Remember that the chapter meeting this month is on a Friday evening at 7 PM at Dino’s Den. We hope to see you at one of these events. Ellary & Holly Kahan Chapter Director Ellary & Holly Kah- an [email protected] Ride Coordinators Craig & Lonnie Gilsinger [email protected] Mike Zyskowski [email protected] Asst. Chapter Director David Bierman [email protected] Mike Plumeri [email protected] Treasurer Kathy Randall [email protected] Membership Chapter Store Jim Fairman [email protected] Newsletter Editor Ellary Kahan Secretary Tony Valicenti [email protected] Photographer Lonnie Gilsinger Webmaster Ellary Kahan GoldWing Road Riders Association - June, 2019 Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge Chapter Meetings are held at Dino’s Den, 88 E Grand Ave, Fox Lake, IL , 9 AM breakfast, 9:30 meeting.
Transcript of Ellary & Holly Kah- Asst. Chapter Director David Bierman...
The dinner ride on May 11was quite successful. 129 CenterCut had good food but was toonoisy. It was difficult to hear
the person next to you. But we all had agood time in spite of that.. Thanks to JimFairman for planning this event.
Due to an erroneous bad weatherforecast for the Memorial Day weekend the rides were can-celed. It was too bad since the weather turned out to bebeautiful.
The June 8 dinner ride will be to The Birchwood Grill inKenosha and not The Shanty in Wadsworth as stated at thechapter maeeting. An employee at The Shanty was mistaken intaking the reservation as it’s their grand re-opening night andthey are having a special celebration.
If you’re interested in old issues of Wing World magazinecontact Paul Konczak at [email protected].
Tom Doran has a beautiful 2012 Level 3 GL1800 for salewith only 7100 miles on it. If interested contact Tom [email protected] or call him at (847) 812-1603.
Lastly, we say good-bye to Jim and Judy Letarte. They areselling their trike and going RV’ing. We thank them for theirservice to our chapter and wish them well for their future.
June has a breakfast ride on the 1st, a dinner ride on the8th to The Birchwood Grill in Kenosha , the chapter meeting onthe 21st, the La Crosse trip on the 25th and the Amazing Chal-lenge on the 29th. Remember that the chapter meeting thismonth is on a Friday evening at 7 PM at Dino’s Den.
We hope to see you at one of these events.Ellary & Holly Kahan
Chapter DirectorEllary & Holly Kah-
Ride CoordinatorsCraig & Lonnie [email protected]
Mike [email protected]
Asst. Chapter DirectorDavid Bierman
[email protected] Plumeri
Kathy [email protected]
MembershipChapter StoreJim Fairman
[email protected] Editor
Ellary KahanSecretary
Tony [email protected]
PhotographerLonnie Gilsinger
WebmasterEllary Kahan
GoldWing Road Riders Association - June, 2019Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge
Chapter Meetings are held at Dino’s Den, 88 E Grand Ave, Fox Lake, IL , 9 AM breakfast, 9:30 meeting.
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June1 - Breakfast ride, Mike Z.8 - Dinner ride, Valicenti21 - Chapter meeting, 7
PM, Fairman25-28 - La Crosse Trip28-30 - Amazing Challenge
July6 - Breakfast ride, Gilsinger13 - Dinner ride, Bierman26 - Chapter meeting, 7 PM28 - Day ride
August1-3 District Summer Rally3 - Breakfast ride, Letarte4-11 - Trip, Graeff17 - Dinner ride, Prime
Quarter, Kahan25 - Chapter picnic27-31 - Wing Ding
September7 - Breakfast, Fairman14 - Dinner ride, Randall20 - Chapter meeting, 7 PM22 - Orchard ride
October6 - Breakfast ride, Valicenti13 - Color ride19 - Chili social25 - Chapter meeting, &
PMNovember
9 - Dinner, Colony House,Letarte
17 - Chapter meeting, 2020calendar planning
December7 - Holiday Party
ILLINOIS G2CHAPTER STORE
The following items areavailable for sale at themonthly chapter meet-
ings:
NEWG2 Logo Hats & Fleece
VestsName Badges
G2 & GWRRA PatchesChapter Shirts
See Apparel tab on web site.
If you like to order butcannot attend a Chapter
meeting contactJim Fairman
Got something to say?This is your newsletter. We accept arti-cles from any member.. Send your arti-cles to the editor at [email protected] Word or equivalent format pre-ferred. Text should be in Times NewRoman font, single spaced with a one-quarter inch first line indent on all para-graphs except the first. Any photosshould be cropped for publication. Allsubmissions become the property ofIL-G2 and may be edited.
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President, GWRRA: Anita [email protected]
IL District Director: Mary [email protected]
District Educator: Steve Brungard:[email protected]
Membership Enhancement: NealGraham: [email protected]
June Birthdays4 —Mark Muhlenfeld
21 —Tony Valicenti
June Anniversaries16 —John & Nancy Didier
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June1– Breakfast Ride Kim & Pattys, McHenry, 8 AM
8 – Dinner Ride – The Birchwood Grill, Kenosha, 4 PM 21 – Weekday Meeting @ Dino’s Den 7:00 PM
25 – 28 – Trip to La Crosse, WI28 – 30 – Amazing Challenge
JulyG2 Events
6– Breakfast Ride (Gilsinger)13 – Dinner Ride – TBA (Bierman)
26 – Weekday Meeting @ Dino’s Den 7:00 PM28 – Day Ride
Safe RidingCraig and Lonnie Gilsinger
Mike Zyskowski & Mary Shearer
Ride Committee
2019Ride and Event Schedule
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Join us for aDinner Ride
toThe Birchwood Grill
7515 125th Ave. (Rt. 50)Kenosha, WI
(262) 857-3455
Saturday June 8Ride at 4:15 PM
Shell Station at 12 & 134Dinner at 6 PM
R.S.V.P. toTony Valicenti
Wed. June 5
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May 19 Meeting MinutesEllary called the meeting to order at 9:40 am. The meeting was attended by Joe Becker, David Bierman,
Craig & Lonnie Gilsinger, Bob & Arline Graeff, Glenn Hanson, Ed Harms, Ellary & Holly Kahan, MarkMuhlenfeld, Joe Nolan, Ken Pabst, Kathy & Warren Randall, Rich Seligman, Andy Toth, Errol & Dee Wester-gaard and Tony Valicenti. Ellary welcomed visiting GW members, Ken & Sandy McCall (IL-DK) who ride ayellow 2010 Wing with a side car and Bill Lindwall (IL-B2) who rides a red 2008 Wing. Both rode with theJerseyPine Cruisers and are looking for people who like to ride together. Welcome to Ken, Sandy and Bill.
Ellary began by announcing our first non-Sunday monthly meeting to be held on Friday, June 21 at 7:00pmat Dino’s Den. The Friday evening meetings allow for an extended Sunday ride during the riding season, andthis one avoids the conflict with Father’s Day. He also highlighted some of the upcoming G2 activities (see pp.2-4). The Memorial Day Ride on 5/25 (5/26 backup date) will need a ride leader.
Tony will lead a dinner ride on Saturday, June 8 starting at 4:15pm from Volo onto familiar and new roadsin Wisconsin and Lake County, take several wrong turns and before getting lost, arrive at The Shanty Restau-rant, Rte. 41 and Wadsworth Rd. in Wadsworth, IL around 6:00pm. The owners have completed the new addi-tion and they said that we could have one of the new dining rooms at our disposal. The parking has beenexpanded and we can enter from Wadsworth Road. (Due to wrong information from The Shanty, the restauranthas been changed to The Birchwood Grill in Kenosha. See the flyer on the previous page. Ed.)
David outlined the June 25-28 ride to LaCrosse leaving at 8:00am from Volo. We will stay at the HolidayInn Express for beautiful rides Wed-Thurs. and arrive around 3:00pm on Friday at Chestnut Mountain for thosecompeting at The Amazing Challenge. Others can break off and ride as a separate group on the way back fromLaCrosse.
David also described a ride that he and others took to Southeastern Missouri the week before the chaptermeeting. The group explored new roads through the National Forests and they designed their daily routes eachmorning. He emphasized the value of a Spring Trip as an introduction to the new riding season. This gives therider an opportunity to check out your bike after a long winter’s storage and also to refresh your riding skillsand test your physical state. He noted that one has a tendency to progressively ride the curves faster as the rideprogresses, but cautioned that each curve has its own speed and not to misjudge one after taking many before athigher speeds. Ellary warned that due to delayed road repair, the right edge of the pavement may have brokenoff, and we should keep this in mind before coming to a stop and putting our right foot down. Ditto for loosegravel on the right. The group ran into storms on the final leg of their ride and Ellary said that the benefit wasthat his bike got all the bugs washed off.
Bob discussed a planned ride to Maggie Valley, NC, August 3-10. Bob and Arline have ridden all of themost popular rides in the area, including Rt. 441, the Rattler, 128-the Moonshine Highway, a 31 mile terrorcalled the “Kiss Your Ass Good-Bye Road” and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Bob has planned rides of 225-250miles per day, and include a stop at the Wheels Through Time Museum. Arline will need a final headcount toguarantee room reservations by May 31.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:40am.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Tony Valicenti
Secretary
THE NEXT MEET-ING WILL BE ONFri., June 21,2019.Useful links: GWRRA Member BenefitsWoman Rider Rider Magazine Motorcyclist Online Group Riding
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We will be meeting at the Hinsdale Oasis Saturday 8/3 at 8AM
Kick Stands up at 9A.M.
Be sure your tummy and gas tank is full.Saturday we will ride I-294 to Rt. I-65 South with gas, comfort & lunch stops for 255 miles endingin Batesville, In.
Sunday we will start riding some well-known roads plus some not so well known roads endingup in Rocky Top, Tn. for the night.
Monday will start riding some great well known motorcycle roads ending in Maggie Valley, N.C.where we will stay through Thursday and ride many more of the well known roads with a littlesight seeing as we go along. They will be nice easy day rides along with the usual lunch, gas andcomfort stops, getting back to the hotel to relax before a nice restaurant dinner and enjoying therest of the evening as you like. Don’t forget your bathing suit. Most of our hotels have outdoorpools and our Maggie Valley hotel has a large outdoor pool with a Tiki Bar and a Restaurant onpremises. This hotel is already blocked for us and will hold them until Jume 30th.
Friday we will check out, heading for home with a few more back roads and a hotel stop Fridaynight in Florence, Ky., arriving home Saturday late afternoon., giving you Sunday to rest up forwhatever Monday holds for you.
If you have any questions feel free to call Bob at 847-678-2467. (R.S.V.P. by email to Arline at
[email protected] ) She will need a definite head count by May 31st so that she
can block rooms and get a good group price. August in the mountain area is motorcycle heavenat this time of year so booking must be done early. After rooms are blocked for our group, youwill receive a email listing of the hotels with address, phone numbers, pricing and any other
information needed for you to make your reservations.
Let’s all have fun!
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From the District EducatorMotorcycle-Control Skills For Safer Street RidingPractice teaches true control of your bike.By Nick Ienatsch. Taken from cycleworld.
When the worst happens and you need to get your bike stopped, or change your line, or hit that narrow gap, what you dobehind the handlebar must be correct. And correct action depends upon correct practice. You must train your mind, eyes, andmuscles to do the right thing at the limit of whatever traction you have. So let’s talk about what you should practice on everyride and bike you own.
1) BrakingI recently asked Yamaha Champions Riding School (ridelikeachampion.com) instructor Ken Hill what percentage of our
Champ School students could stop their bike at its maximum stopping ability, even after practicing during our brake drill.“Maybe one percent, maybe,” Hill replied.So guess what? That means you (yes, you) need to work a lot harder on your emergency braking. Begin each brake
application with an initially light squeeze on the lever to allow the fork springs to collapse controllably and the front contactpatch spread out as weight transfers forward. This initial squeeze can (and sometimes must) happen quickly but neverabruptly. Find the difference by experimenting at a walking pace on every bike you ride.
Add as much rear brake as your bike can handle. For sportbikes, that’s almost zero as the rear unloads due to weighttransfer. For Gold Wings, it’s significantly more due to its weight balance and longer wheelbase. You will know only if youpractice.
After loading the fork springs and front tire, stay focused on your right-hand fingers and front tire; that’s what counts.Don’t lock your elbows, but be ready to load your arms and hands. Keep squeezing until you hear the tire start to yowl,signaling that it’s near the point of lockup. Locking the (warm) front tire of a sportbike will cause the rear tire to leave theground; lock-up on a less-sporty bike will skid the front. Don’t be afraid of either situation because you must always addpressure in a linear manner! And whaddyaknow? The front tire locks in a linear manner, giving plenty of warning to beeasily fixed with less brake pressure. Anytime you grab, stab, or hammer, at the brakes you will have trouble and eventuallypain.
The stab and grab hurts you in an emergency because the fork springs have no time to load and gain energy to hold upthe bike. They collapse and, when bottomed, the front tire locks. When you practice—every ride, on each bike you own—always include a smooth initial-brake application. Then squeeze harder depending upon the situation. That way, youeventually may become part of the 1 percent who can stop their bikes in the absolute minimum distance.
2) SteeringRoadracers face few emergency situations; they know what’s coming next and they use body position to help steer their
bikes. Not so true with street riders, who need to understand and practice “countersteering,” the application of pressure onthe inside bar to turn the bike. You need to get a feel for how sudden pressure “snaps” the bike, how mild pressure “veers” it,and how pushing on the inside bar or pulling on the outside bar accomplishes the same thing.
It’s not enough to understand this in theory: You must get out and see what different pressures do because you mightneed an aggressive push/pull to dodge the spare tire that suddenly appears from under the UPS truck.
Can you thread your bike between the Bott’s dots? Can you ride exactly on the white line for a mile? Can you just skimthe Bott’s dots with the left edge of your tire? The right edge? Can you bring your bike to a stop mid-turn in a desertedparking lot? From what speeds?
Can you go from yellow line to white line, and back, in the middle of a sweeping corner? Remember the saying, “You gowhere you look.” It all starts with your eyes.
All these questions relate to this: Are you truly in control of your bike? When traffic stops and the pickup locks itsbrakes behind you, can you brake and steer your bike between the cars stopped ahead of you?
Countersteering with bar pressure is a much more subtle art than new riders would ever guess—just like everything elsein this sport when done well.
How subtle? Do this: Get your bike out on a deserted road at highway speeds, take your right hand and put it in your lap,and reach across with your left hand to operate the throttle. Not only are you operating the throttle, but you’re steering too.See if you can change lanes and place the bike where you want. The pushing and pulling will really become clear.Mastering stopping and steering is the emergency parachute you need if everything goes wrong. Remember, all other priori-ties take a back seat to awesome bike control. Go get some.
Steve Brungard
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Road Relaxation
The Good Book Guide
Isaac Asimov was a scientist and science fiction writer. Many of his books are now classics in the genre. Heis best known for his Robotics series, wherein he coined the three rules of robotics that are accepted by thescientific community. Nemesis is a stand alone novel. The star by that name is a red dwarf only two light
years away from Earth that is about 5000 years away from a collision with our sun.. It’s two hundred years inthe future. Earth is overflowing with eight billion people and has been colonizing other nearby planets. Rotoris a huge ark that achieved light speed and traveled to Nemesis fourteen years ago and is now orbiting themoon of its largest planet. That moon has an oxygen rich atmosphere and is full of life. But the early explorersreturned with severe mental impairment. A fifteen year old girl feels a pull to the moon and is determined to
explore it.Earth is puzzling over the fate of Rotor, not sure if it achieved light speed. What hap-
pens when it discovers the course of Nemesis? Will Earth be able to evacuate it’s popula-tion in time and to where? What scientific breakthroughs will be needed to accomplishthis.
This is not an action novel, but rather a study of the characters and how they deal withthe situations they are in. I give it four stars as I have read most of the rest of Asimov’swork, which I give five stars. But it’s well worth reading.
Ellary Kahan
I was going to do another article on mountainnames but decided to write about this instead.Anyone ever have one of those days when
nothing seems to go as planned? It seems I havehad a few weeks like that, but none so much as thispast week. The company I work for offered mam-mograms at a couple of our offices for staff conve-nience. I made an appointment at the Phoenixoffice, figuring it was more on the way to my workarea. The appointment was at 7:45 am, which was15 minutes before my start time, and only takesabout 15 minutes I was told. I left and took the ex-pressway. Unfortunately, there was an accidentshortly after I got on, and though it was not a badone, it slowed traffic considerably. Then of course,traffic was really slow the rest of the way too, so Iwas about 25 minutes late. I finally pulled into theparking lot and checked my work phone and noticeda request for a visit from “their nurse” ASAP. Imade the decision to skip the appointment. I re-scheduled another appointment at another office forThursday at 3:15 and cleared with my manager toleave early. That also didn’t go as planned. Some-thing always seems to come up. I call it Murphy’sLaw-itis.
So, a very busy week, and missing my appoint-ments made for a lot of frustration on my end. Idon’t really like taking the expressways unless Ihave to because they have started stressing me out
more and more. I don’t know if it’s the Arizonadrivers, or me just getting older and not handlingthings as well, or both. My hubby likes to poke funat me, but I don’t think he realizes how much I de-pend on the slower routes to “chill” on my wayhome, and also, I don’t need to start my day stressedout either. On my way home, I take easy, comfort-able roads, usually scenic, and can just de-stress forthe most part. It’s amazing how well that works forme. Even though it takes longer, and I complainabout it sometimes, by the time I get home I feel Ihave let go of most of the frustrations of the day.
I think we all find a way to de-stress from a hec-tic day. I never thought roadways would be mine,but it seems it is. That, followed by a nice dinnerwith Dan and some “pet therapy”, namely our dogs,makes the day easier to take. I hope you all haveyour own ways to de-stress, or find it, whatever youdo. And I hope you all have/had a safe and HappyMemorial Day weekend, esp. if it involves travel!
Darlene Parks
