June 2005 River City Stuff Ship Meeting with a Club Ride Followed by the Our Thunderhill Rider Improvement Day on President’S Sunday
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BMW MOA Club #210 & BMWRA Club #104 Catch us on the Web at WWW.RCB.ORG June 2005 River City Stuff ship meeting with a club ride followed by The our Thunderhill rider improvement day on President’s Sunday. Many of us will be camping at President the facility Saturday night. Two weeks Gary Stofer 916-966-7910 Vice President Corner later (June 16-19) a lot of us will be at Dennis Allstead 530-306-9070 by Gary Stofer John Day, Oregon for the Chief Joseph Secretary Linda Stofer 916-966-7910 rally. The weekend after that (June 24-26) Treasurer is our famous High Sierra Spaghetti Feed Ted Alvarez 916-457-7619 at Indian Creek campground, near Mar- Membership June is finally here and the riding/camping Bob Holleron 209-245-6245 season is in full swing. Jack and Lynell kleeville. This year Stan & Gloria Davis Newsletter will be putting the event together and they Kim Rydalch 209-521-8425 Klaushie put together a tremendous event at Web Master Lake Mendocino last month and mixing in promise a great time. See, I told you Bill Juhl 530-265-0203 Jim Cyran's GS riders made for a very well things were getting busy, and this is just a Directors through 2005 prelude to July when the serious riding Chris Schattie 707-763-7765 attended event. Great job you guys (and Justin Mabry 888-497-6617 gal). As usual, Lynell put together a gourmet starts: Top O The Rockies in Paonia, Colo- Hennie Cloete 916-965-7567 rado followed by the MOA Nation at Li- Rick Blake 916-927-BMW’0perator’ meal on Saturday as well as a nice breakfast Directors through 2006 Sunday. Although I wasn't there Friday ma, Ohio. Then you can catch Washington Stan Paolini 530-622-4808 night, I'll bet no one went hungry. And most State BMW Riders' Cascade Rendezvous Stan Davis 916-992-0562 in Menlo, Washington on your way home Marv & Lois Lewis 916-652-0575 people paid the modest $10 fee collected to Jack Klaushie 530-677-6395 defray the high cost of the facility. (If you the following weekend. Bryan Wright 916-663-9175 Larry Morris 916-985-6635 forgot or weren't asked, you can still send a Bob Holleron 209-245-6245 check to Jack) This month's tip: If you have a newer John Marcurella 916-989-2340 BMW and you get a steady ABS or brake Mike Paetzold 916-920-2317 warning light, replace the tail light lamp. Randy Vidmar 916-624-3145 For the May day ride, Ken Caruthers led an- other great one down through the delta then This information is in the owner's manual somewhere but who actually reads the Membership Meeting up into the Napa valley before returning Sat June 4th 8:00am around Lake Berryessa. Good job, Ken, and manual? When the tail light filament fails, Western Coffee Pot thanks for volunteering. If anyone else is the stop lamp is illuminated at half bright- Auburn near Greenback Ln interested in leading a club day ride, feel free ness and you'll get a warning light. This Citrus Heights to contact me. They're pretty easy to do; information also applies to some earlier K just make up some route sheets for the strag- bikes as well. By replacing the $2 lamp glers to follow and make sure you have a you can save yourself a chunk of change in Director’s Meeting labor charges at the service department. Tues June 14, 6:30 pm 'nature call' scheduled after about the first Western Coffee Pot hour. It's getting so that I'm always keeping And spring for the BMW lamps or at least Auburn near Greenback Ln. my eyes open for facilities for club rides the heavy duty bulbs at the auto parts store. Citrus Heights even when I'm just out riding by myself. The Cheapies won't last. See you on the road! years taking their toll, I suppose. Ride Safe Breakfast - Be There! I just checked the California DOT website Every Saturday 8 am this morning and they're planning on having Ride Often Western Coffee Pot Ebbetts Pass and Sonora Pass open by Me- 6233 Auburn Blvd Got Mufflers? Citrus Heights morial Day. That means there will be some great Sierra rides we can take out of the '49er rally at the end of the month. I hope a lot of Weds. Coffee Social you are planning on attending so we can win Meet between 5-7pm the 'Largest Club Attendance' award again. Leaves every Wednesday Then the next weekend is our June member- evening at 6 pm from The Coffee Republic in Folsom PAGE 2 BMW MOA CLUB #210 & BMWRA CLUB #104 Bushay, You Say? by John G. Sulpizio port threw the most wonderful wilderness dinner party imagi‐ Thirty‐five motorcy‐ nable. Rumor has it that there was smoked turkey for the ear‐ cles, fiy gregarious ly arrivals on Friday. On Saturday the menu included appez‐ cyclists, a group camp ers, tossed salad, barbecued chicken and sautéed mushrooms, site at Bushay, good couscous, vegetables, and mozzarella salad. Of course, there food provided by Jack was an ample choice of liquids to sate your thirst, including and Lynell Klaushie, some of Rick’s now (in)famous brand of “firewater”, which this and lots of libaon old bartender knew instantly as a bole of “Sngers”. Good and you’ve got the folks, good food, good talk, good mes. Thank you, Jack and recipe for a great Lynell! weekend Beemer bash. Moto‐bull at Sleep came easy Saturday night, and we woke to a misty Sun‐ Bushay, you say? Yep, day. Again, Jack and Lynell were the consummate scouts, al‐ lots of it at this great ways prepared, with brewed coffee and ham and cheese crois‐ campground situated sants. That fresh air can really make a soul hungry. We packed on Lake Mendocino, up, suited up, and headed out before nine o’clock, over the not far from Ukiah. back roads where the redwoods meet the vineyards. Coming The lake was built in out of Lower Lake, we took to crossing streams and meander‐ 1958 in the Coyote ing the “lesser traveled way” to find our way to Lake Beryessa. The “hard riders” pushed on Valley when the Corps of Engi‐ home, but this hungry hunter neers dammed the East Fork of found sll another restaurant at the Russian River. The 3,500 foot the lake, the Cucina Italiano, to Coyote Dam provides flood con‐ do some addional research. trol, water conservaon, hydroe‐ lectric power, and recreaonal Bushay? Bu‐Shay? BuShay? opportunies for the people of However you say Bushay, it has Mendocino and Sonoma coun‐ now become one of the crical es.. ingredients in the recipe for a perfect rider’s weekend. Add For the Beemer troop, it provided camaraderie on two wheels, the perfect camp site for a respite food by the master party meis‐ aer a long ride through some of ters Jack and Lynell, an array of California’s most beauful coun‐ try. In route you had your choice between asphalt or dirt. Well, it wasn’t all dirt, but I’d guess 40% of my 360 miles portal to por‐ tal were off‐road where only a few will ever see such majesc vistas. With high water a few locaons looked like movie loca‐ ons from “Deliverance”. On Friday Jim Cyran led the way, and on Saturday Greg Gibson took point. We grabbed dirt west of Arbuckle, shot north on 16, only to go off‐road again and never see the pavement again unl just outside of Ukiah. It was the first me the club combined the Spring Campout with the GS ride, and whoever thought of it gets credit for a stroke of genius. I haven’t figured out yet whether I eat to ride, or ride to eat. Whatever, I can tell you that Jack and Lynell with group sup‐ BMW MOA CLUB #210 & BMWRA CLUB #104 PAGE 3 and published by Bull publishing at Cycle Specialties in Mod- Eddie’s Corner esto, A&S may have it also. It sells for $24.95 and has great riding tips for the street and track. In the “Urban Survival” From the newsletter editor’s desk chapter Nick has 10 tips that you can use to find out if you have what it takes to leave your car and ride a motorcycle. Personally I think the new R1200RT reminds me of the girl with the perfect “Pin-up figure”, but just happens to have a 1. Are other drivers always encroaching upon you? huge Greek nose. It’s getting the best press coverage of any If so then you are unaware of how to “drive in touring bike that BMW has ever produced so the total package someone’s mirrors.” seems to be worth owning, Greek nose and all. 2. Do you honk your horn daily just to survive? If so then you aren’t reading traffic patterns well. The April issue of Ride magazine in England is ecstatic over 3. Is every other driver on the road out to get you? the R12RT! Drivers who really believe this are driving to tim- idly. “Roads like the Stelvio Pass on the Italian/Swiss border are 4. Does stopped traffic frequently surprise you, forc- amazing. Crazed ribbons of winding asphalt with scenery ing you to brake hard every time you drive? If so, that’s certain to stun. The problem is that a bike that’ll get you your eyes are too low and you’re not looking far there in comfort won’t be as much fun as you’d hope when you enough ahead.