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President Keith Peters 612-825-9219 [email protected] Vice President Dave Rademacher 763-755-8520 [email protected] Secretary Gloria Peters 612-825-9219 [email protected] DECEMBER Newsletter of the Viking Chapter 2004 Antique Motorcycle Club of America Inc. Treasurer Kathi Rimnac 612-825-2550 [email protected] Published Quarterly March 1st, June 1st, September 1st & December 1st Newsletter Paul Meisel 952-472-2097 http:www.vikingmc.org Editor work 952-746-2361 [email protected] [email protected] Keith’s Kickstand Graphics and Greg Claflin 612-529-5812 From the Editor: Layout [email protected] s we find the holiday season upon us, our thoughts turn to Agift giving. Some people are harder to buy for than others, Historian Tom Jones 763-533-9163 Directors but there is one gift that almost everyone will enjoy, and that gift Kerry Rasmussen Jim Kojola is America’s beloved “Chia Pet”. So with this in mind, Greg 651-430-1332 612-374-8913 Claflin and I are pleased to present this special “Tribute to Chia [email protected] [email protected] Pet” issue. Paul Meisel Stan Mewhorter Gene Hostetler 763-561-3922 952-472-5063 [email protected] [email protected] Deputy Judge Jerry Richards 651-482-0096 [email protected] Future Club Events December 8, 2004 BOD Meeting (7:00pm) (Wed.) Betty’s Bikes and Buns 600 E Hennepin Ave., Mpls. (612) 378-4988 December General Meeting (none) January 5, 2005 BOD Meeting (7:00pm) (Wed.) Gene and Marilyn Hostetler 6168 Sinclair Crt, Mound, (952) 472-5063 January 8, 2005 Holiday Party & Gen. Mtg. (Sat.) (4:15 pm - 9:00pm) Richfield Community Center 7000 Nicollet Ave, S. Richfield (612) 861-9360 February 4-6, 2005 Cycle World Show Mpls. Convention Center, Contact: Dave Rademacher to show your bike. February 9, 2005 BOD Meeting (7:00pm) A Message From Keith Peters, President (Wed.) Kathi and Roger Rimnac 5516 -13th Ave.S., Mpls. hat a great country and let’s try and keep it that way. Dow Jones Equity (612) 825-2550 WNews service, writing about Harley Davidson on 10/13, listed all kinds of facts (Florida February 16, 2005 General Meeting (7:00pm) weather, favorable foreign exchange rates, increased cost of steel, etc.) that affected H-D’s quarterly (Wed.) Leo’s South profits. Sales were down 10% from last year’s same quarter (their Anniversary year.) But the 16375 Kenrick Ave, Lakeville strangest thing is the article was “(sales were) down 10.2% in Japan, where a rule prohibiting (952) 435-5371 March 9, 2005 BOD Meeting (7:00pm) more than one rider on a motorcycle is hurting sales…” Oh please, government, save me from (Wed.) Stan and Carol Mewhorter myself. 8249 Scott Ave.N., Brooklyn Park A few days later Newsweek said “This year cycle sales are expected to top 1 million for the first (763) 561-3922 time since the post-‘Easy Rider’ days of the early ‘70’s.” March 16, 2005 General Meeting (7:00pm) The article called “Full Throttle” said that motorcycle sales have doubled since 1999. (Wed.) Fury Motorsports continued on Page 3 2000 Concord St., S. St. Paul (651) 451-1313 Farmington theme 2005 The British Invasion will be the theme for next year’s Farmington National AMCA meet. Final details, wording and colors for the logo will be worked out within the next few weeks. This year’s theme was submitted by Dave Moot. It was voted on by the general membership at the November meeting at Kokesh. “DO YOU BELONG” (reprinted from The Colonial Chapter Newsletter) Are you an active member, The kind that would be missed, Or are you just contented, that your name is on the list? Do you attend the meetings, and mingle in the flock. Or do you meet in private And criticize and knock? Do you take an active part, to help the work along? Or are you satisfied to be kind who just belongs? Do you work on committees? To this there is no trick. Or leave the work to just a few, and talk about the clique? So come to meetings often, and help with hand and heart. Don’t be just a member, but take an active part. Think this over members, You know what’s right from wrong. Are you an active member OR DO YOU JUST BELONG? Gothic American 2004 by Grant Wood / Additional artwork by Greg.Claflin [email protected] Gothic American 2004 is our tribute to the American motorcyclist and his or her spirit of indepen- Ten Commandments of the Motorcycle dence. A person who’s willing to stop and lend a helping hand to a fellow rider and who appreciates Collector. Commandment I. T hou shalt the things money can’t buy, good friends, great scenery and the open road. Greg.Claflin not store thy motorcycle out of doors, except thy modern iron. A Message From Keith Peters, President Sturgis Ride continued from page 1 Sightings, Marriages, s many Sturgis ’04 attendees can probably by Paul Meisel Averify, it was different in the Hills this year. Awards Convictions: Cable TV’s “American Chopper” is “turbo- e had another good club turnout for our charging” the cycle business, not just for sales of by Keith Peters Wannual ride to Sturgis. The weather was the big bikes but also for scooters and rockets. > Matt & Carl Olsen of Aberdeen S.D. were much cooler this year which was probably better The difference at Sturgis last August was featured in Traverse Electric Cooperative’s for the old bikes. This year at least five members incredible with all these chopper-like bikes. The newsletter of August 2004, with an article and four rode antique motorcycles. This is rather owners are all future AMCA/Viking Chapter color photos. Matt and Carl are even on the cover remarkable when you consider that this is well members but maybe we’ll have to wait a few and their restoration business and some bikes are over a 1300 mile round trip! decades. I always think of those as “B to B” bikes profiled. Not quite the same as being the fold out, but being Cover Boys is good. (bar to bar). But coming home across South After breakfast, we left the Hilltop restaurant about Dakota on 90 in Tom Mathieson’s car (sick Indian 8:30am. We rolled into Wessington > Scott Schneider (former Pres) won a top award Chief on trailer, behind) we were passed by several Springs around 5pm. Our official hostess at at the Minnesota State Fair for his antique post card Wessington Springs is Sue Johnson, a long-term of these bikes with a sleeping bag strapped on display of Minnesota manufactured motorcycles. resident and friend of the club who lives only a almost a rear fender. What a great country where (see article on page 12) we have the freedoms to ride anything, free of few blocks from the campsite. Sue knows about many big-brother regulations. > Marriages: Tom (former RE-CYCLE editor) and what time we arrive, and usually stops on down Dianne Whittles were married during July. So were to the campground to welcome us. On a different subject, earlier this Fall I heard Duda (former Board Member) and Lisa Father Gregory Boyle of Los Angeles interviewed Hungerford. The weather was warm as we set up our tents, and on Public Radio, talking about his work helping No juicy stories about Viking Chapter the pool looked mighty inviting. The pool always gangbangers and homeys (his words) transition members sentenced to hard time this month. Because closes from 5pm to 7pm, so the lifeguards can go of our strong moral compass and RE-CYCLE’s to real jobs in the company he started in the 1980’s, to supper. Well this day, the pool did not reopen. tasteful subject matter, the Club may be The lifeguards apparently decided to play hooky, HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES. He has a life- underrepresented by CEO’s and CFO’s in our ranks. which meant no swimming! That was the first threatening illness, leukemia, and he said he and Let’s get recruiting in those board rooms. the homeys try to focus on “celebrating time this has ever happened! Sue our hostess made impermanence.” He reminded me of the pleasure a few phone calls, but wasn’t able to find anyone of being a temporary caretaker of old motorcycles who could get the pool open. Sue and her fiancée and about celebrating the use of them with friends Long Photo Framers Macy Muilenburg, accompanied some of us for and at our Viking Chapter events. (High five/ by Keith Peters dinner, and who should be at the next table but the finance officer for the city of Wessington group hug.) Here are several places to get those long Springs! Sue introduced her to everyone at our Farmington photos framed. You’ll need to talk table, and she was quite interested in the pools’ And, one final story not necessarily connected to the businesses directly and make your own closing. She assured us that we would not be with anything else, either. I was walking through arrangements. Paul Meisel referred Casey finding the pool closed in the future! (I expect Home Depot one afternoon in September, minding Dickerson of Artist’s Choice (3901 Foss the lifeguards received some type of reprimand). my own business, and this little belt buckle height Road, St. Anthony, by Apache Plaza, kid walks over, looks up at me strangely, points 612/706-6020) who said that he will frame Saturday night brought a strong wind, which and says “hey, you could be Santa Claus.” Well the photos for $95.