This year I’m continuing putting a vintage motorcycle as the centerpiece with the markings either blacked out or a prototype that doesn’t have one. So all you motorcycle trivia experts get ready. I’m asking for the make, model, and year. If we have multiple correct entries we’ll draw for a winner. Oh yeah, by the way this will include all makes, models and years throughout history. They will be stock and no customs. Winner will receive a $20.00 gift card from Sun HD.
March’s bike was a 1926 Ace 4
Director Deanna Thompson
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I know that everyone has important stuff going on outside the chapter and that includes our officers. The worst that I’ve had to do is put a “no 2021 Biker Rallies submission” on an officer. Sometimes life gets in the way, so I’m putting a questionnaire of 11 questions June 10-13 Republic of Texas Rally to the officers to answer all at once so that ya’ll will have more reading material and you might get to June 12-20 Laconia Motorcycle Week know them a little better. I’ll be doing it in the July 1-3 Freedom Rally Abate of Iowa month prior and be letting the chapter know what the question is so if you would like to submit yours, August 6-15 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally you can. I will post the month before in this location. This month’s question : APRIL’S What is your favorite city and why? MAY’S If you could be anyone else who would you be?
APRIL What is your favorite city and why? APRIL What is your favorite city and why? I love Las Vegas!!! The city that never sleeps Kona, HI. Weather, scenery, roads, and people. MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? Jimmy Buffet, so I could live in Margaritaville My younger self. There's some do overs I'd like a shot at.
Hello HOGS! Did you know HOG has a way for you to earn challenge coins? It’s called the 50 rides, one nation. They have chosen 50 rides, one in each state for you to ride. Once you do the ride and send them the required documentation, they will send you a challenge coin for that specific ride. Well, guess what? One of those rides is the Million Dollar Highway. And the Rocky Mountain HOG Rally is in Durango. Just one more reason to come to the rally. You can ride the Million Dollar Highway and get a challenge coin! So cool!
See you on the road!
APRIL What is your favorite city and why? APRIL What is your favorite city and why? Nashville, had a great time there good music, good Grand Lake. We spent our Honeymoon there, riding food
and enjoying the scenery. Great memories. MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? I’d like to be rich and not famous. Someone that didn’t hate to cook. My first long motorcycle ride was on the back of a Happy Spring! 1976 Superglide’s custom king/ queen seat. 1345 Can’t wait to get out there and ride!! Seems like it’s miles in 4 days. Whoever named the rear part of been winter forever! Fun times are ahead! that seat a QUEEN was definitely not trying to We hope you’re planning to join us in Durango for the pamper their woman. It was thinner than the rear Rocky Mountain HOG Rally. Registration is open on fender and put you up high enough to see over the HOG.com, if you haven’t checked it out yet. Our driver’s head. Being it was the early 80’s and we awesome Director, Deanna Thompson, is the Rally all were still in our 20’s sun block was not a Coordinator and she has a great team that always puts common necessity so after a day and a half of a together an awesome rally. My favorite part of any four day trip of absolutely hot, beautiful weather, rally are the games—on-bike and off-bike are always a no helmets, our faces were falling off. During that hoot. What do you enjoy most about a rally? day on highway 85 south out of Williston we’re Thanks to all those who helped at the BBQs and motoring along about 70 mph and Matt ducks his Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast. They have all been head letting a beetle catch me in the throat. Thank huge successes and we’ve had a lot of fun! We are so God my mouth was closed but it still took a few grateful that Sun is back BBQing and is allowing us to seconds to swallow. My king, my ass, I smacked help out a couple times a month. Please sign up at the him in the back of his head hard enough to spin his social to help at a BBQ, or call Bob Frank and he can red baron goggles around to the side of his head. sign you up (303-885-5787) The smack got him laughing so hard he had to pull Here’s the Harley joke of the month: over to get his composure. The end of the second day put us in Sturgis a week after the rally. I have What's the most dangerous part of a motorcycle? The to tell you it looked like the apocalypse. The end of nut that connects the seat to the handlebar. the third day put us in Presho, South Dakota HA HA. which consisted of a Hotel, Bar, and restaurant all As always, if you ever have questions about Chapter in the same building. Luckily we could still get a finances, just let me know. sandwich in the bar, did you ever walk into a small town bar, the four of us walked in and everyone in Laura Frank 303-885-5363 a crowded bar turned to look. I swear if it [email protected] would’ve been live music it would have stopped. After sitting at a table I asked the other gal if she had any lotion, she said no but I got this, and pulled out an industrial size jar of Vaseline. I thought the woman at next table to us was going to faint. Last day made it home seriously sore and burnt, but one hell of a first trip out. Dawn
APRIL What is your favorite city and why? APRIL What is your favorite city and why? Las Vegas for Gambling or Cancun for the beaches
Kristi Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be?? Because of the history dates back thousands of years There is not one person I would rather be. Proud to ago. I had traveled there on a whim from London and be me even with all my mistakes/misfortunes/and because the tickets were cheap. The town was beauti- stubbornness. Makes me unique in so many ways. ful and ancient. There is a castle on the hill above the Kristi town that housed St Vitas Cathedral and it towered above us. I remember it made of stone and is the burial place of several patron saints and sovereigns. There are no modern conveniences in this Cathedral and it felt like the tomb that it was. They still hold services in this holy structure. Touching the walls gave me the chills. I will never forget walking the cobble stone streets at night or crossing the Charles Bridge with medieval statues on it you could touch for luck. There were homes and businesses built right on the walls of the Vltava river. These were old structures APRIL What is your favorite city and why? built right into the river wall. I remember this Sedalia Co. It’s where my forever home is with a because earlier that year there was a flood and the great view! My favorite state is Colorado, why? water line was still visible. While Denver was de- I have met so many wonderful friends and what molishing the mile high stadium because it was too I call my family! So many great memories. Some old, the people of Prague lived in homes 900 years not so great but these people have been there for old. Made me think. Well that’s enough. me and filled my heart, the best support team I Bonnie can ask for. Jeannette
MAY If you could be anyone else who would you MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be?? Someone who won the Lotto Jeannette Oprah Winfrey Bonnie
APRIL What is your favorite city and why? MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? St Augustine. I love its history No one TIPS FOR RIDING ON GRAVEL Tip #1: RELAX When you are tense you can’t absorb the bumps and vibrations from a rougher surface. You want to use your elbows and knees and back to soak up those vibrations rather than fight them. This will make riding the gravel a lot more comfortable and help you maintain both traction and steering. If there’s a gravel bike path or dirt road near your home, practice riding it on your road bike to get comfortable over the bumps. Riding with your hands on the tops of the bars can help you absorb more road shock, but if you’re riding in a group it will be safer to have your hands on the hoods or in the drops so you’re closer to the brakes. Tip #2: RIDE A BIGGER GEAR You don’t have to mash the biggest, hardest gear you have, but maintaining traction on a rough surface is easier when you are pedaling a larger gear at a slightly lower cadence compared with a lighter gear at a higher cadence. With more torque you maintain momentum over bumps and you’ll feel like you’re riding “though” them or over them rather than like you’re bouncing off every single bump you encounter. This is especially important in softer gravel and/or rockier areas. Speed and momentum are your friends; the slower you go the more you’ll feel every nook and cranny in the road. Tip #3: STAY IN THE SADDLE ON STEEP CLIMBS You have less traction on gravel and when you stand up out of the saddle the dramatic increase in power to the rear wheel can cause it to lose traction and spin. This doesn’t happen as much on flat ground or slight inclines, but it is common on steeper gravel and dirt climbs… which is exactly where you’ll be tempted to stand up. Weight over the back wheel is essential for traction, which is why seated climbing is best in this environment. If you need or want to stand, shift into a harder gear as you stand up and keep your hips above your saddle as you pedal. If you shift your weight too far forward as you stand up you’ll take the weight off the rear wheel and it will spin. Tip #4: HOW TO HANDLE WASHBOARD A section of washboard or braking bumps is one of the least comfortable parts of riding a gravel road. It’s unlikely you’ll experience one because the gravel road in question will be graded and packed down in the weeks prior to the event, but nevertheless here’s how to get through a washboard more comfortably and in control: 1.Keep your hands on the tops of your handlebars. This will enable you to maintain more bend in your elbows and move your weight back. 2.Get off the saddle. Stand up so the bike can move underneath you rather than your body having to follow every contour of the washboard. 3.Get your weight back. Not way back, just a bit so you’re unweighting the front wheel to let it track over the crests of the washboard. This reduces the shock to your arms and allows you to keep the bike headed in the right direction. Loosen up! You obviously need a secure grip on the bars, but white-knuckling your way through a washboard section will make the ride harsher. The same is true with tension anywhere in your body. Loosen up, be a shock absorber, and look for the smoothest (smallest washboard ridges) line through it. Tip #5: BRAKE MOST WHEN YOU’RE GOING STRAIGHT Just like on a paved road, you don’t want to grab a handful of brakes in the middle of a turn. Most of your speed adjustment should be done before a turn while you are still going straight. When you are turning, keep the bike more upright than you might on a similar paved turn, but still focus your weight on the outside foot. Tip #6: STAY ENGAGED AND FOCUSED Gravel roads present an ever-changing surface so you have to keep your eyes open. Scan the road ahead and look for the smoother line. Sometimes this will be where car and truck tires have packed down the gravel, and sometimes it might be between those tire tracks. Watch riders ahead of you for clues. Riding gravel roads on a road bike is a lot of fun and it keeps you on your toes. The keys to being comfortable, confident, and in control are to stay calm, loose, and positive. Have fun getting dusty!
The next people to show up had the instructions to start up the water system so a couple of us went down into the cellar to find the pump and shut offs. While I was down there, we noticed more animal skins and more interestingly in the corner a banjo. Some of you will remember the APRIL What is your favorite city and why? Burt Reynolds movie! Yeah, it was a little creepy! Stuck out here in the dark, miles from My first thought was my hometown, food & places I anywhere or anybody. We were all quiet during grew up with; however, I do like New Orleans, LA for dinner trying to settle in and get relaxed. new things to see and do and all that Creole history. Suddenly a banging at the front door startled us, And food! 2 other friends had found out where we were MAY If you could be anyone else who would you be? staying and showed up as a surprise. After lots of Someone who was independently wealthy and laughs, stuffed animal comments and bad movie so I wouldn’t have to punch a timecard. jokes we ended the night! What the heck had we One of my favorite rides and bike events has got to be been thinking…. That was the night we all the Veterans Rally each year in Cripple Creek, CO; decided Grizz lived up to his name with his the ride down is nice no matter which route you take. snoring, more jokes at his expense that next Several years ago, we planned a weekend with 3 other morning. Poor guy. But the sight of him in that couples for the rally weekend; instead of renting ho- tels rooms we opted for renting a house up in the clawfoot tub with that bear holding his towel was mountains for 3 days. Larry & I rode our bikes while a memory I’ll never forget…Love ya bud. Rain the other couples opted for minivan with the food/ continued overnight so we piled 8 adults into a drinks and 2 guys also riding in later. minivan and went into town for the rally. What a We took off on Thursday afternoon for the ride up, it laugh, it was like a clown car once we got there as was overcast and rainy once Larry & I got up to we all crawled out. I have always enjoyed watch- Cripple Creek; we pulled over for a warm drink and look at the directions to see how to get out to the ing the parade of bikes coming down the hillside rental. On paper everything looks easy and close. into Cripple Creek, hundreds of bikes of all & HA! As the roads got narrower and less maintained years! Great weekend with great friends! It did my comfort level fell; after 9 miles of slow ‘off dry up and we were able to get back home in one roading’ in the mud I was almost done. Just as I had piece, but it wasn’t the riding weekend we had made up my mind to bale on this excursion, Larry hoped for, but it was fun! signaled he found the driveway. At last! Well, not quite so fast. I got stuck halfway up the driveway and just sat there until Larry figured out that I wasn’t com- ing; he did manage to push me up onto dryer ground and on up to the house. OK now I need to warm up, adult beverage & dry clothes. We were able to get the door open and light the fireplace and get the cabin warmed up; our job was to start dinner and have it ready for the rest of our party. As I got into dry clothes and learn my way around, I started to notice all the ‘eyes’ on me. LOL The place was filled with stuffed animals, on the walls, up along the stairway, in the corners. You get it! Upstairs in the open loft bedroom there was a 5-foot stuffed black bear holding a towel next to the clawfoot tub. Our room! Believe me, the surprises did not stop there! Bikers Gotta Eat Too Breakfast Casserole No Ice Road Trip Meal Ideas Ingredients If you go to the Deli area in Walmart you can get small portion sizes of BBQ sauce, mayo, mustard, ketchup, 20 ounces shredded hash browns thawed etc. which means you use it all in one serving, and don’t have to refrigerate. 1 pound sausage cooked, crumbled and drained
Lunch: ¼ cup onion finely diced Wraps- Pickled veggies, canned meats wrapped in tortillas ½ red bell pepper diced Sandwiches: PB&J, Honey, Nut Butters, Jel- lies (okay I had to throw this in because it ½ green bell pepper diced is a good option) Chicken salad on crackers- Canned chicken 8 eggs with mayo, salt, pepper, some avocado, dried cranberries, served with crackers! 1 can evaporated milk 12 ounces, or 1 ⅓ Tuna salad on crackers or in pitas- Tuna, rel- ish, mayo, salt, and pepper. cups milk Avocado stuffed with chicken, beans, and corn (canned) ½ teaspoon your favorite herbs/spices
Dinners: (optional) Tacos with - Canned meats, canned salsa, taco shells or tortillas salt & pepper to taste Chicken and Pickled Veggies in Pitas Shredded BBQ Chicken Nachos- Chips, 2 cups cheddar cheese canned chicken, BBQ sauce, and Easy Melt Cheese Tortilla Pizzas- tortillas, mini pepperoni, Note: in this recipe any other ingredient can be sauce, parmesan, Velveeta Toppers Mid added we’ve always 10 slices of bacon Queso Blanco Cheese Instructions Tuna-Avocado Salad Bites 1 avocado 1. Preheat oven 350 degrees 1- 5- oz can Chunk light tuna 1-2 tsps mayo 2. Brown sausage and drain fat 1/2 Tbs relish Salt and pepper to taste Garnish 3. Combine eggs, milk, spices, salt and pepper Cilantro whisk until smooth Salsa Crunchy Asian noodles 4. Set aside a 1/2 cup of cheese
Instructions: 5. Place remaining ingredients into a 9x13 Cut avocado in half, remove pit; open and drain tuna. baking pan. Pour egg mixture over the top In a small bowl mix tuna, mayo, relish, salt and pepper and top with cheese together. Scoop a little of the avocado out to make a larger bowl (eat it or mix it into tuna salad) 6. Cook for 55 –65 min and to see if it’s cooked Scoop a spoonful of the tuna salad mixture into the throughout. If it jiggled it ain’t done. avocado and garnish with salsa, cilantro, or anything else if desired. Divide into portions and snag one on out the way out to work
We received a message from Pete Schwab our HOG Regional Manager who has been recalled to active duty by the U.S. Navy for a two year tour. Join me in thanking him for his service, prayers to stay safe, and welcoming his replacement Paul Blotske. Drop him a line at:
Maybe you’ll be able to look him up in Durango: Host Hotel for the Rally is the Holiday Inn , at 21636 US 160 W. Price is $150.00 a night 970-385-6400 (Block code) HOG
APRIL What is your favorite city and why? My fav city is Old Colorado City/Manitou Springs because they are quaint. Love the store that makes homemade lemonade & homemade ice cream. Amandas Fonda is our fav restaurant, we know the manager, Omar & we love to visit with him. Food is excellent, too. Laid back city! APRIL What is your favorite city and why? Durango - Beautiful scenery, great roads to ride on. May If you could be anyone else who would you be?
May If you could be anyone else who would you be? If I could be anyone else, who would I be? I would Steve McQueen love to be a healthier & younger me!
Hello CCT: Hey CCT: Looks like the weather is getting better here in the We've had some fun rides; back roads to Greeley middle of May and the restrictions are going away so for some trivia & games, yesterday's back roads when you're out riding be safe and watch out for ride to Lulu's. It's nice when we get together for a those four wheelers. Not much going on probably for ride. the rest of May with graduation and Memorial Day 06 June, Sunday will be a special ride to St Francis, weekend. We're going to have a list of events here Kansas to the Motorcycle Museum. This ride will for June and July coming up here at the Chapter be led by Paul, Sun HD's Parts Manager. We will meeting. We will still do mid-week rides. If you'd meet at Sun HD at 8a, KSU 8:30a. Bring a bag rather ride a different day, let us know, we'll ride lunch & a drink. There is a park nearby the with you. Looking forward to lots of riding. Museum for a picnic. Madd Dog Dave Blessings for a fun & safe ride, Head Road Captain Celeste & Ziggy Road Captain
All, I am going to ride the Continental Divide starting at Hachita NM.and ending at the Road to the Sun Glacier N.P. Mt. I have counted 28 passes. I will be leaving June 7th if your are interested let me know and we will get together. I guess it will take 2 weeks. Jim Beierle: If you are interested, please contact Jim at [email protected]
April What is your favorite city and why? Sorry I have a three way tie: May If you could be anyone else who would you be? New Orleans, the food, music, and atmosphere; Nashville, the music, the atmosphere; A cross between Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Key West, the ATMOSPHERE!!! Thompson, is there such a thing as cosmic gonzo.
At the board meeting we touched on the fact that the, ‘Bikers Gotta Eat Too’ articles have not been in the newsletter for quite awhile. I never really got any feedback that anyone ever even tried the recipes that we were putting in. As well as getting new or different recipes every month. We had a few contributors who were willing to send something every month that were tried and true delicious and ready to go on your table. When I didn’t get any installments by the deadline I wound up scurrying around google for something that sounded like at least I would try it. The only reason I bring this up is that everybody got to eat, right, ya can’t go out for dinner every night, ain’t none of us independently wealthy, and if you’re going to terrorize your kitchen, might as well make something you like or experiment on something you’ve always wanted to try. In our group there really is no excuse for not being able to cook when you witness the spread that is put out at all of our pot lucks. I’ve literally started telling myself to take just a tiny bit that way I can get through the whole thing and maybe taste everything, well not once has that ever worked. Well, we’re going to try and bring the column back, anyone who has quick camping ideas, or if you are more equipped than that fixins for an Italian six course meal...it’s all good!!! Don’t forget the wine. With a serious amount of asstime in front of the computer and the brain of an ole’ tramp, wanderings are always at the forefront. I know since we bought our trailer, riding long trips are non existent. But ya start to wonder, where would you really want to ride to. I’ve heard some would like to join one of Harley’s Posse rides, and our group being as diverse as we are a lot have covered the lower 48 states already. Some have done the Iron Butt’s four corners, coast to coast, border to border. So I ask, what’s a ride that we would drag our tired old bodies out that could be the crowning achievement of a lifetime of riding. Don’t get me wrong, if a destination was decided on, this group doesn’t know to drop out, so videos would have to be taken with sound at every stop. I know I have crackles and pops from places I don’t remember having places. We don’t have doctor in the Chapter, we do however have a bunch of nurses but I’m thinking now a days hiring a masseuse that rides, for the end of each day. So if ya had to choose where would you want go strictly on bikes, no trailers. What do you want at the end, palm trees, northern lights, ocean or desert.
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