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Volume 34 / Number 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2013 • $5 2013 VJMC NATIONAL RALLY! HELEN, GEORGIA WHAT’S INSIDE: BEHIND THE SCENES AT BARBER IDAHO RALLY & RIDE HONDA GL1000 OIL FILTER CONVERSION OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE VINTage JAPANESE MOTORCYCLE CLUB OF NORTH AMERICA, INC. IN THIS ISSUE l FEATURES SPA ECIAL FE TURE: Beyond the Glass and Polished Floors of the Barber 6 Vintage Museum SPECIAL EVENT: Barber Vintage Festival Invitation 10 october 11-13, 2013 PROJECT BIKE: The Hawk GT no one is more critical of your bike 12 than you are EVENTS: CTOVER S ORY Idaho BIke Rally a fathers’ day 16 weekend in idaho 2013 VJMC RIDE REPORT: Idaho Chapter NATIONAL RALLY! rally ride 21 32 PROJECT BIKE: What the Heck is a Zuki? 26 l DEPARTMENTS HISTORY: The Honda 350 PRESIDENT’S LETTER: The Best of Times ................................................................................ 4 40 TECH HELP: PROJECT BIKE: Honda GL1000 Oil Filter Conversion ............................................. 31 The Honda CL100 can we relive 48 our childhood? SAFETY FIRST: We Can Be Our Own Worst Enemy ..............................................37 Volume 34 / Number 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2013 • $5 TECH HELP: .......................................................................... 2013 VJMC Tank Rust Removal 45 NATIONAL RALLY! HELEN, GEORGIA EVENTS CORNER ...............................................................................55 WHAT’S INSIDE: BEHIND THE SCENES AT BARBER IDAHO RALLY & RIDE HONDA GL1000 ................................................................... OIL FILTER CONVERSION ADVERTISER SPOTLIGHT 57 cover photo: OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE VINTAGE JAPANESE MOTORCYCLE CLUB OF NORTH AMERICA, INC. Charles Price CLASSIFIEDS .......................................................................................58 l ON THE COVER Bikes lined up in preparation for the show at the National Rally in Helen, Georgia. VINtage JapaNese MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINE 3 PRESIDENT’S LETTER The Best of Times he VJMC has the pedal to the metal. Our membership ranks have Tgrown to 3,524 individuals with a passion for vintage Japanese motorcycles. Our biggest national rally produced fun in abundance for more than 160 members and guests who were lucky enough to V JMC Magazine attend. Exciting rides, great food, old friends, expert speakers, and August/September 2013 perfect weather set new standards for the good times. A big thank Volume 34, Number 4 you goes out to all those dedicated volunteers, led by Pete Slatcoff, PRESIDENT who worked hard for the past twelve months in order to make it all Tom Kolenko happen. 770-427-4820 Our leadership team was also at work in Helen , Georgia, where [email protected] it held its annual Board of Directors meeting. Preparing this club for the future and build- INTERIM EDITOR ing our membership services filled the meeting agenda. Our talent pool welcomes Michael Michael Fitterling Fitterling, a motorcycle publishing veteran and Honda CB350 rider, to serve as our new 863-632-1981 magazine editor. Webmaster duties will now be performed by the talented Spyro Svolos, [email protected] since Mark Johnson has become a new father. Joy Ivy Johnson is now filling diapers, melting INTERIM ART DIRECTOR hearts, and stealing sleep from our past webmaster. Enjoy the ride Mark! Nadine G. Messier These are transformational times for the VJMC. We are creating ever more opportunities CLASSIFIED ADS for our members to be engaged. Our new VJMC Member Forum is growing and helping Gary Gadd our members plan “meet-ups” in their areas. Whether it’s a garage troll, breakfast ride, bike 817-284-8195 show, or tech session our membership is meeting kindred souls for fun. Now is the time to [email protected] get involved. Our newest Field Representative, Peter MacMurray, from Holliston, MA, will DISPLAY AD DIRECTOR/VP add to our VJMC capacity in the Northeast. Welcome aboard Peter! Gordon East The diversity of our membership continues to expand. More women and families are at- 864-944-8687 tending VJMC events than ever before. One woman rode to the Georgia rally alone from [email protected] upstate New York and had a great time. Youngsters in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are joining the AD SALES REP fold, with a passion for Japanese café racers, bobbers, and tricked-out minis. Please embrace Art Snow these new members, chat them up, and help them feel a part of this club. If this club is not 144 W. Oakview Place San Antonio, TX 78209 growing, it’s dying. [email protected] We also try and frontload for success at every opportunity. Event planning for national and state rallies requires committed volunteers on the ground, along with carpet bombing email MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Bill Granade reminders to preregister. If there is low preregistration, the event will probably be canceled; 813-961-3737 so get onboard early to help ensure event success. The planned Michigan Rally suffered that [email protected] fate when only thirteen members were preregistered (with Pete and I in that group). Secur- ing host hotels, T-shirts, ride plans, trophies, catering, and a cadre of volunteers is a heavy MISSION STATEMENT: The purpose of this organization is to frontload commitment that doesn’t support last minute, onsite registration . prompte the preservation, restoration Event planners know that any event schedule can be dynamic. The Georgia Chapter held and enjoyment of vintage Japanese mo- torcycles (defined here as those 20 years its first ever indoor bike show at the Mountain Motorsports dealership in May with just two old or older). The VJMC also will promote months of planning, but we know the followup 2014 show will be even better. Annual events the sport of motorcycling and camerade- rie of motorcyclists everywhere. like Mid-Ohio and the Barber Vintage Festival continue to be big draws for our members, ©2013 Vintage Japanese Motorcycle and we need to be prepared to support our members’ participation. Regional rallies like the Club of America, an IRS-approved Not- Idaho, Florida, and Kansas City efforts provide additional options for our members. If these for-profit 501(c)(7) corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this document may venues are not on your bucket list, you have made a voluntary choice to skip the fun. be reproduced or transmitted without Our Regalia Queen, Melody Adams, is stepping down due to expanded family responsibil- permission. ities. Melody brought a professionalism, retail flair, and accountability to the role. We thank The VJMC Magazine is published six times her for helping to make our members look good in their VJMC-branded apparel. Please per year, in February, April, June, August, October, and December. The views and contact me directly if you would like to take on this important volunteer position. opinions expressed in letters or other I hope to see many of you at the Barber Vintage Festival and our state rallies. Remember to content are those of the author and do not cecessarily represent VJMC policy. get out and ride before the snow flies. The VJMC accepts no liability for any loss, damage, or claims occuring as a result of advice given in this publication or for Ride safe, claims made by advertisers of products or Tom Kolenko, VJMC Presidentt services in this publication. 4 august/september 2013 Beyond the Glass and Polished Floors of the Barber Vintage Museum by Tom Kolenko and Gordon East he numbers say a lot about the Bar- 11-13. Whether you’ve been through Barber’s vision was to build a “running ber experience all by themselves. the museum or are making your plans museum” where any motorcycle could T More than a quarter million people vis- for a first visit, we want to take you be easily prepped and ridden on the 2.3 ited Barber Motorsports Park in 2012. along for a walk-through of the areas mile race track just outside the muse- Fifty-seven thousand of those attended beyond the glass and polished floors. um’s door. That vision reinforces the last year’s Barber Vintage Festival. It’s We’ll share some insights into the how observation that Americans are not a one of those must-see places that has and why of the museum’s changing ex- “watching nation.” We all want to par- something for the collector, the racer, hibits from a Barber’s management per- ticipate in racing and riding the track. the restorer, and every motorcycle en- spective. Hence, the highly engaging and partic- thusiast in between. Open year-round, Brian Slark, the museum’s spry 75 ipatory Barber Vintage Festival every the museum is home to an amazing col- year-old technical consultant and new- October, where you can see and hear lection of unique motorcycles. The mu- ly minted AMA Hall of Fame member vintage machines racing at the same seum also has the largest collection of scheduled an early morning meeting pace they would have back in their hey- vintage Lotus racing cars, along with a for us. We did not know that our walk- day. fantastic collection of vintage outboard through and interviews would take us With more than 1,350 motorcycles motors. well into the afternoon. Brian and all in their collection, the museum keeps You’ll read elsewhere in this issue how of the Barber staff share a passion for about 650 different motorcycles on dis- to get your free tickets, along with your their work and their accomplishments play. The selection changes and moves personal invitation to join us for this are seen everywhere throughout the so that each visit delivers a new experi- year’s Vintage Festival from October museum. Brian told us that Mr. George ence. The Barber team regularly attends Every piece of this bike was restored, rebuilt, refinished, or made from the original before it made it here– just hours away from getting it’s turn on the museum floor. 6 august/september 2013 SPECIAL FEATURE auctions and shows looking for bikes that can be acquired for the museum.