March 2014 - Turquoise Trail HOG

TURQUOISE TRAIL H.O.G.®CHAPTER #2015
ALBUQUERQUE, NM USA
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Turquoise Tales
2
March Mania
3
Ladies Of Harley News
4
Membership
4
The Shadow Knows
5
New Members
6
Activities Update
6
Road Captain Corner
7
Scenic Byways Trip
8
Observations From The 10-11
Cheap Seats
Ready To Ride
Workshops
12
Word Search
14
Comedy Corner
14
Birthdays
15
Turquoise Trail HOG® Chapter
Primary Officers
Director
Mundy Boen
[email protected]
(505) 453-3355
Assistant Director
Mike Robertson
[email protected]
(505) 331-6865
Secretary
Greg Abrams
[email protected]
(505) 263-6099
Treasurer
Willie Barela
[email protected]
(505) 259-2531
Volume 9 Issue 3
March 2014
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Turquoise Tales
Mundy “Brat” Boen, Director
I can feel it, spring is almost
here! Time to get those bikes
out and put some miles on
them.
Our Chapter is awesome! But
we can always make it better!
You might notice the officers
trying out a few new ideas they
brought home from
H.O.T.®. We’ll throw things out
there, if they stick great, if not,
we’ll try something else...and
we want YOUR feedback! Let
us know what you like and
what you don’t like.
Some of what we learned at
H.O.T.®:
- Everyone’s Turquoise Trail
H.O.G.® membership expires December 31st every
year, therefore January 1st we
are all considered archived
members. We learned at
H.O.T.® that if anyone goes on
a ride between January 1st and
the time they renew their membership they MUST sign a ‘day
of event release’ form. Also,
from December 31st until you
renew you will not receive the
extra 20% VIB points on purchases.
We will also get them posted to
our website for easy access.
Thank you for the feedback!
- Parent or legal guardian of
minors must sign the Chapter
Event Release Form for Minors,
not the grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc. We will have extra
Chapter Event Release Form
for Minors & Minors Assumption of Risk Acknowledgment
at socials so those that bring a
minor, to any Chapter function,
can take home and get the parent of legal guardian to sign.
- We heard that too much unnecessary information is being
delivered at our socials. We
are reviewing each agenda
more closely to limit information at socials to what is important to our members.
Below are two of the items we
are working on:
- We heard your concerns that
Chapter members feel ‘nickel
and dimed’. The officers have
implemented a process that
reviews fund raising requests
to ensure the timing and accountability are minimized and
appropriate.
Thank you again, and please
keep the feedback coming! Help make us a better
Chapter!
Ride & Have Fun!
Brat
Ride to the Capital
Photos By Second Shooter
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March Mania
Kristen Sweeney, Marketing Manager
Hello everyone! There's a lot
going on and we wanted to
make sure you were all well informed of all the events and
promotions, Tent Event Friday,
March 14th-Sunday March 16th.
The season is on and our goal is
to sell 35 motorcycles that
weekend!
ENTER TO WIN TWO PASSES
TO ARIZONA BIKE WEEK! You'll
have a chance to win on both
Saturday and Sunday!
Purchase one of our few remaining 2013 New HarleyDavidson models, and choose a
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(valued at $200 not combined
with any other offers)...
TAX FREE ON ALL PRE-OWNED
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**Subject To Lender Approval
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-OWNED BIKES FOR AS LOW AS
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10% down, OAC.
Plus, make sure you wear
GREEN on Sunday the 16th as we
celebrate St. Patrick's Day a wee
bit early! Corned beef and cabbage on the menu!
Duke City Harley-Davidson®
Grand Opening Saturday,
March 22nd-23rd Tommy
Flanagan a.k.a. "Chibs" from
Sons of Anarchy® will be leading
our first store ride of the year!
Kickstands are up from Thunderbird Harley-Davidson at 11am as
we make our way to the all-new
Duke City Harley-Davidson.
Tickets for the ride are available
at the Reception desk (cash or
credit card in-store only), and
are $20.00/person and $5/
passenger. 100% of the proceeds go to Blessings in a Backpack, benefiting McKinley Middle School right here in Albuquerque. BONUS!! In addition to
the ride, Tommy will be hosting
a VIP meet and greet dinner
here at Thunderbird from 6pm10pm. Tickets for the dinner are
$95/person and include an autographed poster, a live band, and
a cash bar in addition to dinner.
There are only 250 tickets available for this VIP pass.
Kristen
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Ladies of Harley News
Monika Barela, LOH Officer
Hello Every One! Can you hear
it??? All of the foot shuffling, the
anxiousness, waiting for summer time, when our riding vacations that we are all planning
will actually be in sight.
LOH is really gearing up for
Girls Night Out. Be sure you reserve June 7, 2014. You will not
want to miss this event. We already have raised nearly $700
for Blessings in a Backpack, and
it’s only going to be March. We
are asking all of our H.O.G.®
family to think about the event
and how you can participate. If
you own a business that could
be a sponsor we are in the process of putting together some
sponsor packages that would put
your company name out there
for everyone to see. We will be
needing more volunteers for the
night of the event, so if you’re
able to help please let me or
Cristya know.
Willie and I are getting packed
and ready to go to H.O.T.® for
our first time. (Harley Owners
Group Officers Training) in Las
Vegas. I’m pretty sure what
happens in Vegas won’t be
staying in Vegas because we’ll
probably all be excited to share
with you want we learned. Plus I
think we’re all a bunch of blabber mouths! So stay tuned for
that. We’re very excited to say
the least.
So until then, get your bikes
polished up and gassed up and
get ready to ride! Hope to see
everyone out there on the road!
Monika
Membership
Rob Esparza, Membership Officer
Welcome Jimmy Little!! A new
member brought in by Treasurer Willie “Pit-Stop” Barela!
Willie’s a great guy. Willie was
awarded “Most Participating
Member” of 2013; Willie is one
of the first people to offer his
handshake to a new introduction. And he taught me something very valuable on the
road; take every stop as an opportunity to find a men’s room.
I’m sure in time, Jimmy will
have experiences of his own to
share about Willie, and/or,
several of us.
It kind of makes this group
even a little more special than
just other bikers to ride with.
I’ve always pitched the Tur-
quoise Trail H.O.G.® Chapter
as “...a great way to have fun
with really nice people...” I’m
not sure what Willie’s pitch was
to Jimmy but I’ll be curious
what Jimmy’s will be when he
starts trying to get his friends
to check us out.
This is also poignant in this run
up to my upcoming H.O.G. ®
Officer Training program in Las
Vegas later this week. I’ve
been told Turquoise Trail
H.O.G. ® Chapter stands out as
an example of how well a
group of people can work together. Can you understand,
there are Chapters where the
officers don’t like each other?
Or the members don’t know
who their sponsoring Dealership is? I guess I’ll see it for
myself... Unless last year’s Turquoise Trail H.O.G. ® ‘s example set a standard and other
Chapters were wise enough to
follow suit. I’m keeping my
fingers crossed for two things
this weekend: 1) I don’t get
near a casino. 2) I get to meet
some of the Chapters who
were affected positively by last
year’s Turquoise Trail H.O.G. ®
Chapter Officers.
Like Willie bringing in Jimmy,
we have a way of spreading the
good vibes. Stay tuned…
Rob
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The Shadow Knows
Mike “Shadow” Robertson, Assistant Director
There is a movie that was released recently titled, Why
We Ride. It was the topic of
discussion at the February’s
Ladies of Harley meeting, in
part because one of the cinematographers is now, as I understand, a member of Turquoise Trail H.O.G.® Chapter.
The discussion got me to
thinking about, not only, why I
ride, but why do I ride a
Harley-Davidson® and why
with this particular group of
people riding under the banner of Turquoise Trail H.O.G.
®
Chapter. As some of you
know, I first rode a motorcycle (?) when I was about seventeen. That will be fortyeight years ago this summer.
Three of us, all still in high
school, rented Honda 50cc
motorcycles and rode up one
of the canyons surrounding
Salt Lake City. We rode up a
canyon carved by a river,
which means it was narrow
and full of twisties. Being
young and not yet, overly
bright, we came back down
the canyon with a little too
much throttle and too few
brain cells engaged. We
slowed down, only, when the
back wheel on one of our
bikes dropped off the pavement and suddenly the forest
of quaking aspens was terribly close and solid. Yeah, it
was a little scary, but more
importantly it was fun, filled
with camaraderie, gave us an
adrenaline rush and began a
lifelong affiliation with motorcycling. For the next thirtyfour years I rode all sorts of
Hondas. From the start, on
that "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" 50cc bike, to
my last one, an 1800cc Goldwing with everything except
the airbag option. It even had
a reverse to get back on the
street from parking spots that
left you pushing your bike up
hill. Finally, my wife, Susan
convinced me to consider a
Harley-Davidson®. She had
been riding one from the
start. Starting on a Sportster
883®, graduating to a Dyna
Wide Glide®, moving to a
Road Glide® and finally finding the bike she absolutely
loves, her Dyna Switchback®.
So I bought my first HarleyDavidson, a Road Glide Ultra®. Fabulous bike. Comfortable for long rides and had
the ability to carry enough of
everything to make touring
fun. My next Harley came
within a couple of years when
I had the opportunity to trade
my Ultra in on a Road Glide
CVO®. Not as much luggage
space, but that was remedied
with a bag attached to the
passenger seat back, and it
has more power with the bigger engine and Screaming
Eagle upgrades. Now don't
get me wrong, I think that
Harleys are great bikes, but
there are a lot of great bikes
out there, and I hope to have a
chance to ride a great number
of them. What really makes
Harley's special is the people
who ride them. More specifically, the people who are
members of Turquoise Trail
H.O.G. ® Chapter. Yes, I do
enjoy getting out by myself or
with Susan. Just riding and ex-
ploring this land from the
unique perspective motorcycling offers. Let's face it, when
you are on a bike, you engage
all of your senses to experience the ride. What you hear,
see, feel, smell and even taste
when riding are very different
from the experiences when
driving a car. Do you remember the smells of ‘Autumn’ as
you rode by a stand roasting
green chilies? I do. And, I
never even noticed it, until I
was on a motorcycle. But, I
also remember vividly riding
to Bibo with nearly one hundred other bikers. Even though
they knew we were coming,
they were overwhelmed when
we arrived for lunch. I remember toasting "to the air we
breathe" with members of the
Chapter, after a day of riding
the mountain twisties around
Cloudcroft to the snow white
gypsum dunes of White Sands
National Monument®. It doesn't
matter how great a bike is, if
the people riding with you
can't be counted among your
friends.
Why do you ride? More importantly, why do you ride a
Harley-Davidson®, and why do
you ride with us? What can we
do to make the experience one
you want to come back to - ride
after ride, month after month,
this year and next? Let us
know. Help us to make this
Chapter your Chapter.
Shadow
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Welcome New Members
Rob Esparza, Membership Officer
Al (Scotty) Scot
Norma (June Bug) Miller
John Miller
Robert (Robbie) Stephens
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Activities Update
Susan Kitsch. Activities/Charities Officer
Congratulations to Raymond
Chavez, our newest HOG Hero!
He is recognized for picking up
a Chapter member from the
dirt and lending tools to get
him back on the road. Great
job Raymond!
The Ride to Eat votes are in,
and this year we are going to
be looking for the best Fish &
Chips in the city. If you have a
favorite place, please contact
Marilyn or Susan as we are
looking for ideas. We want to
have special destinations
planned for the third Tuesday
of each month. Rides start at
Thunderbird H-D at 6 pm and
we ride together for an evening of food and fun.
If you have feedback on activities or fund raising events from
last year, or ideas for this year,
please email me at [email protected], or if you
would be willing to volunteer
to help organize and carry out
any of our events this year including the MDA Camp sendoff, Chapter picnic and banquet, let us know.
And finally, look for the flyer
for the Turquoise Trail H.O.G.®
Ride to Tombstone sponsored
by our great team of Road Captains. The flyer has information
on dates and hotels available
so mark your calendars and
get that hotel room booked!
See you on the rides!
Susan
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Road Captain Corner
Greg “Pit-Stop 2” Abrams, Secretary
plan on crossing
off a few more
when we spend
two weeks cruising South Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming, Utah,
and Colorado.
That trip will
rack up another
five or six thousand miles.
I’m PS2 (Pit-Stop 2); the guy
that hangs out with Bubbles &
Tiny Bubbles (the Abrams’).
Originally from a small town in
Southeast Texas where pickup
trucks and dirt bikes were the
norm and mud-flaps came
stock on both. Bubbles and I
ride a 2011 Ultra Limited
(Rosie). Why the name Rosie?
Well the AC/DC fans out where
will make the connection.
We have had the best time on
the bike and with this group.
We’ve run up about 23, 000
miles in the two years. Our latest and longest trip was a 4,000
mile trip from Los Lunas, NM to
Salem, OR and back in June of
last year. I was able to cross
off one bucket-list-ride when
we did the 101. This year we
In short, Bubbles
and I love to
ride. We’ve
learned that a
500 mile day is a
good day; an
800 mile day is
possible and a
1000 mile day sucks (but again,
possible). I completed the
Ride-Like- A-Pro course with
Bubbles on the back and she
completed both the 1000 mile
iron butt and 1500 mile iron
butt on the back as well (she
makes a much better backrest
than anything Harley offers).
I understand this article is supposed to be about me, but I
have to give a shout out to
Thunderbird and well, most of
you. I have lost count of how
many times Thunderbird H-D
has stepped up and treated me
better than I deserved. And
when I talk to H.O.G.® members from other Chapters, they
are amazed at the support we
get from our Dealership. I just
can’t say thank you enough to
Sean, Karen, Ryan, Dustin, Joe,
Burns, Dwayne, Bam, and the
rest of the gang. As for the
Turquoise Trail, this is the best
group of people. We’ve been
through so much in the past
two years. We’ve gained many
new members, we’ve laughed,
we’ve cried, and we’ve lost.
But we still ride and most importantly we ride together.
This will be my first year as a
Road Captain. I am really looking forward to riding with and
learning from all our great
Road Captains. Riding with me
has already been a test of their
patience. As you can imagine,
coordinating a ride (or just
navigating an intersection) with
fifty bikes requires a lot of
clear communication. The
problem was that I couldn’t
hear them and they couldn’t
hear me unless I was yelling at
them. Apparently, I’ve been
riding with a broken CB antenna. Once again Thunderbird H-D stepped up and
helped get the radio working
again.
Pit-Stop 2
Thank you to all our Veterans and Soldiers!
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Scenic Byways Trip
Darryl “Warden” Rice
Jim Wagner and I found the Scenic Byways Tours too tempting
and planned our first trip accordingly. We spent five days
and rode 967 miles to visit
routes 8, 9, 9A, 12 and 23. Our
first leg took us to Estancia and
on to Willard and to Ft Sumner
for the night at the Billy the Kid
Bungalow. The next day we
rode north on hwy 84 to Santa
Rosa, down hwy 91 to Puerto Del
Luna to the end of the paved
road, east on I-40 and Old Route
66 into Texas where we backtracked to Glenrio, then north to
Logan for the night. The next
day took us to Moscuero (county
population 695, town population
69!) and Roy, then on to Clayton
and the Eklund Hotel (over 100
years old) where we discovered
we were only 9 miles from Oklahoma. When the sun came up,
we rode to the village of Folsom
and across the Johnson Mesa to
Raton, then south to Cimarron
for the night.
On four separate occasions we
had deer actually in the road
jumping around directly in front
of us. We visited a few cemeter-
ies and two museums; Herzstein
Museum in Clayton and the wonderful Folsom Museum. We saw a
herd of about 50 deer near the
Philmont Scout Ranch along with a
large turkey herd (a herd of turkeys is actually called a rafter). It
was 20 degrees when we left
Cimarron and rode in heavy fog
for most of the route to
Springer. It was 27 degrees when
we left Springer and by the time
we'd ridden 15 miles south from
Springer, the temperature rose to
70 degrees!! On the way to Las
Vegas from Springer we experi-
enced 50 mph crosswinds that at
one point forced Jim and I into the
adjacent traffic lane.
It was a wonderful trip. We
spent hours in little cafes chatting with the locals and getting
the true spirit of the small
towns. In Folsom, for example,
we learned of the story of Sally
and the 1907 flood. A former
slave and subsequently a ranch
foreman was on horseback on a
hilltop when he saw a wall of water coming down the dry riverbank. He rode to the ranch and
called a woman that called Sally
at the Folsom
switchboard. Warning Sally to
leave immediately, Sally instead
called every rancher she could
and was responsible for evacuating dozens of people before
the flood hit Folsom and washed
both the building and Sally away
forever. In Mosquero, we met
Tuta, a wonderful woman that
restored the condemned Catholic rectory. In Roy, we visited
with a volunteer fireman at the
station. In Springer we discovered the entire town was out of
water.
Our trip took us through an uncountable number of cities,
towns, villages and ghost towns.
Our trip took us through 11 New
Mexico counties. We're now
busy planning our next Scenic
Byway adventure.
Darryl Rice
(Warden)
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RIDE TO EAT
CELEBRATE THE WINNER OF THE 2013
RIDE TO EAT
‘BEST BBQ’
WHOLE HOG CAFÉ
9880 Montgomery Blvd NE
Tuesday March 18th, 6 p.m. at
Thunderbird H-D. We will ride
together to recognize the Whole
Hog Café staff while enjoying great
®
food and H.O.G. family friendship
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Observations From The Cheap Seats
Mike Vinyard
It wasn’t much of an accident,
really. Two motorcycles tried
to share the same space at the
same time. The laws of physics
frown on such things. One bike
went down. Not a lot of damage. Some bent parts and a
bashed tank. A few hundred
dollars of damage, maybe. He
wasn’t moving fast. Barely
above a trot, probably. Slow,
but oh, oh, so fast. Ken was
tackling a new challenge he
wanted to take on - learning to
ride a motorcycle. It was his
first time on one of the beasts,
as a matter of fact. He rides a
bicycle well and had made a
few laps on a mini-bike some
years back, so what could be
so hard? Go faster, handle
here. Front stopper, lever
there. Back stopper pedal,
down there. Any questions? He
was a quick study. Typical beginner abuse of the clutch and
the normal number of stalls and
he seemed to have it.
My son, ‘The new motorcycle
rider’. Getting a few early skills
in place before he enrolled in
the basic rider course. Of
course I was there to
make sure all went well. I
tried to quiet the Sporty
down as much as I could,
so Ken could hear his
own engine and start to
work on that “when to
shift” business. Lots of
trips up and down our
quiet street with the
Sporty and I in tow. I
eyed a big patch of crud
in the road just ahead.
Good time for a lesson on
the evils of mixing the
front brake and gravel. I
pulled ahead and stopped next
to it. A hand gesture or two and
Ken knew I wanted him to pull
up to where I was wanting to
show him something. Then fast
set in. Very, very quickly.
Brake lever and go faster handle got confused and the next
thing I know, Ken was rocketing toward me. Can a 250
really rocket? You better believe it, when it’s coming right
at you with the throttle wide
open. To Ken’s credit he realized he was in trouble and tried
to steer away. He tagged the
Sporty lightly, went on past,
got the wobble and down he
went. Luckily he ended up on
top of the bike. But watching
Ken slide along on top of that
motorcycle brought up the
pangs that every motorcycling
father must consider at some
point of time.
Do I really want to introduce
my son to this thing, which we
do? A brief but intense disturbance in the pit of my stomach.
This thing we do has an element of danger to it. We all
know that. But many of us also
know that is part of the excitement. And would it really be
fair to deprive him of all the
possible pleasure and enjoyment that can come of it? A
quick dust-off, some parts bent
back into a position resembling
normal and he was off again
with lesson learned. But the
real lesson learned in that
whole deal was for me. I had let
my guard down. I put myself in
front of a beginning motorcyclist. I’m fond of telling my
kids, “Never put yourself in a
situation where someone else
has to save you.” This time I
violated my own rule. And then
the fast happened, very
quickly. And all I could do was
watch the whole thing play out.
There was no time to react.
Forty some odd years of doing
this stuff and yet I hadn’t prepared myself ahead of time.
Bad move.
A brother motorcyclist recently
faced a very fast moving event
as well and probably had no
time to react either. Danny Sanchez was out for a ride with his
daughter and encountered an
alleged drunk driver doing
what drunk drivers do. We lost
that brother. How well, he had
prepared himself for the unexpected, I suspect, we will never
know. But there is at least one
lesson to be learned there, as
well. And, again, that’s how
really fast, fast can be.
How long has it been since
YOU have thought about how
quickly things can go sour? I
mean really thought about it.
We ride along in a little bubble
that surrounds our bike and
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Observations From The Cheap Seats Cont.
Mike Vinyard
tend to tune things out. And
you know where the edge of
that bubble is. Remember the
last time a cage came too close
while you were motoring down
the road? The one that almost
made you jerk away? That cage
touched your bubble. But as
long as our bubble seems safe
and secure we tend to lose
track of the fact that every car
and truck out there offers a potential opportunity to spend
eternity with our ancestors. We
get complacent and let our
guard down. Like I did with
Ken and his little 250. That was
an annoyance. But for Danny
Sanchez, complacent or not,
the sudden and unexpected
was deadly. We must always
remember that often times fast
only lasts a split second. A split
second when you realize your
lot is cast and all you can do is
watch the situation unfold. You
can’t react during that split second. You just can’t. To survive
you have to set yourself up
ahead of time so that when that
split second happens… any
time that split second happens… you are prepared for it
and are in the best possible
place to deal with it.
Do you always consider that
every intersection and every
fence ahead offers a potential
surprise? Do you think to yourself that every cage coming up
behind you may only sort of be
rolling in your general direction while a distracted or impaired driver tends to more
important things such as a text
or getting a lid screwed back
on? Do you ride in the right
side of your lane to allow just a
little more time if oncoming
traffic suddenly jerks over and
commands your lane? Do you
constantly consider your outs,
as you ride?
We play a game of odds. And
winners stack the odds in their
favor. So do survivors. Do you
actively work to stack the odds
in your favor? You should. You
must. We can’t let complacency set in when we ride. We
have to be prepared every second we are in that saddle.
Whether it’s kissing three digits on the speedo on an open
interstate stretch or sitting still
in the quiet street in front of our
house with the engine off. It can
and will get you. Constant vigil.
Just do it.
I have no doubt Danny Sanchez
did everything he could to save
himself and his daughter. But
the alleged drunk driver got
him. That’s a terrible blow to us
all. I hope we all can learn a bit
from his loss. In this great big
wonderful country of ours, a
man is presumed innocent until
proven guilty. And I hope the
driver that robbed this world of
our brother gets a fair trial. But
if he is found guilty of drunk
driving then, personally, I hope
they hang him high.
I’m just saying.
Till next time, y’all keep the
shiny side up. And let’s ride!
Mike
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Ready to Ride Workshops
Willie Barela, Treasurer
for Prizes, got scanned for VIB
points (25) and as a Bonus if
you attend 6 workshops
through the year you get an
additional 250 Bonus VIB
points. I was looking at merchandise and someone kept
staring at me, so I thought. He
was actually starring at my
Beer. He said when did they
Hey everybody, Thunderbird
Harley-Davidson® is putting on
a series of workshops designed
to get us and our Bikes out of
the Garage and get ready to
ride. The first one was on February 20th at 5:30 - RIDING
GEAR ESSENTIALS - hosted by
the ladies in Motor Clothes Kylie, Marcia and Carol showed
us some great merchandise
from “Basic, Better and Best”
from top to bottom , from Boots
and Leather all the way up to
Eye ware and Helmets and
everything in between including the New Triple Vent Jackets. They were very informative about the differences between the styles.
Kristen started us off with some
good Food and Adult Beverages to enjoy, we registered
and got him registered, some
food and drink. Then, we all
took our seats and enjoyed the
workshop.
The next workshop was called,
“READY TO RIDE”, was on
February 25th, in the classroom
and was presented by the Service Department personnel,
Burns, Jack and Dave.
LED LIGHTING WORKSHOP
was on March 8th, from 12 to 1
in the parts department. Oh,
did I mention the Double VIB
points for one week after the
workshop on select merchandise they showed us.
get a Liquor license? I thought I
was in a Bar, We had a good
laugh together then we went
over to the registration table
Willie
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