Goldwing Road Riders Association OK-E Chapter Newsletter

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1 Goldwing Road Riders Association OK-E Chapter Newsletter May 2018 Tulsa Oklahoma Friends for Fun Safety and Knowledge Each month Chapter E holds a fun gathering on the 2 nd Tuesday of each month. We meet at the Golden Corral Restaurant at 21 st and Memorial, Tulsa Oklahoma. Come and eat at 6pm and stay for the gathering beginning 7pm. Chapter E Officers Kathy and Richard Oakes Roger and Annie Good Chapter Directors Membership Enhancement Tom Hankins kathyjnks@cox.net Treasurer avgood@cox.net tomha_1999@yahoo.com Michael and Ramona McCauley Mary McClellan Ride Coordinators Sandi Miller Sunshine Girl Secretary mccauley@hotmail.com smiller6850@yahoo.com peacefulwaves@cox.net

2 Directors Curve Riding season is here and we are ready. After a long winter and a rainy start of spring, we finally have weather you can enjoy riding in. Pawnee Bills ride was super. The weather was warm and the wind blew a calm breeze. I realized a lot of history from touring the beautiful Lilly Mansion. The Spring Fling is coming up fast and we are riding to Hot Springs Arkansas. This will be a fun ride seeing all the trees and grass turning green and flowers blooming. This month we are including a 3 month calendar in the newsletter. This is so you will have a heads up on upcoming events for the chapter. May is going to be a full month, along with June and July, but participating and having fun is why we are all here. Remember Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge. Tulsa s Mayor GT Bynum signed our proclamation to declare May as Motor Awareness month in Tulsa. Now it s our turn to get the word out on safe riding and driving. Check out the calendar and attend a Motor Awareness event. This month GWRRA President Anita Alkire announced that a new program is coming about with GWRRA and Honda of America starting a new program of every time they sell a motorcycle they will offer the new owner a 4 month registration into GWRRA free. This is a great way for us to obtain new members in GWRRA. We know all of the great benefits that we get in GWRRA and want others to come and join us. All MEC s in a few months will start receiving a lot of new members that they can call and have them join us in our fun that we have. There are a lot of members that we have on or member list that just need a call from us to have them come and join us for a fun ride. Give them a call! Give to Our Troops Drive comes to an end. Chapter E s Reason to Ride Chapter E has been collecting items for the Blue Star Mothers since January. We were able to collect and deliver 3 full outdoor garbage bags to The Blue Star Mothers organization. April was our last month to collect. Thank you Chapter E for all of your generous donations. I know our troops will be happy to receive your donation. If you know of a charity that you would like Chapter E to help in collections, please let us know.

3 May is Motor Awareness Month for Tulsa Oklahoma On Friday, April 27, 2018, Chapter E made history in Tulsa Oklahoma. At the request of GWRRA OK-E, Tulsa s Mayor GT Bynum sign a proclamation declaring May as Motor Awareness Month for Tulsa. What does this mean for Tulsa? By having safe motorcycle riding practices and cooperation from all road users will help reduce the number of fatalities and injuries on our city streets and state s highways. Chapter E has taken steps to get the word out. To kick off the month, Chapter E will be having Goldwing night at Port City Raceways on the night of May 12 with a Goldwing Bike/Trike display, a booth with literature and fun things for the kids on race night. A Road Captains Safety course will be offered on May 19. More signage is going up in member s yards. (If you can put a sign up in your front yard please let Kathy know and she will get you a sign). May is the start of riding season and we must get started getting the word out that we are out there to safely share the road.

4 UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR GWRRA I have been having members update their personal information (address, phone numbers, accounts, Chapter, etc.) so that I have the correct information. I was hoping that I could contact the Home Office of GWRRA and get the corrections made for the members, but I cannot. This information should be updated at the Home Office by the individual members. They send out GWRRA information via and regular mail so if they don t have the correct member information the GWRRA information will not get to you. Please go on line and make sure your personal information is correct. You can update your information one of three ways: Call Customer Service Customer Services CustomerService@GWRRA.org Go online If you have never logged on to this site, you will need to obtain log-in information. This can be done by clicking on the Welcome (Log-In) page where instructed. After you complete this process you will receive an with your user name and password. After you have received your user name and password return to the log-in page and on the left side click on Manage My Records. Click CONTINUE. Enter your user name and password. Click CONTINUE. At the CHOOSE prompt you will need to arrow down and select the option you need to change. After you have made your changes you will need to click the SUBMIT CHANGES button. This will update your information. When you have completed all the changes you need to make, be sure to log off. If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service at the address or phone number above. Please let me know if you have any questions. Annie Good Membership Enhancement Coordinator Chapter OK-E

5 Port City Raceway Motor Awareness Promo Chapter E and Port City Raceway has teamed up together to create fun and excitement for Motor Awareness Month. On Saturday, May 12, We will be setting up a Motor Awareness booth and passing out GWRRA literature for Motor Awareness and Membership. We will be putting Goldwing bikes/trikes on display for everyone to admire. (Gates will be open at 4:30pm to bring your bike inside to the staging area near the grandstands). During half time we will be tossing out frisbees and having fun with the fans. Not only do you get to represent the great GWRRA association but see exciting micro-sprint cars (w/motorcycle engine). The POWRi 600 cc Power Outlaw Micro Sprint cars are the main feature for the night. Come on out and show your support for our Motor Awareness cause. Please wear your blue chapter shirts or a blue shirt. Bring your statium seats or lawn chairs. If you want to help with manning the booth or bringing your bike for display we will be starting to set up at 4:30pm. You can bring your bike in until 5:30pm. The hot-lap races begin at 6pm and the feature races begin at 7pm. The address for the raceway is: E Pine Street, Tulsa OK. Two entrances, one off of Pine at N 157 th street and one off E 161 st one block north of Pine. Adults $10, Senior prices $6.00, Kids (6-12) $6.00, Kids 5 and under free. Veterans free (must show valid ID). This would be a great outing with your grandkids. Come out and help make this a fun night.

6 Muskogee Azalea Parade This month Chapter E was invited to ride in the Azalea Parade in Muskogee OK. The morning started early and we had to be in Muskogee by 9:45 am. Looking outside the sun was coming up but frost was on the windows. Oh no, it was going to be a cold one today. Going out the door, bundled up in layers I kept telling myself I got this, but swinging my leg over the seat of the trike seemed a bit more difficult this particle morning. My leg just wouldn t go up high enough to swing over the top of the seat. Anxious and in a hurry, Richard tugged and pulled until he had me upon the seat. I tried to explain to him that I had on so many clothes I couldn t move. Uh huh, was all I heard over the intercom. I soon realized why he wasn t talking when he took off from that first stop sign from the house. That cold wind hit your face and took your breath away. He soon warmed up enough to say such things to me as Good grief, whose idea was this anyway and do you realize what you have gotten us into now? All this time I am sitting back enjoying the ride because I bundled and layered up on the clothes more than he. He soon mellowed out when we joined the others for the cool and extremely windy ride down the turnpike which is another story in itself. Ken Frazier was waiting for us at the parade line up. Six brave bikes showed for the ride in the parade. Ken was able to pull off some of his magic again this year and the Gold Wings were the second group behind the Sheriff who was leading the parade. Now parades are my favorite thing to do while riding on a motorcycle. Seeing the little kids with cold red faces, waving their little hearts out at you make me laugh and laugh to see them chasing after the candy! The crowd was great considering the cold weather and everyone was having a great time like we were. We got thru the parade and Ken led us to a great Mexican restaurant. Yep, we had to go and eat to warm up. And what better way to warm up than hot Mexican food. After lunch we planned to go and see the azaleas in bloom down at the Honor Heights Park, but the flowers had not bloomed yet for the season. Seems the azaleas knew to stay inside too. The clouds looked like rain coming soon so a quick decision to head on home was made. But the day was fun and I look forward to doing the parade next year. Thanks Muskogee! Kathy, Richard and Ken Robert Black, Glen Matlock and Kenney Graham

7 Just a little humor from David Zizzo.. Motorcycle law escapes notice. Many bikers are unaware of 'renegade' road status David Zizzo Published: July 17, :00 AM CDT Updated: July 17, :00 AM CDT Confessions of an outlaw biker. For the last decade or so, I had been breaking the law. I'd been driving motorcycles illegally. First, let me state in my defense: 1. I wear a helmet even though the law doesn't make me; 2. I don't have a tattoo. Also, I didn't know I was a renegade. Ignorance is no excuse, of course, even if it's the best one I had. Only recently did I come to realize the rebel I was. A police officer stopped me for a traffic violation. That's when I heard for the first time the term "motorcycle endorsement." And the fact I didn't have one. And the fact I needed one. Since it was Independence Day, the officer gave me his "holiday special" - a warning. Still, this would have been easier to accept had it happened one week earlier. One week earlier I could have gone to a tag agent, signed a paper and received a motorcycle endorsement. That's because a week earlier that's all the state required, provided I swore I had ridden a motorcycle "regularly" for at least two years. I have ridden motorcycles since the Johnson administration. In the last 32 years, I've ridden dirt bikes, "pocket rockets," bullet bikes. I rode a Norton 750 to Colorado and back and drove a Suzuki 250 on a rocky pass over the Continental Divide. Since my discovery of the "M" endorsement happened after July 1, a deadline added to the law in I had to again pass a written quiz and a driving test to get on the right side of the law. Which makes me wonder: Was I the only oblivious lawbreaker out there? Are there other unknowing renegades still cruising about on some of those 53,000 motorcycles registered in Oklahoma? They also would have the test standing between them and their former law-abiding lifestyle. They also would face a possible $100 fine for driving without one. More than 140,000 Oklahomans have the M, state officials say. Officials figure everyone knows about the M by now. They said each driver should have received one license renewal notice - back in the early 1990s when the state had money to send them - that mentioned various changed license requirements. Those affected things like driving large trucks, transporting hazardous materials and driving motorcycles. Of course, officials admit, some people probably never got the notices, or they ignored them, or they read "Expiration Notice," and renewed their license without asking for the M. The M is even mentioned on the back of the Oklahoma driver's license, points out Karen Gentry, director of driver testing for the Department of Public Safety. It's in a list of endorsements that include "Tank" and "Double/Triple." It also was mentioned on mine, as I discovered when I peeled off a bar code sticker put there by a video store.

8 I thought I was. Holly Swinford is. Still, she thinks "there will be lots of people who will be surprised" about the M, and expiration of the test waiver. Swinford, a campaign official for an Oklahoma congressional candidate, also headed American Bikers Aimed Towards Education (ABATE), a motorcycle lobbying group. Motorcyclists who belong to groups - and there are many groups - probably know about the M. People who subscribe to motorcycle newsletters or read motorcycle chat on the Internet probably would, too. So would people who hang around motorcycle shops or use a tag agent who might have mentioned the M. However, Swinford said, GDIs might not. "Gosh-darned independents," roughly translated. People who don't join things hang with a crowd or pack up. We motorcyclists tend to have that real independent streak anyway," Swinford said. Independent. I like that. It sounds better than "stupid." The road to Oklahoma's M is a long one, complete with exemptions to exemptions. It even made outlaws of law officers. It began with a federal traffic-reform law Congress passed in That law required states to create more uniform traffic laws, like requiring a separate license or endorsement for motorcycles. Before Oklahoma adopted the new laws in January 1991, a regular operator's license was good enough to ride a motorcycle. The new laws didn't mess with some driving privileges, though. Driving motor homes the size of the USS Nimitz, for instance. When the M was first imposed, it wasn't easy getting the word out. "We even had Oklahoma City motorcycle police officers out patrolling the streets for months without the endorsement," Roberts said. It was easy for experienced bikers who heard about the M to get one. State law said public safety officials could waive tests for the M if a person showed "satisfactory proof that the applicant has regularly operated a motorcycle" for two years. Registration for a bike, for instance. Public safety officials allowed this exemption for four years, figuring every driver would get a license expiration notice once in that period. Every driver would become aware. Well, they didn't. When the exemption ended in January 1995, the problems began. "It was a very confusing thing," Roberts said. "The motorcycle thing probably caused us as much hassle and headaches as anything." Old-time bikers who missed the deadline had to again take a test many had taken when they were 14. So many bikers complained about retesting that the Legislature in 1996 "yielded to the pressure," Roberts said. Lawmakers ordered another four-year test waiver. The one that expired July 1. These days, you can still get a waiver for half the test - the driving part - but you must pay for an approved three-day motorcycle safety course. Norman McDonald, who offers one in Tulsa, said even old-time bikers need refresher courses. Even police. "They pick up bad habits, too," he said. Like driving way too close to each other, like in that old TV show about California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers. "They've seen too many 'CHiPs,'" McDonald said. Otherwise, a motorcycle renegade, oblivious or not, has two options: #1 Take the test or #2 remain forever the outlaw.

9 Friends for fun, safety and Knowledge in April 2018 T-Clock. Special thanks to Glen and Carol Matlock for hosting our T-Clock inspections and lunch. We even got to help Mary McClellan celebrate her birthday!

10 Moore s Fish Fry. It was a little wet, but we were troopers!

11 Pawnee Bills and Clicks Steakhouse

12 RSVP Please Our Ride Coordinators Michael and Ramona McCauley have added May, June and July s calendar in this newsletter for you. In the future, 3 months will be put into the newletter to let you know what is planned for the upcoming fun rides. Another addition is the RSVP notes on calendar days. If that day is RSVP please send your RSVP to Ramona no later than Friday noon. If RSVP is not received, no guarrentee can be given that you would be included to sit with the group. We don t want anyone to miss out on the fun we have together or go off and leave anyone out, so please send in your reply. Ramona s phone number is for calling or texting. Her is rjonesok@gmail.com. You can always respond to Facebook. If you have a favorite ride come to the planning meeting or let Michael know where you would like to ride to. Fun Upcoming Events for 2018 May 4-6 Chapter E Spring Fling. Because of so many directions our folks will be coming from, we will meet at the 1 st McDonald s Rest Stop on the Muskogee Turnpike at 9:30 a Drivers meeting and KSU 9:45 a. May 8 Chapter E Gathering. Meeting at Golden Corral for fun and to socialize. If you would like to eat, please come at 6pm and Gathering will start at 7pm. Hope to see everyone out! May 12 District Ride. Departs Manford OK at 12 noon. 8 tour stops 1 bonus town (DRC flyer) May 12 Port City Raceway Motor Awareness Promotion Set-up 4:30pm Race 6pm May 18 Escort for Mike Ewing to Independence Kansas. Ewing home Time TBD May 19 Memorial Service for Mike Ewing, Jenks United Methodist 415 E Main Time TBD May 19 Road Captains Course Freeway Café West. 9am Morning classroom, lunch, riding May 19 Chapter B Anniversary/Birthday Belle Cow Lake Chandler OK 12 pm -3pm TBA May 26 District Spring Cookout 12 noon Tenkiller Ferry Lake Overlook Shelter 100 (flyer) May 31-June 2 Missouri District Rally Branson OK Wingin in the Ozarks June 9 District Ride west. Departs 11:15 out of Guthrie. (DRC flyer)

13 June 8,9,10 Hutchinson KS - Meet Hwy 97 and Hwy 412. Driver meeting 9am KSU 9:30am. Overnight stay. Planned ride visit Salt Mines and other sights. June 23 District Ride overniter. Departs 10 am from Webber Falls. (DRC flyer) July 7 District Ride north: Departs 10:15 am from Collinsville OK (DRC flyer) July 21 District Ride south: Departs TBD QT (near Hard Rock Casino). (DRC flyer) August 4 District Ride southwest: Departs 9:15am from Newcastle OK to Wichita Mnts (DRC flyer) August Wing Ding Knoxville TN September Lawton OK District Rally Sue Hopper (bike paint artist) plans to join us at the Oklahoma District Rally in Lawton September 27-29, Feel free to go check out her FB page for pics of work she has done. Should spark your interest! October 6-10 (5-6 day trip) for Chapter E: Albuque New Mexico for balloon festival (flyer)

14 May Birthdays and Anniversaries By Mary McClellan Birthdays Ronnie Asbil 5/1 Tom Cody 5/6 Donald Bennett 5/8 Linda Frazier 5/10 Ken Frazer 512 Lloyd Miller 5/17 Stan Marshall 5/23 Charles Thonton 5/26 Dick McDonald 5/28 Anniversaries Richard and Kathy Oakes - May 17 - Yea! We have made it 13 years

15 Oklahoma District Directors John & Shawn Irons May 2018 Great Things Coming Happy May to all of our Goldwing members. It seems that April came and went and as most of us know not much rain but a lot of fires throughout the state. We hope that each chapter will think of a way to have a special project for a local fire department or area that lost may animals. It was a great time going up to chapter-g in Bartlesville on April 3 rd. They had 22 people in attendance. What was great was to see 14 members from Chapter-P who rode over for the gathering. This was a different month in that so many chapters were gone to Louisiana for the Louisiana Rally. There are many rallies going on in May so we hope you will be riding to one of them. We will be heading to the Texas Rally being held May 19 th through 21 st. See you there. It was great to see Chapter-E having a T-Clock party. All chapters should do the same thing. Great Things Coming This month GWRRA President Anita Alkire announced that a new program is coming about with GWRRA and Honda of America starting a new program of every time they sell a motorcycle they will offer the new owner a 4 month registration into GWRRA free. This is a great way for us to obtain new members in GWRRA. We know all of the great benefits that we get in GWRRA and want others to come and join us. All MEC s in a few months will start receiving a lot of new members that they can call and have them join us in our fun that we have. We are also looking at retention of members that we already have. There are a lot of members that we have on or member list that just need a call from us to have them come and join us for a fun ride. Oklahoma District Serving our Chapters The Oklahoma district is having some fun things coming up in the next few months. We are planning another motorcycle training day on the bikes. This will go toward their levels program. We have obtained a location where we can have the training. We also will be having a Road Captains class May 19 th up in Tulsa. Contact Max Rowlett or CD Kathy Oakes for details. The cookout is still on but will be held sometime at the end of May in Muskogee. Chapter-K New Gathering Date Don t forget that Chapter-K Ponca City now meets on the 3 rd Saturday of each They are meeting at Frazier s Restaurant 3113 E Hwy 60 in Ponca City. They eat 8:30am and meet at 9:30am. Please put this in your newsletter of the change in and location. Now Chapter-M can visit Chapter-K. month. at date This year s Oklahoma district rally will be held in Lawton, Ok at the Apache Casino and Hotel September 27 th 29 th, Our theme will be Cruising on a Wing. The grand prize will be a $ cruise for two. Call the Apache at or

16 and give them the code G189GW. Visit for more information about the hotel. It s never too early getting your registration. National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month Spring is now here and around the country all of the GWRRA members and all types of riders are returning to the road after a long winter. But with a sudden spike in the number of motorcycles on the road, it s a good time to remind all motorists, whether on two wheels or four, to keep a special lookout for motorcyclists. That s why May is recognized as National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. This is a good time for drives to be reminded to share the road with motorcycles, and riders to be reminded to make themselves more visible to others. A good project for the Oklahoma district chapters to help get the word out is to have your city or township to proclaim May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. This should be May 1 st to May 31 st. Contact District Motorist Awareness Coordinator Kay Smith or me for help in getting your proclamation for you town. You Make the Difference GWRRA has a new program to show appreciation to members who have helped out, or done an outstanding job in some way to GWRRA. Do you have someone who you think deserves a special pin? Contact your MEC or District MEC to get the pin and certificate. Travel Award Program Jan 1, 2018 to Apr 20, X P E L K B J G M Series John & Shawn Irons Oklahoma District Director

17 You re invited to the GWRRA OK District 2018 Spring Cookout Where: Tenkiller Ferry Lake Overlook Shelter (Hwy. 100, west of dam) When: May 26, 2018 Time: 12:00 PM Hamburger s provided. Please bring a favorite side dish. R.S.V.P. ksgraham@beggstelco.net Or Come enjoy the ride, good food, fun games and great fellowship!

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20 Chapter E s ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO BALLOON FESTIVAL RIDE Super 8 East Albuquerque October 5, 6, 7, 2018 King Non Smoking $89.00 per day For 3 nights Call in your own reservation for Gold Wing Tulsa Contact: Tinker Drop Dead Reservation cut-off is **July 15, 2018** Call in your Reservation Today Complete Agenda Coming Soon

21 Greetings Oklahoma GWRRA! Introducing the OK Creating Memories District Rides for 2018! Along with our 2018 OK District Tour, we are offering 5 day rides and 1 overnight trip for interested members. Our goal is to get people out on their bikes, socializing and having FUN and we are using the District Tour to do it. Riders can visit a total of 43 different towns including 5 bonus towns, visit a museum, see wild buffalo, support a chapter sponsor, and enjoy nice roads, nice scenery, and great people while accumulating tour stops and chapter miles. Plus, there is a special door prize drawing for ride participants. Reminder - you do NOT need to complete all the stops on the District Tour to win. See the OK Tour section on our website or ridecoor@gwrraokla.org for more information about the tour. These exciting rides are so new, we don't even have flyers yet. Here are the dates and a little about each. Please RSVP ridecoor@gwrraokla.org if you are planning to attend any of these offerings. 5/12 Central departs at noon out of Mannford, 8 tour stops including 1 bonus town 6/9 West departs at 11:15 AM out of Guthrie, 7 tour stops including 1 bonus town, lunch at famous Lucille's Roadhouse 6/23 Southeast Overnighter departs 10:00 AM out of Webbers Falls or riders can join the group for lunch at 1:00 PM in Heavener. This ride picks up 11 tour stops including 2 bonus towns, stays overnight in Broken Bow, and covers many miles of beautiful roads 7/7 North departs 10:15 AM out of Collinsville, provides scenic riding, hits 5 tour stops, and includes a visit to the Phillips 66 Museum in Bartlesville 7/21 East departs from QT near Hard Rock Casino (time TBD), travels some great riding roads while picking up 6 tour stops and enjoying a meal at a Chapter M sponsor restaurant in Tahlequah 8/4 Southwest departs 9:15 AM out of Newcastle, travels thru Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and visits 6 tour stops including historic Medicine Park and 1 bonus town Mark your calendars to come along with the group on these Memory Making Rides! Harry Sanders OK District Ride Coordinator

22 Chapter Directors and Gatherings Dates Chapter B Carol Haynes carouselranch@hotmail.com Gathering: 4 th Tuesday at Curtis Watson s, McLoud, McLoud OK 7pm Chapter E: Kathy Oakes kathyjnks@cox.net Gathering: 2 nd Tuesday at Golden Corral, 8144 E 21 st Tulsa OK 7pm Chapter G Jim/Binnie Gullane S52jim@aol.com Gathering: 1 st Tuesday at Montana Mikes Steakhse 3825 S.E. Adams Rd Bartlesville OK 7pm Chapter J Bill Duvall wduvall@sbcglobal.net Gathering: 3 rd Thursday at Johnnies Charcoal Broiler 33 E 33 rd Edmond OK 7:15pm Chapter K Glenna/John Wiles glenjohn@sbcglobal.net Gathering: 3 rd Saturday at Frazier s Ponca City eat 8:30 am meet 9:30am Chapter L Max Rowlett maxer50@aol.com Gathering: 1 st Monday at Golden Corral Lawton OK 7:30pm Chapter M Robert/Angela Jackson rj3ballman@gmail.com Gathering: 2 nd Thursday at Colton s Steakhse 565 W Shawnee Muskogee OK 7pm Chapter N Mark/Cindy Hoover soonerfan1962@hotmail.com Gathering: TBA Chapter P Bobby/Dianah Hale halehome@sbcglobal.net Gathering: 2 nd Monday at Pizza Hut 600 Lynn Riggs Blvd. Claremore OK 7pm Chapter X Char/Ron Sadler char.sadler@gmail.com Gathering: 2 nd Saturday at St Andrews Episcopal Church 516 W 3 rd Stillwater OK 9am Wing Ding 40 to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville, home of GWRRA s 40 th Annual Wing Ding, is situated at the foothills of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Three interstates run through Knoxville making it easily accessible! The majority of the events will take place downtown at the beautiful Knoxville Convention Center. Many changes are happening including a revamped event schedule with less structure and more fun! To register or view the event schedule, visit today Have a Great Day!