Who's-Who in NH-E G O L D NH-E Gathers the last Fri of the month @6:30pm at Emma's 321 Pub&Kitchen 377 Rt202 Rindge, NH www.emmas321.com W I N G Chapter Directors Ron and Susie Black darkcat1@ myfairpoint.net Asst. Chapter Directors & 2017 Couple of the Year Armand Guilmette & Michelle Shepard Chapter Treasurer Barbara Stone memebarb@comcast.net Ride Coordinator Rod Stone memebarb@comcast.net Rider Educator Please Volunteer Newsletter Editor Bill Bascom bascomwd@gmail.com Member Enhancement Please Volunteer Chapter Webmaster/Facebook Bill Bascom nhe.webmaster@gmail.com Goodwill Ambassadors Leo and Jean Goodwin wing982@netzero.net R O A D R I D E R S A S S O C I A T I O N From the Chapter Directors; Hello! To NH-E June has been an exciting month with lots of Get-To-Gathers, Rides & Events. June 3rd we visited NH-T at Menard Motorsports. They had an open house for the Garage & a Fund Raiser for NH-T. June 4th we met up with NH-A & supported ME-A in Rochester NH for the Ride for a Cure. We went to Wild Willy's Burgers following the ride. June 10th we went to NH-T's monthly Get-To-Gather & Dick Bernier gave a seminar on Riding in the Heat. Then went on a great ride following the meeting. June 11th we went to NH-G Get To Gather and then went on a great ride Led by Ed Heath called the Fly Away Ride. Ed took us to some of NH smaller airports. We stopped at Silver Ranch Air Park and had lunch at Kimballs right next door. Great ride Ed. June 16th we went to NH-A Get- to- Gather and had a nice Pulled Pork meal put on by the church. June 17th NH-A had their Cathedral of the Pines ride. We had to pass on that ride due to NH-E s Pinata building. June 24th was our Yahtzee Fund Raiser Ride that turned out Great! All of our Sponsors stepped up to really Help Out. Jaffrey Country Cafe, Cycle Design, American Trike & Motorsports, and Charlie's Olde Tyme Creamery. Chapter NH-E was a real team putting this together & having lots of great prizes & Chinese Auction Gifts that were donated. We would like to Thank everyone who participated in this Event. 1
June 30th was our Get Together at Emma,s 321 Pub and Kitchen. We were visited by Dale O'Brien from VTA and District Director Dave Bolster. We went over the past month and recapped the Yahtzee Ride. We threw out some ideas for Fund Raisers for next year. Hope everyone's having Fun making the Pinatas & can't wait to see them at the 2017 New England Rally in Sturbridge, MA. Ride & Be Safe! Ron & Susie Black GWRRA NH-E Directors darkcat1@myfairpoint.net (603)562-7288 (603)562-4813 2
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Rider's Education; Taken from the GWRRA.org web site... ARTICLE UPDATE: SAFETY ALERT! We have received a number of questions about the October 2013 Wing World Trike Tracks article specifically on page 53. The author who is not a Rider Educator, not a GWRRA Trike Riding Course Instructor, and not a participant in the Rider Ed Program claims that trikes can swerve at highway speeds while simultaneously braking. Hard braking mixed with a yank on the handlebars can spell disaster on a twowheeler. A rider can brake hard or swerve, but not at the same time. Trikes are different. Because you can put force into a turn without leaning the bike, a trike is much more capable of maneuvering around sudden road danger. Do not assume that the author intended the reader to believe that a Trike Rider could simultaneously apply hard braking and yank the handlebars in a swerve at highway speeds. If you try this your life will be in grave danger! It is NOT safe to swerve and brake at the same time. For those who believe a trike won t roll over, think about the national campaigns warning of SUVs doing so in the past. They were heavier and had a wider wheel base than a trike. We have seen it happen in one of our classes in 2013 when a student failed to follow their training and braked while swerving at low parking lot speeds (~25 mph). A swerve is a measure taken when other defensive techniques and options have failed. A swerve is NOT a turn. Please DO NOT attempt applying brakes during a swerve. You can apply brakes immediately before or after a swerve. Just separate them. We teach in our GWRRA classroom portion of the Trike Rider Course (TRC), as well as all of our other Riding Courses, that you should Never swerve and brake at the same time!. The Motorcycle Safety Foundation and Evergreen Safety Council also teach trike training with similar advice. If all of the available traction (there are many dynamic factors involved) is being used to prevent the vehicle s tires from sliding sideways in the swerve, any application of the brakes during this swerve could exceed the total traction available and the tires could lose their grip. The result could be as forgiving as a slide, and as catastrophic as a high side accident where the trike ejects the rider (and co-rider) as it rolls over. The likelihood increases if the factors are greater: higher speed, greater amount and speed of the swerve, poor road conditions, less experience and training for the rider, solid axle vs. independent suspension, ride height (conversion dependent center of gravity), loading, etc. For those who may have been successful doing this in the past, recognize you were not at the traction limit in your swerve when you applied some braking. It will not be successful with a hard swerve and hard braking. The laws of physics involved do not discriminate based on luck, experience, or the number of accident-free miles ridden. Understanding the limits of the Trike, the environment and the Rider and staying within them is the key to reducing the inherent risk involved in our chosen pastime. Take a Riding Course to learn about the risks and practice avoiding them under the watchful eyes of a trained instructor in a controlled environment in the near future! 4
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Upcoming Event's; Calendar is from the NH District web site. It shows rides/events from the 4 NH Chapter's! On this NEW District Calendar, your able to sign up to get email notifications of new or changed events! To do so, go to the calendar on the NH-E Web page, click on the blue box in the upper right of the calendar, in drop down, Notification: and go from there. If you need help, let me know.. Bill July 27-26 NE Rally July 28 NH-E Gathering@6:30 Aug 25 NH-E Gathering Aug 29-Sept 2 Wing Ding Sept 23 Ride /Cook-out.. be on look out for more info.. 6
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Newsletter Editor Web&Facebook Master; Hope you are enjoying the Chapter E Newsletter as well as the Web page and Facebook Page! Please feel free to send me anything you would like put into any of, or all 3 places!! Also welcome any ideas, comments or suggestions! *When you look through the Newsletter while online, You may see a number of items linked to other sites. Such as the GWRRA seal is linked to the GWRRA web site Can you find them all? *If you have any thing you would like posted in upcoming Newsletter's, Please get it to me by the 5th of the month. Bill, bascomwd@gmail.com ********************************************************************************* For Sale/Wanted Classifieds; Please send us any items you wish to sell, buy or trade! ********************************************************************************* Region B ; Region B news can be found on their web site; http://www.gwrra-northeastregion.org/ ******************************************************************************* 8