Michigan Sport Touring Report January 2017 Editor Ian Orr 1 st Annual Awards Banquet The wrapped up 2016 in style and with record attendance at their 1 st annual awards banquet on January 7 th at Karl s Kabin. A total of 85 iders and their significant others spent a memorable evening recounting last year s rides, awarding fellow riders and yes, sharing some obligatory off-color humor. Before listing all the awards winners we would like to recognize and thank the following people and organizations who added a special touch to the evening s events. MJ Allmond: Sweet Treats Give Away and Official Event Greeter MJ Allmond, Curt Vohlken & Susan Ozimek: Banquet Room Setup Julie Badge: Table Centerpieces Don Pennington: Event Photographer Alibi Bar & Grill: Breakfast Give Away BMWSEM (John Horner): ider of the year sponsor & Banquet Meal Give Away Doc s Sport Retreat: Breakfast Give Away Ducati Detroit: Dessert Table baked goods by Cantoro s Italian Market GO3: Long stem roses for the Ladies by Kroger Floral of South Lyon. Banquet Meal Give Away 2016 Awards ider Of The Year Curt Vohlken ookie Of The Year Susan Ozimek Recruiter of the Year Mike Osmer Most rides attended Kelly McCrystal & Gregg Mitchell East Breakfast Perfect Attendance Phil Bolichowski West Breakfast Best Attendance Jim Pickett & Curt Vohlken Most Average Mileage Female Rider Vivian Johnston: 10,141 miles Most Average Mileage Male Rider Glen Feldspauch: 8,876 miles Highest Mileage Female Rider Jan Pennington: 20,132 miles Highest Mileage Male Rider Bart Reiter: 24,041 miles Life s a Beach Grand Tourers Charles Fider, Bob Komjathy, Don Pennington & Jan Pennington Life s a Beach Troll Steve Gross Congratulations to all the award winners and thanks to everyone who joined us to make the evening truly memorable.
Pictures of the banquet are on the photo gallery at 2016 Banquet pictures Curt Vohlken: ider Of The Year MJ Allmond: All Time Average Rider ider & ookie Of The Year + all previous SMOTYs Susan Ozimek: ookie Of The Year Ray & Marg Melosh: Happy Anniversary Ladies + Augie 2
Recruiter of the Year: Mike Osmer Most events attended Kelly McCrystal & Gregg Mitchell Life s A Beach: Grand Tourers Charles Fider, Bob Komjathy, Don Pennington & Jan Pennington Perfect Attendance East: Phil Bolichowski Best Attendance West: Curt Vohlken Life s A Beach: Troll Steve Gross 3
Heads Up Here s a listing of some of the upcoming local events and meetings within the next few weeks. If you know of a local motorcycle event in Michigan or Ontario the would be interested in send Ian Orr an e-mail at Communications@mstriders.com with the details. EAST Breakfast Meeting Saturday, January 21, 2016, @ 8:30 AM East breakfast meeting is at Doc s Sport Retreat in Livonia, MI. Doc's is located at 19265 Victor Parkway. East of I-275, north of 7 mile road and across from Dave and Buster s. Augie Fernades will be moderating this meeting. WEST Breakfast Meeting Saturday, February 14, 2016, @ 10:00 AM West breakfast meeting is at the Alibi Bar & Grill, 1394 E. Riverside Drive, Ionia, MI (www.alibionia.com). Please send an email to Gala (gschip@me.com) so she can plan on providing breakfast for everyone who attends. Bart will be moderating this meeting. Breakfast will be available for $11 plus tax & tip. 2017 Rides In 2017 we ll have a similar number of events for iders to attend. The dates for many events have already been set and are listed on the Events page of the Website (www.mstriders.com) Newsletter & Website The Newsletter and Website (www.mstriders.com/) belong to you, the riders. They both can only be as good and as interesting as you make them. If you've got something to say about a ride, your bike, perhaps a trip you re planning, whatever, send it in for the newsletter and/or website to: Ian Orr: Communications@mstriders.com Photo Gallery The maintains a SmugMug photo gallery (https://mstriders.smugmug.com/) to allow riders to upload and download pictures of various club events. Upload and download passwords are sent out to participants for each event. Click on the above link or visit the website and select the Photo Gallery link to check out all the event pictures. Dealer Members & News BMW Motorcycles of SE Michigan www.bmwmcsem.com/ Upcoming Saturday Seminars January 21 Personal Safety with Steve Cheston February 4 Motorcycling & Law with Attorney, Dondi Vesprini IMS Cleveland January 28 We are now taking reservations for tour bus #2. For $55 it's a stellar deal! No hassles with parking or parking fees, your admission to the show and a catered boxed lunch for your drive home. Thirsty for refreshments after all of the excitement from the show? We supply 4
refreshments. Call today (734-453-0500) and talk with Caitlyn to register. BMW of Grand Rapids www.bmwmcgr.com/ Off Road Riding Academy February 21, 2017 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spartanburg, SC Fox Powersports www.foxpowersports.com/ College Bike Shop www.collegebikeshop.com/ This two-day program is the pinnacle of offroad rider training. After a brief classroom session, you'll rank yourself when it comes to riding off road and the head outside to start riding. ONLY $1250. Discounted from $1595. BMW Motorcycle provided, you choose the model. Contact Andrea or Susan at 616-530- 6900 with questions. Ducati Detroit www.ducatidetroit.com/ Congratulations to Ducati Detroit Banquet desserts compliments of Ducati Detroit Curt s new kilt 5
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