ccbr monthly meeting cache creek casino resort

MARCH 2013
BMW MOA Charter #147
CCBR Web Site www.ccbr.org
BMW RA Charter #203
CCBR MONTHLY MEETING
CACHE CREEK CASINO RESORT
March 10, 2013 at 12 Noon
Harvest Buffet Restaurant, 14455 Highway 16, Brooks, CA 95606
For Details Click the Link Below:
http://www.ccbr.org/Default.aspx?pageId=848879&eventId=598839&EventViewMode=EventDetails
Many Thanks to Terry Tracy for organizing this meeting
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The President Says!!
By Bob Kuykendall
Are you a lane splitter? Well, I see that the California Highway Patrol has issued Lane Splitting
Guidelines for motorcycles - I guess it is difficult to lane split if you are in a car. Oh, they call that action,
"He cut me off!”, followed by your favorite deleted expletive. Ellen and I do not lane split since the BMW
sidecar rig is difficult to navigate between a row of stopped or slow moving vehicles.
Here are the actual Lane Splitting Guidelines from the CHP web site, so you will be able to tell any
questioning law enforcement officers that you have read them and abide by them:
Lane splitting in a safe and prudent manner is not illegal in the state of California. The term lane splitting,
sometimes known as lane sharing, filtering or white-lining, refers to the process of a motorcyclist riding
between lanes of stopped or slower moving traffic or moving between lanes to the front of traffic stopped
at a traffic light.
Motorcyclists who are competent enough riders to lane split, should follow these general guidelines if
choosing to lane split:
1. Travel at a speed that is no more than 10 MPH faster than other traffic - danger increases at higher
speed differentials.
2. It is not advisable to lane split when traffic flow is at 30 mph or faster - danger increases as overall
speed increases.
3. Typically, it is more desirable to split between the #1 and #2 lanes than between other lanes.
4. Consider the total environment in which you are splitting, including the width of the lanes, size of
surrounding vehicles, as well as roadway, weather, and lighting conditions.
5. Be alert and anticipate possible movements by other road users.
The Four R's or "Be-Attitudes" of Lane Splitting: Be Reasonable, be Responsible, be Respectful, be
aware of all Roadway and traffic conditions.
Note:These general guidelines are not guaranteed to keep you safe. Lane splitting should not be
performed by inexperienced riders. These guidelines assume a high level of riding competency and
experience. Every rider has ultimate responsibility for his or her own decision making and safety. Riders
must be conscious of reducing crash risk at all times."
April Meeting - Special Guest Speaker
Be sure to put the April 14th meeting on your calendar. Not only do we have super Sierra roads to ride,
we will have John Weinholz, owner of Cycle Specialties, speaking to us about his trip to Morocco where
BMW will introduce the new water cooled BMW 1200 GS and other new models. So come and ask all
the questions you want before you stop by his showroom.
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HUGE CONTEST WITH $750 IN PRIZES
Continues for One More Year!
Listen up all you CCBR’ers. There’s mucho money to be made. We have a great contest
going for members who submit the most half page or larger pieces for the 2013 Exhaust
Notes. Stories? Captioned Photos? Yes…..anything goes. Now for the really great part.
Prizes will be awarded at our December 2013 meeting. So dust off the old Remington, put
on your Ellory Queen hat, pour a Scotch over, light up your Camel and let the words flow.
1. Send the text of your article in the body of an email or attach as a .DOC file.
2. Please do not embed pictures in your text. Attach your pictures to the email as .JPG
files.
3. Identify and write a caption for each picture. Include this in the body of the email
or in the .DOC file.
Send your e-mail to our Exhaust Notes Editor, Rich Alves at [email protected].
2013 EVENT CALENDAR – For details go to www.ccbr.org
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A WHACKY STORY part one
By T J Forsyth
After 30+ years of government service I retired in August. I was supposed to take a two or three week
ride (BMW motorcycle) up Highway One through Oregon, Washington, and tour Victoria. Well because
of some logistical issues, I was delayed leaving so I missed my window of opportunity (pending weather).
So instead of going north I decided to go south on Highway One. On a Sunday morning I got up at
05:00 and started out on my trip. When I got at the edge of my driveway I stopped because I couldn’t
see. My headlamp was burned out. After a few weeks of delay, I put the high beam on and went. (I
also have a fog lamp as a backup.) I went to the Mexican border and back in five days and four nights
(over 1,200 miles). The first day I did 587 miles in 14 hours on winding, twisting roads, and city streets.
What fun! That Beemer is a joy! The only problem I had was the burned out headlamp. While I was at
the Mexican border town of San Ysidro I thought I should have lunch. And lo and behold! What do I
see??? A Churches Chicken! (I need to let some of you know that several years ago when I was in
Texas, I was looking for a place to eat. I found this place called Churches Chicken. Because I knew
a Dick Church from Milwaukee I thought why not try his name’s sake chicken. Well over the years I
have kidded Dick about his chicken. In Texas the Chicken was huge and I told him it was as big as a
horse and I called it Horse/chicken.) Well because I know Dick Church, I thought I had better give him
my business and eat lunch there.
So I ordered two pieces of chicken (remembering the Horse/Chicken I had in Texas a few years ago).
Weelll it seems that I don’t speak the correct language because I was served three pieces of chicken.
Thankfully the people who feed the chickens at the border don’t have a very large chicken-feed budget
because they weren’t as big as a horse. While I was eating this Wacky Chicken came over and acted
like a long lost friend. I didn’t know what to make of him so I just tried to be polite. As I finished my
lunch, he asked if I would take him home with me. He said he very was lonely and needed some
companionship. I asked if Dick knew he was trying to get away? He said “No, but I can be a great help
to you especially when you watch football.” He told me that he does an excellent chicken dance when
my team makes a touchdown. He also said that he would make every effort to hold down any obnoxious
noises and not embarrass me. Well I didn’t think Bev and Wacky could live under the same roof so, I
told him he needs to talk to Dick about his concerns. He mentioned something about a chopping block
and hot oil. I told him that I needed to use the restroom and I went outside and around the side of the
restaurant. – continued on page 8
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Continued from page 6 – I then quickly got on my motorcycle and sped away. As I sighed with relief I
remembered back home we have a crazy chicken (El Polo Loco) and I didn’t think we need Wacky to
add to the craziness around there.
Because I had gotten sunburned I needed to stop at a drug store and get some sun block. I figured that
my Beemer is so quiet (unlike a Harley) that Wacky didn’t even know I was gone so I stopped at a drug
store a few blocks away. When I came out of the drug store, what do I see? It’s Wacky sitting on my
motorcycle with a helmet, seatbelt on and the air conditioner turned up on the highest setting. It was
very hot. I don’t know where Wacky got his helmet, maybe from one of the football teams he tried to
join so he could do the chicken dance whenever they made a touchdown.
Wacky Chicken looked something like this
(I drew this from memory).
I looked like this
Well I had to do some fast thinking, what am I gonna do with Wacky? I got on the bike and went to the
gas station to fuel up. While there I asked Wacky if he needed to use the restroom because it’s going
to be a long ride home. Wacky decided I was right and made a beeline to the restroom. As soon as
he went in, I gunned outa there like there was no tomorrow and hit the Interstate 5 heading north.
Southern California is the pitts, masses of people, vehicles, and congestion. I stayed over two nights
in San Simeon to rest up from Wacky and the insanity! Next year, Oregon/Washington coast and Victoria
for some sanity. Hopefully I won’t see any Church’s Chicken or crazy chickens! I do have to admit,
every time I see my team make a touchdown I will miss seeing Wacky’s chicken dance. When I get
home what do I see? An ad for Phil Angelides wanting to “PLUCK”. Maybe I should have sent Wacky
to Sacramento for Phil to practice on. He could pluck a cluck!
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IT S ALL ABOUT THE RIDE!
by Rich Alves
This story began, I believe, at a breakfast table. As I understand it, Mrs. Prez turned to Mr. Prez and
said something like, AI think you should talk to our Webmaster about updating the home page on our
web site.@ The next thing I knew, my Inbox was blinking, beeping and generally making a nuisance of
itself.
I scoured the archives for pictures of CCBR members having fun. This is not a small task as many of
us become a bit trance like when the camera points our way. Having retrieved three that would work,
I updated the Home Page and then sent an email to the Board members and asked them to check it
out and give suggestions. Jon Beining phoned. ARich, the heading on the Home Page says AIt=s All
About the Ride,@ but there=s no picture of anyone riding! Dang it, back to the archives.
The first good picture I came across was one of Alan
Mueller riding the Tail of the Dragon in Deals Gap, North
Carolina. Nice shot of Alan, with beautiful scenery, riding
perhaps the most famous motorcycle road in North
America. But then as I tried to look at the page through
the eyes of someone who found our web site through a
Goggle search, I thought, AThis won=t work. The rider=s all
alone and this is not what we=re about.@
I then emailed CCBR member, Chuck Brown, who has an
extensive collection of photos, AI'm updating our web site
and need a
p i c t u r e
showing
a
few BMWs riding together on pavement that would fit the
caption, "It's All About the Ride!" Do you have anything
that I could use?@ He did and he sent me a picture of a
shop ride to the Courtland area up in the Delta. Looking
at the picture reminded me of a CCBR ride many years
ago where about 45 riders showed up in Hollister for a
California Mission ride led, I believe, by Tony Westlake.
They (I was a newbie back then) had to break the group
into three just to manage all of us. This was a good fit for
me back when I was an inexperienced and younger rider.
(I know, younger is relative.) Cycle Specialties and
Cal/Tri-Valley Moto are doing a great job with larger group
rides. There seemed to be no real reason for CCBR to try
to offer the same thing.
Next I came across a picture from the eblast for the Cycle
Specialties January Shop Ride. This seemed a better fit.
Three to six riders of similar riding style are now my
preference. Maybe I could borrow their picture. CCBR
continues with smaller group rides in search of interesting
routes, sharing good food and great camaraderie. These
pictures reminded me of who we were, who we are, and
what’s the difference.
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NEW BIKE BUT WHICH WIND SCREEN?
By Neil Hansen
First, after seven years of being listed with CCBR as having an "other" motorcycle, a Ducati Multistrada,
Hopefully I am back in good graces with a new F700GS . Though to be fair. I never had any problems
with being an "other" with club members nor at our annual BASH. Actually, many fellow BMW riders
were usually asking questions about the red Italian.
Finding the right after-market screen is very subjective and can also be expensive. And height is a big
factor (I'm 5'-8.537"). After buying and selling three different screens on the Internet for the Ducati to
settle on the best one, I did not want to go through that process again for the new BMW. The stock
screen is a 7" high fly screen. It did a fairly good
job on the body but the wind was very noisy
above the upper part of my Shoei RF-1100
helmet. So what to do? Fortunately, there are
many after-market screen choices but which
one? I finally cut out a card board version,
slicing the back with an utility knife to bend it,
going from the tallest to the shortest screen.
Duct tape held the cut-out easily at freeway
speeds. Yes, I know it was an ugly thing to
attach to a brand new BMW but it worked. After
each highway test ride, I jotted some
observation notes on my smart phone and cut
the card board screen down to the next lower
size.
All measurements are from the lowest center
line to the top of the screen. The 10" BMW
provided good body coverage but was noisy
from the bottom to the top the helmet. The 14"
Touratec had less upper helmet noise than the
10" BMW screen with very good body protection
from the wind. The 13" Cee Baily Sport, though
best looking, was not much better than the stock
fly screen. The best one for me appears to be
the Cee Baily 16" or the 18" screen, which did
not block my view. Hopefully, this may help
some of you pick an after-market screen.
To the right and on the following
page are some pictures from the
February CCBR meeting and tour
of the Niles Essanay Silent Film
Museum taken by Rich Meissner
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Post-Lunch, Pre-Tour sun break
Our docent introduces us to the Essanay
De Prez leads de way
Projector room is lined with tin for fire resistance
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2013 CCBR MEMBERSHIP AWARDS
By Bob Kuykendall
Name
Years – Due Date
Twenty–Five Years
Joe & Christine Finney
25 - August
Twenty Years
Mike& Linda Crawford
20 - January
Steve Kramme
20 - January
Pat Holland
20 - July
Tom & Lupe Johnson
20 - January
Fifteen- Years
Douglas & Shirley Ralston
15 - April
William Wolner
15 - April
Jay & Jeanne McDonald
15 - July
Russ & Jeanette Taylor
15 - October
Rudy Mullay
15 - October
Ken Gates & Joan
15 - December
Ten Years
Jim Lovell
10 - January
Neil Hansen
10 - August
Oliver Wright
10 - September
Five Years
Dan Smith
5 - January
David Haley
5 - September
Richard Raley
5 - December
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CENTRAL CAL BMW RIDERS
OFFICERS, BOARD MEMBERS and EXTRAORDINARY VOLUNTEERS
President
Bob Kuykendall
(925) 570-9957
Vice-President
Rich Alves
(925) 240-6970
Secretary
Rich Meissner
(209) 578-1933
Treasurer
Ellen Kuykendall
(925) 300-3512
Director and Co-Webmaster
Terry Tracy
(415) 760-1070
Director for Meetings
Jay MacDonald
(209) 966-3895
Director for Membership
Bob Kuykendall
(925) 570-9957
Director for Rides
Phil James
(925) 372-8155
Director for the BASH
Jon Beining
(707) 763-3063
Exhaust Notes Editor
Rich Alves
(925) 240-6970
Webmaster
Rich Alves
(925) 240-6970
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