NEWS ATVAM Attempting Record ATV Parade Recreation Management Degree Offered Additional Stories February 2 Mardi Gras Celebrations at H-D of WV February 2 CCC HOG Cornhole Tournament in the HOG Pavilion February 5 CCC HOG Executive Board Meeting February 14 Valentine's Day! February 15 CCC HOG Meeting February 28 Garage Party at H-D of WV March 4 CCC HOG Executive Board Meeting March 15 Service Open House at H-D of WV March 17 St. Patrick's Day March 21 CCC HOG Meeting March 23 Easter March 29 H-D of WV participates in the MDA Stride N Ride Forward this newsletter to a friend Contact Us HOT OFF THE FACTORY FLOOR 2008.5 Softail Cross Bones STRAIGHT TO OUR SHOWROOM FLOOR The new Harley-Davidson FLSTSB Softail Cross Bones cuts the aggressive profile of an authentic custom bobber, but with some dark twists that deliver a wickedly fun and emotional riding experience. FLSTSB Cross Bones features: Rigid-mount, 1584 cc Twin Cam 96B balanced engine 6-speed Cruise Drive transmission Black powder-coated engine with polished rocker box covers and pushrods and untreated fins Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (ESPFI) Gloss Black painted Springer front end with chrome springs Gloss Black mini ape-hanger handlebar Straight shot exhaust with chrome slash-cut mufflers Adjustable sprung solo seat with leather lacing 26.6-inch seat height Chopped front fender with striping Bobtail rear fender with striping Gloss Black cat-eye tank console with new speedometer face Gloss Black round air cleaner cover, oil tank and rear fender supports Distinctive five-gallon fuel tank with hand-laced leather tank panel and striping 200 mm rear tire Laced Steel front and rear wheels with Gloss Black painted rims Half-round old-school foot boards Horseshoe oil tank with Harley-Davidson patent badge Optional Smart Security System NOW IS THE TIME We Take Anything on Trade 105 years of Harley-Davidson. Be the proud owner of a limited numbered 105th Anniversary edition H-D motorcycle in chrome, copper, and vivid black. Now is the time to take advantage of 1.05% APR for up to 36 months. OAC This offer ends February 2nd. Coach Larry Holstine leads the teams in thier first ever CCC HOG Cornhole Challenge to be held this Saturday, February 2nd in the HOG Pavilion. CCC HOG takes on the River City Chapter out of Huntington, WV. The games will start at 11:00am. The day will be complete with a "corn" menu including corn dogs, corn chowder and of course, corn chips. Hope to see you there rooting on CCC! CCC HOG supported St. Judes through a cornhole tournament held on Jan. 12th. Our very own Mike Lekas and Larry Holstine came in 4th. Way to go guys! Looking for a rockin' place to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 3rd? If you are a CCC HOG member, come on out to the HOG Pavilion at Harley-Davidson of WV. We will be having a tailgate party complete with hot bologna. Bring your own camp chair. See you at 4:00pm. 2008 is shaping up to be a great riding year. There are already many rides being planned. In August we have the Sations Inn trip. This four hour ride to the Blue Ridge Parkway is one not to miss. We will post the info soon and rooms will be taken on a first come first served basis. The Kentucky State HOG Rally is being held in Pikeville, KY and CCC HOG plans to attend on Saturday, June 14th. Registration for the WV State HOG Rally is now underway! Don't wait do it now at www.wvstatehogrally.com Want to go to Milwaukee for the 105th celebration? CCC HOG has some rooms on hold. Checking in on August 27th and out on the 31st for $189/night. Rooms will be allotted on a first come first served basis. Please call Sarah Petry at 768.1600 for details. Thank you! Our 2008 Adventure Tour program will be modified from what it has been in the past in an effort to make it more *rider friendly*. The format for the 2008 CCC-HOG Adventure Tour will be as follows: ~All rides will be group rides leaving from HD of WV (except as noted **) ~The Road Captain(s) will keep the records of those on each ride ~Riders will receive points for each ride as indicated on the schedule below ~6 Points earns a Date Patch ~10 points earns an Event Pin ~14 points earns an “Adventure Tour” T-shirt ~High point scorers will receive a plaque + Name on HOG permanent plaque ~Entry fee for the 7-month event is $5.00 per participant ~Cost for WV Adventure Tour patch is $5.00 (for those new to the program) 2008 WV Adventure Tour Calendar April 12 ---- AMA Museum, Columbus, OH (2pts) April 20 ---- Sunday Lunch Ride (1 pt.) May 10 – 17 Myrtle Beach Bike Week** (2pts) May 16 - 25 Great Western Adventure III (2pts) May 25 ---- Sunday Lunch Ride (1pt.) June 21 ---- CCC HOG Poker Run (2pts) June 22 ---- Sunday Lunch Ride (1pt.) July 16-20 WV State HOG Rally** (2pts) July 27 ---- Sunday Lunch Ride (1pt.) August 8-10 Stations Inn Trip (2pts) August 17 ----Sunday Lunch Ride (1pt.) August 27-31 105th Anniversary, Milwaukee** (2pts) September 6 – Route 311 / Roanoke (2pts) September 21 Sunday Lunch Ride (1 pt.) October ?? -- Leaf Run (2pts) October 18 -- Bridge Day** (1pt.) October 19 -- Sunday Lunch Ride (1pt.) November 1 -- Adventure Tour Banquet As you may be able to see, there will be a lot of fun to have for a very modest fee. Most of these rides coincide with the typical yearly events that we’ve all participated in over the past several years. Significant costs of the program (awards, t-shirts, plaques, banquet, etc.) will be underwritten by sponsorships from business and individual supporters of CCC HOG. We will begin accepting entry fees for the Adventure Tour at the February HOG meeting. Plan now to participate in these 2008 rides. sb 105th Celebration Summerfest Grounds will be rockin' on Friday and Saturday night. On four mail stages from noon-11pm join the H-D family and friends to see musical acts* including: ZZ Top Daughtry The Black Crowes Direks Bentley Peter Frampton Los Lonely Boys Blue Oyster Cult War Foghat Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Puddle of Mud Gary Allan Buddy Guy Blind Melon Cameo Dr. John Black Rebel Motorcycle Club *musical acts subject to change 105th Celebration with "The Boss" On Saturday night, August 30, 2008, we are thrilled to welcome Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Milwaukee to celebrate the 105th Anniversary. This will be an additional concert held outside the Summerfest Grounds at the Roadhouse at the Lakefront and will require a separate ticket from the official 105th Anniversary ticket. Only 105th Anniversary ticket holders will be eligible to purchase Saturday night concert tickets. All customers who purchase an official 105th ticket will receive a confirmation code to enter the site to purchase a Bruce Springsteen ticket. The tickets will go on-sale on April 5, 2008, (8:00 a.m. CST). For every official 105th ticket purchased, the customer will qualify for one Bruce Springsteen concert ticket. If multiple official 105th tickets are bought in one purchase, they will receive only one code, but will qualify for the same amount of Bruce Springsteen tickets equivalent to the number of official 105th tickets purchased. Due to limited capacity, Bruce Springsteen concert tickets will be on a first-come, firstserve basis. Bruce Springsteen tickets will be $40.00 (plus $2.50 for tax, S&H). This will be an amazing evening! 105th Celebration - HOG 25th Anniversary Concert In early January, H.O.G.® announced that legendary rockers Aerosmith* and Kid Rock* will headline its 25th Anniversary Concert at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, on Thursday, August 28, 2008. Only H.O.G. members will have the opportunity to purchase the 40,000 tickets available for the concert, including 6,000 seats on the stadium infield. Concert tickets go on sale Wednesday, March 12, 2008, at 8:00 a.m. CST and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. H.O.G. members can purchase as many as 25 tickets for $25.00 each exclusively via H.O.G.’s members-only Web site, members.hog.com. You only need one H.O.G. membership number to order 25 tickets. In addition to the ticketed evening concert featuring Aerosmith and Kid Rock, the free, all day CLUB H.O.G.® 25 on the Miller Park grounds will feature live musical entertainment* and comedians, a ride-in motorcycle show with the chance to win awards, including the 7th Annual Willie G. Award, MDA fund-raising activities, performances by stunt riders and motorcycle drill teams, the H.O.G.® Wall of Ink, exhibits and much more. Admission to the CLUB H.O.G.® 25 events preceding the concert is free to H.O.G. members and one guest. SPEED Channel to air 30 Minute test ride of new Rocker Models A group of seasoned riders, including Willie G. Davidson, Senior Vice President and Chief Styling Officer and Bill Davidson, Vice President of Core Customer Marketing meet at Bartels' Harley-Davidson in Marina Del Ray, California, and begin a ride which takes them from the Pacific Coast Highway, moving through the hills of Malibu, and finishing off on the infamous streets of Hollywood. Along the ride they meet up with Carey Hart, freestyle motocross rider, co-owner of Hart & Huntington Tattoo Co. (H&H) and avid Harley-Davidson enthusiast. Carey takes the Rocker for a test ride and gives his impressions. Airing times (all EST) are as follows: Sat., Feb 2 at 11 a.m. Tues., Feb 5 at 8:30 p.m. Tues., Feb 5 at 12:30 a.m. Wed., Feb 6 at 8:30 a.m. Thur., Feb 21 at 3 a.m. Iron Butt Ride Continued... Although I still had the opportunity to give up my spot in the rally by not sending in the entry fee deposit it only took about 15 seconds to make up my mind to get on with it. I sent in the required registration forms, deposit, and release forms within a few days. I was officially entered in “The World’s Toughest Motorcycle Competition.” Practically every spare waking moment from that time until the end of August, 2007 was spent thinking about the Rally and how to adequately prepare for and participate in it. I needed to get into better physical shape. I needed to get mentally prepared. I needed to get the right bike for the job. I needed to prepare and accessorize the bike for the rigors of the Rally. And, because I had never participated in a motorcycle endurance rally, I needed to enter as many rallies as possible prior to the IBR to get a sense of how to efficiently plan and ride in a rally so that I might have a respectable chance of finishing the IBR. Where to start? Where to start? I sold a 1996 BMW R1100RT in 2004 because, at the time, I was trying to simplify my life by getting rid of stuff that I had collected over the years. The RT was a good bike but I didn’t need two bikes (the one I kept was a Harley Super Glide T-Sport). When the “Congratulations . . . “ e-mail arrived the bike I had at that time (and still have) was a Harley Road Glide . . . a decent enough touring bike but not, in my opinion, a bike suited for the rigors of endurance rallying. So, because of the good luck and satisfaction that I had with the R1100RT, I bought a new 2006 BMW R1200RT from Holt BMW in Athens, Ohio (where I had previously purchased the R11RT). This was the ideal opportunity to get the new sport touring bike that was getting all of the great reviews in the bike press and was, in my opinion, the right *tool* for the job at hand. I immediately began to think about what I needed to do to get the bike where it needed to be to do the rally. Modifications / accessories to the RT included the following: Aftermarket Sargent seat Beadrider seat cover Barbacks to reposition the handlebars Foot peg lowering brackets HID headlight bulb replacements (later changed back to the stock H7 halogen bulbs . . . the HID’s were incompatible with the BMW computerized electrical system) Hella FF50 driving lights Motolights GS mirrors 4 gallon Tourtank gas tank (mounted on the luggage rack) with pump (under the seat) Pelican Case top box (mounted on the passenger seat) J & M CB radio XM radio Countdown timer Garmin Zumo GPS Garmin 2730 GPS Touratech tank bag and side bags Centech accessory fuse panel EZ Pass toll booth transponder Panasonic Toughbook laptop computer with “Streets & Trips” mapping software Two Polaroid 600 Cameras Most of the electrical work was done by Roger Sinclair, the Irish Spanner, in Richmond, VA who I met at the Jacksonville Iron Butt Dinner in March, 2007. Roger had helped to prepare several bikes for endurance riding and the Iron Butt Rally in the past and he impressed me with his knowledge of BMW’s (he was a former BMW mechanic) and what would be required to get my bike set up properly. He was also a great cheerleader in helping me to get mentally ready for the IBR. In an effort to become comfortable with the BMW I knew I needed to ride it . . . a lot. The first long distance venture was a shake-down ride in March that took me to Jacksonville (to the IBA annual Bike Week dinner) and then to Phoenix, AZ and back home to South Charleston, WV. The distance traveled during the six days I was on the road was 4900 miles. There were no mechanical issues with the bike and I felt good (although a little tired) when I got back home. By the end of January, I had submitted applications for three shorter endurance rallies . . . all in an effort to get prepared for the IBR. The first one was the Cape Fear 1000, a 26 hour event in April that had four starting locations with all riders ending up in Wilmington, NC. I started in Cairo, Illinois and rode 1300 miles through KY, IN, TN, and VA to NC in addition to the 900 miles I rode getting to Cairo and back home from Wilmington. Being the first endurance rally I ever attempted I didn’t plan a very efficient route, but I learned a lot from talking with several participants at the end of the event. I finished 36th out of 81 riders. Respectable, but I knew I could do better. In May, I rode in the Mason-Dixon 20-20 rally, a 32 hour event that started and ended in York, PA. The route I chose wiggled thru MD, VA, WV, and back to PA. The route length was 1100 miles plus 600 miles getting to York and back. Using what I learned from the CF1000 I planned a more efficient route and ended up in 20th place out of 57 riders. The last endurance rally before the IBR was the five-day Beast in the East (BitE) rally. This rally, during the week of the July 4th holiday, started and ended in Statesville, NC with a mid-rally checkpoint in Wilkes Barre, PA. This would be more like the IBR than the previous events in that sleep management would be vitally important to do well. The first leg of the rally had several bonus locations that were at the end of dirt, mud, pig shit, gravel, and generally non-existent roads leading to obscure cemeteries and other rural *attractions* literally in the middle of nowhere. The most *memorable* road to a bonus was the 12 mile rock / boulder / gravel / log strewn trail across two ridges of the Appalachian Mountains in Tazewell County, Virginia from VA-42 to Burkes Garden. Up until this time I could count the number of minutes I had ever ridden on non-paved roads on the fingers of one hand. Although I survived the travels across these “goat paths” I didn’t particularly care to ride on them. The first leg took me through NC, SC, TN, VA, WV, and PA. The second leg of the BitE route went thru MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA (to Venice, about 60 miles south-east of New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River), and FL before returning back to NC. Thankfully, there were no *questionable roads* on the second leg. I rode 4,700 miles plus 450 miles to get to Statesville and back during the BitE and finished 10th out of 32 riders. Were it not for a transcription error in documenting mileage on a receipt (that cost me several thousand points) I would have finished 4th. Anyway, I was getting better at this “rally thing” and felt that I was about as ready as I could be for the Iron Butt Rally in August. Harley-Davidson of West Virginia 4924 MacCorkle Ave South Charleston, WV 25309 www.wvharley.com Click here for store hours and map. To subscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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