EDITION0609 H.O.G. Chapter Officers 2009 Director Kent Blackman Assistant Director Woody Simpson Secretary Janet Simpson Treasurer Paula Gunn Activities Officer Amy Both Membership Secretary Crissy Young Ladies of Harley Andy Wyckoff Editors Janet Simpson Jeff Holland Historian Mike Gilkison Chad Schmidt Safety Officer Bob Chadwick Remembrance Officer Donn Wyckoff Senior Photographer Mindy Gilkison Photographers Terri Tinker Steve Swinney Media Officer Jeff Holland Web Master Bob Ford Road Captains Jeff Blystone Craig Both Dennis Evans Mike Gilkison Bob Gunn Lehman Heaviland Bob Hyer Jimmie Loper Pat Neary Chad Schmidt Larry Southers Joe Tinker Jeff Weir Tex Williams Dinner Rides Dinner rides leave Hill Park, 23rd & Maywood, Independence, MO, at 6:30 PM. Hill Park is just east of I-435 on 23rd Street. If you can’t make it to the park, meet us at the restaurant at 7:00-7:15 PM. June 11 (Thursday) Bandana’s BBQ 4140 S Noland Road, Independence, MO 816-373-7800 June 23 (Tuesday) HOG Night Worth North July 6 (Monday) Tanner’s 2701 Running Horse Road Platte City, MO 816-858-7444 July20 (Monday) Bd’s Mongolian Barbeque 19750 E Valley View Parkway Blue Springs, MO 816 795 5430 July 28 (TUESDAY) HOG Night Worth North June Birthdays Willie Elkins - June 4 Steve Stites - June 8 Debbie Blackman - June 11 Kent Blackman - June 13 Kim Blystone - June 20 Jon Young - June 22 Tony Oryall - June 25 Bruce Dern - June 4 Ben Johnson - June 13 Tim Allen - June 13 Thomas Hayden Church - June 17 If you would like your special day posted in this column please send name, month and day to: Donn Wyckoff at hogon3@sbcglobal.net Calendar of Events Just Click on The Calendar to View and Print the Calendar of Your Choice. Meeting Minutes Click on the Scroll to View Meeting Minutes and Treasures Report. Print Version Click on the Printer To Contact The Greater Kansas City H.O.G. Chapter Kent Blackman Chapter Director 816-225-3241 Woody Simpson Assistant Director 816-560-9046 Amy Both Activities Officer 913-669-6139 For All Other Officers & Inquires, Contact Kent Blackman Listed Above Your Dealership Personnel For HOG Information is Jack Twibell North Store 816-420-9000 Tammy Edgmon Blue Springs 816-224-5005 For Pre-Recorded Information Concerning Upcomming Events 816-503-7267 HOG Information 24 x 7 DON'T FORGET To Make Plans To Participate With Million Mile Monday June 29, 2009 6609 North Oak Trafficway Gladstone MO 64118 Local Phone: 816-420-9000 Local Fax: 816-420-8865 Toll Free Phone: 1-800-799-BIKE 3100 NW Jefferson Blue Springs, Missouri 64015 Local Phone: 816-224-5005 Local Fax: 816-224-6656 Toll Free Phone: 1-877-4-RUMBLE What do you think of the HOG Knows new format?  I Love it  I Like it  I Dislike it  I'm Unsure Editors Note: If you like what you see in this"new" electronic newsletter & updated website; please stop by the dealerships and tell them "Thank You For Their Support" because without our dealer sponsors, we don't exist. REMINDER! The Treasures Report & Meeting Minutes are PASSWORD PROTECTED. Not quite sure where Hill Park is located? How about the Children's Fountain? Click on the image below to find out! Fact: A Storm Troopers Patch is awarded for 100+ miles of riding in a natural form of airborne moisture, while on an official GKCHOG ride. Have you registered for the HOG National Rally in OKC? Registration closes June 12, 2009 Missouri State HOG Rally September 10 -12 St. Charles, MO Registration deadline: July 23 Click below to Pre- register: LaMonte – Hot Shoe Races Saturday, June 6th RIDE LEVEL: A LaMonte – Hot Shoe Races Saturday, June 6th Want to see what Flat Track racing is all about but couldn’t make it to Springfield over Memorial Day. Then here is your chance to see some of the big name guys at a local track. LA Raceway, just west of Sedalia, will be hosting an AMA Hot Shoe series race. Come join us for some great racing and camaraderie. We will be gathering at Blue Springs Harley at 3:00pm. Be fueled up and ready to ride. We will have a quick meeting and then its kick-stands up at 3:15pm. It’s off to the AMA Flat Track races under the lights in LaMonte, MO. Races start at 7:00pm and will be over around 10:30pm. Tickets will be purchased at the gate for $18.00 per person. After the races we will head back to Blue Springs. If you have questions or need any additional information, contact Road Captain Jeff Blystone on his cell at 816-806-3574. Wheels For The Cure Blue Springs Harley-Davidson will be sponsoring the Wheels for the Cure ride on July 11, 2009. Save the date for this great event for Breast Cancer Research! Volunteer opportunities for the day of the event are available. Contact Amy Both at bothofus@kc.rr.com for more information. Women’s Clinic of KC Benefit Saturday, June 20th Join me on Saturday June 20th on a ride to benefit the Women's Clinic of Kansas City. This is a 100-mile dice run. The ride starts from the Red-X in Riverside, Missouri, but I will be leading a ride to Riverside from Children's Fountain at 8:45 a.m. To learn about the clinic go to www.thewomensclinic.net/events. You can even register online. Donations are $20 for rider and $15 for passengers. This includes a lunch and live music with drawings for some cool items. When that ride is over, I will be leading the group to KCIR to join in the festivities hosted by Blue Springs Harley-Davidson. Any questions, contact me at 816-942-8665 or at kcultrahog@aol.com Tom Countryman Diamond in the Dirt Races Sat, June 27th to Sun, June 28th RIDE LEVEL: B Come join us for some car racing. We are planning on watching Modified Race cars speed around the prized “Diamond in the Dirt” track in Wheatland, MO. Lucas Oil has done a great job of improving the grandstand and concessions around one of the best high banked dirt tracks in Missouri. We will start out at Blue Springs Harley at 9:45am for a short meeting with bikes gassed and kick stands up at 10:00am. We will travel south winding our way through the country side stopping for lunch around 1pm. Then it will be off to Wheatland, MO and the Blystone Farm. We will drop our gear and set up camps at the farm house and then head to the track. Race tickets can be purchased at the gate for $20.00 a piece and dinner will be on your own at the concession stands – they have terrific burgers and outstanding funnel cakes as well as other tempting fare. We are planning on spending the night at our farm house. We have sleeping space for 6 with additional floor space for others. If you like to camp we have room for more. There are hotels also available close by contact Jeff for details on these if you prefer. We will have a relaxing ride home on Sunday and will arrive back in the Metro area mid-afternoon. If you have questions or need any additional info contact Road Captain Jeff Blystone on his Cell 816-806-3574 4th Of July In The Rockies 4th of July in the Rockies Join us as we celebrate our nation’s birthday in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. We will depart on July 1from the Cabela's, near Kansas Speedway, Parking Lot M. Riders meeting will be at 8:45 am, departing at 9:00 am and riding to Burlington Colorado. We are staying at The Chaparral Motel 719 346 5361; rooms are under Tom Countryman or Greater Kansas City HOG. On July 2, we will ride up through Ft. Collins and follow Poudre Canyon to Silverthorne, Colorado. We will stay in Silverthorne for three nights. Contact me for lodging info. We will be riding around the area and crossing or riding to the top of ten mountain passes, eight of which will be the Continental Divide. On July 4th, we will have a Bar-B-Q and pool party at my condo and watch the fireworks over Lake Dillon. We will depart the morning of July 5 and ride to Garden City, Kansas and stay at the Best Western Red Baron 620-275-4164. Again the rooms are under Tom Countryman or Greater Kansas City HOG. We will arrive back in KC on July 6. Any questions contact me at kcultrahog@aol.com or 816-942-8665. Tom Countryman New Members Dave Tolen, 09 Street Glide - John Salmons, 09 Night Train Thunder Run Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Join JDRF and GKCHOG on Saturday, June 13th for the 2nd Annual Thunder Run. This year the ride will be approximately 3 hours and include a poker run, and we will be ending at the Kansas City Power & Light District! Pre-register or register that day. It’s $30 rider/$15 co-rider and look what you get: • Collectors Commemorative T-Shirt • World Famous Worth BBQ Lunch • One Raffle Ticket for a Brand New Harley • Three Tickets for other Kick-Ass Prizes • That Priceless Feeling that YOU are Helping Others • A Great reason to go Ride!! Find more info at www.thunderrunkc.com See you there! Route 66 Get Your Kick's on Route 66. Join us as we ride down some of the old Route 66 to the HOG rally in Oklahoma City. I will be leading a ride from Carthage, MO to Oklahoma City on June 25th. I will then be leading a ride from Oklahoma City to the Texas state line and back on June 26th. We will see some of the original sights and buildings from an era gone by. We will also be able to ride on some of the original Route 66 highway. I will be leaving the Flying J in Peculiar, MO at 7:00 P.M. on June 24th and riding down to Carthage. Anyone that would like to join me is welcome. There are many motels in Carthage. There is a motel for any budget. I will be staying at the Best Western, 417-359-5900. There is a Super 8, 417-359-9000; Econo Lodge, 877-886-6602; Budget Inn, 417-358-6911. The meeting point for the morning of June 25 is the old Boots Motel on the southwest corner of Central and Garrison. I will be having a riders meeting at 8:10 A.M. and we will be departing promptly at 8:30. The riders meeting will include some history of Route 66 and what we will be seeing on the ride. We will end the ride in Oklahoma City at the State Fair Grounds, which is the rally site. The following day will be even more exciting as Oklahoma has a lot of the original road. Any questions, contact me at kcultrahog@aol.com or 816-942-8665. Tom Countryman Route 66 Part 2 Tom Countryman is doing a Route 66 ride to the National Rally in OKC. He is planning to stay in Carthage on Wednesday evening. If you don’t want to stay at Carthage on Wednesday evening, Woody Simpson will be leaving Thursday, June 25, from Flying J, Peculiar, MO to hook up with Tom in Carthage. Meet at 6:00 am for a 6:15 am departure. If you need more information, contact Woody at 816 560 9046. Progressive Brunch Eat to Ride and Ride to Eat! Join GKCHOG for our annual progressive brunch on Sunday, June 7th. Meet at Hill Park fueled and ready to roll at 8:00 a.m. for an 8:18 a.m. departure. We will then begin our journey eating our way through the city. Swimsuits and towels would be appropriate to have with you for our last stop! LOH Moon Marble Ride Saturday, June 20th, 2009 We will assemble at Blue Springs Harley Davidson with a 10:00 am departure for Moon Marble Company in Bonner Springs, KS. We may see a live demonstration of marble making as well as the Moon Marble Museum, Museum Bathroom, and the Gem and Fountain Room. Pick up a souvenir of your trip at their Retail Store. Afterwards we will head to lunch where the ride will end. Check out their website at www.moonmarble.com to see what a fun time this will be. Hope to see you there! Andy Wyckoff, Ladies of Harley andyzmail@sbcglobal.net Million Mile Monday! Just say no to work on Monday, June 29th, and come join us for a Million Mile Monday ride to slap Albert the Bull! We'll also grab lunch at Darrell's for their world famous (or at least Iowa famous) tenderloins! This will be a day long ride of 400 miles and we'll cap off the day by meeting up with the Chapter at Fox and Hound for dinner. Come join the fun. For more information on this ride, contact Road Captain Craig Both at hdroaddog@kc.rr.com If you can’t get out of work, you can join us for a dinner ride. This ride will meet at Hill Park, 23rd & Maywood, Independence, MO, at 6:00 pm for a 6:15 PM departure. Hill Park is just east of I-435 on 23rd Street. We will ride to Fox and Hound, 19210-A E 39th Street, Independence, MO, where we’ll have appetizers and can order from the full menu. For more information regarding the dinner ride, contact Woody Simpson at woodyandjanet@fairpoint.net AHDRA Nitro Party! Be at Blue Springs Harley-Davidson Thursday June 18th, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for our All Harley Drag Race Association NITRO PARTY with LIVE entertainment, food, Hooter's Girls and more!!!! Volunteer opportunities are available! Please contact Amy Both at bothofus@kc.rr.com for more information. HARLEY MUSEUM RIDE July 16th thru 19th If you are like me, and didn't make it to Milwaukee last year, you haven't seen the new Harley-Davidson Museum. Or maybe you did go last year, but would like to see it again. In either case, join Woody & I for a GKC HOG Chapter ride in July to see not only the museum, but tours through some of the Harley plants in Milwaukee. The ride will leave on Thursday, July 16th and ride straight through to Milwaukee. Now I know that is a long way but it is do-able and necessary for the time we have to do all the things we want to do there. Friday, Leah Whaley our regional HOG rep., will be with us all day to guide us to the Harley plants for tours and show us some of the sites of Milwaukee. Saturday morning we will head over to the museum, with lunch at the museum. We will leave Milwaukee from the museum in the afternoon and ride to Springfield, Ill. to spend the night, putting us a little closer to home for the ride back to KC on Sunday. Room blocks have been made at: Super 8-Racine, Wisconsin Thurs & Fri. July 16th. & 17th. (262)884-0486 Rates are $54.00/Thurs. & $59.00/Fri. These are blocked under Simpson Comfort Suites-Springfield, Ill. Saturday July 18th. (217)753-4000 Rates are $84.15 These are blocked under GKC HOG group #2369 These will only be held till June 18th. Please don't wait too long to reserve your room, as they are limited. Please e-mail me with your name & phone after you have made your reservations. We are trying to make some special arrangements with the museum and the plants, but they need a rough head count for them. Kent Blackman, Director - kdblackman@sbcglobal.net - 816-225-3241 H.O.G. History So last month I found an article I wanted to reprint in the May 1994 newsletter. That particular newsletter turned out to be a treasure chest full of good stuff, because I have found something else I want to reprint for everyone. This is something that was originally printed in the Festus, MO Chapter's newsletter, and then reprinted in ours. With our busiest season upon us it seams appropriate to run this now. 10 Ways To Kill A Motorcylce Club: 1. Don't come to meetings. 2. If you do come, come late. 3. If the weather is bad, don't come. 4. If you attend, find fault with the work of the officers and other members. 5. Never volunteer for anything--it's easier to criticize. 6. Then get mad when you are not asked to help. 7. If asked for your opinion by an officer, tell them you have nothing to say, then after the meeting, tell everyone how things should be done. 8. Do nothing more than necessary, but when others do the work willingly, say the club is run by a clique. 9. Don't show up for club events, but expect everyone else to. 10. Don't bother about new memebers--let others worry about it. Just a little food for thought, Chad Historian Ride Here's a twist. Here's something new in the Historian department. I'm going to combine my roles as Historian and Road Captain, and lead the chapter on a Historian's ride. The idea here is that I will pick a ride that the chapter did several years ago, and we will do it again. The first one will be on June 14th, when we will ride to the Combat Air Museum in Topeka. Former Director Stan Spruill led this ride in 1995, and I think it's time we go back. The museum is a very cool place with military aircraft that goes back to World War I. Admission to the museum is $6, and we will have a tour guide to show us around. I can't promise they still do it, but the last time we were there they let us get in some of the planes, which made for a pretty cool addition to the tour. Naturally after we finish the tour, we will find a good spot to have lunch. Unfortunately as of this writing, the Office Manager who is arranging our tour is on vacation so I do not have a time yet. Stay tuned to your email and the H.O.G. Hotline for departure time and place. See you on the road, Chad ABCs of Touring Tips More people are doing the ABCs of Touring than when I started seven years ago and I thought I would share some tips that will help you get better pictures and stay safe while you’re getting your ABC pictures for 2009. I’m not going to go through the alphabet and tell you where to get an “X” city, that’s part of the fun, but I will let you know what techniques I’ve learned to get better pictures. Part of the challenge is getting the sign that you’re trying to get, your motorcycle, and the copy of HOG magazine all in the picture and easily visible. Nothing’s worse than taking a picture and then getting home and not being able to read the sign or see where the magazine is in the picture. Here’s a list of suggestions: 1. Definitely use a digital camera and take two to four pictures of the same sign from different positions and with different settings on the camera. Then you can choose which picture is the best when you get back home. 2. Change the camera orientation from landscape to portrait to get the best composition for your picture. 3. If your camera wants to use the flash, turn the flash off. Many signs have reflective material on them and flash will make the sign hard to read, if you can read it at all. 4. Don’t pull up real close to the sign when you stop, especially for signs that are a good distance from the roadside. Staying back a ways will help you get your bike and the sign in the picture without having a lot of empty space in between them. 5. Taking the picture from a low angle (kneeling) often helps get your bike and the sign closer together in the picture. The closer the bike and sign are together, the more you will be able to crop the image in the computer to make the bike and sign fill up the picture. 6. Sometimes it can be difficult to get a good picture when the sun is behind the sign. Move around a little and see if there’s an angle that blocks the glare. Also, find out if your camera has modes or functions that will adjust for this shooting situation. 7. When it’s windy, getting the magazine to stay put is a challenge. I’ve used clips to clip the magazine to my T-bag in the past. With a Tour-Pak on my Road Glide, I’ve been using duct tape folded onto itself and clipped to the magazine to hang the magazine under the lid of the Tour-Pak. One advantage of the new HOG magazine is that it’s heavier than the HOG Tales and doesn’t flop around as easily. Of course, safety is the number one priority when doing the ABCs of Touring. If the road you’re on has a paved shoulder, pull off as far to the right as you can. If the shoulder is grass, dirt, or gravel be careful when pulling off. It’s not worth one point for the ABCs to take a chance on getting stuck in a ditch or dropping your bike. Try not to stop on curves to take your pictures if there is a lot of traffic on the road and limited visibility around the curve. A vehicle may not be able to see you as they come around the corner. Don’t stand close to or in the road to take your pictures. If the sign for the city is not in a good place, find the Post Office, Police Station, or City Hall. You can get the form with the rules at https://members.hog.com/website/take_part/forms/abcs_of_touring_us_can.pdf. Well, that’s all for now. If you have questions about the ABCs of Touring, e-mail me at solorider@sbcglobal.net Alright, I will tell you where to get an “X” city. Xenia, Illinois is about 94 miles east of St. Louis on US-50. Good luck with your ABCs! Be Safe! Bob Chadwick, Safety Officer GKC Hog Chapter www.gkchog.com Click here for store hours and map. To subscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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