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Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge

NC-H2 NC District GWRRA

GAZETTEGAZETTE Carolina Wings ● NC H2 ● Durham, NC ● June 1, 2018

GWRRA Ray & Sandy Garris, Ex. Dir. NC District Roy & Cindy Bryant, Dir. NC-H2 Jerry & Dale Hyde, Dir. [email protected]

Chapter Social April 19 at Mayflower Restaurant, 3742 SW Durham-Chapel Hill Drive in Durham.

Dinner 6:30, Gathering 7:30

Directors Jerry & Dale Hyde

[email protected] 919-382-8097

Assistant Director Open

Ride Coordinator Sid Terry Chambers


Membership Enhancement Coordinators

Frances & Hank Averette [email protected]

919-528-0538

Treasurer Terry Chambers


Care Bear Teresa Long


Ticket Masters Rex & Diana Temple [email protected]

919-528-0503

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Newsletter Editor Webmaster William Prince


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The GAZETTE is published monthly by GWRRA NC H2. Digi-tal copies are free upon request. S e n d a n e m a i l t o [email protected] to request be placed on our mailing list.

On the CoverOn the Cover

The Goldwing. Excellent for a trip on a mountain. I hear it handles great on the Tail of the Dragon, too. Many people try that out at Wings of the Smokies.

Table of ContentsTable of Contents

Ramblings by Dale . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ride Coordinator’s Moment. . . .4 Cross-Country Ride. . . . . . . . . . . 5 From the District Directors . . . . 6 Two Hawks and a Dream . . . . . . 7 Pasta Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Hillbilly Hoedown . . . . . . .. . . . .10 Rider Course Event . . . . . . . . . 11 Time to Celebrate . . . . . . . . . . .12 Support Our Advertisers. . . . . . 13 Upcoming in June . . . . . . . . . . .14 Upcoming in July. . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Time to Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

June 1, 2018

A t our May gathering, we honored our Mothers, and while the crowd was small, we had a

good time. After Jerry and I ar-rived home, the phone rang and Vince Credle asked “where is eve-rybody?” It seems his baseball game finished up and he came by the Mayflower. He shared the good news that he retired on May 1st – Congratulations Vince! We filled him in on current events and upcoming rides so now we look forward to seeing him on his Gold-wing more frequently.

Speaking of rides, we had H2 par-ticipate in the Road Captain’s Course, Rocky Mount’s Blessing of the Bikes, Gorman Spring Fling, the Patrick Henry Boys and Girls Home so April/May have been busy. Then there are the pop up rides going on – don’t forget if you are going somewhere for a quick bite or somewhere new to visit, send an e-mail to the H2 distribu-tion list and see who else may want to ride along. Don’t forget Wings Over the Smokies – it will be here before you realize it. Go ahead and send in your registrations and make your hotel reservations. There are a lot of other activities in and around Waynesville during Sep-tember, so hotels can get scare. H2 members typically stay at the

Comfort Inn in Maggie Valley (Soco Road), so contact them di-rectly if you need a room. Libby has announced that we will again have door prizes and silent auction baskets at Wings. H2 will announce our basket theme soon, but if you have any suggestions please see Dale or Frances so we can coordinate. Also, if you signed out Goldwing tickets, SELL SELL SELL. Then, come get some more to SELL. All unsold tickets (and we will not have any of those) and the money will need to be turned in by our August Chap-ter Gather….. more reminders on that we get closer. That’s all for now – so, until we meet again, ride safe and often and HAVE FUN!

Chapter DirectorsChapter Directors Jerry and Dale Hyde

Month Name

January

February

March

April

May

June

July Bonnie & Ernest

August William & Delores

September Dan & Mary

October Keith & Darlena

November Hank & Frances

December N/A Libby presents awards to Frances, Hank, Willie, Gary and Len for attending the Road

Captains course while they admire the Beach Basket that was soon to be mine.

June 1, 2018

Chapter Ride Coordinator Chapter Ride Coordinator Sid & Terry Chambers

T he Ride Schedule for June 2018 is shown be-low:

June 1-2, Friday and Saturday: Hill Billy Hoe Down, Chapters P2 and Y, Catawba Meadows Park, Morganton, NC about 3 hours from Cook Out on Hillsborough Road, Durham

June 23, Saturday: ARC and TRC rider training courses, Crown Complex, Fayetteville, NC. June 24, Sunday: Breakfast Ride at 9:30 at the Old South Restau-rant, 1515 NC-56, Creedmoor, NC

The Road Captain Course was suc-cessfully conducted for H2 on Sat-urday, May 5, 2018. Kyle Craig and Tony Prewitt, our District Edu-cator taught this course. We started the classroom portion of the course at 9:00 at Christian Academy (GCA). Jerry Hyde brought several boxes of fresh Krispie Creme donuts to help keep our sugar levels up! Coffee and cold drinks were also served by Terry, my right hand Ride Coordi-nator. The road portion was con-ducted on nearby interstate, city and rural roads with everyone be-ing given the opportunity to per-form Lead and Drag Bike tasks. Willie Rainey, Dan Eakright, Ear-nest Cagle, Keith Helmer, Jerry Hyde and Darrin Gentz from B2 all successfully completed the Road Captain Course. Road Captain rockers have been ordered and hopefully I will be presenting

them at our June gathering. On Saturday, May 19th, Jerry Hyde, Keith Helmer and I made our way to Pinehurst, NC to sup-port the bicycle race portion of the Pinehurst Triathlon. We left Hardee’s on NC 54 at I-40 at 6:30 am and headed toward Pinehurst in a light misting rain. Since sup-porting triathlons is one of the ways that we raise money for the Murdoch Center, we were not go-ing to let a little liquid sunshine keep us from our task. We arrived right on schedule at 8:05 even though we had to deal with a small unplanned detour on US 15/501 due to a road closure. As the swimmers came out of the water for the bicycle race portion around 8:30, that must have been the signal for the misting rain to turn into a real rain shower which continued with intermittent peri-ods of heavy rain for the entire 28 miles of the bike course. Since I was carrying a race official with me, I often slowed down for her to check out the riders to ensure they were following the race rules. I was about 25 feet behind one cyclist and was preparing to pass him in the lane when a large Silverado pickup truck turned left directly in front of us. Even though I had my modulating high beam headlights on, the driver apparently was not paying any attention to the cyclist or my mo-torcycle. As I braked hard, my co-rider was not holding on to the grab bars and she started sliding

forward in the seat. I locked my elbows and held my position. The ABS brakes worked like a charm and there was no skidding on the wet pavement. The truck made its turn and we successfully avoided being involved in a left turning vehicle accident where the driver would probably have said, “I did not see them.” It al-ways seems that I remember that May is Motorcycle Awareness Month after May is almost gone! I don’t think that pickup driver remembered or knew it either! Personally, I think every month should be Motorcycle Awareness Month! Chalk another good out-come to practicing what you know! In that regard, Tony Prewitt, our District Educator, will be conduct-ing an Advanced Rider Course (ARC) and a Trike Riding Course (TRC) on Saturday June 23, 2018 at the Crown Complex, 1960 Coli-seum Drive, Fayetteville, NC. Reg-istration is by mail only. Class size is limited to 12 motorcycles per class. Registration deadline is June 20, 2018. Please plan on ar-riving at the training site between 7:15 am and 7:45 am. The courses will run from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with the classroom run-ning from 8:00 am to around noon. After lunch, the range por-tion will run from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The cost is $50 per bike or trike. Upon successful completion

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June 1, 2018

1984, at age 23, I bought my first motorcycle – a 1980 Honda CX500 Deluxe with 4,000 miles for $1,500. Since then, my goal has always been to ride cross-country. In May 2015, I sought to achieve my goal. Though I still own my Honda CX500, my trip would be on my 2010 Gold Wing.

Prior to my trip, I researched, studied and planned for months. My most read resources that pro-vided me with a wealth of infor-mation ranging from safety, checklists and long-distance riding tips were: Proficient Motorcycling and Street Strategies by David Hough, Going the Extra Mile by Ron Ayres, The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel by Dale Coyner and tips from www.ironbutt.com.

There is, of course, one resource I

used that should not be over-looked. To gain some advanced weather information in the areas I was traveling, I thumbed through the Gold Book. I can’t say enough about how easy it was to pick up the phone and simply call the peo-ple in the book to ask for informa-tion and receive helpful, friendly advice and encouragement.

Because I still work and getting extended time off is at a pre-mium, riding the super slab was going to be the quickest and most efficient course of travel. Living just south of Watertown, New York, my route was simple: I-81 south to Knoxville, Tennessee, then west on I-40 where I would catch the road that would take me over the Hoover Dam to Las Vegas to spend a few days with my fam-ily. But, alas, the weather did not cooperate. May is traditionally tornado season in the plains states, and it struck my route with a vengeance. Not wanting to be deterred from achieving my goal, my route was changed to I-80 west to Utah then I-15 to Vegas.

On May 15, at 5:30 in the morning and a chilly 38 degrees, my wife kissed me goodbye and my solo journey to Vegas began. Other than some wet, gusty winds through Nebraska and Wyoming and some sleet in Utah, my trip was routine and uneventful.

Logging an average of 750 miles a day, I was able to arrive at my mother’s condo in Las Vegas at 12:30 in the afternoon on May 18. I was halfway to achieving my goal. After taking a couple of days getting caught up with my family, I hopped back on the bike and saw some sights with my sister and her friend. We spent one day riding out to Hoover Dam and the next having lunch at the Crowbar Cafe and Saloon in Death Valley, Cali-fornia.

Sights seen, it was now time to head back home. I left Vegas on May 24, at 4 a.m. in the morning at a comfortable 70 degrees. De-termined to get a glimpse of the Grand Canyon and explore at least a portion of Historic Route 66, I made my way east on I-40. I made good time on my first day, cover-ing 725 miles and getting a selfie with the Grand Canyon.

My second day on the road east, provided a little excitement. Heading through Texas on I-40 at a good clip, I encountered cross-winds so severe that I exited at Shamrock, Texas. With crosswinds howling over 25 mph, I didn’t feel comfortable fighting the wind for hours while traveling the super slab. However, at 12:30 in the af-ternoon, it was still too early to shut down and call it quits. After


InternationalInternational Scott Renshaw

January 2016

June 1, 2018

I am proud to say that North Caro-lina has had a strong showing for both the TN and SC District rallies. While there, bike sales and regis-tration for Wings Over The Smokies® has been promoted con-stantly. Thank you North Carolina for supporting these events, hope-fully, they will support us.

I am also proud that North Caro-lina Chapters continue to support other chapter events across the District. It’s a sad event when a chapter becomes inactive. I am thankful Charlie Cook has stepped up to keep NC –P2 going. I am sure Charlie will do a good job with P-2 and like all chapters, he needs your support. Lets get out and grow our North Carolina Chapters.

The W.O.T.S. logo contest has offi-cially ended. Thank you all that participated. There were a lot of great entries and it is a tough job picking a winner. Before long, the winner will be announced.

Talking about helping each other, as in the past, each District is asked to help work at Wing Ding. We have asked for the job of “greeters” again this year but have not heard back from home office to confirm this. If you are going to Wing Ding and are willing to give 2 or 3 hours of your time to help with the North Carolina duties, please send me an e-mail so I can get a team of workers

lined up. As soon as I hear from home office, I will let everyone know.

Now a few words about W.O.T.S. Everything seems to be coming together and no issues to address at the moment. Hope everyone plans to come and join the fun. This year, ticket sales are going good and registrations are coming in. Have you registered? Thank you if you have, if not, what are you waiting for? You know your gonna go, get on line and do it now.

MEMBERS ARE NUMBER ONE!!!!

DistrictDistrict Roy & Cindy Bryant

NC District Directors

CHAPTER SUCCESS (taken from GWRRA Fun Activities Guide 2004) written by: Linda McFarland, Ohio Chapter K2 Are you an active member, the kind that would be missed? Or are you just content that your name is on the list? Do you attend the meetings and mingle with the flock? Or do you meet in private and criticize and knock? Do you take an active part to help the work along? Or are you satisfied to be the kind who just belongs? Do you work on committees, to this there is no trick! Or leave the work to just a few and talk about "the clique"? So come to meetings often and help with hands and heart. Don't just be a member, but take an active part. Think this over, members, you know what's right and wrong. Are you an active member, or do you just belong? Hank & Frances Averette Chapter MECs

June 1, 2018

One afternoon back in 1966, my wife, Cathy, returned from a shop-ping foray announcing she had seen one of the new Hondas, which were just then coming into general popularity.

The last time I had ridden was back in '47, when we had retuned from our honneymoon in Florida on a "Hog."

I told her she was out of her mind.

But we went, looked, and bought three of them!

There was a 305 Super Hawk for my eldest son, Glenn, an identical model for me and a 305 Dream for Cathy. The salesman was going out of his mind figuring out his commission.

The next few evenings we spent running up and down the dealer's parking lot, learning the basics. Within a week, we were ready to ride as a family group-or so we thought.

With the bikes, we had bought six helmets. The first evening out in the “big world," my son, Glenn, asked if he had to wear his. I duti-fully cited the usual statistics about most accidents happening within a few miles of home, and told him to put the helmet on. Daddy then proceeded to ride out of the garage to show mother and son how it was done.

I didn't make it to the street: I

popped the clutch, and the bike lurched forward 15 feet or so, striking a boulder at the edge of the driveway. Down I went, head-first onto the blacktop. Glenn came running over and said, "Boy, you sure go to some extremes to drive home a point, Dad!"

Seven weeks later, my broken col-lar bone was healed, and we were ready for our big adventure. Our destination was Tucson, Ariz., to see my brother and his family. Since our home was in Nanuet, N.Y., it offered to be an interest-ing undertaking: six greenhorn riders on three little Hondas.

My youngest son, Guy (not yet 6), would ride behind my wife on a specially constructed seat with side rails, foam cushion and foot pegs-all put together by a most cooperative motorcycle salesman. Alternating riding behind Glen and me would be my daughter, Kitty, and my middle son, Jon.

We each carried a canvas suitcase containing a few changes of wash-and-wear, toilet articles and a plastic rain suit. They were bungeed to the back racks, two per bike. We had no heavy jack-ets, no gloves, no spare parts and nothing beyond the tool kits that came with the bikes. Our total mechanical knowledge resided in my son, Glenn, who knew how to adjust the chain drives.

We were too ignorant to know

any better, but I guess someone was watching over us, even then.

The first day was great. We felt like pioneers and, in a way, I guess we were. When we would stop, people would come over to talk to us, asking where we were going and even taking pictures. We felt quite important.

About 7 p.m., it started to rain.

Since we had never ridden in the rain before-much less two-up-it was scary. We had no Totes, and our 93-cent raingear was soon in shreds. The truck traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike only added to our woes, since we had never ridden in heavy traffic, either.

We stopped to escape the down-pour beneath overpasses on a few occasions, but each time we did, an 18-wheeler would come thun-dering by to send huge waves of muddy water cascading over our tiny group of huddled refugees.

As we sat in a Laundromat drying out that night, the pioneer feeling we felt so strongly that same morning began to fade just a little. But we never lost our determina-tion to carry on.

A day or so later, somewhere in Ohio, we bought a jump rope that we used to tie Guy to Cathy; it kept him from moving around too much and put her at ease.


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June 1, 2018

scrutinizing my map, I decided to tack the wind and approached the storm by riding north for about 60 miles then heading east. It worked! I logged another 250 miles and avoided a severe thun-derstorm that hit southeast of my motel in Pond Creek, Oklahoma.

The next morning, with clear skies and dry roads, I continued my trek north and east by following I-44 through Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri, then, hopping on I-70 to Greenfield, Indiana, shutting down for the evening after riding for 14 hours and 796 miles in the saddle.

My last day on the road took me on I-70 through Columbus, Ohio, then catching I-90 through Buf-falo, New York, and I-81 north from Syracuse, returning home on

May 27 without incident and completing another 700-mile-plus day.

This was the perfect trip. I experi-enced absolutely no physical, me-chanical or weather problems. I achieved my longtime goal of rid-ing cross-country. I rode solo over 5,900 miles, covering 17 states on the nation’s super highways and enjoyed every mile of it. The scen-ery was awesome, the people were friendly and encouraging, and my steel horse with gold wings was flawless. This was truly an experience of a lifetime lend-ing credence to the adage, “The journey is the destination.”

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of this riding course, H2 will fully reimburse you for the $50! The registration flyer is available on line at http://www.gwrranc.org/pdf_re/2018/TRCJune2018.pdf. I can also snail mail or email you a copy if you are interested in taking this course. MSF says: “THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE BETTER IT GETS!” SID says: “THE MORE YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU KNOW, THE BETTER YOU GET!”

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We decided to hole up just south of Terre Haute, Ind., and began looking for a suitable motel. But, after taking a quick look at the only available accommodations, we said, "Thanks, but no thanks," and rode on. The room's one na-ked light bulb had given it the appearance of being out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.

By late that evening, we were making phone calls from a small diner, trying to locate a motel. Jon and Guy fell asleep in one of the booths, while the rest of us sat drinking coffee and watching the roaches crawl along the floor.

Finally, I asked the diner's pro-prietor if he could help us out. His help came in the form of a phone call to the police, whose representative arrived quickly and escorted us to the local auto

graveyard. The nice officer sug-gested we could spend the night here, and he offered us a choice of accommodations: a black Buick of early '50s vintage or a pink-and-white Dodge, complete with broken window, crumpled fenders, tom upholstery and foul-smelling interior.

You couldn't beat the price, but we weren't quite that desperate.

The officer then offered us a cell in the local lockup, but we chose to try our luck again with the diner. All other possibilities now exhausted, the owner permitted us to sack out in the empty din-ing room. We somehow made it through the night, though we had to keep flicking the cock-roaches off.

The next day, things began to look up again. By the time we crossed the Mississippi River, we had come about a thousand miles, averaging about 300 a miles a day. Missouri was enjoy-able, with good roads and light traffic.

Going through Shamrock, Texas, we had a little excitement. My daughter, Kitty, was riding be-hind me. I came around a curve just a little too fast, hit a soft shoulder, and down we went. Kitty sprained her leg, and I scraped some skin off one side. The Hawk's handlebars were bent slightly, but we straightened them, and off we went.

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June 1, 2018

1/2 lb. package rotini or bowtie pasta 2 cups thinly sliced cucumbers 1 package cherry tomatoes (sliced in halves) 1/2 cup sliced celery 1/4 cup chopped onion 1 cup bottled Italian dressing 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1 tps prepared mustard 1 tsp salt 1/8 tsp black pepper Optional: dash of dill weed 1 12.5 ounce can of tuna or chicken

Prepare pasta according to pack-age directions. Drain.

In a large bowl, combine pasta, tuna/chicken (if used), cucumbers, tomato, celery, green pepper, and onions.

In a small bowl, combine Italian dressing, mayo, mustard, salt, pepper and dill.

Add dressing mix to pasta and toss to coat. Cover and chill overnight.

NOTE: You can add any vegetable you like to the mixture=black ol-ives, carrots, broccoli, etc.

My Kitchen Adventure

This one was a real hit. I made it and took it to a cookout. I should have kept some back because none of it came back. The recipe said to refrigerate it overnight. I had some immediately. I actually liked it better. All the flavors were brighter and you could distinguish all the individual flavors. I guess it had more the character of a salad. After letting it sit in the refrigera-tor the flavors melded together and I couldn’t distinguish the indi-vidual flavors quiet as much. I cooked the pasta more al dente than most people would have done. I think that it held up the

the other ingredients better.

The dish is dreadfully easy to make and tastes great. I think it will be a regular feature at almost every party I host or provide a covered dish for.

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