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www.4windsbmw.orgMOA # 6 RA # 76
SEPTEMBER MEETING INFOThe next meeting of the Four WindsBMW Riders will be held on Sat.,Sept. 21st, 2013 at Leo Stanton’shome, 3015 Walton Rd in Finleyville,PA, (Ph.. 412-384-8229) from 12–3PM. Hamburgers, hot dogs, anddrinks will be provided. Membersare asked to bring appetizers, sidedishes, and desserts according to yourlast name: A-H: side dish; I-P: appe-tizer; Q-Z: dessert.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Board Of Directors 2013 .......... 1September Meeting Info ........... 1Publication Info ......................... 2Meeting Schedule 2013 ............. 22013 Shacks ................................ 2Ongoing Events .......................... 2Rally Pictures ............................ 3North Breakfast Ride ................ 6N. Country Brewery .................. 6For Sale ...................................... 7The Way We Were Back When 8Gary Smith rides on! ............... 11How do I join ............................ 12Directions to the Meeting: ....... 12
SSSSSEPTEPTEPTEPTEPT..... 20132013201320132013BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2013President – Sean Barrett
Vice President – Diane Pears724-656-1239
Treasurer – John Humphrey412-897-1903
Corres. Sec’y – Joyce Elk724-935-2062
Rec. Sec’y – Tim Pears724-656-1239
Director – Jeff [email protected]
Director – Ralph [email protected]
President’s column
The rally is over and it appears to havebeen a success. I have only heard goodreports from participants and the weatherwas great with no rain until we got home.I want to thank all of the volunteers thatworked the rally, without you there wouldbe no rally. If you enjoy rallying, startthinking about next years rally now. Payback the club and yourself for all of thegood times that you have had at our rallyand at other rally’s, remember that withoutworkers, there are no rallies. We will needa rally chairperson and committeemembers, ect, what do you want tocontribute?
Don’t forget the September meeting atLeo’s, we will be nominating officers fornext year and it is usually a great time.See the newsletter for more information.Leo has a new “cannon” in his front yardand has promised to be firing it at sometime during the day. Maybe I can get himto put some pictures of it on the newwebsite.
Speaking about the website, check itout, it is fantastic!!! Thanks to Diane andJoanne for all of the hard work they putinto it over the past year. It has surpassedmy wildest expectation and that isn’t easy.Be aware that your old “bookmark” maynot work, if so, go to 4windsbmw.org.That should get you there.
PITCHIN!
VOL-UNTEER
FOR ANOF-
FICE!
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PUBLICATION INFOThe Four Winds BMW Riders
Newsletter is published formembers’ use. Articles’ and pic-tures’ copyrights are held bytheir authors. Author’s permis-sion should be obtained beforeany form of republication.
Editor: Ralph MeyerDeadline: Articles submitted must
be received by the editor nolater than 6:00 PM on theTuesday after the club meet-ing of the month preceding themonth of publication (e.g.,Sept. Meeting: Sept. 21; Oct.issue deadline: Tues., Sept.24th). Articles/Info rec’d afterdeadline go in next month’snewsletter.
Submission information:E-mail submissions: Send as at-
tachments with “4 Winds News-letter Article” in the e-mail‘Subject’ line to:
Articles on Disk Media mail to:
Ralph Meyer, Editor4 Winds Newsletter6056 Meadow LaneBakerstown, PA 15007-9720
Submission formats:Articles: Send as plain text with
headings and hdg depth defined,or in Word Processor (e.g., MSWord) format. Save trees: avoidpaper if you can.
Pictures and graphics: Submit inJPEG or TIFF format withclearly marked locations in thearticle.
Long articles may be split betweenissues.
National Club Affiliations: FourWinds BMW Riders is char-tered club #6 of the BMWMOAand chartered club #76 of theBMWRA
Newsletters in color PDF formatare at the Four Winds Site,www.4windsbmw.org . Down-load a free Adobe PDF readerby clicking the ‘Get AdobeReader’ button atwww.adobe.com and followingthe directions thereafter pro-vided.
2013 SHACKSKeep an eye out on the web site allyou lady and gentleman wrenchersand attendees out there, for anyShack locations and dates to helpkeep us smiling, and keep ‘em roll-ing!
ONGOING EVENTS
Breakfast Rides, et al.:These rides are free-form. Those
attending decide what theywant to do and where, if any-where, they want to ride. If youjust want to show up in the carand have breakfast with fellowmotorcyclists, that’s fine too.
COME! EAT! CHAT! RIDE!
Ride Schedule — Month:Sun, Sept 1 — North at King’s, I-
79 / 910 & VIP Drive, 10:00AM
Sat, Sept 14 — West at Bob Evans,Rt 60 & Campbell’s Run Rd,9:00 AM
Sun, Sept 15 — South at EaglesLanding, Rostraver Airport,Rte 51, 10:00 AM
Sat, Sept 28 — East at Dick’s, Rt22 Westbound Side,Monroeville, 9:00 AM
If you’re going to a breakfastride, you might want to no-tify others: It’s not necessary,but it’d be nice to let othersknow you’re going to a particu-lar Breakfast Ride by puttinga notice on the 4-Winds SiteMessage Board’s BreakfastRide section saying so. That’llhelp save a rider from discov-ering too late that no one elseis going that day. The Break-fast Ride’s URL is: http://www.4windsbmw.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9 . Be sureto erase your post after the rideif you can so the board doesn’tget cluttered.
Well, enough for this month. I haveTrick’s and Kris’s wedding next weekendand then the Fingerlakes rally. Hope tosee ya there.
RIDE HARD, RIDE SAFE,
SEAN
MEETING SCHEDULE2013
Mark the dates on your calen-dars, but remember...
All meeting sites are tentative.Please check the web site andnewsletter for changes andupdates.
September, 2013 — LeoStanton’s home, 3015 WaltonRd., Finleyville
October, 2013 — John & MargeHumphrey’s Home , 125 DeerMeadows Lane, Valencia
November, 2013 — TBADecember, 2013 — No Monthly
MeetingJanuary 2014 — Annual Banquet
BE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND--KEEP DOWNTHE CO2 AND SAVE THE DINO JUICE THAT’SLEFT BY RIDING MOTORCYCLES AND SCOOT-
ERS!!!
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RALLY PICTURESMany thanks to Ron “ReddyK” Latkovic, who shot the pictures in this collage.
Some of these include shots of the Motel - Cabins group that stayed at a new and delightful B & B just a short hop, skip, and jump from therally site. And that’s a new T-Rex Ron is ogling. And if you look closely, you can see Leo nicely riding his sweet airhead in ‘reverse mode’.It turned out to be a great weekend--terrific weather and a nice group of riders!
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47TH RALLY PICTURES AT REDBANK COMMUNITY PARK CONTINUED..Many thanks to Diane “Lady Di” Pears for the fine photos of the rally on these two pages. You’ll note the sunny weather and all the
great bikes and riders in attendance.
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Note the Can-Am being ‘tested.’ If you look closely at the sidecar you’ll see it sports eyes large enough to scare even the most blase cagerinto giving the motorcyclist room. And the B & B is a new one Diane found that is a great place to stay for those who like their camping withall the amenities including a fine breakfast every morning and at very reasonable rates. We trust it will be nicely available next year. Markit on your calendars and check it out, you who like a roof on your ‘tent.’ It’s quite close to the rally location and easy to get to.
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N. COUNTRY BREWERY& OLD STONE HOUSE RIDE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10by Joyce Elk
Jack Bramkamp, Ron and Jeannette Latkovic, and I rode to the NorthCountry Brewery for lunch. One of our stops included the Old StoneHouse in Butler where the French and British had set up camps.Jack and Ron were up to there usual antics. The back roads behindthe Stone House were beautiful. We had to turn around once whenthe road turned to gravel, and once when we ran into a detour. All inall, it was a great ride.
JOYCE
The Old Stone House on Pa Rte 8 north of Butler just north of where one oftthe motorcyclist’s favorite roads, Rte 528 runs into 8 is an innthat dates from colonial times and then was considered a day’s ride from Pittsburgh on the road to Erie. On some weekends during thesummer, Slippery Rock University provides tour guides who take people through the Inn and describe what life was like at the inn during itsheyday as a needed stopover on the road to Erie or Pittsburgh suring the early 19th century. It consists of a large common room with bar,tables for meals, drinks, and game playing in the evenings, and bedrooms upstairs with traditional rope laced bedsteads and straw tickmattresses (on which travelers frequently slept 2, 3, or 4 to a bed depending on the amount of clientele needing overnight lodging. It appearsthat on the weekend Joyce, Jack, Jeanette, and Ron stopped, a French and Indian War reenactment was going on, one of which Indians(probably the one picking his nose in the picture) loaned Ron his tomahawk knowing that no scalping would occur as Jack keeps his patenicely shaved, and scalps that lack hair don’t count as coup. Besides, Ron and Jack are great friends so Jack was perfectly safe (he hoped!Wink, Wink)
NORTH BREAKFAST RIDEAUGUST 4, 2013
by Ron “ReddyK” LatkovicAnd then there were six, where is everyone? Hey guys and gals,check out John Barr’s new Piagio! He bought it at Mosite motorsports. It’s a BV 350. John, of course, kept his K1300GT bike. Missed allyou guys who usually attend. Hope everything is well.
REDDYK
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On the Net...Have you found a neat location on the Internet? Send the URL in with a brief description of what
it’s about to the editor and we’ll post it here for the benefit of your fellow riders...Note: copy or type the underlined link into your browser’s URL textbox and hit ‘Go’ or ‘Enter’ to go there.
Our Four Winds Site, what else??? http://www.4windsbmw.org . And always remember never to forget, you can get this andpast color copies of the Newsletter in PDF format there! Check it out if you haven’t already done so.Great free riding safety informational videos: http://www.livefreeridealive.com/
Soundrider report on the BMW C650GT maxi-scooter: http://www.soundrider.com/current/1303/bmw_c650gt_maxi_scooter.aspx
FOR SALEPlease note: If you sell your item, please notify the newsletter editor so it can be removed from this list.25” tall Cee-Bailey Windshield for F800ST - Clear. Already has Velcro strips for attaching EZPass Transponder. Asking
$125.00, OBO. Contact: [email protected] .Big Al Vangura’s Kymco for sale: W:e are selling Big Al’s Kymco Scooter. If you are interested or know anyone that would
want to purchase this scooter, please contact us or pass this message on. This is a 2009 Kymco 250 Ri Scooter. We are asking$3,500 or best offer - It has on it 19,940 miles, and includes an extra long wind shield, Special brake light, cover, and Toptrunk. If interested, please call: 724-736-2884 or 724-557-0802. Dee Vangura. Please see the pictures of it and its accesso-ries on page 16 of the March newsletter.
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THE WAY WE WERE BACK WHENSEPT 2001
Prepared by Walt Halaja
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GARY SMITH RIDES ON!Sent in by Ron “The Camper” Kranz
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had a story that included Gary Smith. See Section A, page 2. The link below is forthe article.
For an ‘executive summary,’ it seems Gary heard about Boris Weinstein’s self created program for cleaning up litter in his old HomeTown, Pittsburgh, to help keep the place neat and tidy. Gary got together with him and having found out about his program, exported theidea to Cape St. Lucie where he and Kay now live. Trust Gary to be ‘up and at ‘em.’
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/morning-file/two-men-show-that-anti-litter-campaign-is-no-waste-of-time-699143/
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Four Winds BMW Ridersc/o Ralph Meyer, Editor6056 Meadow LaneBakerstown, PA 15007-9720
DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING:The Saturday, Sept. 21st, 2013 club meeting will be held from 12:00 PM**to 3 PM at Leo Stanton’s, 3015 Walton Rd in Finleyville, PA, (Ph.. 412-384-8229). Hamburgers, hot dogs, and drinks will be provided. Membersare asked to bring appetizers, side dishes, and desserts according to yourlast name: A-H: side dish; I-P: appetizer; Q-Z: dessert.From Pittsburgh: Take Rt. 51 South out of Pittsburgh. About 8 miles or so
south of the south end of the Liberty Tunnels, you’ll cross a railroadtrack and the Hwy 43/Turnpike. About .6 mile after the Railroad, takethe Scotia Hollow Rd ‘Y’ to the right to Ridge Rd. Cross Ridge Rd andTurn Right onto Walton Rd (Walton dead-ends on Scotia Hollow and isthe next road to the right after Ridge Rd). Leo’s Driveway, #3015, ison the right on Walton, after you pass Dale Ln/Rd on the right. You canalso turn right onto Ridge from Scotia Hollow instead of crossing Ridge,then left onto Dale Ln/Rd, then right onto Walton, and right into Leo’s,#3015, driveway.
From the South: Take Rt 51 North, cross the Monongahela River, and getoff at the Ridge Rd Exit after the Mon bridge, taking Ridge Rd Westtoward Finleyville. Turn left onto Dale Ln/Rd, right onto Walton, andright at Leo’s, #3015, driveway.
**The Board will meet at 11:00 AM. Latitude and Longitude Co-ordi-nates for GPS: N40.27308 W79.93028.
HOW DO I JOINFOUR WINDS BMW
RIDERS?
To join, come to a meeting and introduceyourself. Meetings are listed here in theNewsletter and in the schedule of eventson the Web Site, www.4windsbmw.org.
Membership dues are $15 per year for pri-mary membership, and $7.50 per year forassociate members residing in the samehousehold as a primary member.