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May
Garden State HOG
Garden State HOG
Sponsoring Dealer:
Garden State Harley Davidson
1149 Route 23 South
Kinnelon, NJ 07405
(973) 838-8800
Chapter: 3374
Newsletter Contributions may be sent via
E-Mail to: [email protected]
HOTLINE: (973) 838-8800 ext. 9
Volume XXVII, Issue 5
You must be a National HOG Member in good
standing (Dues Paid) to belong to Garden State
HOG or any other HOG Chapter.
CHAPTER OFFICERS Director Russell Hall 201-803-3627 [email protected]
Assistant Director Dennis Lawler 201-424-3264 [email protected]
Secretary Byrne Sciortino 973-856-5578 [email protected]
Treasurer Joe Gennarelli 201-848-8447 [email protected]
Head Trustee Andy Byra 201-954-5193 [email protected]
DISCRETIONARY OFFICERS/COMMITTEES
Head Road Captain Gerry Molitor 201-394-1364 [email protected]
Safety Officer Byrne Sciortino 973-856-5578 [email protected]
Ladies of Harley
Editor Joe David 973-728-8299 [email protected]
Webmaster Scott Leone 973-728-7293 [email protected]
Historian / Photographer Joe Gennarelli 201-848-8447 [email protected]
Good & Welfare Byrne Sciortino 973-856-5578 [email protected]
Publicity Contact 973-838-8800
New Member Contact Keith Ward 201-919-8836 [email protected]
AMA Representative Dennis Lawler 201-424-3264 [email protected]
Regional HOG Representative Daniel Mattias [email protected]
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From the Director ….. Russ Hall
From the Assistant Director ….. Dennis Lawler
The riding season had started. Our first ride was on April 12th – led by
Joe G to Kinchley’s Tavern. There was also a ride on April 19th to West
Point for a pre-season spring football event. Unfortunately, some riders
didn’t have reflective vests and were turned away at the gate. There was
no ride the next day on Easter Sunday. There are rides scheduled for this
weekend though. Joe G will be leading his 2nd
Annual Tony Soprano Run
to Holsten’s on Saturday, April 26th. And on Sunday, April 27
th Tom D.
will be leading a ride to the Forklift Café in Dingman’s Ferry PA. We should all be aware that oth-
er vehicles are not always aware of motorcycles on the road – and so we have to drive defensive-
ly. May is Motorcycle Awareness Month and we should do our part to keep others aware that we
are all sharing the road. May 3rd
has two events. There will be a ride planning meeting at 9:30 at
the Garden State Dealership; and, the Garden State Dealership is hosting a Spring Open House
on this date as well. We hope to see good club attendance at this event.
The Pompton Lakes Elks MC has made a donation of $250 to our charity child, Christian. We
would like to thank our friends at Pompton Lakes Elks MC for their generosity.
Dennis
Nothing from our Director this month
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Meeting Notice:
E-Board: 05/12/14 Chapter: 05/21/14 LOH: TBA
Maggie Moore’s 7 Midwood Road & 202 South Lincoln Park, NJ 07035 www.maggiemoorespub.com
Head Road Captain ….. Gerry Molitor
May 2014 Ride Planning Mtg. – May 3 (9:30 AM)
News flash - Winter is finally losing its grip on NJ and the Northeast! Please,
no more cold or chilly, rainy days. Enjoyed a weekend in the 70’s, and every-
thing has popped to life. Only 6 months till Polar Bear!
Note that the May Ride Planning Meeting (5/3) will start @ 9:30 AM because
of the Open House taking place on that day. Parking Nazi will make an appear-
ance!
Very solid attendance at our planning meetings, with some new faces stepping up to make suggestions.
Our current schedule is available via electronic file…just request one. We are including the destination ad-
dresses, so you can load your GPS devices should you choose to return on your own. We plan one month
ahead, except for vacation or special rides (State HOG Rallies). This lets the Chapter respond to interest-
ing events on short notice.
Local HOG Rallies are in July (NY State – Orange County) and September (NJ – Seaside Heights). The
New Jersey Rally is a bit later than usual, but the crowds will be gone from the Shore.
Lunch rides leaving from the Dealership every Saturday @ 11AM, and the scheduled Sunday rides all
depart the dealership also – at least so far.
New Member Ride for May 3…everyone welcome, but especially the new members. Keith will return to the
Dealership with the group to enjoy the Open House (2nd mention);-)
Ride safe and stay aware of the gravel & sand along the roadside!
g-man
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New Member Contact …….. Keith Ward
Hi everyone! The month of April is now gone and bike season is now in full swing It was a little slow in getting warm during April but it eventually did. We went for a ride on the19th of April to West Point for a football scrim-mage and 5 of us were turned away at the gate at 11:30 because we didn't have reflective vests ! The 5 of us went to Billy Joes Rib works instead . The food was excellent and on the way back we ran into the guys who were let into West Point on 7 Lakes Drive in Harriman ! We resumed the ride together all tuning off at different times to our desti-nations. May will be a great month chock full of interesting rides and events. so please check out our calendar in this news letter ! See you at the next ride; Keith
West Point Ride
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All Newsletter Contributions, Articles, etc. for the June issue of the
Newsletter must be sent to Joe David ( [email protected] ) or left at
the Dealership by May 24th
The deadline is the Saturday following the Chapter meeting.
Anyone that is still not receiving email notifications about rides and events should send an email to our
Director, Russ Hall @ [email protected], Dennis Lawler @ [email protected]
or Joe David @ [email protected]
Volume XXVI1, Issue 5
. Have you paid your 2014 DUES?
Contact
Russ @ 201-803-3627 or [email protected]
Byrne @ 201-424-3264 or [email protected]
or
You can drop your application off at the Dealership
E-board Meetings
E-Board meeting are held on the second Monday of every month at Jigg’s, Rt23 north just north of the
Dealership. All members are both welcome and encouraged to attend these meetings. Meetings start
at 7:30
General Meetings
Garden State HOG meets the third Wednesday of every month except the month of December.
Anyone is welcome to attend meetings to see what it is all about. You do not have to be a member to
attend. See you there.
From the Editor’s Notepad
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From the Dealership ……..
This Saturday!
Looking forward to an excellent turn out by our membership!!
Spring is finally here, and motorcycles are on the road. Come to our open house on May 3rd! Food, music, and a bike blessing to be held at the dealership by Pastor Chuck.
The blessing will start promptly at 1PM.
We look forward to seeing everyone!
Ride Safe!!!
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MY FAVORITE POTHOLE ……
The following three pictures were sent in by Kevin Canzoneri, but no location on these
To the left was submitted by Robert Falcone Greenpoint, Brooklyn
To the right, submitted by Tom Deming.
Access road to the Monksville Dam, West Milford. It’s deep, could not see the bottom.
And my favorite! Submitted by Terry Roberts with the follow message
“I LIVE IN MASCELLA NJ AND TOOK MY ULTRA OUT FOR A RIDE LAST WEEK......THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE FOR POT HOLES.....”
Obviously photo shopped, but funny just the same
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Members Write ……...
RIDING WITH ANDREW
The author acknowledges this “rant” is based on some fact, a bit of fiction and good old American B.S.
Remember growing up when you did something bad and your parents referred to you by your for-
mal first name. I have titled this “rant” after retired director and resident ski bum “Andrew Byra” AB in-
vites everyone to his annual Vermont motorcycle ride to the Vermont ski house that he is a member of. It
costs all of $10.00/night for reasons you will understand shortly.
The ride is leaving Kosco HD the first week of June 2010 around 9:00am. We are blessed
with a beautiful day and tee shirt riding weather. Sitting under the canopy at the dealership I encounter
this guy who’s every other word is an “F Bomb” so I name him “F Bomb”. Other than the usual person
who is always late calling and asking the group to wait we get off to a good start. Nice ride up through the
mountains of Vermont with a nice lunch stop. “F Bomb” turns out to be free entertainment but he is calm-
ing down. We roll into Rutland, VT a few miles from Killington and stop at the Grand Union for food,
beer and booze. If you had tour pack space you made new friends. We crank them up and arrive at the
ski house in less than an hour. Now the fun starts, AB is assigning dormitory type sleeping quarters in the
attic. The roof beams are inches from your head in the horizontal position. No beds, prehistoric mattress-
es on the floor. AB points to an available space and the rookie (me) takes it. How stupid can one be, the
space is opposite the bathroom where later that night they produce enough methane gas to heat the ski
house for the winter. Terrible terrible night, little sleep, complete respiratory system is irritated from the
noxious fumes.
I cannot take it any more so I get up and head for EPA approved air space. It’s raining outside and
the forecast is for heavy rain all day Saturday and Sunday is looking ugly as well. That’s it I pack up and head for the gas station. The gas station TV is showing rain everywhere so I start the ride home. The bottom
fell out of the temperature so you need all the rain gear you have plus warm clothing underneath. I cannot
be on the road for more than an hour and my feet are soaked. I stop and put on my neoprene socks which
are great when you have wet leather boots. It doesn’t solve the problem but it helps with the cold. The
weather is miserable so I stop again at another thruway rest stop to warm up and take a break. The rest
stop is full of Americader’s that are not dressed for the cold. They are begging for trash bags from McDon-
alds to make red neck rain gear. I now head to the parking lot to resume the journey and there are two
guys that look like they have moon boots. I have to check these boots out because my feet are not feeling
the enjoyment of this ride. These guys are the over 70 crowd and proceed to tell me that you carry duct
tape and totally tape up your dry leather boots and you can ride in the rain all day. These are the type of
guys that have survival gear in the tour pack and saddle bags. They were riding Gold Wings that looked like
they survived the Viet Nam war. Say what you will but they were warmer than I was.
I head back on the thruway and the rain is blowing left to right. I am trying to stay in the right lane
going 40mph and hope that I don’t get run over. I am thinking to myself; what is AB doing about now? By
now he figured out that I departed for parts unknown and my guess was that he was being offered
“Voodka” from Adam. Word to the wise, Adam is fun to travel with but don’t attempt to drink with him.
He is a traveling distillery. The weather lets up somewhat approaching the toll booths around Harriman,
N.Y. and the rain later stops but it is still one cold nasty day. The good news is that I make it home around
2:30pm, the bad news, the day started before 7:00am.
The wife comes out to greet me and asks, what happened to your bike? The bike is filthy
and has dirt streaks from the wind and rain. I candy coat the experience but she promptly tells me I am
bloviating. (Look it up) Riding with Andrew sucks, what a bad experience but it is not over yet.
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During the week I make contact with Andrew who proceeds to tell me that Saturday was a wash
out but the Sunday ride home had little rain and if you dressed warm you were ok. Now I am wondering
if he is being straight with me which I later confirmed that he was. I did earn my rookie stripe but you
have all been warned. Riding with Andrew is hell. FYI- I did not have a big enough pair to go back in 2011
and June of 2013 I went to Americade and yes Andrew did go back to Vermont and it was pretty much a
wash out. I am convinced that you have to have web feet to ride with Andrew and never wash your bike
before riding with Andrew; rain is part of the experience.
T. Deming
What say you Andrew?
Note: Look for my Americade trip report in the June 2014 newsletter.
Ride to Forklift Cafe
Great ride, and all back roads.
Know where I was most of the ride, but learned some new roads as well. Very enjoyable day, though it could have been warmer. Tom is definitely the KING of back roads.
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For Sale & Members Write sections will be added to the Newsletter as needed. I would like the news-
letter to be much larger and entertaining, but I can only add what is submitted. So, if you have anything to
sell, have some pictures from rides or event, a story about a resent trip you took, or just a personal
observation about the club, club rides or events, I would like to include them in the newsletter.
This is your newsletter and it can be as entertaining, or as boring as you want it.
Submit article or pictures to [email protected]
Road Captain's Name Home Phone Email Address Ride
Indicator
1 Joe David 973-728-8299 [email protected] JD
2 Gerry Molitor 201-891-3251 [email protected] GM
3 Joe Gennarelli 201-848-8447 [email protected] JG
4 Andy Byra 973-835-0576 [email protected] AB
5 Steve Pease 973-208-3073 [email protected] SP
6 Russ Hall 201-803-3627 [email protected] RH
7 Dennis Lawler 201-342-1870 [email protected] DL
8 Byrne Sciortino 973-856-5578 [email protected] BS
9 Holly Young 201-707-2372 [email protected] HY
10 Shari Ives 201-787-0661 [email protected] SI
11 Tom Deming 973-335-5172 [email protected] TD
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Road Captains
The Road Captains meet monthly at a time published in our newsletter, website and by email. Our Road Captains, discuss safety on all the rides as well as critique the previous months rides. We also plan future rides for the up and coming months and assign a Road Captain to lead those rides which include the Lunch & Dinner Rides, Sunday Rides as well as the Overnight Trips.
The “Ride Indicator” will be marked at the end of each ride to indicate which Road Captain is leading that particular ride. This way iif you need additional information or have concerning with that particular ride call or email that Road Captain and he or she can provide you with additional information.
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