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EDITOR:.............Bevan Bradford Phone: 07 3822 3512 Mobile 0408 714 000 E-Mail: Wing Notes is produced with the object
of keeping members informed about matters of interest to AWRA members. A electronic copy of each issue is
available to every financial member of the AWRA. Copies are also distributed to selected
motorcycle dealers in the greater |
Submissions for inclusion in Wing Notes should be with the Editor no later than the Friday following the monthly meeting, i.e.: Friday after the 1st Monday of the month. DISCLAIMER: Although Wing Notes will endeavour to reproduce submissions in their original form it reserves the right to edit submissions as it sees fit. Views expressed in contributed articles in Wing Notes are not necessarily those of the AWRA or the Editor. Wing Notes is produced with care, in good faith and from sources believed to be accurate at the time of writing. |
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Management Committee: |
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President E-mail: clinton@lovell.com.au |
Meetings are held on the 1st Monday
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Vice
President Rob (Bear) Harriss 0409 052 218 E-mail: RHMRS@bigpond.com.au |
Next meeting: |
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Secretary Val Thomas (07) 3848 0498 E-mail: ashgrovestationery@uqconnect.net |
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Treasurer Eric Madjeric (07) 3886 9845 E-mail: magic@auswingriders.com |
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This month’s
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Near Kilcoy on the Winery ride |
13th Ten
pin bowling at Capalaba against Redlands Ulysses Group 20th Ride day with Gecko and Kay 27th Social evening at a Mexican
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The President Speaks…. |
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Another
month, another magazine. Funny thing
is, I’m starting to enjoy the challenge of putting this magazine together
each month. My aim is to refine the
process to make it as simple a task as possible while giving us a great
magazine. Unfortunately,
to do this, it means that each month, I revise what I did last month. This month, the format should look
different. I hope it’s seen as an
improvement and that you like it.
Feedback would be appreciated. What
a battle it’s been. Microsoft has done every thing to make the job
harder. No matter what I did, nothing
worked. We
actually produce two magazines. The
printed version and the web version. I
have been trying to simplify the conversion.
Each program says it will convert the file into the other format but
none have done it successfully.
Tonight, just as I got close, Word chucked a wobbly and corrupted my
file. It’s now I
thank all those who contributed. Makes
it much easier if I don’t have to search my jokes databases for gap
fillers. I will still be including
jokes and the occasional strange photo I come across. Happy
reading. Bevan |
Well it didn’t take me long. I got a surprise email from Bevan tonight reminding me about this report. I had completely forgotten. It sure is way too easy to do; (forget, that is). And me, after two years of bitching and moaning at Bevan and others for not getting reports or stories to me on time. If it is this easy for me, how easy is it for everyone else who doesn’t have much to do with the Magazine, except expect it to be up to its usual standard each month when it comes out on our computer. I’ll take this opportunity then to remind everyone that the Wing Notes is our voice to the world. It is a reflection of what we are and who we are and is available to a large number of people, literally throughout the world. Not only are a few copies
printed out and sent to a few Honda dealers around As such, we should maybe take a lot more pride in the content than we do. Let’s not just have a short record of last month’s ride and social days, with a few photos thrown in. Let’s have a few articles and stories that show who we are and how proud we are to ride our magnificent Goldwings. I hear talk at meetings of what we have done to improve our rides, what is the latest trinket (I mean safety device) that is available to make us more visible on the road, get more mileage or handle the turns better. But I see no articles in here, or for that matter, elsewhere on the website so that our good fortune and sensible ideas can be shared with all other Wing Riders throughout the world. Also, I’m sure we don’t just ride on the monthly ride day and the social. There must be runs we do on our own and things we experience independently of AWRA that we can share. Believe it or not, people are interested in what we do. Let’s hear some of them. Let’s see a few more fingers at the keyboard, sending off a short story of what we’ve been able to do. Maybe add in a photo or two. The dream of a club magazine editor is to report “Sorry folks, there just wasn’t enough room in this month’s edition for all the articles I received, but I promise to include them next month.” Fat Chance!! In the mean time, ride with care. Clint |
Well
here we are at the last quarter of the year, and we are planning our Xmas
Party. Please contact me on 3366-7288
if you are planning on joining us at The Entrance on Saturday/Sunday 26th/ Thommo
has completed his course of Chemotherapy, and we are settling back into our
‘normal’ routine! Also,
great to see Lionel looking so well, and it shouldn’t be to long before we
have LionelandMary on our rides again. That
is it for me this month, I have to get busy at my desk with thank you letters
and a ride report on our great week-end in Stanthorpe. Just to make you realise what you missed if
you weren’t there! Safe
riding as always. ValerieandThommo |
Winery
Ride Do
you ever have that feeling that if it were not for the promise to your fellow
riders, nothing would be better than to stay in bed on a cold Sunday morning
and sleep the day away? Well that was my feelings on the morning of the 17th
after a previous night partying dressed as a Roman gladiator, well enough of
that. On
arrival at BP Caboolture north around 08.00Hrs the faithful few were filling
up with others already ordering teas, coffees and donuts. By the time we were
near ready to leave, Bevan had turned up on a rather strange looking wing
(Deauville) as he’d found out the hard way the wings respond better to a
tickle in the morning rather than a slap, protested loudly by flooding and
refusing to start, being the trooper he is, mounted his reserve steed and out
he came. Other points of interest, was the arrival of Wendy on a rather tasty
looking Valkyrie interstate and a rather fetching shade of blue, looking as
if it just came off the showroom floor, hence the beaming smile she had on
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Now with a healthy
contingency of 10 bikes, after a quick ride brief we set off on what would
turn out to be a most enjoyable ride. Heading inland on the D’Auguilar highway we headed to Wamuran taking a left up
to Mount Mee lookout, A quick stop to appreciate
the view, take photos and realise what a good job a Goldwing does in
protecting you from the elements; it was freezing up there with a wind chill
factor of “oh my god”, then down the other side to rejoin the highway headed
toward Kilcoy. Our morning tea stop was the Nirvana Winery where we were
greeted by the owner and his daughter and served an array of scones, tea,
coffee and those who weren’t riding got to participate and a wine tasting
experience that brought smiles to those who could and grimaces to those who
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Once
panniers were stocked with various reds, whites and whatever else was going,
we mounted up again and headed off the few k’s to
Kilcoy before hooking a left onto the Somerset Dam road (forgive the lack of
road names, neither my map or GPS has the name of it.) With the weather now
warming up, the fields and paddocks green from recent rain, this was turning
out to be a picturesque ride. Heading toward We
continued through Samford on into the city, we lost two bikes at this point
due to either riders or passengers suffering the after effects of the night
before. We headed around the city via the highway, Kangaroo point and on to
what would be our dinner and final destination of the The
absence of Eric was noted as no raffle tickets were available, after some
crazy notion of using beer mats as a substitute, the idea was shelved and
everyone enjoyed the Atmosphere of this now trendy pub being returned to its
former glory as a bikers meeting place. I
made my apologies as I had Pamela at home suffering the after effects of the
night before so decided to do the right thing and nurse her back to health
with some TLC. All things taken into
account, a great ride was had by all and we will no doubt be visiting Nirvana
winery again in the summer for a romantic sunset dinner and ride, watch the
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Tempted to ride a bike? Here’s the case against.. |
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OK.
Sometimes we tend to forget the ‘Bear Necessities’ because we ride the
best motorcycles ever made. We seem to
spend a lot of money on chrome/fancy lights etc and there is nothing wrong
with that, however, it is more important to keep our beautiful machines
running properly. Besides your normal
servicing there are a few simple things/checks that should be done more
regularly especially as most of these machines do not get ridden every day. ·
Check your engine oil level, coolant level, tyre pressure and condition of tyres
(splits, chunks out of tread caused by pot holes or rocks, tread wear,
foreign bodies). ·
MOST importantly check the water level in your
battery. Yes, a bugger of a job because you have to actually take the battery
out of the Wing to check it on the 1500’s.
It is best though to do it at home rather than be on a ride and have
trouble. ·
When even on a short ride just down to the shop to
buy that all important polishing cloth it costs nothing to LOOK down at your
Temp Gauge, Oil Light, Volt Meter and Fuel Gauge every once in a while. ·
While filling up sometimes recheck your tyres pressure and condition. All this may
sound Trivial and you say you just had a service and it should have been
checked. Not taking time out to do
these things may make the difference between a great day out of riding and having
fun and a not so great day out. Even in new vehicle handbooks there are
daily/weekly maintenance items for you to check. If any member wishes to discuss any issue on
Goldwings please do not hesitate to mention
something to me (Bear) at our next club
meeting and I will do some research on any subject and put in the Newsletter
for all to share . Next month a small talk on our experience on
Rear Suspension. Bear |
The ATSB's Serious Injury Due to Road Crashes report paints a grim picture of the real risks posed by those who choose to ride a motorcycle. In 2002, per vehicle-kilometre travelled, motorcycle riders were 34 times more likely to be seriously injured, compared with those in cars. They are also 19 times more likely to die. However, while head injuries were the predominant cause of the serious injury in cars, serious limb injuries were the big hitter of bike riders. Helmets work. Safer, it seems, to drive a car than take the bus, at least in injury terms. Bus occupants faced a 57 percent greater risk of injury in 2002, compared with those in cars. Perversely, however, car occupants were more than twice as likely to die on the road compared with bus occupants. Safest of all: become a truckie, a
vocation with less than half the mortality rate of car occupants, and only 37
percent of the morbidity to boot. It's
one of the advantages of having all that mass on your side, and a high
seating position. Wheels Magazine July 2005 |
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NO SPIKA DA INGLISH A bus stops and 2 Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting next to them ignores them at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of them say the following: "Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come togetta. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come togetta again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time." "You foul-mouthed sex obsessed swine," retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country.......we don't speak aloud in public places about our sex lives........" "Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who talkin' abouta sex? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda how to spell ' I BET YOU READ THIS AGAIN!!!!! |
Speaking of Trivia- ·
In 1980 the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a
funeral home under Frozen Foods. ·
More People are killed each year by coconuts than
sharks. ·
Right now as you sit reading, more than 100,000,000
creatures are swimming, feeding, reproducing and depositing waste inside your
mouth. ·
There’s a Tupperware party somewhere in the world
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Social
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Arriving
at Phil and Vicki’s most of the bikes were parked in the garage and the social
started. It would be arrogant of me to say that a good time was had by all,
but I hope that was the case. All seemed to enjoy themselves and the Washing
machine fire pit was a gathering point for some of the males. Special thanks
go to Rusty for his assistance in getting the fire going and keeping it that
way. Once the food was cooked all hooked in and I
hope had plenty to fill them up. The sweets came out later and were soon
devoured. More merriment followed, but alas, all came to an end way too soon.
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Stupidity is dangerous An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from
serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received
the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close
he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. |
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The real story of the Three Bears.. Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small
chair at the table, he looks into his small bowl. It is empty. "Who's
been eating my porridge?!!" he squeaks. Papa Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his
big chair. He looks into his big bowl, and it is also empty. 'Who's been
eating my Porridge?!!" he roars. Momma Bear puts her head through the serving hatch
from the kitchen and yells... "For crying out loud, how many times do I
have to go through this with you idiots? It was Momma Bear who got up first, it was Momma
Bear who woke everyone in the house, it was Momma Bear who made the coffee,
it was Momma Bear who unloaded the dishwasher from last night, and put
everything away, it was Momma Bear who went out in the cold early morning air
to fetch the newspaper, it was Momma Bear who set the table, it was Momma
Bear who put the cat out, cleaned the litter box, and filled the cat's water
and food dish, and, now that you've decided to drag your sorry bear backsides
downstairs and grace Momma Bear's kitchen with your grumpy presence, listen
good, cause I'm only going to say this one more time... "I HAVEN'T MADE THE #%^*&^%# PORRIDGE YET!!” |
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Cassie Doyle Memorial
05 An
addendum to last months story by Clint on the Cassie Doyle Memorial
Ride. This month I received a letter
of thanks from the Leukaemia Foundation, together with a Certificate of
Appreciation. I have included the
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What has happened to the last five months? Since
March 9th when Lionel had his first TIA’S, (Mini Strokes), while in
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reminder here that self-employed Lionel never missed a day’s work and
appeared to be in good health. A week later after the successful op he was
back in hospital having had a stroke. That was a shock!!! He lost his speech, the sight of his left
eye and strength on his right side. These, except for the sight, came back to
a degree, but tests revealed the blood was not reaching the left side of his
brain. He needed another op, this time
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craniotomy was successful, (in other words, an artery supplying the scalp was
taken through a hole drilled in Lionel’s skull to supply his brain). As soon as
the 30 stitches came out, we were on our way home. After a few weeks Lionel
is noticeably getting better and the For
Lionel, the day he can drive again and better still, RIDE AGAIN, life will be
back to normal. Thanks everyone for sending your positive thoughts Lionel’s
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WING RIDERS ASSOCIATION (QLD) INCORPORATED
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Date |
Destination |
Ride /
Social Event |
Ride
Leaders |
13th August Social |
Capalaba Bowl,
Capalaba UBD Map 184 F20 |
Redlands Ulysses
has challenged the Wing Riders to a Ten Pin Bowling contest. No experience
necessary, (but would be appreciated). Meet |
Ken Tacon |
21st August |
North; follow
the bike in front |
Meet BP North
Caboolture at |
GeckoandKay Perren |
28th August Social |
Kedron and Mt Cootha |
Montezuma’s Mexican Restaurant, Gympie Rd Kedron. Meet |
RustyandMaree |
24th 25th September |
Goomburra |
Overnight
stay at Bikers Dream, Goomburra. Has
powered and un-powered camp sites and bunkhouse. |
Bevan and Therese |
16th October |
Celtic Tea House near Maleny |
Meet Shell Nudgee at |
GeoffandJulie Sheather |
23rd October Social |
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TBA |
Jason King |
20th November Ride |
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TBA |
Paul
Ross |
26th November Xmas weekend Very social |
Noosa |
Same as last
year. The Entrance Resort Noosaville. Spit roast mealandspit breakfast,
for those that drink too much. Ride up Saturday, ride home Sunday. See
December 2004 Wing Notes for preview. |
Ray, Val, and the AWRA |
18 December Breakfast Ride |
Plainlands for Brekky |
Meet BP Blacksoil
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RobandJane Harris |
Ride
Coordinator - e-mail:
bill_mary@hotkey.net.au Bill’s a/h mobile 0428 248 160 RIDE DATES; Unless otherwise arranged, rides will be on the 3rd Sunday of the month, and Social rides, the following weekend, with other social events as announced through the year. ** Ride Leaders: Please check the details of your ride and let me know of any changes. Ride leaders are also asked to organise 2 raffle prizes for their ride. Suggested value approximately $10.00 each. Raffle tickets will be made available from Eric Majeric. IMPORTANT: Even if you have not finalised the details of your ride, just supply the start timeandlocation, the general direction of the ride, and the meal arrangements. *** Ride Leaders:
Please provide a short pre-ride briefing that outlines the basic safety
precautions that we in the AWRA like to observe when riding in groups, and a
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PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY ON RIDES: · Each motorcyclist is responsible for at least the following; · The roadworthiness of your vehicle (including trailer) · That you are in a fit condition to control the vehicle, (including trailer) · Make sure you have a full tank of fuel before departing on a ride. · That you obey all the traffic rules and ride in a safe manner. · That you ride in a considerate manner that does not endanger, or unnecessarily inconvenience other road users. · To be correctly attired for safe motorcycling. · To have fun and enjoy the day, and the company. Thanks for all those that have offered to organise rides
and socials, that is what makes this club so great. If you are yet to conduct a ride or
organise a social, please start to plan something so that when your turn
arrives you will be ready. You don’t have to wait to be asked, just let me
know. |