august meeting - Central Cal BMW Riders

AUGUST 2014
BMW MOA Charter #147
CCBR Web Site www.ccbr.org
BMW RA Charter #203
AUGUST MEETING
At Alice’s Restaurant
Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 9:30 AM
17288 Skyline Boulevard, Woodside, CA 94062 - (650) 851-0303
For Details go to www.ccbr.org
Many thanks to Peter Sandberg for organizing this meeting.
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The President Says!!
By Bob Kuykendall
TAKING TIME AND REMEMBERING
Over the last several weeks, there have been moments when I have been reminded that we
need to "take time" – for many reasons.
1. relishing summer trips with family and friends.
2. time away from work
3. enjoying a solo ride on your favorite road
4. or fill in your reason: _______________________________________________________
To that end the Club's events for August can perhaps provide
those "take time" moments for you.
Best of Both worlds at Alice’s
(Courtesy- South Bay Riders)
Peter Sandberg is putting together a visit to the famous Bay
Area bike hot spot, Alice’s Restaurant on Skyline Blvd. Brunch
will be followed by a ride to curvy road Nirvana. Alice’s is a
place where you can see all makes, kinds, ages of both the
bikes and the bikers- so come look, eat and ride with Peter on
August 10.
Do you remember the Attack of the Flies – not the movie - the
BASH in Mariposa in 2002? Well, Jon Beining wants to remind people to sign up for the BASH
in Quincy as there will be no flies. Only good times, good rides, and good friends. This year’s
BASH is looking really good!!
Before the summer ends I will take time to enjoy the cooler coastal areas of Marin and Sonoma
Counties with a mid-week ride to Bodega Bay to preview a
restaurant and ride route for a future Club ride. I also hope to
remember what is like to ride a solo BMW again as I hope to
have a new to me, solo BMW oil head by then. Don’t know
the exact date yet, but I will send out an email blast with the
details so you can.
If you like the longer multi-day trips, take a look Norcal’s Range
of Light Gypsy Tour at http://www.bmwnorcal.org/rol
Todt Clark races up the curves to
So, there are more than enough activities in August to take Alice’s on his new BWR (Big
time and remember.
Wheels Racer)
(Source: www.i-bmw.com)
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HUGE CONTEST WITH $750 IN PRIZES – Continues for 2014
We have a great contest going for members who submit pieces for the 2014 Exhaust Notes. Prizes
will be awarded at our December 2014 meeting. Categories may include, but are not limited to:
Dual Sport – Adventure – Domestic or Foreign rides with photos –
Evaluation of motorcycle equipment – Farkles – Clothing – Service
providers with photos – Comedy – Photos of CCBR Meetings and
Rides. Captions make them even better!
1. TEXT: Send the text of your article in the body of an email or
attach it as a .doc file.
2. PICTURES: Please do not embed pictures in text. Attach them to the email as .jpg files.
● WITH CAPTIONS: Identify each picture by file name and write a caption for it.
Include this in the body of the email or in the .doc file.
● WITHOUT CAPTIONS: Pictures of members enjoying themselves while gathered for
meetings or events are welcome. Try to have them looking at the camera and appearing
to be having a great time.
3. Send your e-mail to editor@ccbr.org
2014 EVENT CALENDAR – For details go to www.ccbr.org
Many thanks to our Event Calendar Editors - Jay MacDonald for meetings and Phil James for rides.
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A TIP FROM YOUR WEBMASTER:
THE HOW AND WHY OF KEEPING YOUR CCBR WEBSITE PROFILE UP TO DATE
FIRST THE WHY:
Your Officers and Directors want you to receive the maximum benefit from your membership in
CCBR. They have observed that more active members enjoy their membership much more than
less active members. Increasing contact and camaraderie increases the fun for all. Your profile
includes not only your contact information, but also informs the Board of your level of interest in
helping out as a future Officer, Director, Extraordinary Volunteer or Event Volunteer. What’s an
Extraordinary Volunteer? Check out the back page of your Exhaust Notes where they are listed:
Chairman of the Spring Fling, Exhaust Notes Editor and Head Honcho for BASH Information. .
A Typical Profile Screen
AND NOW THE HOW:
1. Go to our website
at www.ccbr.org
2. Login – upper right
on the screen
3. "View profile" just
below your name
4. "Edit profile" –
update your profile
information
5. "Save" – lower left
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PICTURES by Bob Rasters,
Phil James, TJ Forsyth, Scott Wynter
and Todt Clark
Who:
Eight happy riders
What:
Last Sunday Ride
Where:
Alice’s on Skyline Blvd.
to Phil's Fish Market in
Moss Landing
June 29, 2014
When:
Highlights: Trying to keep Phil in
sight.
Waiting to order lunch at Moss Landing
We were all really tired after
the ride –
dead tired.
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NEWS FROM THE ROAD……..
By Glenda Oxford
It has been a good month. We went from Maine to New Hampshire,
camping not too far from Concord, the state capital. As we were setting
up camp, someone saw the bike on the trailer and asked if we were
here for bike week. That got our attention and we wanted to know
where bike week happened. As it turned out, bike week was in Laconia,
New Hampshire, an easy ride from our campground. It is the oldest
bike week celebration in the country, and this was year 91. Of course
we knew there would be a lot of Harley's, but we decided to go see
what was happening. Even though we were there on a Monday
afternoon, there was a crowd. We spent several hours checking out
the vendors and people watching, then headed home.
From New Hampshire, we headed through Vermont to Lake George,
New York. There we found the best rides of our trip in the Adirondack
Mountains. The roads were good, the scenery was beautiful, and there
were even a few twisties, although nothing to match our Sierras. We
were still having more rain than sun, so we were limited as to how
many rides we could get in. Being caught in a thunderstorm would not
be our idea of fun.
We stopped on the way to
Laconia for a Blizzard at Dairy
Queen. Jim was too cheap to
buy one for Clucky, so she
stole his.
Our most interesting ride was with a group dedicated to building a
monument honoring the veterans and servicemen serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan. We read about the ride in the local paper and decided
to join them. Most of the riders were veterans from as far back as the
Korean War. It was a hundred mile ride through New York and
Vermont. For once, the weather was perfect, and the ride planner did an outstanding job. There were
somewhere around 60 to 70 riders of all ages, and were escorted through every town on the route by
police, sheriff or fire personnel. We met some really great people and hope to help them in their efforts.
A few of the bikes at Laconia. We were
definitely outnumbered, we saw three BMWs, a
few Hondas and LOTS of Harleys.
The group of veterans who made the ride for
the monument.
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From Lake George we went across New York to Niagara Falls. This was only a 3 day stopover to see
the falls, so the bike stayed on the trailer. We spent one full day at Niagara Falls State Park. We did
all the tourist things: taking the Maid of the Mist up to the bottom of the Falls, and doing the Cave Tour
to what is called the Hurricane Deck at the foot of the falls. Our second day was spent taking a ride on
the Erie Canal through two of the locks. This part of the canal is primarily used for recreation, although
the parts closer to New York are still used commercially.
Picture from the road
The sign where the monument
We arrived in Pennsylvania to more rain and thunderstorms. We
will be erected
visited Gettysburg under cloudy skies, but it was an emotional
experience. The weather seemed appropriate for the occasion. It's hard to imagine the number of men
and boys involved in this three day battle, and the number killed and wounded. This is definitely a must
see for anyone coming to Pennsylvania.
We love traveling, but still miss getting together with our friends at home. Everyone stay cool and enjoy
the rides.
Niagara Falls in the sunshine.
Locks filling on the Erie Canal
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PICTURES by Rich Alves
What:
CCBR July Meeting
Where:
Mike’s Grillhouse in Modesto
When:
Sunday, July 13
Who:
CCBR members and Guests
Highlights:
CCBR members begged Ellen
Kuykendall to please put them on
the BASH Volunteer List. A nice
lunch with friends. Weather was
cooler than expected.
A very nice turnout for a warm summer
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GPS AND YOU: INTRODUCTION TO USING GARMIN BASECAMP FOR PC
Part 4 - Routes – By Rich Alves
Over a series of articles I will be covering some of the basics of using Garmin's BaseCamp for PC
software. Garmin also has a BaseCamp for Mac version which is slightly different. However, some
of what you learn about the PC version may be helpful in understanding the Mac version.
(Abbreviations: RC = right click, LC = left click, DRC = double right click, etc.)
What are Routes? According to Garmin, “Routes are pre-defined paths created from a group of location points (Waypoints) entered into the GPS receiver (or BaseCamp) in the sequence you desire
to navigate them."
Import the BASH 4 file, that you exported last month, back into My Collection:
● LC My Collection / LC File / LC Import into “My Collection”
● LC the BASH 4 file that you exported and saved last month / LC Open
You’ve previously created a route named Home to BASH by LCing the New Route tool and
dragging the Start Point and Destination into the proper box.
Insert a Waypoint into the existing Home to BASH Route.
● LC Valero and drag it into the Home to BASH route. Do the same for Cornucopia-Lunch.
●In the Route Window, LC and
drag Valero and CornucopiaLunch up where they belong
between Home and BASH.
●LC Recalculate.
●LC to close the Route window.
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Using the Insert, Move Point
and Erase tools on the existing Home to BASH Route:
#2
● LC the Insert tool
● LC the route between Sacramento and Yuba City.
#1
#4
● Move the tool to Lincoln and
LC
● You have inserted a point in
Lincoln. The route has recalculated and changed to go
through Lincoln.
● RC to deactivate the Insert
tool.
#3
● LC the Erase tool
● Locate the inserted point in
Colusa and LC
This is our starting route.
● LC the Move Point tool.
● LC on the point you inserted
in Lincoln. Drag the tool to
Colusa.
● You have moved the inserted
point. The route has recalculated and changed to go
through Colusa instead of Lincoln.
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● You have erased the insertedpoint. The route has recalculated back to your original
starting route..
Use the Route tool to create a different route to the BASH.
#1
#2
#3
● LC on the New Route tool
and then close the New Route
window.
● Hold the Route tool over the
Home waypoint and LC.
● Move the Route tool over
Truckee and LC
● Then move the Route tool
over Placerville and LC
● Move the Route tool over the
BASH waypoint and LC.
● RC to deactivate the Route
tool.
#4
● You have now created a second route to the BASH. Basecamp automatically named it
Home to BASH1 (#1).
#1
● You decide you want to ride
the original route. RC and
delete Home to BASH 1 from
all lists.
Rename, Export, Save your BASH list to use next month and Delete it from My Collection: RC
BASH list / Rename / BASH 5 / Enter / LC File / LC Export / LC Export “BASH 5” / find a location on
your computer that you will remember / LC Save / RC BASH 5 / LC Remove and Delete Unique Content / LC Delete
To be concluded next month: Part 5 – Sharing BaseCamp Files
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STUFF TO THE EDITOR
Phil James forwarded this to your Editor.
It was sent to him by former CCBR
member Roger Edwards. Roger has
retired to Points East and continues his
journey through life as an itinerant Guzzi
motorcycle bum. He always has a smile
on his face and a story worth telling.
Whenever possible he’s seated next to
his good friend, just a wee bit of the
cheapest possible, white tequila. Ah,
sweet memories.
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With a Tarzanian yell of, “I want my mommie!” Todt Clark plunges into the mighty Amazonian Puddle
Rich,
Attached are a few (late) photos [of the July CCBR meeting] for the EN if you have not finalized it yet.
Rich Meissner
Pre-Meal discussion
Phil makes an important point
Dave Gordon, Linda & Mike Crawford
Sidecars always draw a (small) crowd
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CENTRAL CAL BMW RIDERS
2014 OFFICERS, BOARD MEMBERS and EXTRAORDINARY VOLUNTEERS
President
Bob Kuykendall
(925) 570-9957
prez@ccbr.org
Vice-President
Rich Alves
(925) 240-6970
Secretary
Rich Meissner
(209) 578-1933
Treasurer
Ellen Kuykendall
(925) 300-3512
Director - BASH
Jon Beining
(707) 763-3063
Director - Meetings
Jay MacDonald
(209) 966-3895
Director - Membership
Ray Trujillo
(916) 601-9141
Director - Outreach
Peter Sandberg
(510) 606-0980
Director - Rides
Phil James
(925) 372-8155
events@ccbr.org
Director - Webmaster
Ollie Wright
(510) 637-9299
web@ccbr.org
BASH Information
Dave Gordon
(925) 989-8372
bashinfo@ccbr.org
Exhaust Notes Editor
Rich Alves
(925) 240-6970
editor@ccbr.org
Spring Fling Chairman
Kim Dromlewicz
(925) 672-2112
treas@ccbr.org
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Exhaust Notes is published monthly by Central California BMW Riders, 3064 Rossmoor Parkway #3, Walnut Creek, CA., 94595. Email:
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