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OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WING RIDERS ASSOCIATION QLD INCORPORATED |
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EDITOR:.............Bevan Bradford Phone: 07 3822 3512 Mobile 0408 714 000 E-Mail: mail @ auswingriders.com 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
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Meetings: |
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President E-mail: |
Secretary Val Thomas (07) 3848 0498 E-mail: secretary @ auswingriders.com |
Meetings are held on the 1st Monday of every month |
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Vice President Rob (Bear) Harriss 0409 052 218 E-mail: RHMRS @ iinet.com.au |
Treasurer E-mail: meady @ auswingriders.com |
Next
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Ideas for those who consider their current trailer too small |
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17th September 22nd – 24th Sept Biker’s Dream weekend 2nd October October General Meeting 15th October Ride through Mt Glorious. Mt Mee,
Dayboro & surrounds |
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A
lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she
couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, "Do
these turkeys get any bigger?" The
stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead." |
Speedsters The
cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down
his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said. The
kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the
cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket. |
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The President Speaks…. |
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The Secretary’s Desk…. |
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G’day everyone First
up, let me thank everyone who has contributed to this month’s magazine. Not just stories but with interesting
snippets of information that I reckon you’ll be interested in. Now
to apologise for being late. I should
have been ready last weekend but due to some personal things I had to do and
some work requirements that made late evening shifts on the mag a bit
difficult, I just haven’t had a chance to get it done. What
a couple of weeks we’ve had. First
Steve Irwin followed by Peter Brock.
Both men extremely well respected across the world. Each so different
yet so similar. Sure, one was a loud
in-your-face type of guy, the other a quieter, personable bloke with time for
all his fans. Both entertainers who
excelled at what they did. Each
recognised by the public and their peers as being one of the best in their
fields. A
strange coincidence was that although born in differing years, there was 4
days between their birthdays and now there is 4 days between their deaths. Just
as I did, I’m sure there are many of you out there about my age that grew up
watching Peter Brock drive and were still following his activities to this
day. While
it really is a bit of a cliché, in this case both men died doing what they
enjoyed most. Long may they be
remembered. To
top it off, a mate of mine ran into the back of a car recently, wrote the
bike off and ended up with a broken collar bone. He reckons that Val’s shoulder must have
hurt ‘cause his does and it’s not as bad as hers. Ride
safe and keep the shiny side up. ‘Till
next month, Happy reading. Bevan |
Hi all, There
are plenty of Wing Riders in the world today.
Lots of them are computer savvy as well. Subsequently there are many GoldWing
websites out there, too many to mention.
Just enter GoldWing in Google and you’ll see what I mean. But
try Wing Riders and we get top billing with our site. Note that we are hosted on a One
I found recently is wingridersboard.com which is a If
you go to any of these forum sites, look out for Clintsc9. That’s me.
I use the same userID on all the forums I participate in. It
is all good fun and you can pick up lots of hints and tips along the
way. You can also come across some
very strange ideas too, so it is best to keep an open mind and run everything
you read on the internet past your own personal BS detector. Happy
surfing. Clint |
Hello everyone, Excellent
result this month, following a very pleasant ‘rekky ride’ to Parties seem to be the main theme for the
next couple of months, and we are looking forward to all of them. It is that time of the year as well, so
watch out for those reckless drivers.
Thommo and I have been seeing a lot of ‘silly’ and thoughtless drivers
lately, and that has been just while we are commuting to and from work! Club filing is up to date, so my desk is
looking tidier than Thommo’s. Look
forward to seeing you all at the next ride, social and/or monthly meeting. Meanwhile, safe riding. Safe
riding everyone. Valerie & Thommo |
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Rewarding Rekky Ride. A decision on our This ride followed a very hectic and loud night at
Strike Bowling venue in Surfers Paradise. I certainly cannot comment on the
bowling antics that evening as I couldn’t bowl, but the brightly coloured
balls together with the video screens and loud music certainly made for a
very entertaining evening! I believe our club numbers overwhelmed the bar,
our meal orders took an extremely long time to be fulfilled. |
The Carters took
the lead as they had a place to check-out as well on Bribie. What a glorious
day we have for a ride, and we cruised easily up the highway. Over the Bribie
bridge and then it was the handy u-turn on the roundabout to turn into the
Bribie Waterways Motel. What a pleasant layout, overlooking the water, pool
and restaurant and we considered that we could possibly book the whole Motel
and have total privacy! We made a tentative booking, with the comment that we
would confirm later that day following our checking-out the other venue. So we duly rode over to
the ocean side to check-out the Big 4 Caravan Park, but we must admit we
pulled up at the gates and made the immediate decision that the Motel was a
much more attractive choice for our group to enjoy the intimate locality for
our party. Our next major decision was food – and we were going to check- |
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To
the point that some of our members were refunded for the delay, and just started
to enjoy their burgers when the games had started. The skittles were falling
until Consequently, Thommo and I
were very slow Sunday morning but we made it on time to Caboolture to find 7
bikes waiting for us! What a roll-up – Charleen on the 1800 Red, Meady, Bill
& Mary, Bevan & Therese, Larry & Annette, |
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out the RSL which was
also a possibility for our evening meals. A very enjoyable ride along the
esplanade and we made it to the RSL just in time for a very appetising and
reasonably priced lunch. We confirmed the booking with the Waterways Motel
for the weekend 2nd December. So
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happening on the island.
Very impressive and expensive, but give me good old Brizzie any day! It could have been the hectic night life
last night, but we were all ready to head for home at |
thanks to everyone who
contributed to that great ride. Thommo did not wash the car, and I just made
a cuppa and we duly napped in our respective chairs! What a week-end. Thommo and Valerie. |
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We all sat down and had a
drink and more and more bikes turned up, in total 13 bikes and 1 more to pick
up in We headed off from the BP and travelled down the
highway to |
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We arrived at STRIKE Bowl around Around |
time at night. Finally I got everyone up to I hope you all had a great night, I know I did and
Makiko and Kyle as well. (Makiko should come on more rides but she is so
BUSY). Bugger!! So from me, thanks for coming and next time we shall
go to a normal Bowling alley and have some more fun together as I think we
all enjoyed the night and each others company. Thanks MEADY |
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The Immutable Laws of Motorcycling ·
Motorcycling is
not dangerous. Crashing is what is dangerous. ·
Learn from the mistakes
of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ·
You start with
a bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of
experience before you empty the bag of luck. ·
Good judgment
comes from experience. Unfortunately the experience usually comes from bad
judgment. ·
Keep scanning
and doing head checks. There is always something you have missed. ·
If you wear an
open face helmet, avoid crashing face down. |
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In the ongoing
battle between motorcycles travelling at high speeds and the ground
travelling at zero, the ground has yet to lose. ·
In the ongoing
battle between vehicles weighing over a tonne and motorcycles weighing less
than a tonne, the rule of weight applies. ·
The only time you
have too much fuel is when you are on fire. ·
Tests have
shown that good leathers slide on bitumen for 80 metres before wearing
through. Denim slides 8 metres and everything else is worse than that. Only
wear denim for short slides. ·
It is always a
good idea to keep the end with the large light going forwards as much as
possible ·
Stay out of fog
(clouds). The silver lining is probably a Mercedes. |
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Notices |
Ride for a Cure |
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AWRA Changed
to Waterways
Motel, 27
units – Ph: 07 3410 199. Fax: 07 5497 5010. 155
Welsby Parade, Bongaree, Your
choice to stay for both Friday and Saturday nights e.mail:
reception@bribiewaterways.com.au |
Leukaemia
Foundation This
is the former Cassie Doyle Ride we have supported over the past few
years. Unfortunately, it again falls
on our ride day but for anyone interested, information will be available next
meeting. Take
the ride of your life with a convoy of more than 200 bikes and cruise through
the beautiful Gold Coast hinterland and support the Leukaemia Foundation. Pillion
registration of $125.00 gives breakfast, morning tea, lunch, a ride, and
entertainment. Riders get that for
just participating. Bring your own
pillion or get one there. |
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Can Art
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Winter in |
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Doug
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Denny
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The
Victorian Members |
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Well it’s that time of the year when we Victorians
have gone into hibernation for the winter however that does not stop us from getting
together and having dinner. In July
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attending. A
good night was had by all with another one planned for early September. The night also gave us the opportunity to say
Farwell to Doug and Preeta who are heading back to Qld to live so, hopefully
they will stay in contact I suspect Doug will have to come back to Vic to get
a refill of red Wine as I am sure the Qld vintage would not be the same as a
Victorian red. I
have attached some photos of the night they were taken with a phone camera so
the quality is not that good. Hope this article finds you all well and riding
lots more then we are at the moment. |
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J&M
developing a new wireless headset. News is that J&M has released a new range of accessories
including Bluetooth attachments for GPS and phones etc. Some specifically for the GL1800. The
announcement includes “Many of you are patiently waiting for
a full featured wireless helmet headset, to finally cut the cord between your
helmet and the motorcycle. You will be happy to know that all of
us here at J&M are giving this our full attention and we expect to
release our first wireless helmet headset sometime in the spring of 2007.” For further information go to: |
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I thought I would use this space this
month to add to our dam ride with some facts. ·
· Atkinson Dam was a natural lagoon prior to the wall being constructed in 1970 for irrigation purposes. 18km from Lowood. The dam wall is earth fill and is 1570mt long and 12.2mts high. The storage capacity is 30500ML with a surface area of 550ha. ·
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Somerset
Dam in on the |
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Bear & I were at BP Blacksoil just a little early in case there
were some early birds! A little after 8 Rob says ‘Oh well if no one shows we’ll still make a
day of it and go anyway we’ve got our food & drink packed’. I said it’s
only early yet we still have plenty of time. ‘Wings started rolling in around
8.30 and it was then I realized Rob thought it was supposed to be leave at
8.30 not 9.00. He was smiling then. Anyway as soon as the Thommos’ arrived it was a |
quick briefing and away we went, 10 bikes in all, up the highway and
turned it at We made our way through |
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When we first moved to Rosewood in ‘85 Rob actually used to go skiing
with his boss here before work some mornings as it is so close to Rosewood
(approx 25km) and I think from memory one of the first dams to have the
dreaded ’blue-green algae’ quite a few years ago. No stopping here just getting our obligatory U-turn out of the way. A little back tracking and through Laidley Creek West, and would you believe it on a quiet country road, Sunday morning, no traffic and what should we have but Traffic Lights! (these were to make Valerie feel like she was |