June 2005 Volume 9 Number 6
Club Points Competition This competition
is meant to be a friendly way to show your support for the Club’s activities
throughout the year and promote a more active overall club membership. We have a lot planned this year, including
a number of different events and many of our members will be racing
and participating in a number of DualSport events.
Trail work days will be needed through out the year at Coal Creek
and the more people that show up to help, the easier the work will be. Plan to
be an active member and we look forward to seeing everyone whenever
they have a chance to come out and go riding and to help out with the
different planned Club events. Thank
you for your support! The top five in points so far for this year
are: Skip Davis
1650 Brian Strunk
1050 Anthony
Khiel 850 Steve Lewis 700 Wendell
Cooper and Jason Edwards 650 Fitness Tips….Anthony Khiel
As summer temperatures
start to rise, we will be riding more…hopefully.
With more riding, comes a variety of things we haven’t dealt
with since last year. One of
the more unpleasant ones is a bad case of MONKEY
BUTT! Everyone jokes about it….until they experience
it. In technical terms, Monkey
Butt is a bacterial skin infection that is caused by heat, friction,
and moisture abrading the skin. Fortunately,
it is pretty easy to avoid if you take some precautions.
First and foremost
is to wear a good quality pair of cycling shorts with a chamois under
your riding pants and keep those shorts clean.
If you are going on a multi-day ride, have at least two pairs
of cycling shorts. That way
you can wash one and wear a clean dry pair. If you can, let the shorts
dry in the sun with them turned inside out.
The sun is a great killer of bacteria.
Secondly, as soon as you can after riding for the day, change
out of your riding clothes and clean up good.
Put the bench racing on hold for a few minutes and clean up.
It will help in the long run.
This is the same for one day rides.
It is not a good idea to drive home in the clothes that you rode
in. Third, remember that dry is good. You will hear all kinds of stories about using
vasoline….get you minds out of the gutter. This is the worst thing you can do. The vasoline will trap bacteria next to your skin and keep it moist.
That is a bad combination. Dry is the key. Use talcum powder to keep
dry. Don’t use the baby
powder that is made from corn starch.
This is a food source for the bacteria.
If you are unfortunate
enough to develop a case of monkey butt, treatment is pretty simple. Keep the area clean. You may want to apply a good quality anti-bacterial
agent..like Neosporin. Otherwise,
try to keep the area as dry as possible and it will clear up in a few
days.
This is definitely
a case of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.
See you out there!
Rides and Stuff……..Steve Lewis
HERE ARE
THE NAMES FOR THE LAUREL MTN. RIDE GARY CLARK JUSTIN
CLARK JIM LOVELL JEREMY
LOVELL ANDY ??? SKIP DAVIS ROB MIELKE LARRY CARR JASON
EDWARDS PATRICK
KLEPPER GARY PUGH BRIAN STRUNK TONY LEWIS STEVE LEWIS AS FOR
THE RIDE AT THE LEWIS RANCH ON 7-23-05 WHICH IS A SATURDAY. THERE WILL
BE HOT DOGS IF THIS AIN'T YOUR THING BRING YOUR OWN!!! START TIME
8:30, QUITTING TIME ?? BRING PLENTY TO DRINK !!! RIDE WILL BE MOVED
TO WINDROCK MTN. IF TOO WET. IF QUESTIONABLE CALL 988-3745.
REGARDING
THE RIDE AT BRUSHY MOUNTAIN:
THE WEB ADDRESS TO GET ALL INFORMATION YOU NEED IS HTTP://WWW.BMMSPARK.COM/RULES®ULATIONS.HTM IMPORTANT ALL
RIDERS NEED TO NOTE THE RULES & REGULATIONS ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE
MINOR CHILDREN GOING!!!!! IF YOU HAVE NO COMPUTER TO ACCESS
THIS INFO CONTACT STEVE LEWIS 988-3745. NOT JUST IF YOUR
LAZY. WE
NEED ALL PARTICIPANTS THAT PLAN TO ATTEND BRUSHY MTN. TO NOTIFY STEVE
LEWIS BY 7-15-05 SO THAT ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE TO HOLD CAMPING SPOTS
AND ALSO A DISCOUNT IF ENOUGH GO. THE
COST IS $20.00 PER PERSON PER DAY TO RIDE IF LESS THAN 10
ATTEND &
$15.00 PER PERSON PER DAY TO RIDE IF 10 OR MORE ATTEND. CAMPSITE
IS $20.00 PER CAMPSITE WITH MAXIMUM OF 5 PEOPLE PER SITE
LAST BUT
NOT LEAST:
THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAIN DUAL SPORT TOUR PROMOTED BY JOHN STRANGE AND STEVE LITZ WILL BE JUNE 25 & 26 YOUR ASSISSTANCE
MAY BE NEEDED CONTACT JOHN B. AND LET HIM KNOW SO HE CAN COUNT ON YOU
TO HELP. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP JUST SHOW UP AND PAY AND
YOU CAN RIDE ALL DAY AND ENJOY. THANKS
MUCH, STEVE Upcoming Events
June 25-26:
Honda Hoot DualSport, Kodak, TN (AMA)
Contact John Strange
July 23:
Vol Riders at the Lewis Farm
AMA sanctioned
rides require AMA membership. (www.AMADirectlink.com)
The Ride
to be hosted by Russ Townsend at Durhamtown GA has been postponed to
a later date…more news to follow!
Club Notes
·
The next club meeting
will be Thursday, June 16 at Time Warp Tea Room at 7:30 pm.
Come early to enjoy food and company.
·
The 2005 Volunteer
Directory is available. Please
contact Anthony if you want one or if you have corrections to submit.
Hardcopies are available at the club meetings.
Classifieds
Submit
you’re ads to Anthony by the second Wednesday of each month. Ads must be submitted each month or they will
be deleted.
Russ Townsend (310-2695): Seat
for 2001 KTM 400EXC, new cover, used once.
Foam cut down for lower seat height.
$40; silencer for same bike, $30;
Kids Riding Gear. Blue, Size 24 Troy Le Design pants with Hip pads/ Kids
small fox jersey $50 for set
Kids Fox Paw Gloves Size Medium $5
Oneal
Youth Chest Protector Blue fits 60-90 lbs $20 Call Russ @670-1173
John Holland (cell 659-6831 from 7pm
to 6 am; home 688-6703 leave
message): 1999
Kawasaki KX 500 Rebuilt motor, forks, carb. New tires and other stuff!
Danny Tackett (992-0899) 2000
KTM 250SX excellent shape, $1700
Steve Lafon (856-856-5635) 2000
Gas Gas 200XC lots of good stuff on this one. $3700
Remember
to submit any articles or anything else you want to see in the newsletter
to Anthony as early as possible. I
will put whatever is sent to me in the next available newsletter.
Thanks
and see you at the meeting. Anthony |
