May 2005 Volume 9 Number 5
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
1000 Brian Strunk
600 Wendell
Cooper 550 Anthony
Khiel 550 Jason Edwards
450
Riding Tip….. Gary Clark Kids Ride….Russ Townsend
The Vol Rider Kids ride on April 17th went really well. The weather was
perfect, and the trail that was laid out for the kids seemed to have just
the right amount of challenge to keep it interesting, but not so hard that
they wanted to go home and play playstation. The ride started with 5 miles
of gravel and dirt road to warm up, and then a 5 mile loop through the
woods. For some of the kids this was their first real "Trail" ride, and they
all did great. In fact we made it a least 100' before the first one crashed,
but like a typical kid he got up and rode the rest of the day. Perhaps the
most impressive ride of the day was by Cody Houff on a KTM 50. He went
everywhere the bigger kids did, in spite of 10" tires!
After we made the first loop we came back to the parking lot for drinks and
snacks. Of course we adults did our best to introduce the kids to time
honored motorcycle traditions such as telling lies and making excuses about
our riding. After getting them hopped up on Little Debbie treats and soft
drinks we took off to do it again.
All total we had 6 "small" kids and a couple of "big" ones. Bikes included a
KTM 50, 2 TTR 90's, a TTR125,an XR 80 and an XR100. When they were all
going down the trail it looked like one of those Yamaha or Honda commercials.
The only difference was instead of Ricky Carmichael giving them tips we had
Wendell. By the end of the day we had ridden about 36 miles, and every kid
there was asking when we could do it again. That was probably the best
indicator of how good of a day we had. At the end of the day we had a
drawing for 4 $10 gift certificates, 2 of which were donated by Honda/Yamaha
of Knoxville. (Thank Scott Bayless the next time you see him)
The ride had been advertised at the local shops, plus through word of mouth.
Most of the people who came were not current Vol Rider members, but I think
they all are future Vol Rider members. Plus, there were at least 5 families
I know of that wanted to come but couldn't make it. This is something we
will definitely do again soon.
Fanny Pack Tools……Skip Davis
In perusing the mail
order catalogs, I seem to have memorized all the usual offerings of
MSR and Moose, but it is really fun and exciting to find a tool elsewhere
that is a little different and maybe even a little better. While traversing
the local Sears, Home Depot or Lowes, I like to keep an eye out for
tools that are light, compact and look to be really useful on the trails
in the event of mechanical trouble. I recently found two tools that
seem to fit this description.
The first is a T-Handle
Screwdriver. I found this one in Home Depot but Sears has one that is
similar.
This piece is convertible
from a T handle to a regular straight handle. The T handle gives the
extra torque needed for some stubborn Phillips head screws. It stores
bits in the top of the handle, and when coupled with a ¼” socket adapter
makes a really handy T wrench or nut driver.
The next is a small
¼” ratchet that also doubles as an offset screwdriver. I also found
this one at Home Depot.
I have used offset
screwdrivers in the past as compact ratchets, but this feels and acts
much more like a “real” ratchet. It comes with a ¼” socket drive that
is held in place much better than some adapters I’ve used. This comes
in handy when you are using a drive extension.
Both of these tools
were less than $10 apiece, and fit into my fanny pack well.
Upcoming Events
May 21: Ride sponsored by Gary Clark Laurel Mountain
June 4-5: Carter Mountain Ride, sponsored by Southern
Woods Riders(AMA)
June 11-12: Durhamtown Georgia..sponsored by Russ Townsend
June 25-26:
Honda Hoot DualSport, Kodak, TN (AMA)
AMA sanctioned
rides require AMA membership. (www.AMADirectlink.com)
Club Notes
·
The next club meeting
will be Thursday, May 19 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 |
