ACHOG Weekly Newsletter & Ride Info 5/07/2019

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Safety Tip of the Week 

Leaning? or Counter-Steering

Counter-steering is probably the most misunderstood yet valuable motorcycle skill of all. Most people with any experience at all were probably taught that you have to lean on a motorcycle to make it turn. A motorcycle does turn by leaning but it is not your body leaning that does it.

Counter-steering is pushing on the handle bar in the direction you want to go: push left, go left – push right go right. Spoiler alert, when you lean into a curve, it’s not your body leaning that’s making the bike turn but the passive act of pushing on the handle bar as we corner the bike. So we all are counter-steering whether we realize it or not. The problem is, leaning by shifting your body is the most inefficient way to handle your bike. If you will try active counter-steering, in other words initiating the turn by pushing on the handle bar, you will notice the bike responding sooner and with much more control.
 

Tri-Chapter Picnic - Update

Thanks for all your ideas. However it has been brought to my attention that it is supposed to be a "picnic" instead of an "event". I still thought maybe I could sell it to the other directors and then go to Missy. I could not, it didn't get past the other directors. So picnic it is. The possible good news is they are on board with having it at the new dealership. 
And for the members who help at the activities meetings, the time that suits all three chapters is a fourth Saturday. Let's hope that dealership gets open soon.
 

Monthly Meeting

Meeting for will be Saturday, May 11, 2019 at the VFW-6184 US 1 South, St. Augustine. Please join us for coffee at 9:00 a.m. and the meeting begins at 9:30 a.m.  A short ride to Brisky's BBQ in St. Augustine will follow.


Riding Into History May 11, 2019

After the meeting, and after the ride to Brisky's, if you are not ready to pack it in, don't forget the Riding Into History event at World Golf Village.  Bob will be leading a ride there. 

Drawing

The drawing we have been waiting for will be at the next meeting. May 11, 2019
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Up and Coming 
 

Overnighter - June 1 & 2  Crystal River and Weeki Wachee
 
The information on our first over nighter is on the calendar. A ride to the gulf, meet and lunch with another HOG Chapter, visit a new dealership, dinner and socializing with friends, a mermaid show in a spring, what's there not to like?  
Meet at SR 207 and I-95 at 8;30 a.m. KSU at 9:00 a.m. Ride to Crystal River to meet and have lunch with Crystal River HOG. Ride to their new dealership and if time permits, visit Homosassa Springs. Then it's off to the hotel for happy hour and dinner. Sunday head for Weeki Wachee Springs around 8:00 a.m. for the mermaid show. Ralph will lead. Sweep TBA. Overnight accommodations are booked under Ancient City Harley Davidson at the Best Western Crystal River Resort. For those who went on the overnight a couple of years ago to Homosassa Springs this is the same hotel we stayed at, right on the river in Crystal River. Dinner will be at Cracker's Restaurant which is located next door to the hotel The restaurant and the hotel both have Tikki Bars for our convenience. Right now I have 15 rooms blocked at the hotel They have given us a rate of $109.00 as long as we rent at least 10 rooms. The block will stand until the end of April at that time the rooms will be released. Please call 352-795-3171 to book your room. Ask for the Ancient City Harley Davidson Block. If you have questions please feel free to call me at 904-305-7139 or email ralphcollinson@aol.com

Check link below to see our calendar and upcoming rides.

http://www.ancientcityhog.com/ 
 
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Come Out and Join Us On Our Rides...Hope To See You Soon... Terry    
          

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