Wings of Eagles CMA Meeting, Chapter Ride, and Connie Updates

Yesterday was our last monthly CMA chapter meeting for the year, as we meet on the fourth Saturday of the month.  December meeting is always very close to Christmas Day, if not on Christmas, so we only have 11 meetings each year.  We had officer elections besides the normal business, and I will serve as Chapter VP and Road Captain for 2018 again.  No problem with that, as our President is returning and he does a great job.  Plus I'm getting used to Road Captain even if I'm not the most "let's go riding just for fun" member due to commuting on the bike and also many other interests and projects always going on!

Yesterday's ride was up and around some lakes in northeast San Diego County and I planned to lead us up Palomar Mountain.  Borrowing a trick I learned from track day and racing riders, I put tape on the inner fairing and tank with the directions as I hadn't ridden this route in awhile! Sure I could have dug the tank bag out and slid directions in the map pocket.  But this was easier as I haven't used the tank bag in probably two years, plus the bottom of the map pocket is too far back to keep my head up while riding!

We had a good ride-traffic was no where as bad as I thought it would be and the few cars in front of us were at least doing close to the speed limit.  I don't ride particularly hard especially leading a group, although the three riders with me could easily have kept up 5-10 MPH faster!  Two were some of the best riders in our chapter and the third was a guest with 65 years (yes, 65 YEARS!) of riding experience.  Due to concern we might have lots of "lookie-loos" on Palomar Mountain and the usual sportbike riders going much faster, we decided not to do that small detour-why you see some lined out directions.  Will take the tape off today-I left it on just for the pictures and hopefully it won't pull the CMA Bike Blessing stickers off at the same time.

We stopped in Santa Ysabel at the Julian Pie Company for pie/ice cream as always.  Like Rosa's Cafe and Tortilla Factory in Temecula, if our bikes are near there they turn in nearly automatically.  Maybe we should sell them to Tesla for autopilot tech!  While we were hanging out and enjoying our pie and ice cream, three C14 Concours pulled in, and it was the Concours Owners Group (COG) regional and area reps out riding!  I went over and introduced myself, we chatted for a few minutes, and I got their cards.  I'll likely rejoin COG and become active on the forum again.

When I got home I moved the 86 Connie, aka Miss Swail, off the lift and rolled the 96 up there.  Between watching/pausing the Auburn-Bama game (WAR EAGLE! Beat both #1 teams this year, now to beat Georgia again!) I did an oil change as I know I've ridden the bike 3,000 miles and who knows when it was done before that.  Pretty straightforward as always although messy-going to get a SPOOFAK, maybe for my birthday as the internal filter makes a mess.  The front drain bolt also is right by a line that will probably always get oil on it too.  Still better than where the filter is on most Harleys! 

Long update but it was a full day of CMA meeting and ride, meeting some COG officers and bike maintenance.  All good, and have a great riding day!

Rule #5 of building a blog following

A few blogs about blogging have lists of ways to get to 1,000,000 blog hits quickly-within a year, two years etc.

Well, one list that keeps getting referenced has what has become a bit of an inside joke:  Rule #5.  Rule #5 basically says any chance you get, post pictures of women.  Caption them, label them, do whatever it takes to drive clicks and links based on these pictures.

Well, there are a few issues with applying Rule #5 to this blog.  First, the intent of this blog and the full implementation of Rule #5 are incongruent.

Second, although my wife had her M1 endorsement before we even met, she currently doesn't ride, nor works on the bikes (she'd probably be better at it than me, btw.)  So not even pics of her hands turning wrenches will appear.

So how can I post tasteful pics to "exploit" Rule #5?  I'VE GOT IT!  I have gotten to know some Lady Riders of all types of motorcycles and can feature the growing impact of female riders in all aspects of motorcycling while being respectful/honoring the "Fairer and Gentler Sex".  And sometimes downright faster sex, as today's picture shows.  It's from a women's only trackday at Chuckwalla Valley Speedway that was also a fundraising event.  There is already a group of women racers out at Chuckwalla, so the organizers (especially MamaWalla, I'm sure) set up a FemmeWalla Track Day a few years ago-I think this was the third installation.  Here's the pic:

A Group of Lady Riders At the FemmeWalla Trackday, Chuckwalla Motor Speedway.  And one scary Umbrella Boy!

Probably one of the few times calling a woman "Fast" wouldn't get you slapped!

Let's go racing-WERA schedule posted!

WERA has posted their updates schedule and there are big changes to the WERA-WEST "rotation".  Many more races at Auto Club Speedway and while the season kicks off and ends at Las Vegas as it has most recently, there isn't a true winter race at ACS.  The first Fontana round is in April.  There will be trackdays and racer schools associated with most these race weekends I'm pretty sure.

Looks good to race CVMA then go right into WERA-West competition and then back.  CVMA schedule linked in my post on that series' schedule.

Chuckwalla Valley Raceway 2014 Motorcycle Racing Schedule is out!

Just saw this last night:

2014 races for the 2013-2014 season:

January 25-26
February 22-23
March 15-16
April 19-20

Lots of good racing, and a Trackdaz Friday track day before each one for trackday riders and newbies to attend the racer school.

Of course, CMA will be out there helping out, hanging out, blessing bikes and holding a sunrise chapel service.

I'll post the WERA-West schedule and a link to the full national schedule this weekend.