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The 14th Annual Run with the Wolf
Rally was held on April 25-27 at the High Valley Resort in Suches,
GA. While the forecast for Saturday
The COG Board has selected the SE area to host the 2009 COG National. It will be held June 8-12 at the Fontana Village Resort ( http://www.fontanavillage.com/) near Rob-binsville, N.C. John Carver, GA AAD, led the effort to prepare the rally proposal and has agreed to serve at the event’s ’rallymeister’. Calvin Underwood made the announcement on behalf of John, Vic and the team at the ‘COG at 10,000’ Rally on June 5 at Frisco, Colorado. The team appropriately named the rally ‘Shiftin and Grinnin’’. And so it shall be. This is the perfect area to have our Na-tional. If you look at your map of Western North Carolina or click on this link http://home.nps.gov/applications/parks/grsm/ppMaps/ACFA653.pdf and find Hwy 28 and the Fontana Lake dam, you will quickly see that Fontana Village Resort is just south of the dam. Now, while you are looking, see Deals Gap (Tail of the Dragon), Cherohala Skyway, the Blue Ridge Parkway and all those twisty roads in between. Now, imagine you riding those roads, seeing those sights and visiting all the interesting and fun places that are within a 100 mile radius reaching not only into all parts of Western North Caro-lina, but also into Tennessee and Georgia as well. Fontana Village Resort offers accommodations for anyone’s preference and budget in-cluding camping, cabins, houseboats and the lodge. It has two restaurants and banquet facilities to accommodate as many as show up. There are two swimming pools; a game room; disc golf; putt putt; horseback riding; bicycling; a playground; and more for the entire family. There is also a community building which will serve as COG Central during the rally. It’s a great setup for a rally.
In addition to the great roads, area attractions include: the Great Smoky Mountain Na-tional Park, the Nantahala Outdoor Center (whitewater rafting); Cherokee; Gatlinburg, TN, the Honda Hoot in Knoxville; Asheville, NC; and much more. Our website will have links to all the attractions.
The COG on-line website will have all the details soon. Registration will be handled for the first time on-line by COGMOS. So, stay tuned.
Contacts for this rally are John Carver, [email protected]; Vic Salisbury, vsalis-
Southeast Area Selected for 2009 COG National
SECOG Leadership Team
Vic Salisbury, AD for SE Area
Bruce Barge, AAD N. FL (Ocala),
David Sturgis , AAD N. FL
(Jacksonville)
Paul Heydemann, AAD S.FL,
John Carver, AAD N.GA,
Jack Ferguson, AAD N.GA,
Reid Yeargan, AAD S. GA,
Needed, AAD MS Jack McVickers, AAD W.TN, [email protected] Needed, AAD E.TN,
Steve Jenkins , AAD WNC,
Ray Olszewski , AAD C.NC [email protected]
Gary Norton, AAD SC
David Hicks, Webmaster
Calvin Underwood, Editor,
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Inside this issue:
Run with the Wolf Report 2
AMA Time Trials 3
Run with the Wolf Pix 3
Coming Events 4
Special Survey Question 4
Run with the Wolf Rally
Southeastern Area of the Concours Owners Group Newsletter June, 2008
SECOG NEWS
The 14th Annual Run with the Wolf Rally was held on April 25-27 at the High
Valley Resort in Suches, GA.
Continued on Page 2
On Friday night, the group got
together to talk about the new COG-Online.com, COGmos mem-
bership systems, and to talk about safety . An open discussion on
tech issues followed.
While the forecast for Saturday was ominous as clouds gathered, it turned out to be a great day
for riding as the showers were few and very scattered.
To go back a bit, Rallymeister
John Carver was informed by High Valley Resort 12 days in ad-
vance of the rally that they no longer did food service. Not to be deterred, John made ar-
rangements to purchase steaks and potatoes. Reid Yeargan, the
S .GA AAD, brought t he beans. Calvin Underwood, Bob
Sherwood and Gary Norton made a special ‘Cole Slaw’ run on
Saturday (which included a ride across the Cherohala Skyway) to bring back the bags of cabbage/
cole slaw. Amy Lane, Lynne Jones, Lucia Perez, and Reid
Yeargan prepared the steaks, baked potatoes, and cole
slaw. Reid Yeargan and John fired up the grill, and ‘everyone’
cooked their own steaks on the grill. This illustrates SECOG team work at its best.
Following the delicious meal, John
distributed a ‘Survey’ to the group to get input about what they
would like to see at fu-ture events. John will be com-
piling the results and a report will be used by the SECOG leader-ship team in planning.
Special Awards were presented,
in adsentia, to David Hicks, Mari-etta, GA, for his services as the
SECOG webmaster and for man-
aging our official e-mail communi-cations and to Larry Buck, Boca
Raton, FL, for his service as the SECOG AD 2004-2007.
Recognitions were given to Tyler
Pigott for the highest COG #7775 and to Ken and Marcia Ford, Bartow, FL, for the lowest
COG #354. Paul Heydemann, Miami, FL and SFL AAD, came the
‘longest distance’. Rich and Dona Riczinger, Richmond, VA and
COG Tech Director, came the longest distance ‘two up’. The
‘youngest’ COG member operator was Jennifer Simons, Augustus, GA. And the Youngest Attendee
was Mathew McClure, grandson of John and Peggy Youhouse,
Clarksville, TN.
The ‘Hard Luck’ award went to Sandi Hodge who tangled with
the ‘Wolf’ at a hairpen turn on Wolf Pen Gap Rd. Sandi, of Yu-lee, FL and her GPZ1000 ran
onto some gravel on a left hand 180 degree hairpin and went
down an embankment. While Sandi was a bit bruised and sore,
she was OK. Her bike was ren-dered un-ridable. A close run-
nerup was Eddie Minter of San-ford, FL., also tangled with a left-hander. Eddie also was a bit
bruised and sore, but declared himself OK. His Concours sus-
tained cosmetic damage but he rode it home.
We had lots of door prizes, in-cluding a Tourmaster jacket, hel-
met, Kawasaki backpack, New Enough gift certificates and many more. Gary Norton, SC AAD,
teamed up with Rallymeister John Carver to give out the door
prizes. McClure Youhouse, the Youhouse granddaughter, pulled
the winning names for John.
The 50/50 was won by Neil and
Jenny Wells, Jamestown, TN. The group unanimously agreed that
house 50% would go to David Hicks, SECOG Webmaster's fa-
vorite charity, Multiple Sclerosis.
Rallymeister John thanked every-one for attending. On Sunday morning, everyone started to
pack up and head back home. With them, they took lots
of good memories of the people and the rides.
Submitted by John Carver and
Calvin Underwood
Special note from ‘Run with the Wolf ’ ral lymeister (John
Carver): The success of Run with the Wolf 2008 is due to the back-
ing of a great bunch of people which I could not have done with-
out: Vic Salisbury provided awards, t-shirts, many of the door prizes, and personal direction,
Bob Sherwood provided door prizes, Calvin Underwood pro-
vided highly valuable direction and assisted with obtaining food,
Gary Norton assisted with obtain-ing food and door prize selec-
tions, Reid Yeargan provided on-site support and assistance in many areas, Lynne Jones, Amy
Lane, and Reid Yeargan for kitchen support, Lucia Perez for
assisting with High Valley Resort, and Rick Ward for correcting of
my forgetting the COG ban-ners. As for my contribution, I just
happen to know a pretty good butcher. :-)
Thanks to all those who helped, I appreciate it greatly. I doubt
that I listed all that contributed, for that I apologize and Thank
You again. John Carver, Rallymeister
RWTW, Continued from Page 1
“The story behind the forgotten
COG banners. Jeanne, one of the owners of High Valley Resort
was cleaning up just before the church service and noticed them.
She was taking them down when someone coming for the church service noticed her actions and
stated he was my neighbor. The "neighbor" was actually as stated,
Rick Ward lives two doors from me, and he brought me the ban-
ners. Talk about a small world.
John Carver, RWTW Rallymeister
Mystery of the
Missing Banners
2008 AMA Indoor
Trails National
Championship
The Trials Training Center (TTC) is
pleased to announce that the 2008 AMA Indoor Trials National
Championship will be held on Sat-urday night, July 5, 2008 at the
Camp JordanIndoor Arena in East Ridge, TN. Camp Jordan is con-veniently located at exit 1 off I-
75 south of Chattanooga at the GA/TN line, about 1.5 hours drive
north of Atlanta. Indoor Arena in East Ridge, TN.
Camp Jordan is conveniently located at exit 1 off I-75 south of
Chattanooga at the GA/TN line, about 1.5 hours drive north of Atlanta.
http://
www.trialstrainingcenter.com/
COGers at the 14th Annual ‘Run with the Wolf’ Rally in Suches, GA, pictures by John
Special Editor Note: A big Thank You to John Carver for stepping up to
Rallymeister the Run with the Wolf. Without that step, this event would not have happened. Thank you, John.
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Note from the Editor: This newsletter has been sent via e-mail to all COGers with e-mail addresses. Hard copies were mailed to non-e-mail mem-bers only . E-mailed newslet-ters save your volunteer editor time and resources. If you have e-mail, it is important to keep your ‘contact info’, e.g. e-mail address, up-to-date. Please make all corrections on your COGMOS account (see March, 2008 newsletter for instruction) or w i th Car l Met ler [email protected] who maintains the central mem-bership lists. I don’t mind mail-ing a hard copy to e-mail’less members. If you want a hard copy of the newsletter, e-mail Calvin. Thanks for your under-standing and co-operation.
The North Georgia COG Members have a regularly scheduled dinner at
Rocco's Pub in Marietta, GA every third Thursday from about 7:30 till about 9 PM. We can be found at the rear of the restaurant at a long
table or on the deck. We welcome anyone who would like to come so-
cialize and meet some of the local members.
Survery Question: RWTW is scheduled to be April 24 - 26, 2009.
With the National being less than 2 months away, would you prefer: (choose one)
A. To move it earlier in the month? B. To move it to the last of March?
C. To not have it for 2009, skip a year. Please e-mail your response to John Carver at [email protected] .
Thank you for your response.
A big Thank You to Jerry Holland for stepping up to rallymeister
next fall’s ‘Winding Rivers and Roads’ Rally. Details forthcoming.
Special Note from the Editor: I’ve switched to Microsoft Publisher
for this newsletter in order to put active links into the content since
90+% of SECOGers receive the E-version. This saves you from
having to cut and paste URLs. Big thank you to Paulie Heydemann,
Mijami, for asking me to do this. Let me know how it works, or IF it works. Also, SEND STUFF for the newsletter. Thanks. Calvin.