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Volume 38, Issue 2, 2017

Important News The Dennis Frye Memorial Ride and Oaks Park weekend are coming up immediately. The ride will be Sunday, Augiust 5th, starting at 11:00 am from Jim Dandy Drive-In at 9626 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland. The Bike Show and Picnic will be Sunday August6th at Oaks Amusement Park, Area 3, Portland 10:00 to 3:00. We know a lot of people pull out their prized bike on Saturday and spend the day cleaning it ready for the picnic on Sunday. This year, for a change, we propose you pull out the bike on Friday to make sure it starts etc, then come on the ride on Sat-urday. Be brave, tell your other half you are going for a ride with “Patina”, hose it off and let the wind do the rest. If you have never been to Larch Mountain, you are in for a treat The Columbia River Scenic Highway and then 14 miles up the windy road to the top. A short walk to the summit rewards with a spectacular all-around view of five mountains, Hood, Adams, Jefferson, St Helens and Rainier. Bring your now well-ridden steed to the picnic and show it off in its natural glory. Now you can say “Yes, it’s a bit dirty.. be-cause I ride it!” Meet old friends (some are very old) and join us for the best burger you will have had all morning. See you there! For more information contact: Nils Olson – Sharon.nils@gmail.com 503-706-5956

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The Fine Print The OVM Newsletter is published by Oregon Vintage* Motorcyclists, a non-profit Oregon corporation dedicated to the preservation, maintenance, and en-joyment of antique, veteran, and special interest two and three wheeled motor vehicles.

OFFICERS 2 year terms Election years

Samuel Justice President sjustice6587@qwestoffice.net Steven Millard 1st VP Even

Ron Saunders 2nd VP ronsau@co.clackamas.or.us Odd

Chuck Risser Secretary cedcourt@aol.com

John Blumthal Treasurer jpblumthal@hotmail.com Even

Volunteers

Carl Best Newsletter Editor best@efn.org Volunt.

Carl Best Online Content Mgr. best@efn.org Volunt.

Colin Freestone Online Content Mgr. cfreest@comcast.net Volunt

Nils Olson Ride Coordinator sharon.nils@gmail.com Volunt. Ron Saunders Trailer storage Volunt. .

Website: http://www.oregonvintage.org E-mail: info@oregonvintage.org or any officer’s e-mail above.

Annual dues of $15.00 accepted at the Corvallis May Show and Meeting, or by mail. Newsletter publication is scheduled for 6 issues annually in odd num-bered months: January, March, May, July, September, November (1,3,5,7,9,11), mid-month Please address inquiries to the above e-mail or our P.O. Box address:

Oregon Vintage Motorcyclists, P.O. Box 14645 Portland, OR 97293-0645

Ride home safe so you can ride again tomorrow! Articles appearing in the Newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinion of OVM. The OVM, officers, staff or members cannot be held liable for any acci-dent or injury which may occur from any work, contracts, motorcycle modifica-tions or private agreements involving mechanical work on any motorcycle as a result of any information provided in the OVM Newsletter. Nor shall OVM, its officers, staff or members be held liable for any accident or injury sustained in motorcycle rides and/or events staged, presented or organized by them. To subscribe to the OVM email chat list, send a blank email to:

OregonVintageMotorcyclists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Enter the email address exactly as it appears above (no spaces), no need to use a subject line, or any text in the message, yahoo will get all the information it needs from your email return address. You’ll be sent a confirmation message, that you need to reply to, then your email address will be added to the list. To use the list, simply address your email to the address given you following your confirmation.

*Vintage is defined by OVM as: “at least 20 years old.”

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The more things change… New management for the newsletter. I was all set to hit the ground running in my return as your news-letter editor, and promptly tripped over my own feet. At the Corvallis Show, Sam Justice had approached me with concerns about delays in newsletter publication. I has also been considering this, after speaking with Steve Caffey, the outgoing newsletter editor about his own concerns over time constraints due to his work. I’m now retired, and I began to form the idea of resuming the job when Sam brought it up. I won’t bore you with details, but after so many years away from the job, it’s been a difficult and time-consuming effort to round up appropriate com-puter software and the hardware to run it on to resume the job of newsletter editor after so many years away from it. Suffice to say that after several false starts, and a bit of scrambling among my old computer stash, I’ve finally gotten a setup that can work with the documents that the previous editor provided me to work with. So, here I am, typing my re-introduction, over a month after I had intended to be doing it. Bear with me, it’s going to take a bit to get up to speed after all these years away. Once I get this issue put to bed, I should be able to keep them coming at fairly regular intervals. Carl Best

Editor’s Notes

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President’s Page

Our treasurer, John Blumthal, recently undertook to write to non-renewing members. His report will provide more information, but I want to thank John for undertaking this long discussed project and for bringing in a flood of renewals. I also want to thank the members who responded to John’s appeal. I appreciate your faith in our club. This is especially true in light of the lack of a reg-ular newsletter until now and the increase in dues effective July 1. There have been problems with getting the newsletter out. Carl Best has undertaken to do the newsletter and George Kraus has offered advice about setting up the newsletter in a fashion similar to his very successful newsletters for oNe and the Alfa Romeo club. We expect to return to a regular publication schedule. I will keep after this. I understand that the newsletter is the essential life blood of our club. As always, one of the biggest problems is assembling sufficient material for th newsletter. Please submit pieces concerning your history in the hobby, favorite bikes and rides and current rides, projects and motorcycle history. I know from talking with members that there are plenty of interesting sto-ries out there. Let’s share them. We will also publish ads for members bikes and parts. I get emails from members about club maters. If you want to have them published, let me know. Please submit pictures as jpegs and written material in rich text format. Email Carl if you have questions regarding format of submis-sions. [Carl, please indicate the email address for these inquir-ies.] The electronic version of the newsletter will be in color, and it is much cheaper for the club, but we will continue to mail hard copes of the newsletter to members who indicate that they want to receive it. It has been a while since the last president’s page. There is much to report. Our “Officers’” meeting last October was produc-tive. I’ll underline again that the “Officers’” meeting is open to any interested member and that it is an excellent opportunity to be heard by the people who get things done in this club and to vol-unteer to do your part. The Annual General Meeting in April was also productive. Unfortunately the attendance at both of these important business meetings continues to be disappointing.

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Last September some of our members rode in the Distinguished Gentlemens’ Ride, a benefit for prostate cancer and suicide pre-vention research. A picture of myself, our treasurer and our sec-retary is attached. The charity is well worth supporting, and this event is literally world-wide, but the local ride route was unneces-sarily complex, and city traffic was hard on our vintage bikes. We may want to organize our own route in the future. Our Winter Banquet speaker was, Fred Haefele, the author of Restoring the Indian. He read from his book and told us about some of the ef-forts to revive the Indian marque. If you haven’t read the book, you should. Fred is a great story teller, and you’ll find many of the trials in the book familiar. The ONE Show was a lot of fun, de-spite having to spend most of a day waiting in line to register a bike and have the mandatory pictures taken. Several members had bikes in the show, but we should arrange for a group display if we do it next February. For the first time in several years the weather for Corvallis was nearly perfect. The ride on Saturday before the Sunday show as one of the best attended rides we’ve ever had. We had a nice turnout of Indian motorcycles and the usual large groups of British and Asian (almost exclusively Japa-nese) motorcycles. Although the scooters that were shown were very nice, this class has not grown and it may be discontinued for lack of interest. I joined the ride to the Brooks Motorcycle and Car museum in June and that went well despite the 100 degree weather until I got nearly home. The BMW R90/6 stopped on me after extended stop and go on I-5. Our Southern Oregon Group is very active. I want to encourage our members in that part of Oregon to attend the meetings at Four Daughters Pub and to get on the email list that Gary Edwards maintains for SOG activities. All members should monitor the OVM web site for current rides and activities. The next event is the Dennis Frye Memorial Ride (Larch Moun-tain) on Saturday, August 5. The Oaks Park Picnic is Sunday, August 6. The Officers’ Meeting is October 21 at noon at Thomp-son Brew Pub, 3575 Liberty Road in South Salem. Our featured marque for next May is BMW. We are currently looking for a speaker on the theme of BMW motorcycles. We’ve had some ideas and asked one speaker, but the invitee hasn’t committed to speaking yet; so we are open to suggestions. Sam Justice

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38th Annual Corvallis Show

Our 38th annual show and swap meet is now almost two months in the past. It’s about time we got around to publishing the results of the people’s choice judging and printed a few pic-tures!

Featured Marque (Indian) 20 bikes 1st Doug Brown, 1921 Scout w/power plus engine 2nd Sonja DiniHanian, 1917 Powerplus 3rd Clay Baxter, 1950 Warrior British 40 bikes 1st Bill Beebe, 1961-58 Triton 2nd Larry Ellifritz, 1925 Douglas 3rd Gary Roper, 1963 Velocette Scrambler Asian 36 bikes 1st Michael Roberts, 1975 Honda CB 400F 2nd Mark Willhoit, 1990 Honda GB 500 3rd John Adsmond, 1962 Honda Dream European 18 bikes 1st Dale Sunderman, 1970 Laverda 750S 2nd Matt Presley, 1965 BMW R69S-90S 3rd Butch Schulz, 1974 Montesa Cota 250 Trials American 3 bikes 1st Ian Tooth, 1968 HD XLR 2nd Bob VanGrunsven, 1968 FLH 3rd Doug Meeker, 1977 HD XLH Scooter 2 bikes 1st James Trantham, 1965 Lambretta 2nd James Trantham, 1963 Vespa President’s Choice, Dennis Frye Memorial Trophy Paul Wright, 1912 Indian 61

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Indian, Featured Marque

Our People’s Choice Award Winners for 2017

First Place, 1921 Scout with Power Plus engine

Second Place, 1917 Power Plus

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Third Place, 1950 Warrior. No picture available, the owner left before the award ceremony. We’ll try to get a picture and print it in the next newsletter, it’s a spectacular example of these underappreciated models produced during the final years of production in Springfield, Mass.

British

First Place, 1961/1958 Triton

Second Place, 1925 Douglas

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Asian

British Third Place, 1963 Velocette Scrambler

First Place, 1975 Honda CB400F

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Asian

Second Place, 1990 Honda GB500

Third Place, 1962 Honda Dream

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European

First Place, 1970 Laverda 750S

Second Place, 1965 BMW R29S-R90S

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European

Third Place, 1974 Montessa Cota 250 Trials

American

First Place, 1968 Harley-Davidson XLR

Second Place, 1974 Montesa Cota 250 Trials

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American

Second Place, 1968 Harley-Davidson FLH

Third Place, 1977 Harley-Davidson XLH

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Scooter

First Place, 1965 Lambretta

Second Place, 1963 Vespa

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Southern Oregon Group (SOG, a chapter of OVM)

Revised Contacts: Phoenix: Skip Ortner, 541-890-2165; Jacksonville: Tom Sherwood 541-899-3298; Medford: Dave Overacker, 541-941-4452; Gary Edwards, 541-773-5851

Motorcycle Show and Shine in Veneta, August 20th The Kiwanis Club of Fern Ridge is a local service group that sup-ports the greater Fern Ridge area in several different ways. We sponsor the Veneta Easter Egg Hunt, The Thanksgiving Feast, and Holiday Food Boxes. These are just a few things that we do every year. We started the Motorcycle Show ‘n’ Shine 4 years ago as our main fundraiser. With the help of many local busi-ness’ and community members, we have grown this to be our “Signature Event”. This show is a non-judged show and is a People’s Choice vote for Best in Class which are Custom, Stock, Vintage and Trike. We also have a Best in Show. It is open to any motorcycles. This years event is on August 20th and Valhalla Winery (formerly Domaine Meriwether Winery) in Veneta. The show runs from 11am to 4pm. There will be food, music, raffles and as always 25% of our net profits are donated to Doern-bechers Childrens Hospital Cancer Research. Lorrie & Eric Nor-man are the owners of Valhalla Winery and will have their tasting room open as well. For information please contact Bonnie Nagle at 541.334-5835 or email bnagle@bannerbank.com

Oregon Airport Tour http://www.oregonairporttour.org

The Oregon Airport Motorcycle Tour runs from Jan. 2nd to the 3rd Saturday in September. Visit the 10 airports we have selected and take a picture with your bike. Entrants successfully visiting all 10 airports within the tour dates will receive a free Airport Tour gift! See our website for details.

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Monthly OVM Events 1

st Saturday: Southern Oregon Area meeting.

Four Daughters Irish Pub, 126 West Main Street, Med-ford, Oregon – 12:00 noon. 2

nd Saturday, Portland area luncheon: New: Columbia

River Brewing, 1728 N.E. 40th Avenue, Portland, OR 97212 (Hollywood district) - 12 noon. Ride after, weather dependent. 3

rd Saturday: 8:00am breakfast at Sybils Omelettes, Sa-

lem. 2372 State Street. Ride afterwards, weather permit-ting. 3

rd Sunday, Eugene area meeting at Friendly St. Market,

28th and Friendly, at 3:00pm.

Brighter Quartz Halogen and LED replacement bulbs for motorcy-cles. These fit the standard bulb holders giving brighter lights with no extra strain on the charging system. Payment through Paypal; posts to USA everyday. See website: www.norbsa02.freeuk.com

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STOLEN MOTORCYCLE TRAILER Shortly after the Corvallis Show my motorcycle trailer was stolen from in front of my house in Portland. This is the trailer I have used as the “Sag Wagon” for the Corvallis Ride. The trailer is a three rail motorcy-cle trailer with no deck. The brand is Yacht Club. There are two circular tie downs at the back which I added. Please call the Portland Police and report any information you may have about the trailer’s location. Speak to Officer P. Valdez at the East Precinct 503.823.4800, PPB case # 17-173479, then call me at 503.307.9085. Sam Justice

Note to members Please inform the editor concerning the status of the classified ads you place in the newsletter. We would like to remove them if they are no longer current. It would really help if the ads are submitted in the Mi-crosoft Word format. Thanks.

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ONLY START TIMES ARE LISTED. FILL YOUR TANK and ARRIVE EARLY

August 5 - Dennis Frye Memorial Ride to Larch Moun-

tain. Start location Jim Dandy’s Drive-In 96th and Sandy Blvd. exit 23A off I-205 N. Contact: Nils Olson 503-706-5956 sha-ron.nils@gmail.com

August 6 - Oaks Park Picnic and bike show.

Oaks Park, amusement park, near the East end of Sellwood Bridge in Southeast Port-land. Follow the signs for Oaks Park.

August 13 - Batwater Station Ride and picnic lunch on the Columbia River near Clatskanie. Start location: Cornelius Pass Fred Meyer parking lot off NW Imbrue Dr. exit 62A off Hwy 26. 10:00 A.M. start. Contact: Mike Sayer miksay@msn.com 503-704-4558

September 9 - Mid-size-Mid Valley Motorcycle Rally

designed for motorcycles from 250-650 cc. Start location: Cycle Country 4764 Portland Rd NE Salem exit 25B from I-5. 10:00 A.M. start. Ride will be canceled if it rains. Contact: David Lippold 503-393-2852 dplip-pold@gmail.com

OVM 2017

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have a business related to motor-cycling, we’ll publish your card in

the newsletter.

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