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STRAIGHT ARROW ENDURO
RIDERS NEWS
For January 2004
MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE
The next
club meeting will be on January 28, 2004
TIME:
7:00 P.M.
PLACE :
Bob’s Cycle Supply
Directions: Frontage road on NE corner of Rice
Street exit off HWY 36, just west of I-35E
SAER
Info Line: (952)
996-9240
SAER Web
site address:
www.straightarrows.org
2004
SAER Calendar:
Feb 7 Club Party
March 28 Grantsburg MX (non-points)
April 4 Grantsburg MX
April 25 Grantsburg MX
May 2 Grantsburg MX
Aug 7,8 Holyoke Enduro
Aug 29 Grantsburg MX
Sept 25,26 Trail Ride
Sanction
Meeting Report, December
7, 2003
(Edited for the
web)
Club Members in
Attendance – Bob Chase, Ken Fastner, Roy Fleming, Mark Krey, Greg Nelson, John
Otto
Our March
28, April 4 and May 2 MX races are double dates, the first two against Kellogg,
the May 2 race against Millville. Our other two MX races are triple dates. We
are against Little Falls and Kellogg on April 25 and against Brookston and
Mazeppa on August 29. There are no District 23 woods events going against the
Enduro. The Trail Ride is going against the Hill City Hare Scrambles.
Club
Meeting Minutes,
December 3, 2003
Attendance
– 22
Current
Members – Jack Bondus, Mark Brunsberg, Bob Chase, John Deluce, Ken Fastner, Tim
Kight, Mark Krey, Chuck Kurkowski, Matt Leebens, Bob Maki, Mike Maslow, Mike
Murphy, Rob Murphy, Jon Otto, Mark Solnitzky ,Paul Spears, Jeff Terrio, Ross
Thompson, Mike Wells
Prospective
Members – Scott Haraldson 2nd Meeting, Gene Perry 2nd,
Lee Larson 1st
·
Treasurer’s
report - Edited for the Web
·
Dues
are soon to be due for 2004. Bring them to the next meeting or send them to:
Roy Fleming
14550 94th St. N.E.
Elk River, MN 55330
·
Edited
for the Web
·
Having
practice days the day before the MX races was discussed. Discussion was tabled
for next meeting.
·
Because
of occasional conflicts with the District meeting, it was agreed that the
meetings would now be held the last Wednesday of the month, starting in
January.
·
Trail
work at Gilbert is completed for the year. Ken Fastner, Ron Palm, Greg Nelson,
Mike Murphy and possibly others all helped out. Other trail work may need to be
done in the not yet opened Virginia off-road park.
·
A date
was picked for the Winter Club Party, February 7th. Rob Murphy has
offered to have it at his house again. A few other ideas were kicked around
including bowling and carting. Feel free to suggest other ideas, but ones that
cost the club a lot of money probably won’t happen.
·
There
was some brief discussion about the club roster. The Secretary agreed to get a
current copy out to the membership, including (as was insisted upon) whether
they are current on their dues.
·
If you
have become a member recently and have not yet received a club jersey, contact
Mark Krey, or he may just bring some to the next meeting. mkracing33@aol.com
·
Bob
Chase is planning on submitting race stories to Cycle USA for next year’s
Grantsburg races and possibly other north MX races. If you can provide race day
photos, please contact him at bob@mxbob.com.
·
Final
voting on club positions was done. The results are:
President: Mike
Murphy
Secretary: Bob
Chase
Treasurer: Roy
Fleming
Inside Ref: Mike
Wells
Outside Ref: Paul
Spears
Alternate: Mark
Krey
D23 Rep: Greg
Nelson
Alternate Paul
Spears
Enduro Chair: Ken
Fastner
MX Chair: Matt
Leebens
Annual District
Meeting, December 6, 2003
(Edited for the
Web)
Most of the new MX classes got voted in including not 1, but 4 classes
for the little plastic toys that they call mini quads. Also 45+A and 45+B/C
were voted in. Splitting the minis into Novice and Intermediate was voted down.
Ken’s proposal to remove the club membership requirement lost by one vote. Bob
Chase was re-elected to MX 125 Rep and Ken Fastner was elected to the Trail
Rider Vice Chairman.
There were not too many club riders getting year end awards at the MX
Banquet this year. Lana Merkley finished 9th in the Women’s class.
She is looking to do more regional and national events next year. Bob Chase was
9th in the 40+A class, earning a once in a lifetime opportunity to
ride with an earned, single digit number. He looked to have wrapped up the
distinction of “Slowest A Rider with a Single Digit Number”, but late in the
year, a certain suspension specialist slipped into the top 9 of 25+A, and took
that title away.
An elder
club member holds up an obvious forgery while a bemused Lana tries
to keep her
authentic version from getting too close. And no, black, red, and gray
are not the
new club colors.
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