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STRAIGHT ARROW ENDURO RIDERS NEWS

For January 2006

 

MONTHLY MEETING NOTICE

The next club meeting will be on January 25, 2006 at 7:00 PM

 

PLACE : Mark Brunsberg’s House (in the back garage)

7150 Utica Lane

Chanhassen, MN

Ph. 952-470-0621

Directions: Take I-494 to MN Hwy 5, go west on Hwy 5 to Chanhassen, on the west side of town turn North on C.R. 17, go to top of hill, left on Utica Lane, 7150 on left. Go behind house to big garage.

 

2006 SAER Calendar:

February 18       Club Party

April 1               Grantsburg Practice

April 2               Grantsburg Race (with Quads)

April 8               Grantsburg Practice

April 9               Grantsburg Race (with Quads)

April 22             Grantsburg Practice

April 23             Grantsburg Race (Premier, No Quads)

June 11             Grantsburg Quad-Only Race

June 17,18 *      Stone Lake Enduro

August 5,6        Holyoke Enduro

September 23   Grantsburg Practice

September 24   Grantsburg Race (with Quads)

* Assisting at event

 

 

SAER Info Line: (952) 996-9240   SAER Web site address: www.straightarrows.org

 

Announcements

·         2005 dues are beyond overdue. 2006 dues are being accepted at this time. They are a still affordable, $25. To get off the 2005 shame list, bring your dues to the next meeting or send them to:

Roy Fleming

14550 94th St. N.E.

Elk River, MN 55330

 

Meeting Agenda

for:  Jan 25, 2005


Standard Business

1  Ken Fastner               Review of Minutes

2  Roy Fleming              Treasurer's Report

3  Ken Fastner               New Member Introductions

4  Bob Chase                Probationary Members to be voted on

5  Ken Fastner               Order Pizza

                                   

Existing Business

Motocross                  

1  Tom Peterson            Spring MX promotions

                                   

Grantsburg Property for Sale

2  Ken Fastner               Property purchase progress

                                   

 

Miscellaneous            

3  Matt Leebens             Club Party updates?

4  Ken Fastner               GIA reimbursement status

5  Ken Fastner               Next year's Event schedule

                                   

New Business       

1  Members                   New Business??



Club Party

The winter club party has been set for February 18th at the St. Louis Park Tavern just as it was last year. You can get there as early as 5:00 and we will eat at 6:00, bowling will start after dinner until 9:30 with more food brought out to our lanes. We should have more time to bowl this year, and when we are done we can use the party room as long as we want.

Go to www.parktavern.net for directions.

Also like last year, I am planning the go kart racing at Pro Kart, there will be a limited number of spots available so please email me or call to reserve your spot asap.

 

Matt Leebens  Cell: 612-269-2359     ridered6150@aol.com

 

Treasurer’s Report (no change since last newsletter)

Club balance 11-28-05  $

Bills to pay coming up   District sanction meeting   $

                                    Grantsburg property taxes   $

GIA not yet received, but should be soon

 

Club Meeting Minutes, for December (not September) 28, 2005

Attendance –  9(s)

Mark Brunsberg, Bob Chase , Ken Fastner, Scott Haraldson, Mark Krey, Mike Murphy, Greg Nelson, John Otto, Paul Spears

·         Club Paraphernalia – Mike Murphy delivered the jackets etc. ordered by the members at the last meeting.

·         Discussion of the schedule – The main concerns with the April-heavy schedule are how to get the spring work done up in Holyoke and how to get rid of the trash between the first and second race.

·         Hiway 70 Fence project – Most of the posts are in. It was decided to make the fence continuous including replacing the barb wire fence that is among the pine tree clump.

·         Property Purchase – Ken has spoken with the people who live on the other side of the property and they are very interested in buying the back (south) half. This would work out nicely from a club budget perspective. If this was done, we would first buy the entire property, then sell the back half. Our next steps are to see if they can insure us that they will buy the back half and to determine what our offer should be. They are asking 70,000, which intuitively seems high, but we need someone more familiar with the area, and at estimating land value, in order to more accurately estimate the market price.

·         Enduro if the Year - Two things related to this. If you go to the banquet and vote, the club suggestion is to vote for the Stone Lake Enduro rather than Holyoke. Also, we were asked if we would re-do the EotY trophy, similarly to how the Norseman recently replaced the HSotY award.

·         State Line Creek Crossing – We have committed to building a bridge. It will need to be around thirty feet long.

·         Ken F and Ron were exploring the A/B area and discovered some existing trails, complete with two bridges. Those trails will probably be used in conjunction with some other trail work, to add some mileage to that section.

·         Party is the same weekend as the Arkansaw trip. We just figure out a new way each year to prevent Ken F from attending.

·         Track Grading – Tom, Tim, and Rob will figure out what will done for the track equipment and grading.

 

 Member Lists

Probationary Members to be voted on:

February – Aaron Petty

Active and Probationary Members that owe 2005 dues:

Skip Olson, Mark Solnitzky, Paul Spears

 

Classifieds

2003 KTM 200 SX, exc cond, low hours (used 3 months), driven gently by female rider, Renthal Fatbars & grips, Acerbics flag handgaurds, Moose skid plate & shark fin, Enduro Engineering soft seat & easy pull clutch lever, clutch slave gaurd, Devol Extreme radiator gaurds, hardened rear wheel spacers, newer DID Gold O-ring chain & sprockets & Dunlop 773 rear tire, forks new wipers & seals & shock serviced. Also has FMF Q silencer & WER steering dampner mounting kit (both not on bike), 3 spare air filters & air filter cage. $3300. 651-291-8042 or mkracing@comcast.net