The Kickstand                           

February 2004                          Newsletter@VMTAColumbusGA.org

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Membership dues for 2004 are due now!  Don't lose your club member status.  Send your check to VMTA c/o Mary Fiske, 3951 Biltmore Dr. Columbus, GA 31909.  $30.00 family & $20.00 single.  Let's all try to have perfect attendance.

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The PresidentÕs Message

 

GREETINGS!  February brings the promise of warmerÉi.e. riding weatherÉahead!  In looking back, however, weÕve had it pretty good these past couple of months with just about every weekend having at least one good riding day.  Just a couple of weeks ago several of us took a very enjoyable ride through Pine Mountain, Harris and Troup counties stopping at Peppermill Grill for dinner.  All in 60 degree weather!  And it only promises to get better! 

 

Hope you can all make it to the February meeting as we have a few very important items to discuss and vote on.  Chris will be giving us an update on the website and when you see it I think you are going to be very pleased.  And by the way, thank you for your enthusiastic support for the website proposal at the last meeting.  This really is the way of the future and our club needs to keep pace.  The website is an excellent way to communicate and publicize ourselves in the community generating potential member interest and good public relations.  We also need to decide on a change in meeting night, which will help, I feel, minimize conflicts with our members and therefore maximize participation, which is my ultimate goal for our club.

 

REMINDER:  If you have not already paid your club dues please do so as soon as possible.  Submit your payment to Mary Fiske and enjoy another year with the Club!

 

In less than a month we begin a very busy ride schedule starting with Bike Week.  So shine your saddles up cowboys and girls and get ready to RIDE.  Susan and I are really looking forward to a very active and fun year with our friends in the Club. 

RIDE ONÉ..

 

Roger

 

 

The EditorÕs Note

 

Chris Aycock

 

Thanks to all of those who supported my proposal for a club website which I presented at the January club meeting.  Although I promised a prototype by March, bad weather and cold temperatures conspired to keep me inside for most of January, so I was able to spend plenty of time on the website.

 

The VMTA is now online at www.vmtacolumbusga.org.  Please visit the site and test it for any errors.  Please let me know about any errors so I can fix them before we submit the website to the search engines.

 

The website really needs more photos.  If you have any photos of previous club activities I would really appreciate if you could share them.  Whether they are prints or digital I can use them both (and you will get them back).

 

One good thing about the website is that we are no longer constrained to the 12 pages of the newsletter.  You can write as much as you want about our rides and events now.  However, if we start to hit up against the 12 page limit I will shorten your submission to fit the printed newsletter and note that the full version is available online.

 

In addition, since the web site is open to the world, I plan to tighten up on grammatical errors.  I wonÕt change the meaning of the article, but I may change obvious errors that I never worried about in the past.  As always, artistic license and any colloquialisms are welcome.

 

 

 

Now go for a ride!