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  1. It's Friday. When and where? So, who is going ? Me BackHoeDoc ? Sandiegoland ? Anyone else ? If it's us 3, I can drive, unless one of you wants to drive in a more economic car, I have an F150 with room for the 3 of us. PM me....Craig, I'll call you. Thanks,
  2. Man, you are all coming up with some great comments, and they're all so true. Thanks for getting involved and putting some thought into it. Kevin and I have been discussing some other types of strategies, we'll keep you posted about those as soon as we have more info.....it will be in a "private forum".
  3. From Kieth on the District 37 AMA Forum.... ---------------------------------------------------------- Lobby-dobby-yabba-dabba-doooooo-days! I just got back from lobby days. Paul Flanders, Bob Sacket, Jim Woods and family, Don Nay and family, Randy L. and Cameron Camp plus 120 other folks went up to Sacramento for this years event. We had a larger turnout than expected. We filled the meeting rooms to standing room only capacity. I think a couple clubs sent some of these folks up. If the rest of you clubs have the money, send a couple reps next year. Sunday afternoon started out with a primer for first timers and a refresher for us old salts. We found out we didn't have any bills to push this year, but we do have a bill we're following regarding the Commish and green sticker program. We'll see how the language develops in the coming weeks, then decide if we can get behind it. Sunday night 20 of us went to dinner and Woods tried to put 60 bucks worth of salads on the Cal 4x4 club bill but we got caught at the last second, it was worth a try. We hit the hay around 11 and got an early start Monday. After breakfast we had a slate of speakers come in and pump us up for walking the halls. The Legislators were very receptive this year. I was in a small group of 3 and we had warm receptions in all but one office we visited. We visited 8. Even the cooler office was courteous enough to listen to our pitch. The staffer meeting us actually wrote notes for the first 3 minutes then she stopped and just nodded. Believe me, this is progress when in the past, this Assemblyman said "just leave the material". We finished up the hall walking around 4 and we retreated to our war room to write up our evaluations and debriefings. Finally, it was time to retreat to the Sutter Club. This is the jacket and tie required club where the business of business gets busy. Plush high back leather chairs, high ceilings with chandeliers, wool floor coverings, neat artwork, and lots of pictures on the walls of past club presidents dating back to 1889. The crappers in the bathroom are like a walk in closet with a leather chair in 'em. Now that's livin'! I was a lil disappointed there wasn't a magazine rack though. The finger food spread was great and the mingling was super. We had some high placed VIP's come in and CORVA bestowed a few awards on some very helpfull lawmakers. We headed to the airport around 7ish and got on the plane for the long flight home. There was a very unruly group that kept the whole plane awake. Rumor has it the ring leaders were from Simi Valley. Randy Lazar has hit Dualsport like a Tsunami the past couple years. He's jumped in with both his feet and those of his club. It was great to have him up there spreading his enthusiasm in the halls of Sacramento. I think this was Naykid's(Don Nay) first trip also. It was encouraging to have new faces. __________________ Kieth LA-Barstow-Vegas Dualsport Coordinator
  4. There will be motorcycle oriented vendors and merchandise, in addition to 4 Wheel Drive stuff. Can anyone from SDAR help man the SDORC booths at this show on March 24-25, they are short-handed.....you will help sign-up new members to SDORC, talk about importance of supporting these groups, and also help sell Raffle Tickets for the Sand Buggy that SDORC is giving away. ORBA Off Road Show FLYER ORBA Off Road Show Link....Press Release
  5. If I work the show, it will be on Sunday, since we're going up to the BLM Meeting in Riverside on Saturday. I'll try to find out where SDORC needs help with the show. Thanks,
  6. KTMrad

    new member in north county

    Welcome Parasitic !! Join the rides and all the other action, including helping support our sport in the Enviro / Land Use Forum. Look forward to meeting you soon.
  7. KTMrad

    New rider here

    A KTM 950 !! Well, if you don't mind riding a big bike. As Hammerin' said, he likes to spank others while he's on his red pig, but I like to spank little bikes while riding my BIG bikes Of course, most of you have yet to see that happen or even see me ride
  8. KTMrad

    just want to introduce myself

    Welcome to the forums, and a great group of people we have here !! Hope to meet and ride soon, and please join in to help keep our public lands open in the Environmental / Land Use Forum. Thanks !!
  9. KTMrad

    New Member Intro

    Vicki, thanks for joining us here !! It was a pleasure walking the halls of the Capitol with you and your son Chris. It was great to see you, a mom with her son, being involved and supporting your sport.....I saw how passionate you and your family are about riding, it is awesome !! And yes, we had a great team as we visited with our representatives. Thanks and look forward to chatting here, and seeing you again soon.
  10. HoeDoc, thanks for the offer. We'll see how many people we get interested in attending the meeting as the week goes on. We'll do a roll call on Friday, I'm out of town to Vegas for Wed. & Thurs, may have internet access on Wed. nite to check in. Talk to you soon, and thanks for everyone's participation !!
  11. I like the comments. Is there at least ONE other person who wants to carpool up with me on Saturday ?? C'mon, there's gotta be at least one out of over 300 of you who can make this, besides myself, Ride-Orange, and posibbly Sandiegoland. Come find out what meetings are about, meet other off-roaders and Dualsporters !! Join in the battle, if you don't......believe me, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL !! After what I heard from Legislators, Senators and people from all over the great state of California at Lobby Day, we are in serious jeopardy of losing more and more lands, a little bit at a time, until everyone, whether you ride motocross or just fire roads, will not have anywhere left to ride !!
  12. Does anybody want to go up with me....Monday, March 19th to Sacramento Lobby Day in Sacramento LINK Would be great if a few of us from SDAR could take some time off to show support for our sport !! If you're interested but don't want to pay the $75, then San Diego Adventure Riders will cover your $75 fee for the entire Lobby Day (not including the Legislative Reception). If this doesn't motivate you to do get involved, any way you can, then I don't know what will !! Read this......what others are doing FOR US to keep our lands open !! GET INVOLVED ! Contact me if you want to join me in Sacramento...I will be driving up, probably Sunday night because it's a long drive. I may have to skip the March 18th Corral Canyon ride, because this is more important to me, or go ride and then drive up Sunday night ?? Randy (KTMrad) The Prez ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the CORVA website THE HEIST OF THE GREEN STICKER PROGRAM 2/24/2007 My name is Ed Waldheim, I am 68 years old resident of California City, California. I have been fighting for the rights of off roaders since 1978 when President Nixon signed the executive order to create the California Desert Conservation area. I have been commissioner two separate times for the OHV program appointed by two different Governors one Republican and one Democrat. I have been CORVA president for 14 years. We have created nine non-profits groups such as Friends of Jawbone, Friends of El Mirage, Friends of Oceano Dunes, Friends of Dumont, Friends of Kern County OHV Parks. Our groups groom trails with rented tractors, quads, rakes, sign trails with our volunteers. In 2006, I attended 221 meetings (see the calendar of meetings at www.corva.org under calendar) over the years I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles. My five month old Prius now has 24,900 miles on it, no joke. I do all this for free; I never get paid for anything. CORVA does not have a paid staff and no one gets paid except to get the newsletter out. We have a lobbyist in Washington DC, something no one else has except AMA national office, we have lobbyist in Sacramento and proud to be partners with Ecological group made up of ASA, ORBA, San Diego Off-Road Coalition, D-37 AMA and CORVA to have a full time attorney on staff. Why this note to you at Truckhaven. Mike Bishop from ACORVA, CTUC and CORVA has agreed to pass these flyers and newsletters out to everyone he can reach to tell you that we are in big trouble. Our OHV program, Green Sticker program has finally been hijacked the Environmental Zealots and do everything in their power to discredit the off road community. They tried to shut us down in Truckhaven with the CBD lawsuit. The only problem they came across is CORVA who stopped them cold. Go to our March ORIA newsletter or www.corva.org to get the full story. Today you are having fun in Truckhaven because our attorney on behalf of our 5 partners was able to beat the CBD in court. But that victory will not be long lived unless we keep up our side of the fight. Remember these guys never quit. They want to see us in the Pacific Ocean. They want to deny you and I our opportunity to ride and recreate. Make no bones about it. We are at war for our very survival of our sport! The commission has cut all funding for operation and maintenance. No agency received a dollar to fix trails, clean restrooms and many did not get enforcement money. Our OHV program comes up for reauthorization in Sacramento and bills by the Environmental Zealots are being introduced as we are introducing our bills. The fight is on. Now you, the off-road public have to step up and do you part. We at CORVA and other organizations . "We are the vehicle of representation and we need all of you to work on it to make it more powerful. In Sacramento we are of no consequence, for 15 years we get 100 people to come to lobby day. We should have 5000 people; block the streets, the hallways in Capitol Building. In other words we need to make sure that the legislators know that you exist out there .That you are real and that you are passionate about your sport. Up until now, we are not even on their radar screen, that fact is perfectly clear by the appointments they make to the commission all. They have finally taken over and killed our State of California OHV Program' Agencies are now trying to figure out how to pay staff to keep areas open. If you think this does not affect you think again. March 19, 2007 Monday in Sacramento, we need every single person who rides off-road, and who is at Truckhaven this weekend and at the Tierra Del Sol event in Ocotillo Wells to come to Sacramento. Take vacation time, take sick time, car pool to Sacramento, ask your club to pay for your gas, borrow money whatever be there. If you are not there, CORVA and all the other organizations will be hard pressed to save our sport. To date, they have done a good job on us, why?...because of our total apathy to the political process. Truckhaven was saved this time; but will you be there to help us on the next round with donations, with membership, with manpower to protect your sport? As of 2-22-07 the CBD filed an 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue claiming that OHV activities at Truckhaven are causing a "take" of Peninsular Bighorn Sheep in violation of Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act. As you can see, they are using "science" to prove their point. I cannot stress enough how important it is that we ramp up on the technical side so that we can challenge their claims. If we don't, consider Truckhaven closed for the indefinite future. This is war. We can either adapt or fight back with equal fire-power; or we can go home and stay there. We need you in Sacramento, no excuses; we need every single member of clubs, play riders, anyone who recreates in California needs to be in Sacramento. Join us in Sacramento on March 19, 2007 Registration is on CLORV Website By the way, if you're interested but don't want to pay the $75, then San Diego Adventure Riders will cover your $75 fee for the entire Lobby Day
  13. Excellent, easy way of supporting our sport.....please read and use this Search Engine to help support SDORC.... The San Diego Off Road Coalition is a non-profit group that raises money to fight for our rights as off-road land users. More and more off-road areas are being closed and what we have left available to us is a constant battle to keep open. So here’s something really easy you can do to help raise money to support the SDORC. GoodSearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo that donates money to non-profits. SDORC is now set up with them, so every time someone uses GoodSearch and designates SDORC, a penny is donated. I know a penny doesn’t seem like much, but think about how often you use Yahoo & Google. The more people know about this, the more we can help and raise money. The website is http://www.goodsearch.com then enter SDORC as the organization. For anyone wanting more info on what SDORC does or to verify this info, their website is http://www.sdorc.org Thanks and please pass this info along
  14. KTMrad

    Online Motorcycle Parts

    In my opinion.......just my opinion. I'd rather support local shops and doesn't matter to me that the internet is easier. I'd rather interact with people at a shop that I trust and have a good relationship with. I purchase almost all of my merchandise at various shops locally and get good discounts at each shop since I've been a customer with them for years. I'm happy we now have another local shop that sells KTM, Motoworld....now I can order my parts there instead of over the internet.....and with my 20% SDORC discount, it's the best price around !!
  15. We need more people like this on our side.......nice article in a newspaper about the POSITIVE aspect of OHV people............... Excellent article here Please send a thank you to the author if you can. The entire thread is HERE at Race Dezert Forums.....
  16. KTMrad

    Allow me to introduce myself.

    Welcome to our Forums, Chuck. You're way out east there.....hope you can come west and ride with us some in the desert. Hope to meet you soon,
  17. I was told Cycle Parts West will have a booth at this show, with lots of Dirt Gear at GREAT PRICES.....so come on down, support your sport, see the different vendors, and get some dirt gear at great prices.
  18. From another excellent forum and source of info.....Race Dezert Forums The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home. The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. “As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson. In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006. For Further Information, Contact: Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431 editor@tennesseepolicy.org
  19. If you belong to SDORC, you get a 20% discount off almost all merchandise at Motoworld. See store for details. Just another reason to join SDORC !!
  20. I was thinking a bottle of Merlot and a little picnic basket.
  21. Paul, you can still come on this ride with us, with your cast on.....ride bitch on the back with someone
  22. Cool....but where are the wings ??
  23. KTMrad

    San Diego BMW Open House

    Don't know yet Martin, will post details when we iron them out. Thanks.
  24. That's romantic.... Can I join you ?
  25. Yeah !! UncleCameron is going to "Walk the Halls" with me this Monday the 19th at Lobby Day in Sacramento. SDAR is paying for both our flights to go support our sport !! Hope to have a little write-up and photos when we get back.
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