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ATTENDEES: Bailey
Borer, Barb Weisman, Toni Roach, Alan Buehner, Bill Smith, Doug Wilford,
John Borer, Matt Weisman, Gary Roach, Paul Busick, Wil Hentges, Scott
Brogan, Zak Borer, Ed Youngblood, Tim Owens, Ted Guthrie, John Penton, Al
Martin, Jeff Borer, Dane Leimbach, Al Born, Ted Del Solar, Jack Penton,
Ollie Martin, James Borer and Paul Danik.
Pres. P. Danik called the meeting to order at 7:10 p.m. and asked Sec. A.
Born to read the minutes of the April 7th meeting and a motion was made by
O. Martin to accept the minutes as read and the motion was seconded by James
Borer and all were in favor of the motion. D. Wilford gave the Membership
report showing 5 new members, 2 coming from the expired list and 15
renewals, 2 being for 2 years. The report showed 407 active members and 200
on the expired list. Keep in mind that the expired list goes back to the
groups beginning, including those deceased. It also showed the sale of two
DVDs and Reunion Ride programs. Doug also stated that we had received some
pictures from Heribel Bertrand, a member from France as well as a membership
magazine from the Blue Ribbon Coalition.
A. Buehner gave the Treasurers report as of April 30th, 2005. Alan said that
he will be renewing the C.D. that is maturing in a couple days for only 18
months as the interest rates have been rising. Alan also said that the
Newsletter is in process and that May 18th is the deadline for articles to
arrive and that this issue will include one of the commemorative post cards.
E. Youngblood reported that the PFP Comm. did not meet this evening but the
Board met with Tim Owens and him to finalize all of the papers needed to be
filed with the Federal Tax Service. A. Buehner made a motion to give Tim the
Power of Attorney for the POG for the filing only of these papers with the
Federal Tax Service. The motion was seconded by John Penton and all were in
favor of the motion.
E. Youngblood and Jack Penton both spoke about the upcoming John Penton GNCC.
Jack said that KTM will be sponsoring some things for the youth at this
event. It was requested that POG members bring some Penton motorcycles for
display. Jack thought it would be a good idea to reprint some brochures
showing John on a Penton to distribute at this event. D. Wilford made a
motion that was seconded by Ted Del Solar to print 1000 of these at a cost
of no more than one dollar each and this motion carried also. John Penton
spoke briefly on how well the GNCCs have been promoted. Toni Roach spoke
briefly about how the promoters of the John Penton GNCC race always include
the kids and how you are always hearing a few of the kids and sometimes the
parents and/or grandparents speaking of the Penton/KTM relationship and she
suggested that we get something on our Web-site about this up-coming event.
P. Danik then officially introduced Tim Owens to the group and recommended
that Tim be made an Honorary member of the POG, even though Tim had the dues
money in his hand, so D. Wilford made a motion to make Tim an Honorary
member and the motion was seconded by James Borer and all were in favor of
the motion Someone stated that the Whitehorse Press has less tan 500 of the
John Penton books on hand and that they are planning on doing a reprint in
Oct.
B. Smith stated that he has received 57 steel tank surveys and that one man
had 10 of those and that 123 more have recently been printed from our
Web-site. T. Guthrie says that he has not had much response on the steel
tank questions pertaining to the new book but that he will be doing some
interviews in the very near future now that he has the new video camera.
B. Smith gave the Web-site report showing that the visits had dropped by
over 5000 last month, down to 28,677. Bill also gave a summary of the visits
by categories. John Borer gave his E-bay report showing Penton #726, in very
poor condition going for $600.00 on “buy it now”, an official 1973 ISDT book
sold for $60.00 on “buy it now” and a complete set of NOS pre 1971 Magura
control levers had 9 bids for $370.00. Also, another set of the Magura
control levers, one being slightly used had 11 bids for $271.90, a used
Motoplat Ignition system had 15 bids for $112.50 and a Proto pipe for a
Penton MC5, 250 cc motorcycle sold on “buy it now” for $275.00
Under old business, we discussed the upcoming KTM Dealers meeting that will
be held at the AMA Museum in August where we will be having a Penton
display. Gary Roach showed some very nice identification tags that they had
made for putting on bikes that were on display and P. Danik suggested that
we use this as a standard tag and he recommended that we put them on the
Web-site so they could be printed and then laminated for use. Jack Penton
also suggested that we have everyone that displays a bike to register it so
we could recognize them in some way. More details on this will be available
at our June meeting. P. Danik gave a report on a conversation he had with
Lee Buffenmyer about the Oley, Pa. event. It was stated that Lee and Rob
Shofstahl had a very nice display that drew a lot of interest and that they
received many thanks for their efforts and the POG wishes to thank them and
also Bruce Williams for a job well done. Paul said that there was people
there from the Barber Museum and that they showed interest in buying the
Pentons that were on display there. Jack Penton said that he was going to be
at the Barber facility next month and Ed Y. remarked that they had one of
the very best motorcycle collections in the world but said he thought they
were just a bit weak in the dirt-bike category. P. Danik suggested that the
POG might think about visiting there sometime as a group. It was also stated
that we have received our membership card from the Blue Ribbon Coalition
Under new business, a motion was made by D. Wilford to give Ed Hertfelder a
complimentary one year membership to the POG and the motion was seconded by
John Borer and the motion carried. Ted Del Solar gave us a report on their
Mich. trail ride in April that had 9 riders on Sat. and a couple less on
Sunday. Ted said there was a little snow on Sunday but they all had a good
time. Ted also reported on the Spring Pine Cone Enduro that he had recently
ridden. Paul then showed a large layout of the Vintage Days rental spaces at
Mid Ohio and stated that some spaces in a more level area had become
available and Paul Busick made a motion that was seconded by Scott Brogan to
reserve the new location and all were in favor of the motion. Paul, Scott
Brogan and D. Wilford had been to Mid Ohio recently and looked at the spaces
and all felt that this would be a wise move.
A drawing was held for some more of the Penton and Hi-Point mementos that
Larry Maiers had sent us and the lucky winners were Tim Owens, Toni Roach,
Gary Roach, Ollie Martin, D. Wilford and Scott Brogan. The meeting adjourned
at 9:20 p.m. and the next meeting is scheduled for June 2, 2005 at KTM, USA.
Al Born, Sec. of POG
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