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ATTENDEES: Conrad Pfeifer,
Ollie Martin, James Borer, Gerry Grakauskas, Bill Smith, Dane Leimbach, Al
Martin, Joan Borer, Randy Kirkbride, Bud Green, Alan Buehner, Paul Danik,
Jeff Borer, Doug Wilford, John Penton, Paul Busick, Scott Brogan, Al Born,
Dale Fisher and Ken Beck.
Pres. Danik called the meeting to order at 7:10 p.m. and he and the group
welcomed Conrad Pfeifer back as he had missed several meetings due to his
illness. Paul had brought two cards to be signed by the group, one being for
Dan Killean, who recently lost his son Jason, 31 in a motorcycle accident
and the other for Ed Youngblood who is recovering from recent heart by-pass
surgery. Al Born read the minutes of the May 5th, 2011 POG meeting and Bill
Smith made a motion to accept the minutes as read. Ollie Martin seconded the
motion and the motion carried. Doug Wilford gave the membership report that
showed 4 new members, 8 renewals, 3 being for 5 years and 1 being for 6
years, leaving 427 active members. Two of the renewals came off the inactive
list. Doug also stated that he desires to resign from the position of
Membership Officer. We all gave Doug a big round of applause in “Thanks” for
all he has done over the years. We held a discussion on this matter and the
consensus was that it should be someone who lives near the Amherst post
office, attends regularly and has good computer capabilities. Alan Buehner
gave the Treasurers report as of 5/31/11. Alan stated that the Newsletter
will be late as he is still waiting for some articles. Bill Smith reported
that our web-site server has made some changes that allows E-mails to be
sent directly through our POG site.
For Field Trips, Chicago Jerry
had ridden a 2-day Qualifier at Stillwater, Okla. and that he stated that he
won a Gold Medal in the 200 cc class. Jerry stated that Guy Cooper invited
the group to see his motorcycle collection in his garage that had a real
early Penton in it. Al Born had been to a very long, steep, ugly hill in
W.V. that they try to top. Approx. 20 riders made several attempts and it
was only topped once by Bryan Hall, riding a 450 cc Yamaha. One young man
came very close to totally destroying a 400 Honda 4-wheeler that rolled at
least 20 times, after having made it about ¾ of the way up. To Al’s
surprise, nearly half of the riders wore no helmets and luckily no one was
injured. The hill is called “Standing Stone” and they always ride it on
Memorial and Labor Day (Sunday). Paul told about POG member Adrian Goold,
from Australia being in Pa. on a work related trip, so Paul brought him to
Pentonville to meet Jack and John Penton. Paul gave him a John Penton book
and some T-shirts. John stated that Adrian was a very interesting person.
Scott Brogan told about nearly being caught in a tornado recently near
Norwalk, Ohio.
Under old business, Scott says that the new Penton
Short-tracker T-shirts have been designed and are at the screen printer and
should be ready by Vintage Days. Paul stated that Blair Beck had let him
know that the Penton that John signed the number plate for at the May
meeting had taken 1st place in the competition class at the Quail Motorcycle
Gathering in Carmel, Calif. Blair also told him that the high-light of his
day was meeting Fred Hays of Mettco fame. Alan noted that the 20’ x 30’ tent
rental at Mid-Ohio has gone up to $860.00. Alan made a motion to proceed
with the rental of same and Scott Brogan seconded the motion and the motion
carried. We discussed buying arrows for the C.C. races with our POG logo on
them. The cost for 5,000 arrows would be approx. $400.00. James Borer made a
motion that was seconded by Scott Brogan to purchase them for Chicago Jerry
to use when laying out the C.C. events and the motion carried.
Under
new business, it was noted that an effort is being made to get extra copies
of the May Trail Rider magazine that had the nice article with photos of
Penton Day at the AMA meeting. It was also noted that the Ohio Valley BSA
Club’s Reliability Run was to be held on the upcoming week-end. We discussed
how we might disperse the DVDs that we now have from the 1974 and 1975 6-Day
events.
Ken Beck did the Show/Tell of what was in his garage as
follows: a calculator, a drag bike plate for his Kawasaki, a map and a sign
from “The Tale of the Dragon”, a jetting kit for a Yamaha, a set of ignition
wrenches, an off-set screw driver, a motorcycle seat cover, a Kawasaki
sprocket and a used piston. Also, a set of Jo-blocks, a depth gauge
micrometer, some heavy electric cable, a scratch-all, a drill bit sharpening
gauge, a hay hook, some horse bits and shoes and many other items pertaining
to veterinarian work. There was no e-Bay report. The meeting adjourned at
8:58 p.m. with the next meeting scheduled for July 7th, 2011 at KTM, USA in
Amherst.
Al Born, Sec. of POG
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