Richard Bowman began the meeting by announcing that this was going to be his first meeting as our supreme leader!

Thanks to Pappa’s BBQ for hosting our first meeting of the year once again.

We began the meeting by recognizing the passing of Hank’s wife, Arlene. She passed away suddenly. Hank will be donating his 2009 Moto Guzzi for our bike raffle in memory of Arlene.

Richard thanked the 54 members that responded to his survey. We will need volunteers to move the raffle bike from venue to venue during the year as well as taking tables and chairs to meetings at member location and other sites.

The 2025 calendar has been planned, however, the location for the Christmas party still needs to be finalized. The decision had been made to move LOP one week later to avoid a conflict with the Barber Vintage Festival which is now one week earlier. The new dates for LOP are Thursday, October 9th through Sunday, October 12th. This means that the Barber festival is the weekend before, and Born Free is the weekend after.

The Hill Country Ride is set for April 10th through April 13th. The dates were adjusted to avoid Easter weekend. Fandango in Fredericksburg is the weekend before the Hill Country Ride.

Mark Peterson announced that he had purchased a collection of 68 vintage bikes. The Martins bought a 1970 Triumph TR6C Trophy, but there are many bikes left to choose from. Please come to Southwest Superbikes to view the collection, and you might find something you want. Special pricing will be available for members.

Patrick de Zeeuw shared a story about Clinton’s triple (T150) which Patrick recently acquired. The new owner thought that the bike sounded great but realized it was only running on two cylinders! Once the issue was fixed, that bike ran like “shit off a wet shovel”!!

Jay Tynes has a 1965 Honda Cub T20SS for sale. Paint is original, and it is sitting in his living room. He is offering it for $1600.

Several members rode to the meeting even though the weather was not ideal, but R2 was the only rider to arrive on a vintage bike!

Russ gave us a review of the Bob Dylan movie, “A Complete Unknown” and rated it a “C”. He mentioned the 1964 Triumph Tiger T100 the actor rode in the movie remarking that the movie was based from 1961 to 1963 and couldn’t possibly have been the one Bob actually rode. Additionally, the bike mysteriously started by itself! Jay Tynes mentioned that a friend of his had actually built the two bikes that were in the film.

It was announced that members were invited to the Dubliner at 4pm to celebrate Jason Small’s birthday.

Bill Felton asked if any members had ever participated in the Motorcycle Tour of Texas. The tour consists of 50 different locations that riders go to and take a picture at the site. Pictures are submitted to the website and points are collected for each location. The minimum number of sites to visit in order to get a patch is 25. The locations are scattered throughout the state of Texas.

The 50-50 was $226 and won by Dale Frenzel.

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, February 23rd at Jody McClure’s home in Forney, TX.

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