FSSNOC THUMPER GARAGE
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THIS WEBSITE UPDATE IS FOR ........................................ 08-15-19
OUR NEXT ANTICIPATED UPDATE IS ... 08 - 29 - 2019
(two weeks due to ThumperCafe #49 in Alabama)
See "Website Details and Instruction" section at the bottom of all this great conversation.
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THERE IS A PANTHER IN THE AREA! ...
(PHOTO ABOVE) I am sending a picture of a nice thumper that will be up for auction on August 17th at the Baxter Cycle party in Marne, Iowa. It's a 1965 Panther. Maybe you will want to leave a day or so early for the Café so you can see it (maybe buy it ).
I've been trying to get my "Best Day" story going, but there was just so much greatness everyday on my ride-about that I'm not having much luck getting it narrowed down. I'll keep at it.
Steve #5266
PANTHER MOTORCYCLES ... England, 1900 - 1965 The pride and joy of Jonah Phelon and Richard Moore. The long-stroke four-stroke single cylinder engine produced a healthy measure of torque making it ideal for sidecar use. Anyone know the bore and stroke of this beauty? 598cc and 645cc versions were manufactured, not sure which the bike being auctioned is ... and it appears to be the final year model which should make it a desirable investment.
Thank You, Steve ... good stuff!
Better add it to your own collection and then go all the way and add the chair (on the left side), eh? - #000.
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FOR SALE (or it was...) 1986 SRX600 YAMAHA
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Yamaha-SRX600/133134140831
Maynard Hershon, #1196 - COLORADO
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Got the new card ,Thank you , Terry - #4953 - Ohio
You are most welcome, Terry! - #000
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RARE BMW ... TAKE A LOOK ON THE HISTORY PAGE!
Here a couple of better pictures then the one Ken Conrad took on my car window!
In the process of getting it running again, hope to ride it to the National BMW MOA Rally in Great Falls in 2020.
Bought it in Germany in 1974, brought it here in 2003. Clear Montana title, licensed. Never restored, wish I had a way to find out how many actually ARE in this country!
Interest on more info, contact me.
...and yes, I would sell it - neither lightly, nor cheap!
Sandy Koeckritz, FSSNOC #5444 - MONTANA
Wolf Creek, Montana
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--------- Posts below this line are from a previous update -------------------------
(This post was written by FSSNOC member, Dick French ... who is also a member of the Montana BMW Riders Club.
MONTANA BMW RIDERS NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 33 - ISSUE 8 - AUGUST 2019 - PAGE 10
FSSNOC ThumperCafe #48 ...
Four Stroke Single Cylinder National Owners Club (FSSNOC) - the name says it all - is as Phil Haglund puts it, a bunch of old riders with nothing better to do. The MONTANA BMW RIDERS has at least four dues-paying-card-carrying members in good standing in this organization.
Their most formal event is to congregate as some off-the-beaten trail café once or twice a year with the goal of as many members as possible attending. Your MBMWR Editor rode his BMW G310GS along with Kim Lemke on his Royal Enfield to attended this event (The Crossings in Wisdom, Montana) where we met Phil Haglund (Yamaha WR250) and Ken Conrad (BMW F650GS). Note the word “National” in the title. We were certainly local among license plates from at least as far as Alabama. I hope the photos adequately describe this event at The Crossings in Wisdom, Montana on the July 17th. (PHOTO ABOVE...)
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FOR SALE:
2013 Suzuki TU250XL,
black /silver, only 1124 miles, in perfect condition.
Great bike for two lane road. Great for ladies , older folks ( like me). $2500.00 Firm, cash. May be able to help with delivery 🚚. I can text photos. Clear Tenn title, will supply bill of sale.
FSSNOC #3649. Call Phillip @ 731 267 9245 - Tennessee
Thanks ( Jack, please put in *next Thumper News)
phillipthumper49@gmail.com
*Yo Phillip ... TN#136 is already at the Printer, sorry 'bout that... #000
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Hello, Jack and club members...
I just wanted to let you know that I will be attending the event, THUMPERCAFE #49, at Cheaha State Park in Alabama. Since it's only 18 miles from my house, is there an award for "least miles ridden"? ... LOL!
Hi, Ed! Getting to see you there is an unexpected bonus for us, not so much for you ... it's TOO close, no long ride on a Thumper! I'll put your name on the event commemorative decal list... - #000
Since the Park is in my backyard, so to speak, I ride there often. I actually had worked there for several years, but that was a long time ago. If you are looking for some shade to park/sit under, you will not find any at the restaurant. The frequent ice storms and high winds usually destroy the trees.
You bet! ... A little shade is good! - Remember, FSSNOC club members and guests: These ThumperCafe events are indeed fun(d)raisers for our club so bring some extra cash. Also, take advantage of the moment to bring non-member guests and sign them up at the event! Be my HERO!
FSSNOC ThumperCafes are static events, we do not offer group rides. We found out years ago that we can't make lifetime friends with someone by following their tailight! Also, please, no alcohol. - #000
For those who arrive early, may I suggest stopping at the General Store, which is located just before entering thru the Park Gate. It has a motorcycle specific covered parking area attached to the store. There are also some trees there for attaching your FSSNOC club banner.
Great information, Ed ... the banner reads "WELCOME THUMPERS" - #000
If I can convince my Boss in letting me take another day off work, I would like to meet up with you at Barbers. (Barbers Vintage Motorsports Museum)
Yes, Ed ... I definitely plan to stop here! Your home state of Alabama has a lot to see and do and I view a possible visit to the world-famous Barber Motorcycle Museum as an undeniable side benefit of being in that area for our ThumperCafe event!
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
6030 Barber Motorsports Pkwy
Leeds, Alabama 35094-3418 USA
Phone is: 1-205-699-7275
Website is: barbermuseum.org
Hours: Sunday 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday through Saturday 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Yep ... I'm hoping to be here on Tuesday, sometime in the AM, hopefully shortly after they open. It's not part of our official FSSNOC event but I'd like to take advantage of being in the area, gives me a chance to see all those motorcycles and, of course, enjoy an all too rare visit with Brian Slark!
So, for you, Ed, and any FSSNOC member ... "Come on down", as Bob Barker used to say on TV! Be sure to wear your FSSNOC gear so we can recognize each other! We've both slept many times since we last met!! (grin) - #000.
I also want to mention that if anyone will be staying in the town of Oxford/Anniston, I can be available for any assistance with mechanical issues or what ever. My cell number is 928-303-6689
See ya there... Ed Wudarczyk
FSSNOC #1766 Oxford, Alabama.
Thanks so much, Ed! I hope you didn't mind me "messin' up" your post to make it into an THUMPERCAFE #49 "infomercial" ... Ha! Ha! Good stuff! - #000
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Hi Jack....I'm one of your "Noobies"….
I think I lost my Club card, hence no member number....Can I get a new card at Alabama Café ??? I will be arriving at Cheaha afternoon of 20 August....alas on my Beemer "Inga"......too long in killer heat for "Fronk", my "new" Yamaha SR (Henry Wadkins' old '78 !!).
Looking forward to great camaraderie and hope to learn the secret handshake !!! I have attached a pic of my gorgeous SR !!
(see it on the History Page ... and, Yes, it is gorgeous! - #000)
Shep Brown Pensacola, Floriduh 850.723.7474
Words to ride by: Patience, Anticipate, Paranoia !!!
'04 RT "Inga" '78 SR 500 " Fronk"
MOA 27510, NEF, ABC,,AMA, MREC,FSSNOC, VJMC, CCA
Hey, Shep ... See you there! - #000
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I had a great time at Wisdom.
It is too bad that it does not last longer. If I knew you and others planned to stay another day I would have done the same. See attached file of my trip report that I sent to my local motorcycle club. I've also got some photos to send you.
Also, I received Lorne Aston's FSSNOC T-shirt. I hope to cross paths with him next month. I was surprised that our group's (Bruce Kelley and I) two riding buddies signed up at Wisdom. Their main Thumper riding is very limited to dirt or dual sport.
Alan Smith (5286) - California
Hi ya, Alan ... I saved your article for a future Thumper News, Thank You! As for your two friends who joined at the ThumperCafe at Wisdom, Montana ... Thanks!! We had a total of five new members sign-up there, hopefully we have even more in Alabama. Of note, FSSNOC has a good number of members who are interested in dirt-riding, racing, antiques and vintage, customizing, etc. as well as attending the ThumperCafe events ... our commonality is simply a motorcycle with a Single Cylinder Four-Stroke motor.
Keep On Thumpin' and I'll see you "Up the Thumper Road!" - #000.
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Just to let you know,
my good FSSNOC friend, John Stanley, and I are making plans to be part of the Alabama café in a couple weeks. See you there, Vic Force, #3701, NC
Awesome! - #000
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THUMPERS AVAILABLE...
I have an '86 Yam SRX-6 and a '00 MZ Skorpion available to a Thumper enthusiast in So. Central PA (Hollidaysburg). The engine for the SRX was disassembled @ 8630 miles and has been apart for 20 years. The engine for the '00 MZ was pulled to stab into the '86 frame, but unassembled and complete. I'm going to be going thru a divorce this fall, so anyone interested will have to work w/me on getting into the shed and getting the bikes out. This will be a "friendly" divorce, so know legal problems. Both bikes have upgraded carbs and exhaust and are 100% complete. A coupla hundred bucks takes all, and i have a lot of new riding gear. Cancer stopped my riding career.
If interested, give me a call @ 814-201-0077.
TY ... Dale
Hey Guys and Gals ... I noticed this comment a few days ago:
"NO MAN SHOULD HAVE A MOTORCYCLE AFTER 50!"
Fifty motorcycles is enough for any man...
Here's a chance for a couple more! ... #000.
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KEEP ON THINKIN'... (?)
I'm sure everyone who rides a motorcycle thinks about all sorts of things as they cruise down the road. This year I began thinking about the roads themselves. I rode over 4,000 miles of secondary, third-ary, and downright last-ary roads.
I spent many hours without seeing another vehicle of any kind. I began to feel that these roads were made solely so I could come along and enjoy them. I began to wonder about the people who laid them out over the countryside and who paid for them and who sweated under a hot sun building them and why they did it in the first place. I mean, there must be some reason behind it all. Or maybe it is just one of those mysteries that should be appreciated and nothing more.
Anyway, those were my thoughts on the road to Wisdom, Montana but I don't really feel any more enlightened. Perhaps someone in the club has had these questions and investigated them and has an answer. If so, I would be interested in learning what they have discovered.
Steve #5266
Yo Steve ... Roads are a source of income. People need food, fuel, and lodging ... and none of that stuff is getting any cheaper! My highest priced Motel was the EconoLodge (never mind the implication of that name!) in Gunnison, Colorado ... it was a smoking $169.00 per night! In contrast, my lowest priced Motel was the one in Sharon Springs, Kansas at $53.00 per night.
Now, as to your question, roads, or should I say, riding those roads ... is a source of enjoyment, education, and, yes, even enlightenment of things previously unknown ... just watching the front wheel go around and not knowing what is over the next hill is for some reason stimulating to the traveler in some of us.
"Courage ... is your willingness to NOT know"
Not everyone travels that way these days with GPS, Google Earth, etc, etc. Most delve so deeply into their upcoming trip via the computer that there remains little surprise and that is something that escapes me. I've ridden thousands of miles to find out what I didn't know about an area, a town, or even a person.
Some might say, "Well, you have a roadmap. So what is the difference?" ... to which I reply, "A roadmap aids in my arrival at a particular destination such as the Arctic Circle (an 11,000 mile ride/36 days) but it doesn't divulge or reveal what I am going to see or experience along the way, or at that destination, a big difference!"
And, last-ary ... an unknown road suggests adventure, a route to something or somewhere, and often, the less-traveled the road, the more the seduction. One time, for example, I was on a solo trip and followed just such a road, prompted by a hand-written sign tacked to a fence post that simply read ... "waterfall ->".
Curious yellow, I turned down that narrow dirt road that soon turned into two-track, that later ended in a dry riverbed full of polished stones smaller that bowling balls but not by much! I continued on, riding slowly over the rocks, until I came to a box canyon, actually an artificial box canyon made by the men who high above the riverbed had put in a super highway ... ironic, huh?
Was the joke on me? I sat for a moment, somewhat perplexed by not seeing a waterfall, but in the end, here I am telling you all about this adventure ... so was I cheated with no waterfall? No, not in the least! What I got was a wonderful memory that I am sharing with you today, many years and miles later.
One last comment. I don't always ride Thumpers, but when I do ... I smile a lot! On this day, I was riding a 1978 Honda Gold Wing, admittedly a minimalistic machine compared to today's products. As I executed my U-turn in the riverbed, the front tire slipped off a particularly big rock and down I went, a slow get-off ... but it knocked a gaping hole in the right side valve cover!
Duct-Tape, it saved the day! I would put on a patch, ride a distance, stop and put on a fresh patch, add oil, etc, etc ... until I got some JP weld many miles later.
Steve ... it'd be fun to know where the above photo of a very cool looking road was shot at ... I'm guessing just prior to Bear Tooth Pass? ... Jack, #000.
P.S. Steve ... How about coming East in August? (grin)
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PUZZLED IN MARYLAND ...
Hello Lynne and Johnnie (FSSNOC #139 - Colorado)! Good to see both of you doing well! Hope you had a safe ride back to CO. Carol and I made it back home last night.
Refresh my memory, please. Did you two want to read the updates that I sent while I was working in China last year?
Somebody at the Montana ThumperCafe asked me for them and I am trying to remember who!
Jack---same question. Maybe Carrie needs something to read while recuperating.
Joe, FSSNOC #661 - Maryland
Yo Joe ... Nope, not me. We followed you on Facebook, etc ... Jack, #000.
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RUGBY WAS AWESOME!
Hello Jack,
This message takes us back in time, back to the ThumperCafe in Rugby Tennessee in 2014 and Thumper News Issue #134. Henry Wadkins wrote in TN #134 kind words about a GB500 Honda. It had to be mine because mine was the only one at Rugby. Thank You Henry. I was there with my late best friend, Bonnie Barrett. She was riding her CBR125R Honda that she imported from Germany. Good job on your GB500, Henry.
My son (Pee Wee) and I plan to be at ThumperCafe #49 at Cheaha State Park. I will bring my "Trailer Queen" and we will be staying at the Lodge so we won't have far to ride for lunch.
Please save us a couple of stickers if you have any left.
Thank You,
Vernon Adcock - FSSNOC #1964 - Tennessee
Hi Vernon ... Looking forward to seeing you guys! I was there and so enjoyed visiting with Bonnie about her rare Honda! Thump On! - Jack, #000.
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Terry # 4953 ... Yes, I'd be happy to do that for you! I'm moving my office this week so give me a few extra days to get things back in order. Sorry for the delay! - #000.
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Be sure to check out the other pages on this website before kickstands up ...
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(Website Details and Instructions: )
Hello Thumper Enthusiasts...
I'm Jack Robinson (FSSNOC #000), your club Director. It is an honor to introduce you to THE THUMPER GARAGE. This mini-venue is in addition to our legendary hard copy THUMPER NEWS quarterly magazine. After enjoying this page, please visit our other pages on this site. Go to the masthead above to make it happen...
You are encouraged to thump by the THUMPER GARAGE weekly. This is a FREE site for you and your friends.
Members may contact us anytime 24/7 with comments, conversation, stories, or questions via a mailed letter, a phone call or an e-mail. When you E-mail, please give us your first name, your FSSNOC member number, and your state. You'll receive a courtesy confirmation E-mail back. Our actual response to your E-mail will generally be posted on the following Thursday's THUMPER GARAGE posting so be sure to tune back in then... (Address-phone number-email address is below... **)
We encourage you to join our club: Complete the application found elsewhere on this site (click on "more" above) and mail it to us with $40 dues for a 12 month membership or save a few bucks by sending $75 for a 24 month membership. Include your shirt size so we can gift you a FREE club t-shirt if this is your initial membership.
A subscription to THUMPER NEWS magazine, mailed to your mailbox, is included in your membership as well.
Our U.S. POSTAL address is: FSSNOC P.O. Box 1809, Hutchinson, Ks 67504-1809.
To call our club, phone 620-663-1869 or you may send an E-mail: FSSNOCTHUMPERS@yahoo.com
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The Autumn season means awesome riding for many areas ... time to get some new club gear, eh? Order yourself a bright new yellow and black club cap, a couple cotton t-shirts, and at least one sweatshirt to wear under your riding gear. Remember, every day is FSSNOC gear day. Tell the world about our club ... Thanks!
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