Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas HSTA
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January
2006
Arkansas HSTA member meeting at 12:00 Noon February 19, 2006 at Brown's Restaurant in Benton just off I-30 at Exit 118
The 14th
Ride the Rio: El Duodecimo
February
17-19, 2006 www.ridetherio.com
Chisos
Mining Company Motel in Terlingua, TX. 432-371-2254
Contact: Dave Gorham
281-996-5043 cycledog@sbcglobal.net
Fools on the
Hill 7
March 17-19
Always the last
full weekend of official winter, atop Mt Nebo, AR. www.ArkansasRider.com
Contact: Mario Caruso, 708 Prospect Avenue,
Hot Springs, AR 71901 guinzomoto@aol.com
501-624-3668
T-18
April 7-9, 2006 Queen Wilhelmina State Park
Contact: Becky Wing, bwing@pgtc.com, 501-824-3413 (h), 501-824-5738
(w)
Helen North Georgia Classic
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/I/pippin01/helen/page1/htm
April 28-30 Alpenhof Hotel, 15 Yonah Street, Helen, GA.
800-535-8678
Contact:
Eric Larsen enlarsen@bellsouth.net
770-805-0607
Arkansas Byway Boogie
May 5-7, 2006,
Hot Springs Village Inn, 4429 N. Hwy 7, Hot Springs Village, AR,
501-992-9600 or 888-922-9601
Contact: Robert Bashaw 870-460-9570 artravlr@seark.net
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Arkansas - Oklahoma - Kansas HSTA ERC
Class this Spring
Currently, we have eight members who have
expressed interest in attending an ERC Class on April 29, 2006. We plan to have the class on Saturday and do
a lunch ride on Sunday. Some of us will
be utilizing our various club affiliations to pay the fee registration, which is a special HSTA price of $65. The class will be conducted in Hot
Springs. Please contact Robert Bashaw
870-460-9570 or Artravlr@Seark.Net
to be registered. The course takes five to seven hours to
complete. Some insurance companies
offer discounts for course completion and HSTA membership is
not required.
Help Wanted: Newsletter
Editor position available! Inquire
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Kansas
State Notes - January
Hello, and Happy Winter to All!
I hope everyone is enjoying the cold, and has been able to get out at least once every month. The early snow in December cramped my plans to run down to Austin for a RTE with the Long Distance Riders crew. Ah well.
By now everyone in Kansas should have received my ‘welcome’ letter – I’ll try to send out an update every 3 months or so just for Kansas folks. If we get enough interest and activity in Kansas, we may even start up our own newsletter.
Speaking of activity, be sure to check in at the Kansas HSTA website regularly; that’s the first place I’ll post events and gatherings and so on. Just point your browser to: http://kshsta.mylanders.com/
We’ve also got a state e-mail list set up; very low volume, but useful for short notice things. For example, last month there was an open house at the Shawnee Mission Honda dealer – I was able to let everyone know about it in time. To subscribe to the Kansas HSTA e-mail list, just point your browser to: http://mylanders.com/mailman/listinfo/kshsta
That’s all for January – hopefully, some of you can make Ride the Rio next month!
Will England
HID for your bike
HID (High Intensity Discharge) is the newest step in lighting up the night. Instead of a traditional bulb with a small wire that gets hot and glows, the HID systems use a very high voltage electric arc to create the light - just like an arc welder. This makes for a very bright, very white light. This is the same kind of lighting found on late model high-end imports and some domestic luxury cars. It is possible to upgrade your bike to use HID lighting instead of halogen bulbs, but until now it has been rather expensive - $200 per bulb and up.
However, Warchild, the Chief Technical Inspector for the Iron Butt Rally, has arranged for the best deal on HD lights:
“4300K McCulloch G5 HID kits for $185 for the *pair*! I have gotten three of these kits now.
H7 and H3 both available. These are plug-n-play; no wire-cutting needed. H4 kits also available (which I have in my FJR), but get the “low-beam only” kit…. avoid the Hi/Lo kit. These are direct from the factory, no middleman. http://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php?showtopic=4106
More information from Warchild: Avoid the Hi-Lo combo H4 capsules - get the shielded low-beam only. Why? This particular H4 Hi/Lo kit does NOT feature the moving capsule. Rather, it has a set of “butterfly wings” that snap open to allow light to reach the lower (high-beam) portion of the reflector housing. The “filament” does not physically relocate itself rearward the critical 6mm required from it’s normal low-beam position to achieve the proper focal point for high beam.
Below is a photo of the Hi/Lo kit when switched to “high-beam” As you can see, the lower lowbeam is bright white, focused and intense. OTOH, the “high-beam” above it is complete shit in comparison, and additionally features two complete “dead zones”. It is crap: http://www.fjrtech.com/mods/HID_low2high/craphibeam.jpg
Here is a photo COMPARISON of my FJR’s stock halogen low-beam (top part of photo), and the H4 “Low Beam Only” HID (bottom of photo). Note how the beamcast is nearly identical in both (a sharp cutoff line, which avoids blinding oncoming traffic despite its massive improvement in output) http://www.fjrtech.com/Mods/H4_HID/LoBeamCompareSM.jpg
This issue does NOT affect the “single-filament” bulb
application, such as H7, H3 or H1-based HID kits.
If you want a properly focused HID H4 Highbeam, Warchild gives a bit more advice:
The H4 Low-Beam Only kit, however, is simply beyond awesome. I would characterize it at *least* 3 orders of magnitude superior to stock. All this improvement, and it only cost 84 watts, compared to the 110-watts with stock halogen.
Now, as an experiment, I took *one* of the two H4 Low-Beam-Only HID lamps and converted it to “High-Beam Only” be relocating the “filament” reward 6mm to achieve the correct focal point:: http://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php?showtopic=4002
The results were pretty impressive, I must say. Here is the suck-ass Hi/Lo kit beamcast: http://www.fjrtech.com/mods/HID_low2high/craphibeam.jpg
Compare it with the one “Low-Beam Only”, and one “High-Beam Only” H4 HID: http://www.fjrtech.com/mods/HID_low2high/lowhighTogether.jpg
As you can plainly see in this second photo, we have full, smooth, continuous line of coverage all along the top, with no “dead zones” detected in the middle. However, I elected to stay with two “Low-Beam Only” H4 HIDs in my FJR’s stock housing, and use my PHIDs as my “high-beam”. With this combination burning, it’s like I’m a rolling stadium light. :^
- Please note - these lights are not DOT legal, and should only be used for off-road riding. "Warchild"
The Dan Clark Safety Program
Want
to upgrade your helmet? Time for some better riding gear? Taking a M.S.F. or
State approved rider education course? The “Dan
Clark Safety Fund” may be able to off set some of the cost of these safety
items.
The Dan Clark Safety Program
Will
reimburse 20 members 50% of the cost of safety equipment and training, up to
$100 each item, this year. All you need to do to be eligible for the drawing is
send a dated copy of your receipts to:
HSTA V.P.
731 Holbrook Ave.
Lebanon, Ohio 45036-1647
Drawing will be held on January 15, 2006
The 20 winners will be announced at STAR~06
You don’t need to be present to win.
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Robert
Bashaw
Arkansas
Kansas Oklahoma
HSTA
Newsletter Editor
PO Box
967
Monticello,
AR 71657-0967
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