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Welcome to Valley Riders
Nov. 16 - Following our Meeting - Three Rivers Thursday, Dec. 12, 5:30 - Candy Cane Lane walk/ride Meet at Jerry's Dec. 14 - Annual Christmas Party Luncheon at Andiamo Ristorante Italiano, Clovis, 12PM Jan 1, 2020 - Frozen Bun Memorial Run to the Coast Lots of fun events coming up. Glad you are planning on attending. Find the Monthly Calendar on the Rides Page |
Small TalkCandy Cane Lane Walk, Dec. 12 On Thursday, December 12 we will be meeting up at Jerry's home for some pizza, then walking over to Candy Cane Lane to view all the beautiful holiday decorations. It's become a tradition for family and friends to bring in the spirit of the season. If you prefer not to walk we will load up a couple of cars and drive over then meet back up at the house for some deserts. We hope you can make it. Contact Jerry for address and/or directions.
Monthly meeting. 3rd Saturday of the month, Seven's Restaurant, 25 Shaw Ave, Clovis
Christmas Lunch, Dec. 14 This year we are going to Andiamo Ristorante Italiano in Clovis on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 11:30am social, 12pm lunch. Cost is $20 per person. We have a special select menu. Choose from Combination Pasta plate with Ravioli, Lasagna and Spaghetti, 2) Chicken Marsala, 3) Grilled Salmon or 4) Chicken Piccata. All are served with salad, bread and butter, tea or coffee and desert. Gratuity is included in the $20. They have a full bar selection and wine list for your enjoyment.
We have a fun gift exchange planned this year. We will not be playing steal a gift, but another fun game with dice. Those that plan to participate should bring a wrapped gift valued at no more that $20. Family and friends are welcome. Please make your selection and pay the $20 per person on or before December 5. I will be collecting orders on the November 16th meeting. Thank you, Sindi Nov. 16th Ride to Three Rivers What a nice ride to Three Rivers. We started out with 9 bikes and a cage. When we arrived around 11:45am we had 12 people and 6 bikes and the cage. A few riders had some other plans but went as far as they could to head off to their destination. Jerry lead the ride through the foothills with some great twists and limited traffic. For the motorcycle I know it was a fun time, the car I took it a little slower, but we arrived safely and rode into Three Rivers as a group.
Lunch was at River Side Restaurant which is scenic and right on the river. You can find pictures on the pictures page. This was a nice ride and I look forward to it again next year. Ride Meeting, Oct. 30We had a nice group of people that met to start working on the ride and event calendar for the rest of the year and 2020 first quarter. Terry mentioned that seval people had provided suggestions and we set to work.
This year we'll be riding down to Kern County and the Taft Museum. We visited once but there was so much to see and really didn't see it all. We also talked about rides to the coast and those will be coming too. There was no determined destination for any overnight except possibly to Laughlin. We also will be adding a few new restaurants to our list for 2020. So keep checking back as I'll be updating. Information VideosMSF offers several videos for the new and experienced rider. Click on any of the links and find the video on the right of page.
Welcome to the Ride Basic Rider Course Group Riding Street Rider Course I Motorcycle Safety Foundation provides helpful information for safe riding.
Valley Riders Printable Brochure Riding In A Group T-CLOCS Pre-ride check list Pretend You Are Invisible Riding With A Passenger Protective Gear |
NEXT MEETING IS SATURDAY,
January 18, 2019 Hello Riders: This was a fast meeting this month as we wanted to get on the road for a beautiful ride up to Three Rivers. Still Terry covered a little business including our recent Ride Planning meeting in October. We were able to cover the first three months of the year with plans to schedule another meeting after the first of the year. He said he got some good input and looks forward to getting more on the calendar for next year. We had a lot of birthday and anniversaries over the past month and wanted to wish everyone that celebrated a warm and friendly Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday. We even sang, though a little out of tune. Events we talked about is the Christmas Light ride on Thursday, December 12. We are meeting at Jerry's home, Susanne and Terry are ordering pizza and anyone that would like to bring a desert are welcome as we plan to walk over to Candy Cane Lane for their Christmas Decorations. Time to really start getting into the spirit of the holidays. We will meet up around 5:30 so you'll want to put this on your calendar. We talked about the upcoming Christmas Luncheon on Saturday, December 14 at Andiamos. Several people submitted their orders and we talked about what was planned. Rapport will be coming in and singing a few holiday favorites for our enjoyment. A big Thank You to Mac for setting this up. We also talked about our recently dinner ride social at Pieology. We had 9 in attendance we had a great time. Including cupcakes that Susanne brought everyone to celebrate Terry's birthday. Our next Dinner Ride social will be in January at the Four Season Restaurant at Herndon and Clovis Ave. Terry talked about our ride to Three Rivers and nearly all were planning on taking the ride. Jerry mentioned that Dennis and Butch had taken a ride to Laughlin, Las Vegas, Lake Havasu and Oatman on a 4 day trip. He said they were fine and enjoying their trip. We concluded with our monthly drawing for which Chuck was our big winner. It was a an enjoyable meeting. Long sleeve shirts are still available. Shirts are $20 S/S, $25 L/S and Hat $15. The next meeting at Seven's is scheduled for January 18, 2020 at 8:30am. Remember!!! Next Meeting: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 8:30am - SEVENS Restaurant, 25 Shaw Ave, Clovis Slow Maneuvers is the video Dennis shared. Set up your own course and give it a try.
Information LinksLane Splitting
There has been a lot of talk about lane splitting and we found some good articles and information. CHP Lane Splitting Tips Article: https://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Home/News-Story/california-highway-patrol-releases-lane-splitting-tips CHP link: Download Lane Splitting Safety Tips https://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/DesktopModules/EasyDNNNews/DocumentDownload.ashx?portalid=3&moduleid=4097&articleid=11778&documentid=445 I hope you find this helpful. Thanks to Dennis for sharing this info. Regular schedule Monthly Meeting the 3rd Saturday of the month at 8:30 am, Seven's Restaurant, Minnewawa and Shaw in Clovis. Fun, information, ride updates, prizes and plenty of good conversation. Join us.
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Valley Riders
Welcome to Valley Riders, an independent riding group that enjoys riding, socializing over great food, and the company of like minded bike enthusiasts. We have a diverse group of members as well as motorcycles. As long as you enjoy riding you'll find a place with Valley Riders. We are located in the Central Valley of California less than 2 hours from Yosemite (60 miles) and 2 1/2 hours to Pismo Beach (150 miles). Our base is in Fresno, which allows for some great mountain riding as well as coastal rides.
Our members live in Fresno and the surrounding areas including Madera, Kingsburg, and Lemoore. As a new motorcycle riding group we meet the third Saturday of the month at the Seven's Restaurant located at Minnewawa & Shave Avenue in Fresno. We meet at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast, talk, and to share information on upcoming rides. Often we will plan a ride following our monthly meeting to some fun destination.
Our members are made up of Military veterans, school teachers, truck drivers, retired and working folks. Our rides may be only a few hours to more local destinations such as museums, a chocolate factory or interesting restaurant to longer rides to the coast or mountains to beat the heat. No matter where we go we have a great time. You may also find great overnight rides to destinations such as Tahoe. Many of our members have ridden to national parks, motorcycle rally's, and several have experienced the Ride to Wall in Washington D.C. You don't need to go on all the rides, you just pick your favorites and enjoy the company of good friends and the freedom of the road. Valley Riders began in March of 2014. We have just celebrated our 5th year anniversary in 2019.
Our members live in Fresno and the surrounding areas including Madera, Kingsburg, and Lemoore. As a new motorcycle riding group we meet the third Saturday of the month at the Seven's Restaurant located at Minnewawa & Shave Avenue in Fresno. We meet at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast, talk, and to share information on upcoming rides. Often we will plan a ride following our monthly meeting to some fun destination.
Our members are made up of Military veterans, school teachers, truck drivers, retired and working folks. Our rides may be only a few hours to more local destinations such as museums, a chocolate factory or interesting restaurant to longer rides to the coast or mountains to beat the heat. No matter where we go we have a great time. You may also find great overnight rides to destinations such as Tahoe. Many of our members have ridden to national parks, motorcycle rally's, and several have experienced the Ride to Wall in Washington D.C. You don't need to go on all the rides, you just pick your favorites and enjoy the company of good friends and the freedom of the road. Valley Riders began in March of 2014. We have just celebrated our 5th year anniversary in 2019.
Valley Riders Motorcycle Group: Our group has been in existence since March 2014 with more than 65 members. The group has traveled quite a few miles in a short period of time. We’ve traveled along the Coast of California to places like Moss Landing, Monterey, Cambria, Santa Cruz, Pismo Beach, Carmel, Big Sur and Avila Beach (Annual Frozen Bun Run), San Jose (Lick Observatory), Danville (Blackhawk Car Museum), Fairfield (Fairfield Brewery), Paso Robles (Estrella War Birds Museum). We traveled to places in Central California like Hilmar (Hilmar Cheese Factory), Porterville (Stafford Chocolate Factory), and Hanford (Superior Dairy). We have also traveled to the mountains of California to places like Kings Canyon National Park / Sequoia National Park, Huntington Lake, Three Rivers, San Joaquin River Delta (Delta Loop), Kings River (Cedar Grove), Mariposa (Mt Bullion) and Groveland (Airport Ride to Ken and Linda Stark’s home). We’ve traveled to overnight places like Sacramento (Gold Rush Ride) and along the Northern Coast of California (North Coast Ride). And of course, we traveled locally within the Fresno (Forestiere Underground Gardens, Grizzly Baseball Game) /Clovis (Dan Rouit Museum) area. We can’t forget about all the great places we ate at. There are too many to mention, but our Annual Family and Friends Picnic and of course, the Christmas Party at Cosmopolitan Bar and Grill are always our favorites.
Safety is always an important element while we traveled the open roads of our country. We have had Parking Lot Practices and CPR/ First classes to keep us and our motorcycles fined tuned. We want to thank our Safety Coordinators Jerry Gregg and John Cunningham, Randy Patrick and Randy Hopkins for all the practice on our motorcycles. We would also like to thank Jerry and Jamie Slater for teaching us the proper techniques of CPR and First Aid.
by Wendy our Newsletter Editor (2014-2017)
Safety is always an important element while we traveled the open roads of our country. We have had Parking Lot Practices and CPR/ First classes to keep us and our motorcycles fined tuned. We want to thank our Safety Coordinators Jerry Gregg and John Cunningham, Randy Patrick and Randy Hopkins for all the practice on our motorcycles. We would also like to thank Jerry and Jamie Slater for teaching us the proper techniques of CPR and First Aid.
by Wendy our Newsletter Editor (2014-2017)