2011 is off to a great start.  January saw a fun barley therapy out at Mark H's in New Glarus.  Feb. saw our 4th annual Winter Tech day.  This year at Rich R's in Hartland.  Well attended and fed Sat for all. 

April 30 will be a Spring tech Day in Madison at Wis Airmarshal Jeff Trapp Home.  Check the calendar.

 June  10-13 will see Airheads at Road America.  Enjoy this great vintage bike weekend with your airhead buddies!

 Aug 12-14 is the campout at Hoesly Mtn in New Glarus.

Setp 30- Oct 2 is the annual Wildcat Mtn campout. 

 Contact your airmarshal for further info on these events if you don't see it elsewhere. 

Just added a couple of events to this years calender.   We'll have a corral at the AHRMA Vintage Bike event at Road America, June 11-12.  Should be fun. 

Nora and Mark Hoesly have invited us back to Hoesly Mtn. for a campout Aug. 27-29.  This was a wonderful time last year, ask anyone who was there.  Contact Mark or your airmarshal for more info.

Hey folks, 2009 has been pretty good for riding and general Wis.  airhead stuff.   We had a great winter tech day at Rich Ryan's last winter.  A very successful tech day at Kevn K's in the spring.  Could have used another tech day or two but that's often the case.  Mark and Nora Hoesly hosted a great campout, feed and ride at their wonderful place in New Glarus in Aug.  The Wildcat Mtn Campout was fun as usual.  To add to that there is a barley therapy scheduled for the Delafield Brew Pub, the one out on the highway for Nove 21.  Hope to see you there.  So 2009 was fun, hopefully 2010 will be as good or better.  Some further events are listed in the repeat of one of my recent group emails below.  Take care folks.  Jeff T 

 What's the saying something like "Sort of like fun, only  different"  That's a bit how I felt about the Wildcat Mtn. Campout.  Three days of riding in the rain is a little much.  Though I will  say the goofy camraderie mostly makes up for it.  Great bunch of   folks as usual and their attitude makes up for weather, mostly.   Thanks to those who showed up.  The Minn. contingent was strong and  included Minn airmarshal Curt Henry, the IL bunch was mostly no  shows except for hearty Mark B.  24 signed up altogether, 13 showed up. Not bad  considering.   Another plus was I was a much better rain rider by  Sun. afternoon, can't wait to put that to good use.  The sun did  make an appearance about half an hour after I got home on Sun.  Glad  to hear Steve Z made it home OK. His /5 was having starter issues,  sounds like it was water related which isn't too hard to believe. 

 Michael Mcsherry has offered to have the winter tech day at his new  home in Waunakee.  The tentative date is Feb. 20.  It will be the  same drill as before limited to 15 signups and will be a potluck  lunch.  One tech subject will likely be steering bearings and would  appreciate other ideas and we will also need a bike or two to  perform on.  Other particulars to follow and will be on the website.

I also have penciled in some dates for Winter Barley Therapy.  Nov.  21 at the Delafield Brew Pub, the one out on the interstate.  Jan 17   at the Grumpy Troll brewpub in Mt Horeb.  I've also penciled in  March 20 without a location.  We'll see.  My guess would be show up  between 6-7 and well BS and have a burger.  Holler with ideas,  suggestions on dates locations etc.  It's a fluid thing until it happens. That seems to be all at present.  Let me know if you've anything else.
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Hey Airheads,  I've been slightly lax in keeping in touch so good time to
touch bases on  a few items.

Had a few events this past winter that were well attended.  John Tokarz
organized a Airheads at the Harley Museum event back in Jan.  Wish I could
have made it but sounds like it was a good time.  Thanks John.

Our winter tech day at Rich Ryans in Hartland was great fun and well
attended.  We did pushrod seals and a rear main seal on one of Rich's /5's.
I had a couple of folks get back to me already that they went home and did
similar jobs on their bikes.  That's sort of the idea of the winter tech
day.  To demostrate that many of these airhead maintenance projects are well
within the grasp of most of us and seeing them done helps develope the
confidence to tackle them.  Many thanks to Rich who was a wonderful host and
to the folks that brought food and helped out.  Not too soon to think about
where to have it next year and what projects you'd like to see demonstrated.

Just a couple of weekends ago Kevin Knuth had a tech day at his home in
Wauwatosa.  It was a milestone of sorts also as we actually got some real
work done.  John Lewis did a pushrod seal job on his /5.  Mark Hoesly was
having some fuel starvation issues on his bumblebee gs and John Tokarz tore
into that and seemed to solve that problem.  Another good time and thanks
much Kevin.


Mark Hoesly is going to host a campout, picnic and ride at his place in Mt
Horeb on August 8th.  You can come on Friday if you like, lots of room to
camp and sounds like Mark will start a fire.  Lee Potratz is going to lead a
group ride on Sat.  I or Mark will fill you in on other details.  Marks
phone is 608-424-3709 and address is W4007 Kammes Drive Belleville WI.  Let
Mark or me know what your plans are.  Sounds like a great time.

The Wildcat Mtn campout is Oct.  2-4 this year.  I missed out on the site we
had last year so we are in the smaller one in the woods.  It is limited to
25 people.  So first come first served there.  If more folks want to attend
they can reserve a regular campsite and come back and visit.  Camping is the
same $10 as in the past.  Your spot is reserved when you have paid.

That's all I can think of at the moment.  I've posted a few new photos to
the website and will update other items in the next day or two.

Thanks guys and have a fun and safe summer.

Jeff T