GWRRA

[cscsonny]

To me,GWRRA,has been a very important asset in the past 20+ years of my 49 years of riding motorcycles mostly due to their committment to Rider Education and Safety.And a newer program that deals with Motorist Awareness.GWRRA has received many awards from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation and others for these programs.
I have been in many officers positions,both at chapter level and district (State) and have found that you have to participate to reap all the rewards.Just showing up at a chapter meeting is not what GWRRA is about.
As far as brands of bikes,two chapters we ride with in the St.Louis area have all different makes of bikes and trikes and everyone receives warm welcomes for attending any function.
The last GWRRA sponsered ERC class I attended,of nine bikes,three were GoldWings and the rest were other makes.I decided to try the class on my Vulcan Classic (2-wheeler) that day and never felt that I was not welcome.
I think you have to be friendly to make friends and it doesn't matter to me what brand of bike you ride.
GWRRA has a lot to offer,including those mentioned by other posters and I will belong as long as I can ride.
Sonny

 

[Nana]

NOT TRUE ONE BIT...
We have all kinds of bikes in our chapter...
As do a LOT of chaptters

Mike and I (both on harleys) met cjmitch and his lovely wife at a GWRRA weekend in Ohio at their invitation a couple of years ago. We met a lot of friendly people, and Claude and his family and friends were great fun! It is the only GW event we have attended, but we didn't feel uncomfortable there at all.

 

[Lucky]

The Chapter we belong to has as they uesd to say at the race track run whatcha brung attitude and has a lot more trikes than bikes.

 

[John Luciano]

I have 10 Gold books. They don't up date them regularly. My friend that died 3 years ago is still in it . Our chapter is week. The GWRRA web page like this forum is very useful .

 

[Teal]

real Safety? and GWRRA

GWRRA never wanted to assist me in my efforts to go to politicians to reduce deer population in high density area,, it was off base with them because it presented a challenge.

 

[Mick]

The owners of GWRRA are not interested in sticking their necks out. You dont see them getting involved in any issues like the AMA. Their forum is a joke. Its a shell of what it used to be. You have to be careful about what you say in regards to the organization and any of its personnel or you'll be ousted in one form or another. People forget what they did to their trike forum some years ago and when the economy got bad he killed TRI to bolster his sagging GWRRA numbers. For those of you who have great chapters-ride and enjoy them. Just remember if all of the chapters were that much fun we would have a younger generation joining instead of them looking at us going" Look at the old geezers on their geezerglides". And yes I'm a member and when Stu Oltman drops his colunm from Wing World I'm gone. The Goldbook is only worth what its worth to you.