H.O.G. Chapters
#62
02-09-2010, 05:57 PM
HOG is like a church...you probably don't want to sit with every member for whatever reason(s). We have had a lot of good experiences with our chapter and are very involved...but I have to stand back and realize that it takes all kinds to "make up a world". If I let what someone says or does have a negative effect on me in a social group, then I need to either "sit in a different pew" or forget it all together. It is supposed to be about fun and when it is something else, I'll leave it behind. As far as the organization goes, it takes a lot of effort to be organized, especially when there are as many members as we have(400+). Not everyone agrees on everything.
#64
02-09-2010, 06:28 PM
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Interesting thread. I joined the local chapter after I purchased my FDX back in '07. I never went to a meeting, so I can't judge them. I did hear about the cliques, which may explain why I never attended a meeting. I'll keep my national HOG membership. It paid for itself when I had to have my bike towed to the dealer.
I really don't understand the politics of HOG. You organize rides to accommodate the members. It ain't rocket science.
I really don't understand the politics of HOG. You organize rides to accommodate the members. It ain't rocket science.
#65
02-09-2010, 06:51 PM
Beware the Cartersville Harley Davidson dealership in Cartersville, Georgia. As
a Harley owner for only 4 years but a rider for over 40, I do know a little
about bikes, as a worker with special needs adults and children for over 20
years has taught me a lot about people. After being banned from the HOG chapter
last year(lol, I am the only one that I know of that has been banned from a
chapter), I approached the GM about joining up this year just to ride, missed
the rides, and some of the people. Well after a couple of months still no
answer from the GM. So after a long conversation with a lawyer friend of the
family and a old bottle of scotch, well, it was interesting………..lol. WTF we
bought two bikes from this dealership and my wife used to spend $100-200 a month
on clothes and don't ask me how much bling I have bought from the same
dealership, to me this was my dealership, like a second home. Cartersville
H.O.G. Chapter "Where Friends Become Family" is a lot of hog ****. Nothing is
further from the truth. I should have listened to myself at this same time last
year, and spent my money else ware. Now if what I am going to say hurts,
then so be it, right now, I don't think we will be taking too many applications
for friends………lol. If this had happen to anyone here on the hangout, I would
have gone off at a meeting, ride, dealership function, to get the point across
that this is wrong, and you can't do this. I give credit where credit is do as
that HNIC and his, have just about ruined this chapter. And I didn't realize
that I presented such a threat to anyone there, are people that afraid of
people that speak their minds. Sorry I am not changing, you get me for me, and
I am not going to crawl to any GM and ask to be a part of any organization, that
is supposed to be free and open to all. So Cartersville KMA, won't spend
another penny……….there. Might join a ride leaving from there, but they have
lost this Harley rider, and, if people ask me where to buy a bike, I hear that
group at Killer Creek is got their do-do together.
Lance & Vickie Dodd
a Harley owner for only 4 years but a rider for over 40, I do know a little
about bikes, as a worker with special needs adults and children for over 20
years has taught me a lot about people. After being banned from the HOG chapter
last year(lol, I am the only one that I know of that has been banned from a
chapter), I approached the GM about joining up this year just to ride, missed
the rides, and some of the people. Well after a couple of months still no
answer from the GM. So after a long conversation with a lawyer friend of the
family and a old bottle of scotch, well, it was interesting………..lol. WTF we
bought two bikes from this dealership and my wife used to spend $100-200 a month
on clothes and don't ask me how much bling I have bought from the same
dealership, to me this was my dealership, like a second home. Cartersville
H.O.G. Chapter "Where Friends Become Family" is a lot of hog ****. Nothing is
further from the truth. I should have listened to myself at this same time last
year, and spent my money else ware. Now if what I am going to say hurts,
then so be it, right now, I don't think we will be taking too many applications
for friends………lol. If this had happen to anyone here on the hangout, I would
have gone off at a meeting, ride, dealership function, to get the point across
that this is wrong, and you can't do this. I give credit where credit is do as
that HNIC and his, have just about ruined this chapter. And I didn't realize
that I presented such a threat to anyone there, are people that afraid of
people that speak their minds. Sorry I am not changing, you get me for me, and
I am not going to crawl to any GM and ask to be a part of any organization, that
is supposed to be free and open to all. So Cartersville KMA, won't spend
another penny……….there. Might join a ride leaving from there, but they have
lost this Harley rider, and, if people ask me where to buy a bike, I hear that
group at Killer Creek is got their do-do together.
Lance & Vickie Dodd
#66
02-09-2010, 07:18 PM
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I've been a H.O.G. member for some time now . I've never been to a meeting or met any members from it . I've heard that I won't fit in with them , but someday I'll check them out .
#67
02-09-2010, 07:22 PM
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HOG is like a church...you probably don't want to sit with every member for whatever reason(s). We have had a lot of good experiences with our chapter and are very involved...but I have to stand back and realize that it takes all kinds to "make up a world". If I let what someone says or does have a negative effect on me in a social group, then I need to either "sit in a different pew" or forget it all together. It is supposed to be about fun and when it is something else, I'll leave it behind. As far as the organization goes, it takes a lot of effort to be organized, especially when there are as many members as we have(400+). Not everyone agrees on everything.
#68
02-09-2010, 07:37 PM
Coming from a dumb tom-a-hawk waving, squaw valley skiing, flute playing long haired Native American, that is far from politically correct, that many times inserts his foot in mouth, that types faster than his brain allows for, was a mistake for me to say, so I am sorry, get over it, and I am sure that we all know what it means……………if you need a clue will send a smoke signal your way…………..
#70
02-09-2010, 08:50 PM
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Only way I know that you'd get banned from the local HOG chapter around here is to get caught cheating at BINGO...