Hope to see you at the meeting and on the rides. If you haven't paid your dues yet, we wil be collecting at the meeting. See you on Thursday.

~Dave

We are going back to some familiar places as well as going to many new ones. We do have a couple of rides that will be in California, so you will need the California out of state permit for your bike, if you plan to go on these. More details to follow on where to purchase the permits and their costs.

What I will tell you for now, is that our first ride will be a day ride and will be on the 27th of March. You'll have to check back for the reminder of the schedule.

At our next meeting, the Harrison Award will be presented to the person(s) that have done the most for the Club last year. We will also go over the schedule with a little discussion of each place and generally where it is located.

Talk to you soon.

~Dave

~Dave

Vice President and Secretary is Rose; and Bill and Hugh are also Vice Presidents. I remain taking care of our web site and I took over Treasurer from Rose.

We asked everyone for their ride input at the first meeting. I have compiles the list of ideas and forwarded on to the Board, which will meet before our next meeting on March 11. We will have a draft of the ride schedule for the meeting. We also asked for nominations for the "Harrison Award". The plaques will be made and presented at our next meeting.

We hope to see you at the next meeting.

~Dave

We will be having only two planning meetings this year instead of three. The meetings will be held in the back room of Round Table Pizza in Fallon, just as in past years.

The dates for the meetings are 4 February and 11 March, both are Thursdays. Both meetings will begin at 7:00 pm.

Agenda:

•   Nominate and Elect our 2010 Officers (President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer, Other VP, Other VP)
•   Take nominations for "Harrison Award"
•   Take ideas for rides (download a copy of all of our rides from the past four years here: http://bit.ly/6A45r0
•   Collect dues and fill out 2010 membership information (a copy of the membership form with fees can be downloaded from the web site by going to: http://bit.ly/5VeSVW ). The more of you that pre-fill out this form and bring your money, the better.

Check the website: http://renneratvriders.com for any updates and to keep informed of the happenings of the Club. I have written a number of articles asking for your input.

We also now have a Twitter account. Our Twitter name is @atvnv and the tweets can be seen on the homepage of the website.

See you in a couple of weeks.

We'll see who is reading the web page based on how many comments we get for this article! I am proposing that we use Google Picasa for posting the pictures for this year's rides. The advantages are multi-fold:

• The pictures can be downloaded by members for printing or for using for their screen saver.
• The entire group of photos can be played as a slide show so you can sit back and watch instead of having to click through all those pictures.
• Other photographers on the ride can upload their photos to the site so we can see their masterpieces.
• Members can comment on pictures (this could be fun). I have added some captions for you to see.
• Faces can be identified and then you can search by person.
• Google Earth is shown with the location that the picture was taken. This assumes that your camera is capturing the GPS data or you are adding it (as I do).

Go to the Renner ATV Web Gallery to view a few albums that I have uploaded from last year's pictures. Add some captions and see what happens. Click on the "Add name tages" button and see what pops up.

This service will cost us between $5 for 20 GB of space up to $20 for 80 GB. These are annual costs. I know that the $5 will cover a year unless we get uploads from all photographers. We can play this by ear and decide we need more as we are topping out.

So go to the link shown above and play around a little. I think this service would be great for us and allow everyone to become involved tagging people in the photos as well as adding captions.

Click on the "Post a Comment" below and let all of us know what you think. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you.    ~Dave

We will probably be having our first planning meeting for 2010 this month, so watch this website as well as your email. A few different items on this post:

1.  Have any of you heard of Twitter? If not, go to http://bit.ly/JVsI to read what it is. It is all the rage in the internet world and you can send and receive tweets via text messaging. I have set up a Twitter account for the Club and you can see what I am sending to it right here on this page--look to the right. You can also set up for it individually so that whenever I send something you will be informed. It's a quick way to get the word out.

2.  I have compiled a list from our first four years (2006-2009) of our rides by month. I have highlighted the ones that we went on more than once. Check out the list and jot down your ideas for the coming year. Of course we will go back to some of them, but we need to find some new sites too. The spreadsheet with our ride history is located CLICK HERE.

3.  It's been really cold the entire month of December with snow on the ground almost the entire month. Have any of you been out riding? Jimmy 4-Coats? We all would be interested in where you went and if you lost any appendages due to frostbite!

That's all for now. Stay warm and see you soon.     ~Dave

Now that the riding for the year really does appear to be over, we would like to hear of some of your fondest memories from 2009. We had more rides this season than any other so there has to be something that sticks in your mind from this year. Just click on the "Post a Comment" area below and start typing.

• The first is for rides that you would like to go on in 2010. Add your rides as you think of them and be sure to let us know if you will lead it. Also, be sure to say if you recommend a camping trip or a day ride.
• The second is for things that you liked or disliked in 2009 or any of our other years.

Be sure to keep checking out this webpage during the off-season for more information.

In case Rose and I don't see you before next Thursday, have a pleasant and safe Thanksgiving.

~Dave

On the website's controls I can view when people have logged in, if ever. I know that many are visiting the site and viewing the pictures and information, but are not logging in. You are missing a lot of information as well as our Club archive by not logging in.

If you have forgotten your login and/or password, please email me at info@iatvnv.com with the words PASSWORD RESET in the subject line and I will reset your account.

~Dave