Seat belts fastened and pulled tight.
Helmet on
make sure flame resistant suit is completely fastened
Safety pin removed from Hylon fire control system
Quick check of the guages
Ready
Other than getting a club to put on an insanely great convention somewhere
east of the great divide once a year, what does VTR do that justifies its
existence????
There has not been a convention in a location that doesn't require a major
expidition for west coasters to get to that I know of.
I have yet to read an artical in the glossy magazine that would be of much
interest to a TR3 owner. I often get the feeling that the newsletter is
mailed just to try to meet membership agreement obligations and not because
it has anything useful in it.
Our (Triumph Traveler's) VTR rep has two stock reports for the club meeting...
1. Nothing new to report. or 2. a news letter has just come out. If you have
not received yours, your membership may have run out.
Its getting near time for me to reup my membership & I am looking for a reason
to do so. There must be a reason that I am missing.
I realize that an organization is what the members make of it. But all I have
seen are conventions too far away for me to go and news letters that do not
have anything of interest to me. Bill, what am I missing. What does VTR do
that I am not seeing????
I realize that I have been asking "Think not what you can do for VTR but what
VTR can do for you" questions. What else does VTR do besides the newsletters
& convention???? What else is there that I might find of value??
My take is that VTR consists of a few people on the East coast & in the South
working hard to keep the orginization going, and a whole lot of people like
me who are sitting around waiting to be entertained.
I think that I should either let my membership lapse or get involved, and I
am looking for something to get involved in and a reason to do it.
How about projects that every member club can get involved in and contribute to.
I hope that I am making a little sense. I am trying to stir up some conversation
about what VTR is and what it does. Also, some discussion about what it can do
to involve more of its members while at the same time meeting more of their
needs.
I look at the TRA newsletter and always find at least one solid tech artical,
plus other articals of interest. Yet the TRA seems to be a midwest based
group that also just offers a newsletter and a far away convention and not much
else.
There must be more to national organizations that that!!!
What happens if the few people who have been working so hard to keep VTR and
TRA burn out & stop proping up the organizations?
I think Kenedy got it wrong. You should ask first what an organization can do
for you. And then, if you like the answer, ask what you can do for the
organization.
Any thoughts? comments? yellow flags?
TeriAnn
"Hope that's not a black flag I see being unfurlled up ahead"
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