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Carolina Chrome Issue #14 #141 1 April 2020

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CONTENTS Cover Photographer Retread 3 Ms Chrome Ms. Stevie, Myrtle Beach SC Photography by Aaron Lucas, Outer Space Photography 6-7 COVER STORY 10 CMA Annual Day of Prayer By: Wally Wersching 12 God, a Motorcycle, and the Open Road: Fearing Men, Fearing God 14 Biker Kids 16-17 Centerfolds: Ron “Montana” Boswell & Cathy “Stormy” Haynes Photographer Robert Holley, Owner of Robert Vance Photography 18-21 Calendar of Events 24 Dr. DILLIGAF 28 Chrome Comedy Conner ADVERTISING SALES & MARKETING

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You Never Know What Your S on -I n -L aw I s U p T o ... The Cover Story of Lenwood and Debra

As you saw in our first issue of Carolinas Chrome this year, our Editor in Chief Nicole CGW, came up with a slogan for the 2020 Carolina Chrome year! The Chrome Slogan for 2020 is: "If It's Not Fun, Your Doing It Wrong!". So, therefore, we have our Cover Story about Mr. Lenwood Beasley and his wife Debra. I guess you could say our story actually started 47 years ago. That is when Lenwood and Debra were married. Through their 47 years together their love has brought forth 3 daughters, 11 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Lenwood is at home on his 2017 Street Glide and really loves the open rd . This being his third Harley Davidson, he is no stranger to riding. I asked Lenwood where all he had ridden to, which he replied; Outer Banks, Tennessee,

Virginia, North Carolina, Moonshiners, and the famous Tail Of The Dragon. Lenwood and Debra are residents of Cassette, S.C., where they have several friends that ride. One of these friends; Mr. Gary Ray, was a long time president of the Trinity Motorcycle Club. Now, Gary Ray has been diagnosed with colon cancer, and his wife Stacy, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Gary and Stacy have faced this head on with the love of family and friends. Lenwood and Debra are no strangers to cancer or the pain it can bring to those we love. Lenwwood and Debra lost a grandson to this disease, we call cancer. Their grandson Joseph lost his battle to cancer but never lost his love for riding the

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motorcycle with his granddaddy Lenwood. Joseph has even ridden non stop with Lenwood to Parts of North Carolina. Lenwood's love for his wife, family, church, and friends shows each and every day. When there was a benefit steak dinner put on for Gary and Stacy Ray, Lenwood and his family were there not just to enjoy a good steak dinner but to help in what ever way they could. Lenwood and his family helped by donating a 9 mm hand gun, a 380 hand gun along with a large basket arrangement. His daughter Karla Meeks was very instrumemtal in getting donations and gifts for for the benefit. They bought several auction items at the event paying much more than some items were worth, just to help with the cause. Their love for family and friends has

also been passed to his son-in-law, Drenna Riggins. Mr. Riggins was the highest bidder in the auction of a page in the Carolina Chrome Magazine that was so generously donated by the help of Retread & Nicole CGW. After Mr. Riggins WON the auction bid, he looked at me and said: I don't have a motorcycle for you to take a picture of me on, I just wanted to help out and may I give the page to my mother and father-in-law?

After meeting Lenwood Debra and Drenna, I must say; they willalways willalways have a lot of fun in life because I think they are doing it right...

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God, a Motorcycle, and the Open Road:

What are the typical first words of an angel when appearing to a human? “Fear not.” Why? Angels have a presence that intimidates humans so much we need that encouragement to not fear. Now, how A Biker’s Devotional do the angels view God? “I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him By Tim Riter were seraphim [angels], each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying” (Isaiah 6:1-2). Apparently, the angels covered their faces to avoid seeing God fully and also covered their feet, contaminated by contact with earth. We can’t look at angels, and angels can’t look at God. The year? 1974. The era? The Watergate frenzy peaked as people Using the search feature of my Online Bible, 278 passages came up wondered if the Nixon presidency could survive the flood of revelawith the words “fear” and “God” or “Lord.” Half dealt with fearing tions about the break-in and the following cover-up. Earlier in the life situations or people and relying on God. But the other half day I finagled a private after-hours tour of the Rhode Island state talk about fearing God. Fearing God is a huge biblical concept. And capitol to see its charter. The Ocean State was the first American the word in the New Testament is the Greek phobos, meaning “fear.” colony to have full religious liberty, and its charter was signed by Take a look at just a few that cover the breadth of the Bible. the king of England himself. As I looked at the charter in a back room, the nearby telex chat“Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid. God has come tered: Nixon had just scheduled a major address for that evening, to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep had called Vice President Gerald Ford back to DC, and would reyou from sinning’ ” (Exodus 20:20). portedly resign. I grew up in California, also Nixon’s turf, and had to view this. My options were a pricey motel room or a bar. I chose “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” the latter for the price of a beer. (Proverbs 9:10). Later that evening I rode the Honda 750 into Groton, Connecticut, not long before the speech, and spotted The Grotto, a long, “Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of low bar. One with a television. Free. A wall separated the dimly lit believers, fear God, honor the emperor” (1 Peter 2:17). bar from the entry hall, so I turned right and peered inside. Kind of a redneck crowd, where a long-haired hippie biker might not be “Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ” welcome. (Ephesians 5:21 NASB). So I turned back into the hallway as another guy did at the opposite end. Not wanting to cause trouble, I stepped to my left. He stepped Why should we fear him? One reason for today: fear combats to his right. Coincidence. Again I moved to get out of his way and he self-centeredness. We look at our technology, our progress, our again moved in front of me. You can guess my thoughts. I repeated achievements, and pride fills us. We’re important. Until we see God, my evasive maneuver while trying to not challenge him by looking and we shrink to near nothingness. Until God’s love draws us back directly at his eyes. He responded, and my fear grew. Figuring I betto him. Then, and only then, do we possess the balance we need. ter make peace before getting pounded, I raised my hands palm up Real reasons for humility, as we compare ourselves to God. Real and said, reasons for confidence, as we see our importance to him. “I don’t want any trouble.” This guy also raised his hands and One more reason, from the Exodus passage, given in the same chapter mouthed something. What I thought was a long, open hall had a as the Ten Commandments. Being aware of the awesomeness of God, mirror just past the entry door, and I had scared myself half to his transcendence, his majesty, serves as an antidote to choosing death with my own reflection. sin. We don’t take God lightly. We don’t take disobedience lightly. Fear. Real or exaggerated or imagined. Here this story takes an un- Not often do we fear ourselves, like I did. But we ought to fear expected turn. In life, we face many sources of fear, such as scaring God, as the angels do. Ironically, that leads to greater intimacy and myself. All of us who ride need a healthy fear of our bikes and the depth with him. I kinda like that. cost of a crash. But what might be the greatest source of fear? Let KICK-STARTING THE APPLICATION me suggest God. We often diminish the concept of fearing God by calling it reverence Do you have any fear of God in regard to his transcendence? Do or awe. Yes, those fit. But the word for reverence or awe means you think you should have more or less? Why? What are some asfear. If we’re in Christ, we have no fear regarding punishment. I repects of God that lead you to a healthy fear of God? How much call dating a gorgeous girl back in college, one far above me on the do you battle self-centeredness? Do you think fear would counter status ladder. When I asked her out and she said yes, I almost asked that? For the next few days, ponder the role fear has in getting why. She so amazed me I could hardly speak for fear of showing closer to Jesus. what an idiot I was. Multiply that by a billion or so to get a clue of how much God transcends us. Riter, Tim. God, a Motorcycle, and the Open Road: A Biker’s Devotional. Harvest House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

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CMA Annual Day of Prayer By Wally Wersching

The Christian Motorcycle Association (CMA) held their annual “Day of Prayer” throughout the country on Sunday, March 1st this year. Groups of Christian bikers got together to pray for everything they deemed needing help. Locally, the “Warriors for Christ” chapter of the CMA from Gaffney met at 2:00PM at the Cherokee County Veterans Appreciation Park in Gaffney, SC. It is located next to the Cherokee County Veterans Museum.

Sunday’s weather was the best of the week with temps in the upper 50’s, and a cloudless, bright Carolina Blue sky. I dressed for the cool temps, and rode ”Miss Vickie”. When I left home at about 1:15, I headed south on Rt 18. I followed Rt 18 into Gaffney, and then went straight when Rt 18 turned to the left. The park was on the right a couple blocks down. I arrived at the park about 1:45, and was surprised to see that there was only Carolyn, and no bikes. She drove because her husband, Roger, had to work. We had a very pleasant conversation while we were waiting for the rest of the bikers to arrive. I walked around the park, which was dedicated in 2010. It has a beautiful display of monoliths with names of veterans along with little areas on each side for remembering. I started to walk around the memorial – it is such a beautiful place. I always like to read the names on the marble. Every monolith is labeled with the branch of service, and it’s number in that branch. The names are arranged alphabetically so it’s easy to look up a specific name. There is also a list kept in the podium during the summer months. There are a couple beautiful statues in the park too along with musical rocks that play patriotic music. One statue is one that I have seen replicated many times – the one with the helmet on the rifle butt, and the boots. It is called the “Fallen Soldier Battle Cross”. It’s very moving. The more I stood there looking at it the more it was talking to me. The other one is an eagle with an inscription on the base by Theodore Roosevelt. Too many people had to die for us to enjoy our freedom, and this park remembers them. Soon, there were bikers riding in – mostly one at a time but then there was a group. The Colossians 3:2 Riders, from Union, SC rode in. I recognized Ken Ivey. I rode in their First Annual Veterans Ride last year. The bikers might not all be CMA members but most belong to a Christian Biker Ministry of some kind. Many churches have a group who ride motorcycles together. Some have identifying colors on the back of their vests, but some are like me - just friends.

Carolina Chrome magazines with them. Then, someone saw a man in a wheel chair across the street, and “Crawdad” (the president of the chapter) invited us to walk over to him, and pray for him, and with him. We learned that seven years ago, he had a stroke, and since then, his mother was taking care of him. While we were all talking with him, he recognized “Crawdad” from high school back in the 1970’s. He even remembered “Crawdad’s real name – Mike. It really is a small world!

After taking a few group pictures, we headed back to the Veterans’ Memorial. We all held hands, and formed a circle to pray. “Crawdad” explained what would happen. Each member of the circle had the opportunity to pray for whatever they thought was important. Then the next one would have a chance until it went completely around to the start. Afterwards, we stood around talking for a while before heading back home. I learned that the goal of the CMA is to spread the word, and increase the group size every year. Next year, mark your calendars for the first Sunday in March. We’ll meet again at the Veteran’s Memorial Park about 2:00PM. See you there!

GO TO: http://www.cmausa.org/ for more info about the CMA. Or for info about the chapter, go to: http:// cmaser6.org/SC/WARRIORSFORCHRIST. I said my good-byes, and then headed north on Rt 18. The ride home was comfortable. It was very enjoyable spending time with friends, and sharing their prayers with them.

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Dr. Dilligaf

Got something to ask dr. dilligaf?? send it to carolinachrome@yahoo.com Dr. Dilligaf, What are some of the most dangerous aspects of riding a motorcycle and what can I do as a rider to make riding safer? I prefer living over dying but if I ain’t riding I ain’t really living. Better Safe Than Sorry.

Better Safe Than Sorry, There are several things, some of which you may know, some you may find surprising. Intersections are dangerous. We either need to pay better attention or work on our braking techniques, because we crash into the back of other vehicles way too often. We’re not good enough at cornering, especially right turns. And we drop our bikes a lot (probably more often than any of us imagined or were willing to admit). Have you noticed that I’m yet to mention cagers? Contrary to what most riders think cars aren’t our biggest threat, we are. Because of some studies initiated by the MSF, (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) we now have hard evidence on why crashes happen, how we can make the right decisions to prevent them and steps we can take to keep ourselves safer. We can also use this information to fight bad legislation intended to protect us from ourselves. This information can also be used to better train new riders. Let’s look at intersections, we might find a surprise there. Statistics show an uncontrolled intersection is nearly 41 times riskier than no intersection. A simple parking lot or driveway intersection is 8 times as risky and an intersection with signals is still 3 times as risky as just motoring down the highway. I know some of ya’ll are gamblers, but I personally don’t gamble with my life or the life of those who may be following me. Something else that may surprise you is the fact that going downhill is 4 times as risky and uphill is 2 times as risky as riding on a level surface. You are 9 times as likely to crash on a gravel or dirt road than a paved one. And your twice as likely to crash in a right hand turn as you you are on a straight road. Now, for all you who say that you don’t like riding the interstate, guess what. Yep, it’s the safest place to ride a motorcycle. It’s mostly straight, as level as they can make it and it has controlled intersections. The act of someone pulling into your path, (which is oft times deadly) is secondary to riders own self-inflicted crashes. I have friends that don’t use their rear-view mirrors when riding except when changing lanes. Then there are others who constantly do because they don’t want to be rear-ended. But are you aware that you are twice as likely to rear end another car than you are to be hit from behind? You are also twice as likely to rear end someone than to have someone pull out in front of you. Bottom line is this, (I’m ready for the push back from the anti-cager, driver conspiracy idiots) aggressive riding, rider inattention or lack of skills kill or injure more riders than any other way. And I know all the stories of a car pulling out into the path of a bike. The drivers always say, “ I didn’t see him”. Well, that’s the same thing they say about other cars and trucks. Who knowingly pulls out in front of an eighteen-wheeler? Here’s one thing I know I personally need to work on constantly, and I suspect many of you do, too. We need to look further ahead. It applies on the street, on the track, every-

where. One of the other risk factors researchers found that I haven’t mentioned yet is that maneuvering to avoid an object, whether a pedestrian, an animal or something lying in the road, increases the risk factor by 12. Combine that with the high number of riders hitting another vehicle from behind and I get the feeling we’re just not paying close enough attention. We’re not keeping our eyes up and looking far down the road, to see the developing situation that is going to cause the driver in front of us to slam on his brakes, or to spot the hunk of exploded truck tire lying in our lane. Those things are taking us by surprise and we’re not giving ourselves enough time to react. One thing professional riding coaches teach at the track is to keep your eyes up and look farther ahead. That essentially slows down the action, because you have more time to react to what you see if you’re looking further ahead. If you’re looking at what’s right in front of you on the track (or street), you’re looking at the past, not the future. It’s already too late for you to do anything about what’s 20 feet ahead of your front tire. For all of you let me leave you with this. Anything that gets you thinking about how you can do better protecting yourself as a rider or passenger is worth a little of your time, especially if it may increase your time on earth. Seriously, Dr. Dilligaf

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The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Grandpa’s attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.

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So, a little old lady knocked on the MC Clubhouse door. The scariest looking member opens the door and asks what she wants. “I’d liked to join your club,” says the The IRS decided to audit Grandpa, and little old lady. summoned him to the IRS office. The “Are you OK?” the auditor asks. The biker is amused by this and de“Not really,” says the attorney. “This IRS auditor was not surprised when cides to play along, telling her, “Ok, morning, when Grandpa told me he’d Grandpa showed up with his attorney. but you’ve got to meet the requirebeen summoned for an audit, he bet ments first. Do you have a bike?” me twenty-five thousand dollars that The auditor said, “Well, sir, you have he could come in here and pee all over The little old lady points to a Harley an extravagant lifestyle and no fullyour desk and that you’d be happy and says, “Yeah, that’s my bike there.” time employment, which you explain about it.” The biker is surprised but says, “And by saying that you win money gamdo you smoke?” bling. I’m not sure the IRS finds that Don’t mess with old people! The little old lady says, “Yeah, I smoke believable.” 20 cigarettes a day, and when I’m ***************************** shooting pool I’ll smoke a few cigars “I’m a great gambler, and I can prove How can you tell when a too.” it,” says Grandpa. “How about a Gold Wing rider is The biker is impressed and says, “And demonstration?” have you ever been picked up by the having an affair? The auditor thinks for a moment and Fuzz?” says, “OK. Go ahead.” His helmet doesn’t match The little old lady says, “No, but I’ve Grandpa says, “I’ll bet you a thousand been swung around by the nipples a the passengers. dollars that I can bite my own eye.” few times.”

The auditor thinks a moment and says, “It’s a bet.” Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor’s jaw drops.

“If It’s Not FUN, You’re Doing It WRONG!”

Grandpa says, “Now, I’ll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.” The auditor can tell Grandpa isn’t blind, so he takes the bet. Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye. The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa’s attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous. “Want to go double or nothing?” Grandpa asks. “I’ll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.” The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there’s no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again. Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can’t make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor’s desk. 28

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