Larry and Teri Bio

We started our GWRRA “life” in 1999, by attending meetings with Ohio Chapter A-2 out of Hamilton, OH.  Hamilton is a suburb NW of Cincinnati.  At the time, Teri and I were dating and one of our first “day” dates was to participate in Chapter A-2’s road rally.  It was a long day, on our ’85 Aspencade, as the rally covered about 100 miles around the greater Cincinnati area.  We ended up winning first place for time and correctly answered questions – and, with that, we were “hooked”. 

A couple of months into “our” Chapter and GWRRA life, we were asked to be assistant Chapter Directors, which we gladly accepted.  By then, we had already rode several 1500’s  - one of the first times was at our first Wing Ding in Springfield, MO – so, needless to say, we were hooked on getting a 1500.  A few months later we located a used 1500 SE via the internet, in Indianapolis, IN.  The owner was gracious enough to let us invade his garage at 9PM - and we fell instantly “in love” with was to become our ’97 Pearl Glacier white SE. 

After about 1 ½ years, we stepped up as Chapter Directors for OH – A-2.  We had GREAT fun.  The two years seemed to fly by.  There were mall show, road rally’s, just plain old “show your chrome” rally’s, bake sales, craft sales, BBQ’s, leaf color rides, and rides to just about every point of interest imaginable.  Did we mention ice cream rides??  Oh my – can’t forget our weekly Tuesday night ice cream rides. 

We shared “our” chapter’s time with our sister chapters in the Cincinnati area, X-2, L, and E-2.  We (A-2) enjoyed a wonderful and a very ”competitive friendly” experience with all of our sister chapters.  With careful planning, all four chapters were able to schedule events with hardly any conflict therefore we were all able to attend each others “functions” – building a strong GWRRA family in the Cincinnati area. 

During all of this time, Teri and I were still “dating”.  With all of the different four chapter’s functions, most all of our dates were “Wing” related.  Teri and I became “one” in September 2003.  Again, “Misty”, as we called our Wing, was a main part of that occasion as we took her, and our “Pod” trailer, on a 5 day honeymoon to Florida.  Did I mention that it tends to be fairly stormy in Florida in September? (we all remember Katrina)  Fortunately, we didn’t run into any hurricanes, but needless to say, we found out that our Frogg Toggs work very well. 

We lived in Mason, OH, in a two bedroom condo, with our two Schnauzers, McKenzie and Sterling (both females – now the odds are three to one).  Our bike inventory grew when Teri graduated from the basic MSF course and earned her endorsement on her license.  She has an ’89 pearl white Pacific Coast and a ’99 Suzuki Intruder.  My “other” ride is a “classic” ALL STOCK ’76 GL 1000 with less than 10,000 miles on the odometer. 

We are looking forward to this new GWRRA “adventure” and we are excited to be assisting Steve and Robin in their effort to make the NV district the best district in Region F.  We hope to be able to meet all of the members in the NV district – so if we don’t come up and introduce ourselves, please come over and say “Hi”!

 Your “Friends for Fun, Safety, and Knowledge”,

 Larry and Teri Ivie

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