Dear Norm Clark,
Thank you for your club
membership with OMTA.
As you are aware trail
opportunities in
tool to combat further loss
of off pavement recreation and open new opportunities for all trail
users.
OMTA is interactive, every
member is a key player, no one sits on the bench. OMTA provides
information virtually
everyday so you can participate. A few years ago five people each wrote
one letter a week for one
month and stopped the most advanced project ever planned for
resource extraction
(logging) on state forests. We have to use the environmental model of
individual involvement to
keep our current off road resources and expand our responsible use
areas. Everyday more folks
turn to off pavement recreation, we must not fall victim to
closures due to over use.
The
receive first day
notification of meetings, who to write and what your message needs to say to
ensure our responsible use
of public property is addressed. The
cut in half by the new St
Rt 33 corridor. Your reaction to the information OMTA provides
will determine if we end up
losing the
they owe off pavement
recreation. Go to http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/wayne/ and click on forest
planning.
2004 has provided us with a
full plate of opportunities for off pavement recreation. The
challenge for us is to step
up to that plate and take responsibility for our recreation to ensure
we receive full measure of
use as time and time again our gas tax money (i.e. RTP moneys
paid from gas taxes) are
used to fund everyone’s trails but ours. We need to educate our
members in responsible
recreation as we educate them in the best way to ensure their voices
are heard.
This is one of the most
exciting developments to me. We are setting up a new group within
OMTA, a trail development
committee to expand our riding opportunities, apply for grants
and cause the state to
follow thru on the mandate for a motorized trail system around the
state.
I know you already know
about the Railroad association and the farm bureau wanting a bill
to have mandatory
registration (tags) for all ORV’s. You only have to read the paper about
folks killed on trail
tracks or trespassing on farms to understand why. We are in continuous
contact with them to make
it a benefit for us, not just another penalty law.
We pro actively GPS ed all
the trails at the
as starting an active
“matching” grant fund to provide more public access. Contributions to
this fund, as well as your
membership, is tax deductible.
A new “Bill”
HB299 passed due to our efforts to protect the township trustees from
maintenance
liability. We are working with Senator Hottinger to protect our use of the
township rights
of way we use throughout
proposed four
changes to law to provide and pay for public riding areas.
We are an
active partner with The Department of Natural Resources working on the trail
plan mandated
by the
We have
redesigned our web site http://www.ohiotrails.org ;
if you have not
been there lately you will find major
changes and
features for your benefit. We have a members' only section to add value to your
membership with
OMTA. Send an e-mail to the information address on the site to get your
passwordWe have
an ongoing benefit for our members and a tool to help you get your friends
to join OMTA
from our friends at Honda, a special offer from Honda Rider Education.
HOW TO TEACH A
CHILD OR LOVED ONE TO RIDE DIRT BIKES
We offer the
miles north of
dirt with a
small hill for teaching hill techniques. There are hotels and restaurants
within 2-
blocks of our
facility.
We have some MX
boots, helmets, and XR50s-to-XR200s. Electric-start XR230s should be
here by
mid-March. There is no additional charge to wear our gear or use our
motorcycles
and in fact,
use of student-owned motorcycles is not allowed because of concerns with noise
and safety.
I’d like to offer
our dirt bike course to OMTA members during ’04 05 as follows: if you pay
for 1 student
tuition of $50, you’ll receive the second tuition free. The second person
doesn’t
have to live in
your household and could be the friend of your son or daughter, woman friend,
etc. Class
makeup is as follows:
Ages 7-11: max
of 4 per class and no one 12 or older unless it’s a “family class” (dad, mom,
son/daughter,
etc). Young kids take a lot of patience.
Ages 12-15: max
of 8 per class and adults can be mixed into this group.
Ages 16+: no
more than 8 per class.
The classes
start at 9 a.m. and end around 2 p.m., depending on skill level of students,
weather, lunch
break/no lunch break, etc. Some students may not be required to ride some
exercises, such
as the hill, if the instructor thinks they are not ready for such.
If you’re
interested, send an e-mail to [email protected] or call our
office at
(937) 332-6177.
You must identify yourself as a OMTA member.
Tosh Konya
Honda
Ps. This offer
is a good reason to “re-up” or join OMTA for the first time!
Thanks again
for your renewal.
William A
Kaeppner and OMTA