St.louis Mo members Club/trips

[MoJ]

I think WERock is scheduled there this year as well. Gonna try to make out for that event and check out the F-Toy's.

Mike -

Let me know if you end up going and I'll buy you a Coca-Cola on the way.

Jason

 

[jester_motorsports]

Anyone around STL want to get together maybe tomorrow night just to BS? I'm pretty available at all times during the day since I'm recently unemployed. It's pretty damn boring so this would give me a chance to get out of the house and shoot the breeze with folks about wheelin. Let me know.

If you're available tonight, I'm game.

 

[extremetoy1]

Bryan -

I'm always open for an outing. There's another TAC member "wfd175" - near me as well. We've talked about making a run to Flat Nasty sometime in the near future. Also met "Miescha" on mud and invited him too.


Others - Any thoughts on the below?

Bryan raises a point regarding the STL side of the state. There are a few folks in the area that would like to be closer to the club happenings. Most meetings etc take place in the KC area. Often too far to drive especially with cruiser mileage.

I know there are TAC members in the area but other than a few I really don't even know who they are. Those of us on the eastern side of the state are missing a vital benefit of being part of a chapter --- developing relationships and finding wrenchin'/wheelin' buddies.

The last thing that I would want to see happen is anything that would take away from the TAC member list. Please don't think of this as a desire to start a new chapter. I want nothing to do with it and certainly am not able to make the commitment that is necessary to keep it going. I appreciate the hard work the TAC members have put into building a solid club and in my opinion the dues are a small price to pay in exchange for it. Maybe some sort of bastardized subchapter of TAC would work? Dunno.

Any help that could be provided to bring the STL area folks closer together would be greatly appreciated. After all, that's what makes the cruiser community so great. If anything I think it would only increase TAC membership by giving eastern MO people a greater reason to join.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jason

....yeah what you said!!! right on J- I dont want to take anything away either from TAC, just bring the locals together. I met with Meischa at my shop, nice guy very enthusiastic about this as well.
I will come out of the closet.... I belong to the stlouis land rover club, and it is not quite all that (when you bring a Toyota wheeling with a bunch of rovers.... well you know) I find more people whith cruisers and trucks who are looking for a group to meet and wheel with. this is loking very promising at this point, thanks for your input!

I look forward to meeting,
*B*

Jason/Bryan,

The issues you have brought up are issues we have been struggling with since the inception of the club. Our club members are spread widely over the four state region, and planning events which everyone can attend is next to impossible. Actually, if you map it out, KC is the center of the club. We have several from Wichita, KS, one from Kearney, NE, a few from the Joplin area, Des Moines, etc. So you can see that the STL members aren't the only ones travelling some distance to get to KC.

That said, I strongly encourage you guys to put event(s) together for the STL area. You'll be surprised how many are willing to travel to other places than Tuttle! Last month a group got together in Wichita and had a great time. I'd considered going, but had other stuff in the works that weekend.

One of the main reasons our club has remained active (IMO) is the fact we are a diverse group who isn't forced to get together each month. We plan events that we want to do, when and where we want to do them. The club gives us that ready list of buddies to call to set these up.

So this is my long-winded response to your concerns. Take the lead, plan events in your area, invite the club, and enjoy! I've been around long enough to know you aren't going to step on any toes.

Chris

Thanks, we look forward to seeing soem of you guys at OUR events!!!

Chris -

I probably would have got my point across better had I rambled less in the last post so here it is in a sentence:

It's tough to put together an outing for the area when you don't know who the members in the area are.


What we really need is some assistance from TAC in identifying the folks from the STL area. I'm sure not all of them are on mud. What other means can be used to help us/me contact them? If it's simply a matter of mailing something out to them I'd be happy to do it.

I know of 2 members other than myself. (Not sure if Bryan (extremetoy) is a member.) Surely there are others?



Jason

I am not a member yet, like Jason said any help would be appreciated.

I am in Edwardsville, near the university.
I know there are a couple of members over this way but don't know them either.
We should definitly plan a get together.
I for one have very wierd schedule which makes it really hard to plan ahead.
Long story short, tell me when and where and I will try to make it.

Chris
76 TOY

post up over on IH8mud when it is good for you to meet up (weeknight) nice to meet you

*B*

Would a sub chapter in STL be called "subchapter S"?
CC

Nope, see Below!

That's funny in a tax code sort of way.

"Violent Crime Capital Cruiser Club" might be more in tune with STL.

I like........

As far as bringing folks from KC and St Louis together...
There's this lil ole place called Columbia.
I think the TLCA President lives there...?
There's a 4wd park nearby too.

Nice to meet you chef, this will work out good for you, right in the middle eh?

Another St. Louis guy here. I have a short list of folks that I put together for TTORA purposes as well, all from the STL area. I posted in the other thread about this as well. Anyone in the STL area, please feel free to contact me for any reason. Here, TTORA (same screen name) or via email at jester_motorsports@yahoo.com

Josh

nice to meet you josh I see you posted in MUD, let everyone know that you see with a modded toy to go to Ih8mud or here. THX!