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Editor / Publisher
.. Joan Walker Dues are: (Differences reflect Mailing Costs) Continental United States
.... $20.00 Payable in US funds through Paypal. Paid up members may advertise line ads in the WOW at no charge. Direct all correspondence to: The 101 Association Phone 508-867-8097 Board Members (9) and officers for 2002 are: President
Randy Walker International Representative Olof Ostberg INDEX Page 2: Association Information Page 4 Editor & President reports Page 4 Vice President report Page 6 Membership Chairman reports Page 7 Webmasters Report & Annual Show & meeting info Page 8 101s at Oley by Bob Kelley Page 10 A 101 Wedding in Spirit by Joanie Page 11 Yokohama 101 progress report by Henry Long Page 12 Historical Article: The History of the Tire and the sad life of Charles Goodyear Page 15 COVER ARTICLE: Nostalgia in the winter chill by CE Renquist Page 18 Engine Registry Project notes Page 18 NEW R&O page included in packet- instructions Page 19 Engine Registry Project List Page 20 Members Additions, Subtractions and Asterisks Page 20 Colonial Chapter meet in Harmony,New Jersey, By Jeff Alprin Page 29 Advertisements Page 30 Great picture of a Police Special sent by Doug Strange Page 31 R & O (Shop Manual) Order Information Back Cover CONTEST - whose bike is it? First one with the right answer wins a T-shirt! Editors Message: Late again, but you'll be glad to know in setting this issue up I have the next issue (THE WALL OF DEATH 4!) in the process too so expect that in a month or so. Been unbelievably busy with the wedding and all of the AMCA meets but things are slowing a little now. We had better enjoy it as we have two (count em 2) daughters getting married next year. That should be interesting. Joanie Presidents Message: TIME... A precious essential which many of us are always trying to keep up with on our own projects. Here in New England summer is more than half over and TIME is fleeting fast. I would like some input on what we should do to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 101 Scout next year (the first 1928 will have rolled off the assembly line 75 years before) as well as our 101 Association's 20th Anniversary. We have a few ideas, but would like some more Fax us at 508-867-8097 or email us at rwmc101@aol.com Next year is not so far away! Remember - this is YOUR club and we need input on how to make it great fun for everyone! Randy Vice-Presidents Report: Dear 101ers, I attended the Wauseon AMCA National meet this year, in fact a week ago today as I write this report. Our Indian 101 Scouts are certainly popular and those selling parts for them are more than aware of this and are pricing those hard to get parts accordingly. I'm not sure where this hobby of collecting, restoring, showing and riding our Scouts is headed. I like the idea of just ordinary persons with ordinary incomes being able to own and enjoy an Indian 101 Scout. I believe Randy and myself are working hard to achieve this Randy has invested much time and money to be a "one stop" source for 101 parts as well as building motors and whole bikes for customers. I am spending my retirement days working with 101 owners to get there bikes together. One danger as our 101s get more and more popular is that the price for "basket cases" will get higher and higher. I have contended for years that a "basket 101" is not worth more than six thousand dollars unless it has a correct carburetor, magneto, seat, generator or speedometer. You can add one thousand dollars each for these items. Ouch, I even had trouble typing that amount! Can you even imagine these items going that high? Actually speedometers are higher. I just paid twelve hundred dollars for a 100-mile Corbin with a cable but no drive. Of course there are many other items to consider when purchasing a basket 101. The sheet metal condition, the aluminum cases, frame, fork, wheels, handlebars, controls, seat, gasoline/oil tank, these all need evaluating. There are other items, which are valueless. Any part not repairable has no value so discount them at once. Rear stands, footboards, battered switches, ammeters, headlights, taillights, old batteries and wiring, all can fall into this category. One thing to stay away from is building a bike from parts. You probably won't live long enough to find everything and your total expenditures will be astronomical. I will write up a "How To" on my plating experience soon. I know some of you are anxious to get going on electro less nickel plating. You will need a way to glass bead parts. I also recently learned that "fine" glass beads give you a dull finish, "medium glass beads give you a polished finish and "course" glass beads give you a "peened" finish. I use the "medium" and am very pleased with the results. If you can glass or sandblast, are willing to invest in a "cooker" setup and purchase the chemicals, you can nickel plate. End. GY Membership Chairmans Message: Slow, as always, getting some renewals but we are on track from last year. Make sure you start to get ready for next year - lots more merchandise, pictures in the WOW, etc - it's our anniversary and that of our beloved 101s!! The Hatfield books I got to sell at meets went well - almost sold out of what I brought - will be ordering more - great way to give members a discount ($5.00 off cover price) and yet make some money. I am going to use the money we make from this to add more color pictures or just more pages to the WOW - this is expensive also, not just because of the added printing but extra pages bump us into higher postage rates! J Webmasters Message: Marc Gallin, of the AMCA - Southern California Chapter has kindly said he will help with the web page - look for back issues of WOWs and more updates soon. I obviously can't handle it myself. If you have email, make sure I have your address - just email me at RWMC101@aol.com so I have it on record. The discussion list is still going strong - a reminder that if you want to join go to http://yahoogroups.com/101scout or send me an email and I can sign you up. J ANNUAL SHOW & MEETING Our annual show & meeting (with awards, including people's choice - which anyone [not just 101 club members] can vote in) will be at Davenport (The BlackHawk Chapter of the AMCA) at spaces: S 19, 20 & 21. Judging Sat from 12-3, awards at 3p. Thanks to one of our members, Bill Fowler #609 for lending us his space. By Bob Kelley #12A This years theme at Oley was Henderson motorcycles, and as if we knew we would be upstaged in any case by the amazing turnout of these grand old fours, we had a solid showing of 101s but not quite as many as weve been seeing in recent years at this meet (17 last year). The nine 101s lined up at our usual shady, peaceful spot included many beautifully restored examples. We must be reaching a consensus on the dreaded topic of Indian red because it was hard to tell some of them apart. George Yarocki, Ken Chieffo and I were the judges when it came time to award the plaques that were generously donated by Doug Strange on behalf of the Perkiomen Chapter. Even when we set aside the judges bikes and two or three others that were probably never intended to be in the running, we had to pore over the details to reach decisions on the best restorations. As usual, we generated a lot of interest from browsers who were there for the AMCA show, which ran April 26-28, 2002. Whenever a couple of us paused by the 101s to discuss something mechanical, others would gather and listen. George filled his usual role of riding people around the fairgrounds in his exactingly correct Princess sidecar, yoked to a 1929 101 that he built from 1,200 separately sourced parts, though to look at it you would swear it rolled out of the Springfield factory in one piece. Right after I arrived, he offered to give me a tour of the fairgrounds as a passenger. After feeling the relaxation of floating around in regal comfort over the lumpy turf and dirt ruts of the grounds, I insisted that Andrea give it a try, too .. By Joanie Well, we didn't have any 101s there, but plenty of 101ers attended the party the next day. Randy & I got married on May 25, 2002 (so if you noticed the new WALKER next to my name on the inside cover, good job. Know lots of you are interested, so we thought we'd include a picture! Thanks for all your good wishes! By Henry Long #386 It's been some time since the last progress report on my 101. Mainly because I've had a lower back problem for several years. I was scheduled to have the procedure September of last year but postponed it until 7 January of this year. I wanted to be sure I could make the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. It turned out to be more than I anticipated. I was in surgery for 7 hours then wound up with pneumonia and a blood clot on one of my lungs. Recovery has been rather slow as a result. I'm getting around with a walker pretty well now. There has been some progress. I want to thank Randy Walker for the new rims and stainless spokes, George Yarocki for lacing the wheels, the J.C. Whitney motorcycle catalog for the tires and Steve Blancard for assistance on my magneto problems, including a Service Information and Repair Manual on the Model S, NS, SS and B Splitdorf magnetos. Many others came forward with the their help or suggestions on the restoration of my Yokohama 101. The wheels have made two cross-country runs without the bike! I haven't been able to get out to my shop until recently. I'm still having magneto problems. The seller sent me a long list of what had been done to it before I bought. I've just had a chance to look further into the mag and it seems about all that was done was cosmetic and appears not to be the one described to me. It sure looked good in the color pictures he sent me though. I could return it for refund but the NS-2 mags are too hard to come by. I think I gave some detail in my Buyer Beware article. My other hang-up: I shipped my '28 tank off to Wisconsin nearly a year ago and haven't been able to find out when I'll get it back. Now that I feel like working on the bike again I'm restricted on how much I can lift. There are still lots to do otherwise. I have a so-called "Indian Red" paint but not sure it's the correct color. Anyone out there have the correct color for a '28 101? I would like to get the tank back so I could shoot it all at one time. After all the hard work, frustrations and expense, I'm still determined to get this bike on the road again. Will keep you posted. Regards to all, Henry (BHLONG@aol.com) - Yokohama 101 Historical Series Edited by Joanie The History of the Tire and the sad life of Charles Goodyear Early automobiles were not very comfortable to ride in. The seats were hard and the rigid metal wheels made every bump in the road feel like a small mountain to the driver and passengers. A trip of a few miles rattled you-know-what out of people. Had it not been for the invention of the rubber tire, the automobile could have remained an interesting novelty. The invention of useful rubber is often attributed to Charles Goodyear. Natural or India rubber, as it was then known, had few uses. Rubber products melted in hot weather, froze and cracked in cold, and adhered to everything they touched. In 1830, Goodyear began experimenting with raw rubber to turn it into a useable product. . By Joanie If you told me your personal information was confidential I did not include it. But more so, if you did not tell me if it was confidential or not I decided to err on the conservative side and not include personal information. Look at the list - it's small but just starting - and see if your engine # is there. If it is not, how about sharing your info with me? If it is and you don't mind if I publish your personal information let me know. I plan to update the registry in the WOW every couple issues and at the end of the year we will probably include everything we have separately as a reference, just like we do the membership roster. CONTRIBUTE! Let's document those 101s! Colonial Chapter meet in Harmony, New Jersey By Jeff Alprin #482 Ed note: more pictures of this meet will be in the upcoming MEET issue On Saturday I went to the Colonial Chapter meet in Harmony, New Jersey. I wanted to participate in the field games for the first time! I went to my soon-to-be son-in-law's stag party on Friday night, so I left Farmington, Connecticut, at 4:30 am on Saturday. I arrived at the meet in time for breakfast, and in time to join the road run (12 out of ??? participated). At noon the games began.... I've watched the games at Harmony a few times before. I won't say that the events looked easy, but they didn't look as hard as they are! I brought my '29 101 Scout, thinking it would be an excellent contender. It probably was, but I wasn't! This is not child's play. There are riders who contest very well. I am not yet, and may never be in their league. I may have finished dead last, but I had fun. Here is a link to my pictures of the event. Hope you enjoy viewing them: http://www.alperin.com/harmony_2002_saturday/index.htm Jeff Alperin, Workflow Consultant IN FUTURE ISSUES:
NEW ADS -----> Read all about it - join today, Joanie will send you a copy<----- WANTED: 1929, 1930, or 1931 Indian 101-Scout. Must be nicely restored or original bike that runs well. Within 500 miles of Baltimore, Maryland. Please call Steve Ritter #585 at 410-636-4157 WANTED: Kick starter crank for 1920-1927 scout. prefer one with good gear teeth on the sector. Chuck Darling, RD #1, Rte. 88, Sodus, NY 14551 WANTED: Basket case (complete or mixed bag of major parts) or??? for flat track late 40's 50's era project.. Owen Gibson, oegibson@aol.com FOR SALE: Spare Indian 101 Scout gas tank (1929-1931), Gas has been completely disassembled, terne plated, reassembled and pressure tested. Ready for final finishing, the hard work is already done. Email photos available . FOR SALE: 101 Kickstarter Return Springs. $18.00 each . TAKING ORDERS for 1930 & 1931-32 MOTOLAMP headlights. In process now, should be ready in a few weeks. Randy Walker (508) 867-8097, rwmc101@aol.com INFORMATION ON SHOP (R&O) MANUAL [Note all proceeds from the sale of this "SHOP MANUAL" go to the "101 Association, INC." a historical non-profit organization Sec.501(c) (3). Determination #948(DO)(3-79)] The Indian 101 Scout Repair and Overhaul Manual Our Repair and Overhaul Manual now has all 50 Sections addressed with a total of 244 pages. The Hard Cover three ring binder set-up will still be available for awhile but will be phased out early in 2000 due to the extreme cost of mailing. This will be replaced with a nice spiral bound edition with laminated color covers, front and back. This spiral binding is of the type that can be removed and pages added without any special machine. It will be more difficult and take a bit longer to remove and add pages but the book will be even easier to use out on the workbench than the three ring binders we now use. Soiled paged can be ordered at any time form your 101 Association at minimal cost. The Indian 101 Scout Repair and Overhaul Manual, or as we know it, the "Shop Manual" is a collection of detailed information on the Indian 101 Scout built 1928 through 1931. The manual consists of sections similar to the way the Indian Parts Books are set up. This manual is in a state of continuous improvement by members of the 101 Association, Inc., and others. As new information becomes available, the new sheets can be added. The following prices are in effect tight now but follow your WOWs, the 101 web site, or the G.L. Yarocki Company web site for updates. All are Laminated Covers Spiral Bound. 101 Scout Club members get discounts at meets! United States...$71.50 Includes Priority mail shipping. Canada... $73.70 Includes Printed matter airmail postage. Mexico... $79.20 Includes Printed matter airmail postage. Western Hemisphere (except Canada & Mexico) $77.00. Includes Printed matter airmail postage. Europe... $82.50 Includes Printed matter airmail postage. Asia & Africa... $88.00 Includes Printed matter airmail postage Pacific Rim... $90.20 Includes Printed matter airmail postage. ORDER FROM GEORGE YAROCKI - 860-482-9215 Email: gyarocki@snet.net
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