On our website there is certain information you can help us keep up to date. You can change your:

• Address
• Contact Phone Number
• Email address
• Website Password.

To easily change your information you must first log into the website using your login and password. Once you have successfully logged into the website, you will have an option, under the MEMBERS Navigation Menu Button, labeled "My Information". Select the option and you will then be shown all of the different information you can change about yourself.

The Mount Rainier Chapter Website uses your National H.O.G. ID to verify you. It checks your National Expiration as well as your local chapter expiration to verify you are a valid member of our chapter and you are not expired.

At the present time, there is no way to change your Login ID. If this feature becomes available in the future
we will let all of our members know.

Don't like the default password we set for you? Well There is good news. You can change your password to something to your own liking.

You have the freedom to easily change your password at any time so long as you:

• Know your Login ID
• Know your Current Password
• Have a valid (non-expired) National H.O.G. Membership
• Have a valid (non-expired) Mount Rainier Chapter membership

To Change your password, simply log into the Mount Rainier Chapter Website (if you aren't already logged in). and select the "My Information" link under the MEMBERS Navigation Menu button. Once there you can simply select the button "Change My Password" to easily change your password.

Need to get in touch with one of the Mount Rainier Chapter Officers? We have made this as easy as can be for you.

To send a Mount Rainier Chapter Officer an eMail, simply select the "Contact Us" link under the LINKS Navigation Menu button. Once you are taken to our Contact page, you can select the officer you wish to send an email to. Simply fill out the form and click the "Send Email" Button and your email will be sent.

You will also receive a copy of the email to the email address you provided.

If you are unsure which officer you might need to send the email to, or you feel the email should be sent to all the officers, there is a selection on the "Contact Us" page where you can select individual officers or the "Entire Board".

There have been questions from members wondering what a "Hip Pocket Ride" is.

A Hip Pocket Ride is a ride which as been set up by a member, a road captain, or an officer which is not classified as a sanctioned Chapter Event. As many of you know, there are many riding events all year long with the chapter. Chapter Riding Events and other Chapter Events are shown on our calendar in ORANGE. Whether you are logged into the website or not, you are able to see Chapter events.

Hip Pocket Rides are not considered Chapter Events. These routes are not approved by the chapter, most likely have not been pre-ridden, do not have Road Captains operating in an official capacity....etc. These rides are just "informal" rides. So why on earth do we even have Hip Pocket Rides? Here are a few Reasons:

• Weather is poor and there is potential for unsafe riding conditions to our members.
• Chapter member wants to just have an informal ride without certain restrictions
• Ride is to a non-chapter event (ie Oyster Run, Sun-n-Surf)
• Ride was planned quickly and there was not time for entire ride approval process to take place
• Due to schedules, the chapter is unable to provide enough road captains for the ride

Hip Pocket Rides to not show up on the public Calendar. In order to see any Hip Pocket Rides, you must be a member of the chapter and log into the website. Once you are logged into the website you will look for events which are "Green". Green Events are events for our members which are not necessarily Chapter Events. Most of these events shown in green will be rides. Some may be Long Distance Rides (LDRs) and others will be regular type rides put on by our one of our members.

If you are interested in having a Hip Pocket Ride on the Calendar, please use our Contact Page and email our Webmaster. Our webmaster can make the determination on whether or not the ride can be placed on the calendar or not.

Please Note: Not all Hip Pocket Rides requested will make it to the calendar. If you have an informal ride which may not make it on the calendar, please at least make members aware of it on our Discussion Board.

Logging into the Website is very easy. We have provided you to easy ways to log in:

• The Top of Any Web Page
• "Log In" Link Under the MEMBERS Navigation Menu Button

To Log in you will need a Login Name/ID and a Password. Your Login Name/ID is your National H.O.G. ID Number. Your Password, if you have not changed it, has been defaulted to the following formula:

<First Character of First Name><First Character of Last Name><3 Character Abbreviation of the Month Your National H.O.G. Expires>

Example: John Doe and Expiration is September would have a default password of: jdsep

If you forget what to use for your login and password, simply highlight the labels next to the input boxes. There a little popup window will show you the information you will need provide.

Once you log in successfully you will see a temporary screen indicating you have successfully logged in. You will then, after a period of a few seconds, automatically be taken back to the chapter home page.

You can easily tell if you are logged into the Mount Rainier Chapter website by looking at the top of any of the website pages. You should see your name listed on the very top of each page. The original quick-login form which was there should no longer be showing and be replaced with a status line indicating who you are logged in as.

Please Note: Your Login and Password are NOT case sensitive. You can enter them in upper case, lower case or mixed case.

Logging Out of the Mount Rainier Chapter Website is very easy. There are 3 ways to log yourself out of the Mount Rainier Chapter Website:

• Clicking the "Logout" link on the top of the Web Page
• Selecting the "Logout" link under the MEMBERS Navigation Menu Button
• Clearing Your cookies from your browser (not recommended as it will clear any other website cookies)

Once you click on either of the Logout methods above, you will see a temporary screen indicating you have successfully logged out. You will then, after a period of a few seconds, automatically be taken back to the chapter home page. You will notice on the very top of the web page your name is no longer listed, and the quick login form is once again visible.

Please Note: If you are on a public computer of any kind, please ensure you log out of the website, otherwise you run the risk others may use that computer and access our website and would show as being logged in as you.

Your Website Login is your National H.O.G. ID. Our website requires this in order to log into the website and access "Members ONLY" Content.

Our Website is designed to have you input your H.O.G. ID with a 2 character Country Code (ie. US) and a 7 digit numeric code immediately following.

If you have been a long time standing member of National HOG, your National H.O.G. ID number may not contain 7 digits. In order for us to recognize your H.O.G. Identification number, you will need to put in leading 0s for each digit less than or equal to 6 numbers. Examples:

• US1234567
• US3394900
• US0148857
• US0039898

Each member of the Mount Rainier Chapter has been added into the Website system. Your Login Name/ID is your National H.O.G. ID number (See FAQ "My Website Login" for more information about your login) and each member has been set up with a default password, which can be changed (highly recommended)

Your Password, if you have not changed it, has been defaulted to the following formula:

<First Character of First Name><First Character of Last Name><3 Character Abbreviation of the Month Your National H.O.G. Expires>

Examples:

• John Doe who has an expiration month of September would have a default password of: jdsep
• Jane Smith who has an expiration month of February would have a default password of: jsfeb
• Peter Pan who has an expiration month of May would have a default password of: ppmay

If you have already changed your password but cannot remember what you changed it to, please contact our webmaster so your password can be reset.

As a Mount Rainier Chapter Member, you can read all of our Newsletters Online. All newsletters are available to our members.

To Read our Newsletters you will first need to ensure you have logged into the website with your member login information. From there simply click on the MEMBERS Navigation Menu button and look for the link called NewsLetters. There you can select which newsletter you wish to read.

Newsletters on our website are in .pdf format. If you do not have a PDF reader installed on your computer, you will need to have one installed prior to reading the newsletters online. You can see Adobe's Website to download the free Adobe Reader program onto your computer.

Been to some of our events and want to look through the photos? We have an extensive photo gallery here on the Mount Rainier Chapter website for you to browse through.

To Access the Photo Gallery all you need to do is click on the LINKS Navigation Menu Button and select the "Photo Gallery" Link.

The Mount Rainier Chapter custom photo gallery will load and you can select different event galleries to look through.

With All the riding our chapter does, we provide you, as a courtesy, ride maps of the chapter rides we have.

To access the Ride Maps, simply click on the LINKS Navigation Menu Button and select the "Ride Maps" Link.

Ride Maps on our website are in .pdf format. If you do not have a PDF reader installed on your computer, you will need to have one installed prior to opening up the Ride Maps. You can see Adobe's Website to download the free Adobe Reader program onto your computer.