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AutoZone, and Walmart. Tim’s had the only good coffee back then in all of Can- ada. But mostly why I go is the rally and the local rides and places. Google “Halls Harbor,” for example. The


organizers will make sure you get there, and also get some ice cream at the Apple Valley Overlook. Go down to Digby for some scallops. Go in town to Viki’s and have the best chowder you will ever experi- ence. And then there’s the rally. It is timed to the Canada Day national


holiday, which also happens to mesh time- wise with our Fourth of July holiday. If you are a first-timer to the rally you will be invited to become a Bluenoser Saturday night during a band break, with a cere- mony you’ll savor. (Go to YouTube and search for Bluenose Rally to see a clip of it.) Your initiation will be enjoyed by 200 or so of your new closest friends. This is a small rally so you can get to know everyone. When I started coming, the rally was in


one key sense more hardcore. EVERYONE camped. So going to the Bluenose was very much like the original BMW club rallies in feel. But now there is a row of RVs against one tree line. Clubs attend and will cluster in campsite groups. These clubs are “all brand clubs” not bike brand clubs, save for the BMW Owners of Nova Scotia (BMWONS). And the BMW club sets up and sponsors a beer and wine “reception” on Friday night while the Apple Valley Rid- ers hire a brass ensemble for music as you sip!!!


Free wine and beer courtesy of a


BMW club. Which takes me to another unique aspect of this event. The rally has been going on for 46 years


courtesy of the Apple Valley Riders. But it only works because folks in the provinces work together to make things work. How’s that for a concept? The BMW club contrib- utes that annual Friday night reception. Other clubs don’t just attend. They contribute. Okay, I’ll give it a shot. Hopefully, I have


this right. BMWONS also show up for work par-


ties in the spring, helping to prep the site; cleaning up dead branches and such. Cana- dian Motorcycle Association (CMA) folks


include a highly trained first aid contingent on site, while also working the field events and assuring a Sunday morning worship service on site. The Antigonish Touring Society (ATS) usually hosts a party in the winter and collects cash there, which they donate to help sponsor Saturday breakfast. I’m told that the “Mainiacs” always arrive early and do whatever needs doing. This year that included fixing the hot water heaters and fixing a sink drain, along with myriad other things, like running to town to fetch “stuff” and not billing for it. We are talking a group of regular U.S. attendees from Maine. And then there are the bikes and their


owners. It feels like a family get together and the bikes can include some one-off pieces that are amazing. I am particularly on the lookout for any bike that Doug Mur- phy of D Murphy Sport Boats has touched. Go to his Facebook page and eyeball some of his amazing fiberglass work. He can cre- ate and wonderfully paint side cases, top boxes and windshields with embedded instruments, all of which look they must be stock but are not. And his work is afford- able. This year a guy showed up with an old Guzzi needing top box repair. You know where I pointed him. When it hits year 50, the future of The


Bluenose Rally is not quite clear, so if you want to go you might want to get it in gear. If I get there the next four years I figure that I’ve ridden in excess of 100,000 kilometers just back and forth to the rally. (I gently hinted to organizers that if I make it to the fiftieth, maybe I should buy myself an award.) I usually get there in three ride segments, not two like this year. And that should answer your unspoken


question. Yep, I baited you. You think I went from Nova Scotia to Columbus, Ohio, and then slept a bit on a picnic table and continued on to Indianapolis? Nope. Stopped in Scranton, Pennsylvania, slept for four hours, and then the carcass woke up. Set off to finish it, and the snoozies caught up to me in Ohio. Some destina- tions and folks are worth the ride.


Find


yours. See you down the road.


www.ventureheat.com/11-power-sports September 2016 BMW OWNERS NEWS 105


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