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As a member of both a local BMW


club and the MOA, Rambié occasion- ally rides in small groups, though most of his long trips have been with his good friend John from Oakville, Ontario.


Christopher Ross #130595 Wolfforth, Texas 300,000 miles


Ross says he’s had an amazing jour- ney to 300,000 BMW miles! While on his way to his milestone,


Ross crashed his trusty R 1200 GSA in rural Wisconsin and broke several bones, totaling not only his bike but the


car that caused the accident.


“Thanks to my riding addiction, I bought an identical R 1200 GSA from Sandia BMW, by phone from the Denver airport on my way home from Wisconsin.” With a metal plate in his right wrist


and with physical therapy finished, he made his first post-crash ride on


the new bike just five weeks after the acci- dent. The next year year he competed in his first-ever long distance rally and rode to a bronze finish in the 2015 Iron Butt Rally on his replacement R 1200 GSA. Ross said the IBR was more challenging than he’d expected but also much more rewarding. Aside from long distance riding, Ross


says he’s the caretaker of two beautiful air- heads, both 1975 R90/6 models, adding that wrenching on them is almost as much fun as riding them. Last fall Ross loaded the airhead trans-


mission of his daily rider onto the back of his GSA and took it to Colorado where Matt Parkhouse helped him rebuild it. “I’ll never forget


the conversation we


shared and the experience of watching him work in his shop,” Ross said. One of Ross’ most memorable rides was


this past summer when he joined his buddy Upe to ride their airheads through the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and the Mil- lion Dollar Highway. According to Ross, “What was initially a ride to visit an old colleague in the San Luis


Valley morphed into a ride of mountain passes, camping and great comradery.


Dean L. Mickelson #80636 Longmont, Colorado 400,000 miles


Mickelson’s first high mileage bike was a 1998 R 100 RT that carried him more than 221,000 miles while commuting 76 miles daily to work as well as on a countless num- ber of long vacations trips during the sum- mers. Over the years, Mickelson’s BMWs have always been either RTs or GSs. His current workhorse is a 2009 R 1200 GS Adventure which he rides over a mix of long trips through the United States and Canada. He also rides circle tours in the states surrounding Colorado, always look- ing for that “new” dirt road. Mickelson’s RT needs are fulfilled by a 2000 RT. His most memorable rides include sev-


eral during the summer while working toward the Iron Butt Association’s National Parks Award. Riding through the United States and Canada, he found not just stun- ning views of seashores, lakeshores, fossil beds, plantations, parkways and Civil War battlefields. Mickelson says he simply likes to ride,


regardless of whether it’s to a destination or just exploring a new stretch of road. “Just being in the outdoors is how I like to spend my time,” he said. “My distance rides will always find me


solo,” he said, “I’m always pulling out paper maps and taking the scenic routes, so I think it would be hard to ride with anyone else.” “Mark Weig, my only real riding buddy,


lost his battle with cancer several years back, and he could never be replaced,” Mickelson said.


Nancee Musto #67296 Minneapolis, Minnesota 500,000 miles


According to Musto, “North, south, east or west, your direction of travel doesn’t matter as all roads lead to new adventures and new friends!”


Christopher Ross 78 BMW OWNERS NEWS January 2017


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