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Shaking the winter blues By Bill Wiegand #180584


ANYONE WHO ENDURES WINTER WITH SNOW SHOVELS AND A ready supply of rock salt close at hand understands. These are the months when riding only happens late at night in our dreams and only if we’re lucky enough to remember them. Years ago, my motorcycles spent the winter months in my basement


as I couldn’t bear the thought of them shivering in a freezing garage. Tempted by a refrigerator full of beer by the pool table, it was an easy job for three friends and a straight shot from the back door to the concrete


warmth below. All of us did it and even if there were no mechanical benefits, I believed that the good


karma shown our bikes would increase the likelihood of them doing the same for me. I attributed the fact that I never suffered a mechanical failure as good karma. I guess if I couldn’t ride my motorcycles, the next best thing was being around them, and I sure wasn’t going to do that in a frigid garage! Times have changed. I’m older now and hopefully smarter. I realize that it’s a combination


of good maintenance and good luck that gets you home. Besides, I don’t have a direct shot to the basement anymore and BMWs are heavy! What we once called the winter blues now has the clinical name Seasonal Affective Disor-


der. Riders call it Parked Motorcycle Syndrome. Whatever you call it, the symptoms are the same: less energy, low productivity, depression, the need for more sleep and the inability to ride your motorcycle. Hang in there. With the temptation of everything shiny on display at the Progressive


International Motorcycle Shows as well as Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter finally nearing its end, I know we’ll all be on the roads soon. In just a few more weeks, winter blues, SAD and that other syndrome will be but a distant and quickly fading memory. Until that happens, belly up to your computer and head on over to the MOA’s website at


bmwmoa.org. Once there, whet your motorcycling appetite with some of the fantastic events any rider is sure to savor. MOA Getaway registrations are open and this year we’ve added new events in Colorado,


Arizona, Wisconsin, Texas along with already popular locations in North Carolina, Idaho, Arkansas and Kentucky with more locations coming soon. Registration for the 45th annual BMW MOA International Rally in Salt Lake City is also


open, and if Rally Chair Greg Feeler has his way, it’ll be one of our best rallies ever. Sharing a border with Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada – not to mention New Mex- ico right there – Utah offers some of the best roads in the country. With more than 15 National Parks and Monuments in Utah alone, and others including Grand Teton, Yellow- stone and Grand Canyon National Parks all less than six and a half hours away, this rally is sure to make a dent in any bucket list. On top of that, the Owners News When and Where page count is quickly growing as MOA


Chartered Clubs across the United States and Canada are planning their rallies. Finally, the MOA Foundation has exciting news of their own to share. Detailed later in this


issue you’ll find that the Superstakes is back and bigger than ever. According to MOA Foun- dation Executive Director Ted Moyer, this Superstakes just may be the “Biggest in the His- tory of the World.” At least ten motorcycles will be given away, and the Grand Prize is any motorcycle in BMW’s current lineup. It’s a great time to be a BMW rider. A better time to be a BMW MOA member!


8 BMW OWNERS NEWS March 2017


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