Happy Birthday BMW MOA! It was 13 degrees below zero that day when Jeff Dean and his wife Jill drove from Madison, Wisconsin, to O’Hare Air- port outside Chicago for a meeting with representatives of some other BMW motorcycle clubs. Together with


Vern Hansen from


LemonRock Tours LemonRock Bike Tours of Killarney, Ireland, has recently expanded its tour offerings along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, which claims the distinction of being the longest defined riding route in the world. The route covers 1,600 miles from the southwest of Ireland at Kinsale to its most northerly point at the Inishowen Peninsula. For such a small country, Ireland offers an unsurpassed divergence of scenery, and while many countries boast magnificent scenery, few share Ireland’s combination of scen- ery and friendly, warm people. Providing primarily water-cooled BMW GSs in its rental fleet, LemonRock offers a


range of tours to show off the best of what Ireland and its people have to offer. For 2017, LemonRock has also created a new form of self-guided motorcycle tour. Described as “Ride in Company,” riders can depart on fixed dates in groups using routes preprogrammed into the bikes’ Navigator V GPS units and avoid the cost of a tour guide. In addition to the Wild Atlantic Way tours, LemonRock has created other tours to


the North West 200, the Ireland Bike Fest and the Isle of Man TT. For more informa- tion, visit lemonrockbiketours.com/tours.


Detroit, John Moore from California, Char- lie Smith from New York, and Frank Died- erich from Chicago, the group met at an airport motel to talk about starting a membership-based national BMW motor- cycle organization with elected officers and a board of directors. The group agreed to form an organiza- tion, and after naming Smith newsletter editor, Moore the treasurer, Hansen the president and Dean in charge of writing the association’s first bylaws, they named the new club the BMW Motorcycle Own- ers of America. “There is no way that I, in 1972, could


have envisioned what would happen to the little organization we started on that frozen day in Chicago,” Dean said. “I doubt that any of the founders would have con- ceived of what the organization would become by the 21st century. The BMW Motorcycle Owners of Amer- ica (BMW MOA) is now the largest associa- tion of BMW motorcycle owners in the world, with a full-time staff, an excellent monthly magazine, a rider education pro- gram and North America’s largest annual BMW motorcycle rally, which is held throughout the United States and in Can- ada. I am proud to be a life member.” Happy 45th birthday BMW MOA!


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