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Finally! By Bill Wiegand #180584
AT LAST, IT’S HERE! It’s been frustrating couple of months for those of us in the northern half
of the country where crazy late-season blizzards and unseasonably cold weather have kept bikes in garages and basements much longer than usual. Whenever I travel to a place where the riding season never ends, I return
home wondering why I live in the snow belt. Perhaps in the north we all suffer a kind of Stockholm Syndrome where, through our extensive expo- sure to weather conditions that make riding impossible, we accept and
endure it. We complain about it and look forward to its end but we deal with it. I believe some have even come to enjoy it, but for me, the best part of skiing was taking off my boots and drinking something strong and warm. If I want to see snow, I can shake my snow globe and to me, the first day of Spring should be a national holiday. In his Shiny Side Up piece this month, Ron Davis of Scandinavia, Wisc., describes his
routine late each fall of moving his motorcycle inside to keep it warm and make sure it knows it’s loved. He swears that the practice has kept it out of the shop for expensive repairs and believes a loved bike is a happy bike and a happy bike will never leave you stranded. Apparently, if you live in the town of Scandinavia in northern Wisconsin, Norway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, or Moscow, Indiana, that’s what you’ve got to do. Not a psychologist by trade, Ron has no hard data to support his claim and only his seat-
of-the-pants anecdotal evidence, but hey, if it works don’t change. I’ll admit I also brought my bikes down into the basement during the long, cold Green Bay winters and think there may be credence to what Ron says. Regardless of your method of off-season storage, we’ve all made it through winter and are
riding again and all seems right with the world. With all of our Chartered Club rallies and events, MOA Getaways and the BMW MOA
International Rally in Hamburg, N.Y., this July, I’m predicting the need for several sets of tires being replaced on my bikes. While I look forward to riding to and enjoying those events each year, something I’m
really excited about is a new project we’ve just begun for BMW Owners News called the Discovery series. Our goal with the Discovery series is to enlist the help and expertise of the MOA to ride,
photograph and write about the roads and area attractions known best by the people who live there. While all of us can easily name a handful of well known bucket-list roads, like the Tail of
the Dragon in North Carolina, the Beartooth Highway on the Montana/Wyoming border or Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway, it’s the hidden gems of asphalt found everywhere that we hope you’re willing to share with your fellow MOA members. Along with the great roads are the sights unique to each area. The World’s Largest Brick
standing in front of Jenkin’s Brick Company in Montgomery, Ala., or the Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail and Museum in Weldon Spring, Missouri, or even the UFO Landing Port in Poland, Wisc., are all attractions, which simply by their names create an overwhelming interest to ride to. Are there lesser-known roads nearby that you believe are as good as those better-known
ones? We’d love to hear about them and promise to only share their locations with our BMW MOA brothers and sisters. See you on the road.
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