flashback 25 years ago KIM DROMLEWICZ #41856 WAS
vacationing in Istanbul, Turkey, when he stopped in an old printing shop and saw the 1938 R51 he photographed for the May 1991 Owners News cover. Despite the exposed wires and disre- pair, it was a runner. With the BMW MOA International
Rally scheduled for Flagstaff that year, much of the May 1991 issue was dedi- cated to stories of rally interest. Detailing a good way to get from El Paso, Texas, to Flagstaff, Bruce Carl- isle wrote, “Deming to Lordsburg to Clifton, you’re talking Buicks and cruise controls! If you’re among the living, stop in Las Cruces. On the old motel
strip off the interstate you’ll find numerous first-class
motels for $20, but better yet, a quarter mile south of I-10 on the Old Mesilla Road is The Lantern, a restaurant you’ll want to visit each time you’re in the area, especially if that little one-armed waitress is on duty! Talk about a ‘ray of sunshine!’” Beneath the headline “Iron Beemer
Butts,” Dave McQueeney was reported to have ridden his seven motorcycles 69,954 miles in 1990 to take home another first place in the Iron Butt Association’s High Mileage contest that year. Coincidentally, Dave took top honors in the 2015 BMW MOA Mileage Contest for the state of Cali- fornia by riding his 2013 R 1200 R and 2002 R 1150 R a total of 32,818 miles. In his story titled “Hellride,” Tom Har- brecht detailed his trip from Indiana to Rapid City, South Dakota, for the BMW MOA International Rally the previous sum- mer with his then 12-year-old daughter Joanna in his 1962 750/2 conversion with Ural sidecar. While Joanna loved motorcy- cles and was excited about the trip, Har- brecht had never taken his sidecar rig for an extended trip, and after a few pre-ride maintenance items and Joanna taking a bit longer to be ready than anticipated, they were off. Along the way, learned several hard and fast rules to live by when traveling by motorcycle. As he was delayed while waiting for his daughter, Harbrecht discovered Rule #1, which states that “Timeta- bles and motorcycles are non sequi- turs.” One may have nothing to do with the other. Later, when it began to sprinkle while riding across Illi- nois and after seeing Joanna’s $4.95 rain suit being shredded by the wind, Harbrecht realized Rule #2, which
they states Cheap!”
At one point, Harbrecht and Joanna were saved while stranded at the side of the road with their first flat tire by a couple of ini- tially
intimidating, yet truly
friendly and compassionate Har- ley chopper riders. Later, after suffering their second flat, they were rescued by a suspicious
100 BMW OWNERS NEWS May 2016 that “Cheap is
trio in a beat-up Chevy Vega. Another rule was provided: Appearances are deceiving, or if you prefer, you cannot judge a book by its cover. A little further down the road the BMW
Owners Anonymous book brought Rich from his home in the middle of Iowa to the rescue with valve and timing adjustments and a tire replacement, and with a renewed appreciation for their fellow MOA mem- bers, Harbrecht and his daughter were back on the road. Or so it seemed. Still to come before reaching their final
destination was the thunderous roar of a departed muffler, flocks of teenage boys materializing out of nowhere at each gas stop when Joanna took off her helmet, and the gale-like crosswinds of South Dakota. Finally, as they pulled into Rapid City,
Harbrecht realized, “The ordeal of the last three days faded into nothing. We were here, at Rapid City, the center of the motor- cycle universe. As we pulled into the rally grounds, we were greeted by familiar, smil- ing faces, and all was right with the universe.” The motorcycling community and com-
puters were brought together in a new way in November 1990 with the GE Network for Information Exchange. Genie is the consumer-oriented marketing department of General Electric Information Services and motorcyclists from throughout the United States and Canada can now use their computers to form an electronic “community.”
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