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Thank you Dr. Ewen Dr. Marven Ewen’s recent article regarding Zika sparked an interest after both my wife and I contracted Dengue many years back. I never knew I had it until blood tests detected it, but my wife was hit very hard. Reading the article Dr. Ewen wrote, I
found it to be extremely informative and clear. Along comes Mr. Peter Giarrantano #154828 and writes a very negative letter to the editor without qualifications. Maybe he has some, and if so, he should have presented his credentials. Where Giarrantano fails miserably is in
his condescending comments in his last paragraph. Someone like this should hold off sending trash comments and try to be constructive rather than destructive in what he or she writes. Dr. Ewen’s article is based on solid current information, and I thank him for his informative article.
Daryll Davies #179131 Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Loss of love for the K I love my BMW Owners News magazine. I enjoy its content, I enjoy that it seems to come two or three times a month, even though it’s a monthly magazine, and I enjoy the ads and all the information it provides. I also enjoy the people who write in to comment. (Yes, I subscribe to other Motorcycle Magazines, and they seem to take forever to reach my home!) So I’m reading the August issue, and all is good until the Riepe files. So I say to myself, “Now what has Jack got himself into?” Spurned by another woman? A res- taurant or bar that has his picture posted with a red circle and line running through it? A disagreement with club brothers? Old age setting in, again? (Jack, yer not alone with this issue!) Nope, once again it’s the lack of respect
for the K bikes. Great motorcycles! My brother in law had a K 75 which he still
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talks about 20 years later! So Jack, looking at the ad on the same page, for the Finger Lakes Rally of 2016, it appears to be a K bike convention! How much more respect do you need? Hope you get to go to the rally! May the
R crowd be ever at your side. I enjoy your tales! (XL Tee when available!)
Dennis Shields #40287 Apple Valley, California
Read with dismay I read “Ask A Pro” by Lee Parks in the August issue with dismay. I cannot believe the things he pro-
posed. “The more riders in the population, the more fatalities we can expect.” He sug- gests that we should reduce the numbers of riders in order reduce the number of fatalities. How can anyone argue with that? If only professionals like Mr. Parks were
allowed to ride, we sure would have less accidents. What a great idea! He wrote, “The more beginner rider
training a state does the higher the fatal- ity rates will be.” He bemoans states “low- ering the barrier to entry to our sport by offering free training.” (I can understand a man making a living by training being upset by free training.) He says, “These programs attract the wrong kind of riders.” I wonder how many MOA members Mr. Parks finds to be the wrong kind of riders. How will he get rid of us? He could con- vince the government to require the train- ing that Germany requires. That would get rid of a bunch of us! That is why so few Germans can afford the cost, time and trouble to ride. This would stop many MOA members from riding, especially the low mileage, weekend riders who make up a large percentage of our membership. While it would stop a large percentage of us from riding, such draconian training requirements would allow Mr. Parks to
happily line his pockets by providing said training. Mr. Parks thinks that the government should not promote our sport. To not sup- port it means they will be discouraging it. He wants us to pay more than lip ser-
vice to lifelong training. How much money will we be required to pay Mr. Parks over the years? How much time will we required to spend? How far will we have to travel to the next required class? I am so happy to hear that Mr. Parks has
“plenty more safety initiatives” that has him “working closer with DMV, law enforcement and the judicial system to decrease fatalities even further.” Good for him! If he can get more of us off the road and into jail he can say he has done a won- derful thing for us by keeping us safe. Get- ting the government to make laws forcing people to do business with me is a busi- ness plan that is all too common in this country. I believe in training and like our publica- tion supporting and encouraging it. I like the training articles, even those by Mr. Parks, and read them religiously. There is, however, great danger in calling for more laws requiring it. If Mr. Parks wants to live in a police state, he should leave the United States and go to some place safer. To quote Thomas Jefferson, “Those who
would trade freedom for safety deserve neither.”
Steve Price #181329 Memphis, Tennessee
Save your hearing I totally agree with a recent writer who noted wind noise as a major contributing factor to hearing loss and have been wear- ing Hearos Ultimate Softness ear plugs for the past six years. Hearos are inexpensive, disposable and
comfortable to wear while doing a decent job of blocking wind noise, though not as
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