BMW Motorcycle Owners of America

R 60/2 – got an email from my rebuild contact [he’s asked not to be identified], he’s back from a camping trip and able to start working on the speedometer for the ’66. He said the issues are “mostly cosmetic” (that’s good) and the worst of it is the trip meter, the knob of which is seized with rust. Along with repairing that, he said he’ll clean and lubricate the various inn...

End @ 67,243 (108 miles) Got up early & left at about 0630 to meet Kermit at Cracker Barrel in Spotsylvania – just south of Fredericksburg proper. He beat me there, naturally, by enough time to finish a cup of coffee. We joked about how he always orders “black coffee” and the waitress always asks “do you want cream or sugar with that.” It’s that Brian Regan routine – ever...

There are upgrades you make to a motorcycle because they look good. There are upgrades you make because they promise performance, and then there are upgrades like the Akrapovic Titanium Footpegs—ones you install, ride with, and realize you should have installed a long time ago. I recently installed the Akrapovic Titanium Footpegs on my 2021 R 1250 GSA and put them through eve...

Gas @ 67,132: 4.450 gal E10 93 @ $3.519/g = $15.66. 169.8 mi/4.45 g = 38 MPG End @ 67,135 (51 miles) Added 2 oz of my fuel additive mix. Richmond BMW Riders breakfast at Kitchen 33. They got chatty (well, at least one guy did) about stuff I wasn’t interested in, so I left before everybody else. I didn’t even pretend to be going to the bathroom. I just got up, grabbed my helme...

“Moisture was bad enough when it was in the air where it belonged. When it got into your boots, it became personal.” —Terry Pratchett Janel and I live in British Columbia in what I consider to be the Hawaii of Canada: the Sunshine Coast. It’s 112 miles of some of the most beautiful coastal rainforest in the world. We seldom get much snow in the winter, which means we can ride...