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gregk
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« on: March 29, 2011, 08:28:17 PM »

Besides a couple of Harley Rallys here, a couple of Honda State Rallys here we will be host to a  Beemers Rally here, and just a block away in Chippewa Falls Wi. I am going to crash their party, maybe they will have better (more) venders than our rallys. Check out their Up comming Rally the 1st. part of july. go to  www.bmwra.org  Wiscon has some pretty good venders Kuryakyn near Summerset, Rivco in Burlington, Aerostitch right across the border 160m. away in Duluth, and I believe Show Chrome is in spooner.
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2011, 08:52:32 PM »

Sounds like an opportunity for testing that new 1600 & giving us some feedback. Grin
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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2011, 10:23:57 PM »

Sounds like an opportunity for testing that new 1600 & giving us some feedback. Grin

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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2011, 04:38:09 AM »

Good luck on getting into a Beemers Rally.
When they had it here in Gray, Tn. a couple of years ago you could not get in unless you
were a member of the CLUB.  Not even a day pass.
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2011, 07:17:18 AM »

i absolutely have to share this with you! i don't mean to offend ANYONE, but...this...to me, was just TOO FUNNY!

a few years ago...i think 2009 perhaps, i went to Erwin, TN for my annual scouting trip in preparation for our annual Rune Rally. It was the year after the second InZane having been held in nearby Johnson City, TN. Come to find out, the very day we arrived, the HUGE annual BMW rally had JUST ended the day before ....with its Ground Zero being just 10 miles from our hotel in Erwin.

so, we pull up, some guy on a BMW is packing up his bike to leave from the BMW rally. he proudly tells us they had almost 10,000 participants. Impressive, indeed!

So as we talk...and he mentions ( I SWEAR TO YOU) how despite the Hog Rally being in this area in 2006 and a bunch of Valkyries the last two years...despite all of us DEADBEATS...nearly ruining it for bikers (HIS WORDS, AGAIN I SWEAR)...the BMW rally was a smashing success DESPITE those of us who came before. I mean, Sherry and my Valks are parked like 50 feet from this guy as he says this...though granted, he didn' t actually see us pull up on them and MAY NOT have known ...for sure...they were our Valks. he goes on and on about how Harley riders, VALK RIDERS...are all a bunch of posers....etc.

but then, AND THIS IS THE BEST PART.....i notice a manual of about 75 pages or so sitting on the bench next to me. it is HIS BMW Rally manual. I ask if i can look at it. He says SURE, i can HAVE it. I started looking at it....an man, i couldn't believe what was in it.

It had rules on winning prizes, rules on long distance riders....pages and pages of rules. it had THREE pages of "committe chair persons". it had TWO COFFE Chairpersons listed. It had Cyber Cafe Chair persons listed. It just went on and on with rules, chair people. then the list of seminars. SEVEN pages of seminars. And, seminars only the thorough folks of BMW could have thought of. Seminars on riding without body parts/limbs. oh, they had the "usual" seminars on things like oil types, etc. But they had seminars on things that ONLY certain folks could have really appreciated! It was a provervbial BIBLE of rules, happenings, chair people and everything one could think of at a rally, but were afraid to ask (75 pages worth!)!

i mean, the planning part of me...having put on Ralies and events for YEARS....had to admire PARTS of the documents' thoroughness! But the practical part of me had to laugh at some of it...it just wasn't for what i'd call "your typical motorcycle rider"...if you know what i mean!

they had a beer tent...a cyber cafe...a "oil and tire pressure check tent"....the list went on and on!

I STILL have that BMW Rally book today. i took it and at that year's Rune Rally, we made a "satirical" book of "Rune Rally Rules"...copying from the structure of the BMW book. But, ours...was a "tongue in cheek" rendition. We poked fun of just about all of it. I still have that Rune Rally Rule book too....and i still get a laugh from it....

Don't get me wrong, the size, the thought put into the event....etc...it was actually quite impressive. But MOST BMW folks i have met....well...MANY of them...kind of "travel to a different drum"...if you know what i mean. But then, we have all sorts of typical biker types. the "Harley" type. The BMW type. the crotch rocket type. Etc, etc. and of course, we also have non typical types. I mean all of this NOT as an insult to anyone...just an observation of someting i saw......one day..."at the BMW rally"  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2011, 07:43:45 AM »

Thats really funny, and explains a lot.  We go to the long distance riders lunch almost every year in Stockton Alabama......(Tim you aought to try it, might meet some old friends...lol) anyway some of them dudes are serious serious serious about their riding, GPS, radio, cb, intercom........Ill bet the navigation and communication package on some of their bikes cost as much as the bike, but they RIDE, some from Washington State to Stockton Al for lunch and then go home...........cant call that guy a poser.  But, there are always the local riders that go 250 miles away from Stockton AL turn around and ride 250 miles back home so they can end up at the lunch with a dirty looking bike and qualify for the Stockton 500 wall of fame....anyone that rode over 500 miles to the lunch gets on there....POSER, so they have them too.  However, when they show up looking like that mr. high tech) in Daytona Beach Im sure the HD guys calls them other names.....LOL


 
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gregk
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2011, 05:05:51 PM »

I've noticed those bmw people are a tad different, but livin so close to the rally we'll just have to ck. it out. $40 for the whole weekend. I believe $30 ahead of time. Maybe I can actually find out why they are so scared to let go of the handlebars to do the wave.
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2011, 05:41:46 PM »

>>> MANY of them...kind of "travel to a different drum"...if you know what i mean.

I know what you mean.
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2011, 08:18:29 AM »

once again though....even though i'm poking fun at them, i DO NOT mean to SERIOUSLY knock them or ridicule or anything negative. They're fine folks too. just different...but i guess that's what makes the world go round! i'd check out that rally if it were in my back yard, honest.......

another story....went up to the BMW dealer in Birmingham one Saturday. Some of my buddies had been buggin' me to ride up there just for the heck of it. i had ZERO interest in a BMW....but finally...as an excuse for a ride with my buds...i relented and went with them.

ok, so we pull up...most of us wearing jeans, tanktops or muscle shirts...half helmets....on our Valks....and cruisers...with aftermarket pipes....etc. you know the LOOK. and, all the BMW guys/gals in the parking lot turn and stare at us. as they pull up, they remove their Joe rocket matching jackets and pants.....FULL gauntlet gloves, FULL helmets....in other words, ALL THE GEAR...and the men proceed to light pipes....groom their well trimmed beards....etc. YOU KNOW THAT LOOK, too  Cheesy  Did i mention it was the DEAD OF SUMMER....98 degrees in Bama that day? Yea, hot as blazes....but they're in FULL gear...........

so we wonder inside. we'd been told you could ask to ride ANY bike...any bike, even ones on the showroom...and they would oblige. Guys were getting off their BMWs...walking inside...and sale people were FALLING OVER THEM....asking them...begging them to test ride a BMW.

So us curiser folks walk around....and wait...and wait...to be asked to go for a test ride. NEVER HAPPENED. guess we just didn't look the part?  Grin

Oh, the wave thing? Yea, noticed that too. riding over to Erwin that year of the big BMW rally, we were riding the Blueridge Parkway and ran into one BMW after another. We waved at EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. Sadly, NONE of them ever waved back. don't know what's up with that............ Shocked
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