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BMWMOA Club #353 & BMWRA Club #339 June - 2016
6/4 Saturday 9am Social Gathering Asheville - Eurosport Asheville
30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803 6/18 Saturday 9am Social Gathering Asheville - Eurosport Asheville
30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803 6/21 Tuesday 7:00pm – Monthly Meeting
Program: Wayne Busch of “America Rides Maps”
Asheville - Eurosport Asheville 30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803
7/2 Saturday 9am Social Gathering Asheville - Eurosport Asheville
30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803
7/2 Saturday 9am Social Gathering Asheville - Eurosport Asheville
30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803 7/16 Saturday 9am Social Gathering Asheville - Eurosport Asheville
30 Bryson Street, Asheville, NC 28803
7/19 Tuesday 7:00pm – Monthly Meeting Canceled
Schedule of Club Events
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June 10-12, 2016 24th Gathering of The Clans Ferguson, North Carolina Airheads, those who ride airheads, and other esteemed members of the motorcycling community are invited to join us for the 24th Gathering of the Clans at High Country Motorcycle Camp for a weekend of friends, fun and fantastic roads. This will be the last dress rehearsal before HIGHCOUNTRYMOTORCYCLECAMP.COM
July 14-17, 2016 2016 BMW MOA RALLY Hamburg, New York Welcome to Das Rally!
This is the time of year when many of us are looking at maps, dreaming of destinations near and far and planning our routes and rides for the year. We want to personally invite you to include “DAS RALLY” in Hamburg in your plans.
We were thrilled when we first learned that the BMW MOA 44th International Rally was coming to Hamburg, New York, as there is so much to see and do in the Western New York and the Great Lakes Regions. A short ride in any direction will net a wonderful destination. To the west, beautiful Woodlawn beach on the shores of Lake Erie beckons. To the north is Niagara Falls (need we say more?) and the revitalized city of Buffalo with its beautiful new waterfront, theatre district, renowned dining and fabulous architecture. Venture east and visit the charming village of East Aurora on your way to the scenic Finger Lakes region and Letchworth State Park. Just to the south are roads that will take you through the picturesque ski areas of Ellicottville and Springville. When we had a chance to visit the Rally site at the Hamburg Fairgrounds, we could immediately see how the layout would lend itself to a beautiful ‘Rally Central’ area. There are several impressive park-like gardens sporting gazebos, picnic tables and Adirondack chairs, a pedestrian thoroughfare for the food vendors, beer and wine gardens, an entertainment area, and so much more. We are convinced that all of this will make the 2016 Rally in Hamburg absolutely “fantastisch”! DAS RALLY in Hamburg….something truly special in the works. July 14 – 16, 2016.
2016 Boogie Report By Linda Cox
Continuing their Spring tradition of motorcycling for
FUNdraising, Asheville BMW Riders and Eurosport
Asheville held the 3rd Annual Blue Ridge High Pass Boogie
May 14th, 2016. The Boogie was preceded by a well-
attended Silent Auction hosted by Eurosport Asheville and
drew 108 riders from Suffield, CT (831 miles), Miami, FL
(792 miles) and Baton Rouge, LA (768 miles), and all points
in between. Three challenging routes were designed by
Club members and offered Endurance, Sport Tour and Dual
Sport enthusiasts plenty of choices to enjoy the area’s
finest terrain.
The routes all traversed tarmac and dirt usually less well
traveled yet offering beautiful scenery with sweet sweepers
and tons of twisties. This year’s event welcomed support
from such industry giants as Klim, ReVit, BMW NA,
Continental Tire, Motoskivees and Adventure Motorcycling.
Three motorcycle friendly hospitality groups participtated:
Amicalola Lodge, Fancy Gap Cabins and Campground and
Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground. And there was local
support from Rob Travis Photography/Blue Moon Gallery
(Cedar Mountain), Acoustic Corner (Black Mountain),
Troyers Country Amish Store (Fairview), Blue Ridge
Motorcycling Magazine, Mamacitas, Biscuit Head and Wild
Wing Café. The event raised $10,100 for the Blue Ridge
Parkway Foundation and will be supplemented 1:1 with
Federal matching dollars through the Centennial Parks
Challenge Program. The entire amount is earmarked for
preservation efforts at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in
Blowing Rock, NC. Through the Blue Ridge High Pass
Boogie, our love for motorcycling can ultimately touch all
225,000 annual visitors to this historic multi-use Blue Ridge
Parkway site.
Mark Your Calendars
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President’s Message By Jim McMains
June 2016
Hey all,
I had plans of writing
something different this
month. I don’t know what it
was going to be, but recent
events have given me direction for this message.
First, I want to thank Linda Cox for the really great job
she did organizing and running our very successful
High Pass Boogie. Along with her volunteers, our club
was able to raise $10,000 with a federal match of 10K
for a total of just over $20,000 for the Blue Ridge
Parkway Foundation. Linda has worked tirelessly on
this event as well as others for the club in her time as
events coordinator. Both Linda and Gary live in
Johnson City, TN, not a short drive to get here, yet
you will always see their faces at every club meeting,
gathering or event. As you know, Gary has been
putting out our wonderful newsletter. He does this with
the little time he has while working his 6 and
sometimes 7 day work week and handling his daily
home and family obligations. I really cannot thank
them both enough for all the time they have put into
our club.
It was with sadness that they both needed to step
down from their roles so they may commit themselves
to their work and home life. There just was not enough
time in their lives to devote to everything, so
something had to give. It will be our loss that it was
their club duties which had to be given up. They will
be around as regular members and help out when
they can as time allows. I can only say I will miss them
and their contribution to running the club but will still
see them around as friends and fellow club members.
Please thank them when you see them for all they
have done (and there is hope of them returning to
positions in the future when things ease up).
We have also made a few club changes based on
your feedback.
We are changing our Monthly Gatherings. You will no
longer have to deal with the confusion of 1st Saturday,
3rd Sunday etc. We will now hold our Gatherings
the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month at
Eurosport. Most of you were much happier coming
into the dealership on Saturday and asked why we
didn’t just do it this way for both Gatherings. So we
listened. This will be effective starting in June.
In our 5 years of existence we have always had
conflicts that forced meeting cancellations in the
months of February (usually weather related), and
July (usually rally related). So from this point on we
have decided on a 10 month meeting schedule.
There will be no Club in meeting February or July.
What we hope to do instead is choose a location for a
club social sometime in February, and a club BBQ
sometime in July. This calendar change is effective
this July (2016) and we hope to get out the info on the
BBQ soon. For the other 10 monthly meetings we will
try to offer a minimum of 5 with food, since you all like
to eat :-). As always we will try to come up with some
nice presentations for all the meetings. If you can
provide ideas or offer a presentation please let Stew,
our VP, know. Some of our most fun presentations
were made by you members. So give it some thought.
The 5th Friday Socials will be basic: choose a
location and time to meet together to socialize. Similar
to the First Sierra Nevada one we held.
We have had a submission for a New Club Logo from
member Chris Parker (he designed the HPB shirts).
We think it is really nice and will move forward with it.
You should see it soon and we hope you like it as
much as we do. We will keep the old logo as a
“Vintage” logo too.
A new and improved website is just around the corner
and we will be providing you with all the info once the
Beta version is done and we are ready to go live. It will
be an exciting tool once it airs and should help
combine all our social media.
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President’s Message Continued >>>
So, we have some shoes to fill and it will need to
come from our membership. If anyone has an interest
in doing our Newsletter please contact myself or Stew.
Gary has graciously offered to help the next
Newsletter Editor in the transition and we will work to
help you if you can come aboard to take it over.
Linda also has offered to help those of you who step
forward to help with Special Events. If a few of you
will commit to helping out with our events as a team
working along with the Officers and Board we can
continue to offer more opportunities to join together
and enjoy our beautiful backyard. Ideally there would
be one member wanting to take over the full position,
portioning out the events to others who would also
work to help volunteers with the details. Our basic
events include the High Pass Boogie Fund Raiser, 5th
Friday Social, July BBQ, Fall Campout and Christmas
Party. Please contact myself or Stew if you are
interested in helping with this. (We will be reaching out
to a few of you who we think may want to help).
Until we can fill these positions, we will try our best to
maintain everything but some events may not be held
and the newsletter may not be published without your
help. The usual club meetings, gatherings and
socializing will continue strong.
Thank you for belonging to the club and we hope you
will help out in keeping it going strong.
See you Down the Road,
Jim
2016 Boogie Donor
This July Terri Mallory, one of our newest club
members from Asheville, will join 100 women
riders traveling cross country on the Sisters’
Centennial Motorcycle Ride, departing July 3
from NYC and finishing on July 23 in San
Francisco. What happens in between those two
dates has been carefully orchestrated by some
of the top women riders and organizations in
the country. The Sisters’ Centennial Motorcycle
Ride was inspired by the Van Buren Sisters,
the first women ever to travel cross country on
motorcycles, and has been an annual event
since their initial journey in 1916. This year,
100 women will make this pass again to honor
these courageous sisters and inspire other
women to the joys and benefits of riding. Terri
is honored to be making this journey with them.
BMW Motorrad USA is sponsoring this event,
and has arranged for a documentary film crew
to travel with the riders to cover their 23 days
on the road. Terri is passionate about riding because she
believes there are enormous personal benefits
in seeking out adventure, and pushing yourself
out of your comfort zone. These challenges
redefine the parameters of your individual
world, and makes life’s possibilities endless.
Terri will ride cross country on her new
R1200GSA promoting awareness for women
riders and Asheville as one of our country’s
best ride destinations.
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By Linda Cox
June 2016
What a RIDE!! The 2016
Blue Ridge High Pass
boogie was an
overwhelming success!
Our farthest traveled guest,
Rob Nye rode 831 miles to
join us. In second place was a 3 way tie between
Julio Paez, Pablo Gonzales and Carlos Dao (our
BMW MOA Regional Rep), all the way from Miami, FL
at 792.5 miles. Our self-proclaimed farthest traveled
(using “curviest roads” no doubt) was third: John
Wozniak from Baton Rouge, LA, 768 miles from
Asheville. If you didn’t know it before, these 5 guys
will tell you “the best riding in the Atlantic Southeast
Region is right here” in our back yard.
One hundred and eight people registered, and
because of extensive sponsorship to cover 2016
operating expenses, this year’s Boogie raised
$10,000. At the Tuesday night meeting a generous
club member added another $100 to the total “just to
be sure” we were well over the $10,000 threshold.
The Centennial Parks Challenge will double our
donation and be used at the Moses H. Cone Memorial
Park which logs 225,000 visitors per year. Thank you
from the bottom of my heart not just for riding for a
good cause, but for preserving the most visited
multiuse parkway site for motorcyclists, hikers,
bicyclists, equestrians, campers, fishing enthusiasts,
craftsmen and artists.
There are a few things happening in June: a Ride For
Kids Poker Run and Bike Show in Asheville for
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation on June 18th, the
Southeast’s largest gathering of European and Euro-
inspired motorcycles in Raleigh, NC at the 7th Annual
EuroBike the weekend of Jun 25-26. And National
Ride your Bike to Work day June 20th. You’ll find
links for more information on the club website
calendar.
July is pretty wide open, except for the BMW MOA’s
Das Rally in Hamburg, NY July 14-15. Since there’s
no July meeting, be sure to get with those who are
going so that Asheville BMW Riders has a good
showing!
I want to thank all of the Club members who have
helped me over the last year, and those of you who
have enjoyed the additional activities added to the
calendar. Some of you already know that I am one in
a very small work group (now 4) providing 24 hour on
site medical care for the disabled. Being so few, my
work schedule has reached the point where I cannot
predict my ability to serve as your event coordinator.
I will continue to attend gatherings and meetings as I
am able, and to help when I can. Thank you all for the
opportunity to have created events that enriched your
riding experiences and deepened our friendships.
I’d rather be riding!
Linda
The ABMWR Members of our club share many things in common, including a love of riding, being
outdoors, a fondness for BMW motorcycles regardless of type or age, and the
camaraderie of our sport. We are a social club, focused on riding, and take full
advantage of our area’s beautiful roads and scenery. Although our club is based in
North Carolina, membership and participation from all surrounding areas are encouraged. For membership information,
view our website at www.abmwr.org or drop us a line at.
ABMWR
PO Box 5103 Asheville, NC 28813
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Member Submission By John Wozniak
GPS doesn’t mean what you think
I know that GPS is supposed to mean Global
Positioning System. It’s a bunch of satellites
communicating with the electronics at your fingertips
to tell you where you are, where to go, how fast you’re
going and when you’ll get there. Need to find a nearby
gas station, restaurant, local attraction or an address?
That information is right there. Some GPS units can
even tell you traffic conditions and weather.
GPS technology hasn’t always been so available and
the features were sparse in its infancy. I may be an
old geezer but I’ve always been interested in
technology. I love a good GPS. I’ve owned many of
these contrary devices. Like me, they get better with
age. My GPS units are always turned on in the car,
Jeep or motorcycle. My granddaughter thinks I’m
always lost because a GPS is always on. “Don’t you
know how to get there by now?” is a frequent question
from the back seat. (Yes, I DO know the way to
mommy’s house!) She also tells me every time I
speed. (I generally don’t speed, but the speed
indicator turns red when you go 1 MPH over the
posted speed. She’s quick to notice and eager to help
her poor old Papa John.)
I have a few tales to tell about these helpful but
infuriating devices. Over the decades, I’ve come to
think of a GPS as a device that will Generally Point
Somewhere. Maybe it’ll point you in the direction of
where you intended to go, maybe not.
I bought one of the first handheld GPS devices
available back in 1996. It was a Garmin GPS 45XL
and it still works. This wonderful little handheld device
had no maps, no information and one feature. If you
knew the Latitude and Longitude of your intended
destination, you could input the info and it would point
in that direction. It could tell you speed, ETA,
maximum speed, average MPH or KPH, and show a
lay line from point A to point B. It was waterproof and
a great tool for sailing.
At that time, I had a buddy with a very expensive 35
foot Dufour sailboat and we raced regularly on Lake
Ponchatrain. He provided the boat and I provided the
beer and a GPS. It was a strategic advantage to have
a GPS in a regatta. It relayed information immediately
as opposed to using a map, a compass, a calculator
and a stopwatch. I loved it. Our sailing performance
improved dramatically.
Of course, I was eager to show these features to my
wife. To justify the expense, I told her how “It’ll make
our other travels safer too.” (wink, wink.) On the water,
a map wasn’t needed. In the car, without maps, the
GPS was a novelty. No roads, no routes, no turn
information. No sweet voice to tell you when to turn.
The tool was dumb as a post on the road until you got
somewhere and logged the location. This descriptive
name used a six letter designation. What a pain. It
could tell you where you were but not where you were
going (UNTIL you got there and logged the location.)
After we had traveled a bit and I had logged a few
waypoints, it was a little more helpful, but not much.
We could play “Which Direction?” and try to guess
which way Key West was and how far away it was, but
it was not much good for anything else. No map
means I’m lost or, as they say in Maine “You can’t get
there from here!”
A buddy and I were bicycling select parts of Skyline
Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway. We keep getting
rained out and kept moving to new locations.
Eventually we’d had enough rain and after a week of
camping descended to the civilized world of
Gatlinburg. I guess for us, “civilized” was a poor
choice of words. After a week in heaven in the
mountains along the Blue Ridge Parkway we felt we
had descended into hell. Thousands of cars, people
and novelty shops did not compare to the peace and
quiet of the mountains. Of course I had my handy
Garmin GPS 45XL with me and logged Gatlinburg.
The six letter designation I used was HELL. That
ancient GPS still works today. If you ever want the
directions to hell, you can borrow my first GPS. If you
enter “go to hell”, the GPS will take you to Gatlinburg!
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GPS doesn’t mean…..Continued >>
I was also flying ultralights at the time. When flying,
like sailing, you need a direction but don’t need a
highway map. That crude nautical Garmin GPS 45XL
was the perfect tool and very useful to have when
flying. As a side note, early ultralights were notoriously
unreliable at that time and you expected the engine to
die at any time. A buddy was flying a route around
Texas in his Ultralight as part of a fly in. He and his
support vehicle used the same model GPS as me.
The theory was, the plane would fly point to point and
the support vehicle would try to find a way to the next
landing. They had CB’s for communication. If the
plane landed with a problem, the CB’s could be used
to communicate the location and the GPS could help
the driver find the plane. The engine died, not on the
plane, but on the support vehicle somewhere in the
middle of Texas on an unmarked highway. The
support driver had a cell phone and cell service and
called AAA. They said “sure we’ll dispatch a tow truck.
Where are you?” He gave them the latitude and
longitude - his exact location on earth within 30 yards.
There was a pause and the operator then told him
“that’s nice, but if you can’t tell me where you are any
better than that, you better be prepared to spend the
night in your broken down truck, because the driver
will never find you!” He flagged down a local vehicle to
find out he was located 10 to 15 miles from some
podunk Texas town in the middle of nowhere. He
called AAA back with a five mile error of where he was
and finally got a tow.
On another excursion, my wife and I were traveling
the backroads from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. To
show off the features on my new GPS, I said “Let’s
find a restaurant in the area.” I found the “places to
eat” button and we decided on a Barbecue restaurant.
The GPS brought us to River Road and to the middle
of a row of oil refineries. It insisted that a restaurant
was in the refinery. I think a programmer was having a
bad day. I still occasionally am reminded by my wife to
not eat there again!
I have a farm in the middle of the state. There were
four dirt roads (now three) that converge at an
intersection next to the property. A one mile section of
one dirt road was permanently closed 15 years ago.
To this day, most GPS’s don’t know that the road is
closed. I officially reported it to the mapping database
5 years ago. My new GPS with the latest map update
finally says that road is closed. My directions to friends
always include “do not go where your GPS tells you,
go where I tell you.”
I live in the back of my subdivision in Baton Rouge.
The map maker didn’t quite connect one street to
another. Everyone complains to me about the stupid
circuitous route their GPS takes them on to get here.
Hey, I buy them, I like them, but I don’t program them.
Last year was my first High Pass Boogie. I walked up
to the computer station to download the route into my
BMW Navigator III. First person says “um, it won’t
down load.” Second person says “I can’t get it to work
either.” Third person fiddles with a few settings and
say “Success!” I put the GPS on the bike and
prepared to ride the route solo. I knew I had a problem
as soon as everyone exited left and the GPS said go
right. Because of my bifocals, I find it difficult to read
the written directions on my tank bag. Even though
the GPS said go right, the written word said go left
and left I went. Without fail, the GPS recalculated the
route the entire day. At every turn, it tried to send me
in the wrong direction. It was a beautiful ride but a
pain to stay on track because of trying to read the
directions with bifocals and the opposite directions
coming from the GPS from hell. I went about 40 miles
more that day than I was supposed to by taking wrong
turns and traveling in the wrong direction. It was only a
few months back that I downloaded the Basecamp
software to look at that route. I successfully connected
my computer to the Navigator III. It was then that I
realized that the route from last year’s Boogie had
been converted into a 2640 mile route. Apparently the
waypoints were correct, but the system keep wanting
to go to each waypoint and then back to Eurosport
Asheville EVERY TIME!
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Welcome New Members Karen Kruger – Wayne, NJ
Melissa Martin - Black Mountain, NC
Robert Matthews – Raleigh, NC
Jon E Miles – Salisbury, NC
Lahdi Miles – Salisbury, NC
Tim Morgan – Yadkinville, NC
Thomas Perry – Asheville, NC
Mike Robinson – Asheville, NC
Troy James Robinson – Weaverville, NC
GPS doesn’t mean…..Continued >>
This year I brought along a second GPS - the new one
from my Jeep. I was prepared! I bought the RAM
mount that attaches to the clutch reservoir of my
R1200RT and the RAM bracket to fit the GPS. I also
bought the USB charger to fit the BMW plug outlet and
cabled it up and tested it out. It worked great. I created
routes in basecamp and downloaded the routes into
the GPS. SUCCESS! I would be able to follow the
route this year!!! Well, not exactly. Apparently on the
trip from Louisiana to North Carolina, wind and road
vibration wiggled the charging cable just enough to
break a tiny connector in the GPS. The GPS unit
couldn’t be charged and we couldn’t connect to the
computer to download the 2016 High Pass Boogie
route. UGH! I thought I was jinxed but have since
found others who have had similar experiences with
route downloads and other GPS quirks.
GPS may not be the best acronym for these devices,
but I do love them (most of the time). They always get
me home (eventually) and they Generally Point
Somewhere, just maybe not where I want to go a
particular time.
P.S. Thanks to all for a wonderful High Pass Boogie
2016. It was well planned, had a wonderful route,
detailed directions, great food, super comradery and
we raised a bunch of money for the Blue Ridge
Parkway Foundation. I appreciate all the hard work
from the Asheville BMW officers, planners, workers,
sponsors and riders. I look forward to the 2017 event
and the ride from Baton Rouge! I’ll try to get my GPS
gremlins under control by then. For now, my trips are
a journey. I may not always get to where I’m going,
but thankfully, I always find my way home.
Cheers!
John Wozniak
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Editor’s Ramblings By Gary Cox
ALL GOOD THINGS
In the past I have labored to
come up with something to
write month after month, and
sometimes what I have
written has not been great.
This month I am struggling
for a completely different
reason. So I ask your
indulgence as I make my way through one last
rambling.
As several of you know my work schedule over
the past 12 plus months has been extremely
crazy, and I have been challenged to get the
newsletter out in a timely fashion. Also most of
you have noticed that I not attending as many
meetings or gatherings as I used to. I have been
conflicted for the past 8 months on whether to
give up the newsletter or not. So two weeks ago I
finally decided that it is time to go. I had almost
changed my mind early this week. Then Thursday
I got more news at work (I think a very good
news) but it doesn’t mean working less. If
anything it means doubling down. Unfortunately
this means I need to give up being the editor of
the News Letter.
Yeah I know, “All Good Things”, has probably
been over used in stories, TV and movies, but as
I sit here trying to come up with a title for my final
rambling nothing else is coming to mind. Why?
Because honestly I feel like I am saying “good-
bye” to a group of great friends. This club and
newsletter has meant so much to this naturally
born introvert, who hated writing for most of his
life. Ultimately motorcycle riding is one of the few
things that brings me out of my normal role:
wanting to hide in the back ground and working
behind the scenes. For a 6’5” guy you must admit
that I do a pretty good job of hiding and sneaking
up on people.
I have truly enjoyed sharing my experience and
adventures in this newsletter. Anyway I digress
because there are a few things that I would like to
say in this final ramble.
First to each and every one of you who have
taken the time to say thank you for doing the
newsletter and how much you really enjoy it each
time you see me - I owe you a huge debt of
gratitude because your comments have kept me
going for the past several months. “Thank you
very much” does not really seem adequate, but
for now that’s the best I’ve got. Maybe we can
share a favorite beverage one day. Please let’s
keep in touch, and hopefully the next editor of the
newsletter will allow me submit and print some of
my stories and adventures. Until then, I have
started my own little blog that I will be publishing
stories on randomly, so if you enjoyed what I
wrote in the newsletter check this out.
https://motoramblingsblog.wordpress.com/
Secondly, I will still be around and help out with
the club, time and work schedule permitting. Plus
any free day off I will want to ride, so I hope from
time to time to post on yahoo groups asking if
anyone wants to take a ride.
Lastly there is an opening for someone to take
over the reigns as newsletter editor. I will not lie, it
can be and is a lot of work from time to time, but it
is also a lot of fun and the good outweighs the
bad. I have just run out of time. I am willing to
help get the next editor get up and running. So if
you’re interested please let me know,
It’s time to Ride,
Gary
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