Monthly Archives: April 2013

2013 MOA Mileage Contest Update!

Good Morning!!!!!

Tomorrow is the start of the BMWMOA Mileage Contest, a fun, no cost participation event that occurs each year. I hope you will consider coming down to Falcone Motorsports tomorrow for some coffee and cookies and the chance to win a t shirt when you get your MOA Starting mileage registration form witnessed and signed. Something different this year. 11 AM to 3 PM- I will be there, along with a few membership committee members. In 2009 we had 23 club members complete the process and received their participation pins, For 2012 we had 38!

The MOA mileage contest is about fun and participation, Wisconsin was the number one state again in 2012 with 142 riders finishing, Indiana tied for 10th, with North Carolina with 51 riders. I would like to see if we can add a few more club members to the list this year as well as encourage other MOA members to help move Indiana up the list. When you consider that Minnesota was 8th with 57 riders participating I think we can move up on the list. Illinois was 4th with 84!

If you know of other MOA members who are club members or not, please encourage them to join in on the fun this year, invite them to come down to the dealership tomorrow, enjoy some conversation with other riders and perhaps win a t shirt from Falcone.

I am enlisting the help of Dennis, Wayne and Dom to assist me in collecting forms at the breakfast as Shapiro’s as well until May 11th, I will again record eveyones information and mail all of our club forms to the MOA by the mailing deadline of May 13th.

Thanks for considering this, and hope to see you tomorrow or at Shapiro’s over the next few weeks.

Rick H ( the other Rick)

Judy Pearson wins two Silver Awards in Skiing competition

Judy Pearson, BMW Motorcycle Club of Indianapolis.

Congratulations to Judy Pearson for winning two Silver Medals in a Skiing competition in Keystone, Colo. last month. I had understood from Wayne Garrison that she had won a motorcycle race. So as I was talking to her about her wins, she kept mentioning skiing and that she was only 8.2 seconds behind Lindsey Vonn and I kept trying to keep her on track to talk about her motorcycle wins. I thought Vonn had turned to motorcycle racing while trying to deal with Tiger Woods and her broken leg. But that didn’t make much sense either. When I finally figured out my mistake, what Judy was talking about made much more sense and we all had a big laugh.

She is wearing one of the medals. If you look at it in sunlight, you had better wear sunglasses.

So Judy is the club’s hot shot skier. If she points her skis at you, get out of the way.

Art Campbell visits Indy for a Month

Art Campbell, visitor, BMW Motorcycle Club of Indianapolis.

Art Campbell, a training engineer for GTECH, is in town for a month working on hardware training for the hardware backbone of the Hoosier Lottery. Art hails from Massachusetts. His company does work in approximately 30 states and they have 35 international partners so he is well traveled. His round-trip ride to and from work is about 80 miles so he puts some miles on his K1200LT. Before the LT, he owned two K75s at the same time as if one wasn’t enough for one human being.

If you see Art at Shapiro’s again, give him a Hoosier welcome.