Rick Nelson has been named one of only five Key Volunteers for 2012 by BMW Motorcycle Owners of America. “I was very surprised when I opened my mail,” he said. While he was surprised those of us who have been around him for any length of time are not. He is always willing to help on a project with his expertise and labor.

The award came with a key and a framable certificate. “I don’t have room in my trailer to hang this,” bemoaned Rick. Helpful friends at our coffee group suggested that he frame the certificate with a hi-viz orange frame and wear it on his back while riding. It would be a safety device that encourages volunteerism.

Note the enormous key under the fingers on his right hand. The MOA key is engraved with his name.

Congratulations Rick for this distinctive national honor.

MOA Mileage from James Brown on Vimeo.

Rick Hansen, BMW Motorcycle Club of Indianapolis, collects beginning MOA mileage forms for 2013.

Rick Hansen makes an impassioned plea for our club members to participate in the MOA Mileage competition. Our collective miles are rank ordered against other clubs. We have some new members and if everyone participates, we should be more competitive than we have been.

Make note of your odometer readings as of today, the start date of the six month riding period. You still have some time to download the forms and get them to Rick but don’t procrastinate too long.

Thank you Rick, for organizing the kickoff at the dealer’s today.

Let’s get busy and support Rick and the club in this mileage competition.

Jim Brown

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, 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.