About the Washington State BMW Riders
About the Club We are Washington State BMW Riders, BMW Motorcycle Owners of America (MOA) Chartered Club #104, and BMW Risers Association (RA) Chartered Club #101, based in western Washington. Made up of BMW motorcycle...
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BREAKING NEWS: BMW NA/BMW Canada order “stop sale” on gasoline-powered new and used motorcycles
Official statement from BMW NA, received Wednesday, 20 September 2023: "BMW of North America is dedicated to providing vehicles to our customers that meet their...
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Binoculars, blindness and invisibility
In recent years, I’ve regularly chosen gear bedecked with hi-viz yellow to increase my conspicuity on the road. I also added LED driving lights to...
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Rubber Side Down, by Ron Davis
Well, he’s gone and done it again. Our very own Ron Davis has published another collection of his clever works, kindly saving us from having...
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Keeping Your Cool, Part 4: Lower Body
Earlier in this series, we discussed the basics of hot-weather motorcycling and the amazing effectiveness of some gear designed to exploit evaporative cooling of our...
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Keeping Your Cool, Part 3: Upper Body
Previously in this series, we discussed the basics of hot-weather motorcycling, the critical importance of keeping our brains from overheating and the outsized effectiveness of...
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Keeping Your Cool, Part 2: Neck Wraps
In Part One of this series, we discussed the dangers of overheating, how our bodies naturally mitigate excessively high temperatures, and some methods motorcyclists have...
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Obliteride
Most of us know someone who has been affected by cancer. It’s a scary disease that impacts families for years. In 2020 I was diagnosed...
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Keeping Your Cool, Part 1: The Basics
Last summer’s record-breaking heat provided plenty of impetus to investigate more ways to stay comfortably cool on our motorcycles. Surely all serious riders have already...
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10,000 Curves
The idea it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve expert status was popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book, Outliers: The Story of Success. It’s...
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