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We’re the Mid-Atlantic Riders, a club chartered by the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America (#280). We welcome everyone to join us and enjoy the thrills of motorcycling and getting together for fun. We are not...
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Obsession. Rumination. Insomnia. The angst of buying a motorcycle can be sweet torture. This ordeal may arrive unbidden. You don’t have to be out looking...
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BMW Delays Electric Motorcycle
Recently, BMW Blog uncovered BMW Motorrad head Markus Flasch telling a German outlet that BMW has the technology to build a 124-mile range electric motorcycle. However, the project is being...
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Top 10 Riding Tips for Any Time of Year
Here are the Top 10 ... plus one ... riding tips for any time of year! Get trained! With the Clark Luster program for groups...
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Film trailer released for California North BDR
Film Trailer Released for the BDR California-North Project Seattle, WA - (January 17, 2024) – The adventure motorcycling non-profit, Backcountry Discovery Routes® (BDR®), has just...
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BMW unveils 2024 F 900 GS
BMW Motorrad USA introduced the 2024 BMW F 800 GS, F 900 GS and F 900 GS Adventure in late January 2024. They redesigned these...
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Rebuilding an ’83 R 80 ST for charity
This 1983 R 80 ST is my fifth airhead rebuild/restoration project. I began doing this work back in 2009 and have published documentation on how...
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Time travel
Sci-fi depictions of time travel always show people going back to the past or ahead to the future. Ironically, that’s what many human beings spend...
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Yamaha Champions Riding School Announces Champ U: Traffic Survival.
Yamaha Champions Riding School, the premier motorcycle riding school in North America, is proud to announce a new Champions University digital curriculum: Traffic Survival. This...
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Everyone has a story
MOA member Alan Romefelt emailed me a question for The Ride Inside podcast (you can, too, at [email protected]) and I felt it deserved a response....
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