2025 Rally Updates!

roddesu · Jun 19, 2025

Luke and I have made it to Lebanon, TN for the 2025 BMW MOA Rally! Because we need booth "stuff" we have no option but to drive. The highlight of the trip was at the Buc-ee's at the turnoff of I65 to take highways to Lebanon. Luke had never been to a Buc-ees. The guy is the blue t-shirt below is Luke heading in to experience the over-kill that is Buc-ees! (Also the cheapest gas I've seen in a long time!)

More photos of the booth and demo rides coming soon!

PBKrarup · Jun 19, 2025

You met John Parodi, a friend and member of the NorCal BMW Club! Nice guy, did you make a sale?

How many visitors/buyers so far?

roddesu · Jun 20, 2025

PBKrarup said:
You met John Parodi, a friend and member of the NorCal BMW Club! Nice guy, did you make a sale?

How many visitors/buyers so far?

We met a TON of people yesterday! I think Luke spoke to someone who said they knew Peter. That must have been John.

roddesu · Jun 20, 2025

A couple of photos from yesterday:

We parked the GS and a trailer outside next to Denali, so we ended up with basically two booths.

Not a very rigorous test of the shelf...she's pretty tiny!

Our first demo rider!

Another demo ride with Luke in the background.

Our first fully loaded Beta Tester swong by. Richard, flying a West Virginia flag behind is 1250GS!

To get the full effect of his setup, you have to WATCH THIS VIDEO!

Tony D. · Jun 23, 2025

That's West <BG> Virginia, thankyouverymich.
Great pics Rod, see on the other end of the country soon!

FirstR8 · Jun 30, 2025

Been busy since we got back from TN. Still have some video and pictures to sort thru before I can add a Ride Report. Also will need a little scotch to sharpen that rapier wit and get the comedic juices flowing. Maybe I can post a little this holiday weekend.

PBKrarup · Jun 30, 2025

My preferred Scotch is a Drambuie on the rocks, but I admit to having an incorrigible sweet tooth.

PBKrarup · Sunday at 5:47 PM

FirstR8 said:
Been busy since we got back from TN. Still have some video and pictures to sort thru before I can add a Ride Report. Also will need a little scotch to sharpen that rapier wit and get the comedic juices flowing. Maybe I can post a little this holiday weekend.

.... well.... that didn't happen.

roddesu · 2025-07-07T11:17:02-0500

Below is the traveling Pasq setup! My Hyundai Tuscon Hybrid pulling a small karavan trailer with a S10 and a 1200GS. Tires on the trailer limited us to 70 mph, so it was 33 hours of driving one-way.

Here's what the back of the car looked like...packed pretty tightly.

As mentioned in another thread...SD and MT were very unusually green for end-of-June. Here's what it looked like going down into the Missouri River valley on I-90.