Boxer Shorts, May, 2004 - 2 of 3
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"I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.... Oh yeah..." ~ The Who
Results of the annual BMW MOA Mileage Contest have been tallied and Yankee Beemers came out smoking. Yes, we know it's not a real competition. We don't ride for the sake of watching miles pile up. Heck no. A motorcycle is not a frequent flyer program. That said, the April issue of BMW ON showed Yankee Beemers coming in at Number 1 out of a total of 285 chartered clubs for mileage burned.
Our total mileage was 181% higher than the nearest competitor: 55 Yankee Beemers last season rode 506,052 miles compared to club MacPac's 37 members riding 278,783 miles. Yankee Beemers scored an average of 9,200 miles per person; whereas MacPac of Pennsylvania scored an average of 7,534 per. But who's counting?
Special kudos to Dana Lewis, who made the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association's "High Mileage Honor Roll" for clocking 100,000 career membership miles. Way to go, Dana!
In all, there were 1,290 total individuals who entered last season's mileage contest from 50 states, including 8 from Canada provinces, and single entrants from the Bahamas, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Man-for-all-seasons Rob Nye rounded up his best year yet, finishing 13th in the world of participants with an impressive 35,887 miles. He was first in his home state of RI by a margin of 20,377. Yankee Beemers completely dominated all New England states, at least those that count. Kudos to Steve Terrien, who finished first in Massachusetts with a whopping 27,852 miles to call his own. Steve's nearest state rival was behind him at a distance roughly equivalent to the distance between L.A. and a pig farm in Omsk, Russia, east of the Ural Mountains in Siberia. And we salute Bob Collin for finishing first in the state of Maine with 27,432 miles.
These three hardy men get the Around the Globe Award for riding more miles than the circumference of the earth (24,901.55 miles). Maybe we should call this award "The Fred Tausch", and get used to making a verb out of his name; as in, "His clutch got tausched last year." Fred Tausch still rides his 1970 R60/5 with over 650,000 BMW authenticated miles on it. Fred likes to say that washing a bike is a bad idea, because dirt and mud keep it from leaking. Fred has ridden around the world 26 times on one bike. That's a line that needs no exclamation mark.
Also hats off to Craig Cleasby, who cleaned up in Connecticut with a first place finish there, logging 21,560 miles. And special kudos to Irene Boettcher, who left many in the dust with her 18th place finish among the 137 women who entered. Irene's odometer gave her a fourth place finish in her state of Maine with 18,135 miles, also making her sixth highest among all Yankee Beemers, by my reckoning. But who's counting?
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