ALL ABOUT THE RSM
RIDE AND SOCIALIZE WITH US! Founded in 1988 as a BMW Riders Group, The Riders of Southern Maine is no longer brand specific and welcomes all motorcycling enthusiasts to join our ranks. Our membership includes...
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The 2025 DownEast Rally is scheduled for Friday May 16 through Sunday May 18, 2025, and will again be held at Agassiz Village in Poland, Maine. With two miles of shorefront on beautiful Thompson...
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A Summer Trip to Newfoundland
On Friday I returned from my motorcycle tour of Newfoundland, 3500 miles in 21 days! Mostly camping, some nights with...
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RSM Campout at Rangeley Lakes Campground
Dan Sherman, John Horne, Donna Stinson, and Bryan Van Dussen attended last weekend's Rangely camping trip. Initially, we wondered why...
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Taking an Experienced Rider Training Course through the State of New Hampshire Department of Safety Division of Motor Vehicles This Past Spring
If I thought my skills were great, I'd be kidding myself. After four months of not riding, my bike feels...
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Another Great Weekend at Lamoine State Park
Another great weekend at Lamoine SP! I'm happy we stayed Saturday. Yep, it was soupy Sunday morning but by the...
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A Wonderful 2024 DownEast Rally
The 2024 DownEast Rally is over . . . but what a great weekend it was! Yeah, maybe the weather...
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The Two-Day Off-Road Training Course at BMW
Last October, I attended the BMW Premier Training Course at the BMW Performance Center in Greer, SC. That was a one-day...
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Winter/Holiday Gathering 2024
Members of the Riders of Southern Maine got together on Sunday afternoon/evening February 4th for the Annual Winter/Holiday Gathering! This...
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Making The Most Of 12 Days on Motorcycles-Postscript
I'm not sure what time the first bike fired up but it was still dark. And I didn't hear the...
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Making The Most Of 12 Days on Motorcycles-Part 4
THIS IS PART 4 OF A 5 PART SERIES As we were nearly a day early, Jill asked us if...
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Making The Most Of 12 Days on Motorcycles-Part 3
THIS IS PART 3 OF A 5 PART SERIES Ensuring that I'd updated the Zumo's options to avoid highways, we...
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Making The Most Of 12 Days on Motorcycles-Part 2
THIS IS PART 2 OF A 5 PART SERIES Our ride Sunday to the Poconos was uneventful if somewhat ponderous. ...
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BMW UPDATES AND NATIONAL NEWS
Lean on Champ U to build skills in the off season
NOTE: Some Champ U online courses are available to MOA members at a discount! Refer to bmwmoa.org/ChampU for details! Based at both NCBike in Garysburg,...
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BMW Announces R 1300 GS Adventure
It didn't take a lot of prescience to figure out BMW Motorrad was going to produce an Adventure variant of the new R 1300 GS-the...
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What we don’t know can’t hurt us—right?
What we don't know can’t hurt us, or so the saying goes. Of course, it’s not hard to come up with examples to the contrary;...
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Reflexes
For the first time in many years, I hurt myself on a motorcycle. More accurately, I hurt myself standing over a motorcycle—on one foot! I’d...
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BMW Motorrad announces MY2025 updates
BMW Motorrad announced a slew of updates to their motorcycles for the 2025 model year; bikes with these new options will be available for ordering...
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Mastering your machine: Small changes often make the biggest impact
Photos by Kandi Spangler and Bill Wiegand and courtesy of the BMW Performance Center. "Feel your butt!" That was the phrase etched into my brain...
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It’s not easy being green
Remember Kermit the Frog’s signature song and 1970 Sesame Street super-hit? Kermit’s ode to involuntary (and sometimes unpleasant) individuality was about the literal color green,...
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Ride Vision Pro2: A groundbreaking advancement in motorcycle safety
Ride Vision’s recently introduced Pro2 system sets the standard for blind spot and distance/collision alerts for motorcycles. The Ride Vision Pro2 system features state-of-the-art AI...
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