Ramblings & Rants
An Interview with BMW Motorrad’s V.P. of Sales and Marketing
Saturday, December 1st, 2007BMW Motorrad’s Pieter de Waal talks about his first three years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in Munich, and predicts that even more exciting times are just around the corner. Read more...
Oh horrible, horrible IE6…
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007I discovered that the WordPress theme I had developed for this here blog had a serious layout issue in IE6… My initial inclination was to ignore it because there’s no reason a person should be using IE in the first place, and even less of a reason to keep using one as horrible as version 6. However, a quick check of… Read more...
Riding with a GPS… Finally!
Monday, October 29th, 2007I finally broke down and bought a GPS. Granted, it’s not a fancy-schmancy one like the BMW Zumo… It is actually a Magellan 2200T (it’s a factory refurb that I got it on Buy.com for only $160… Can’t go wrong with that right?)
I mounted it on ol’ Tron (my R65LS) using the… Read more...
BMW Motorcycle Rider Jean-Pierre Goy is Awesome
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
We have a poster of Jean-Pierre Goy doing a wheelie on a BMW R1200C here in at A&S BMW Motorcycles that is coveted by all employees and most customers. Many a soul has sworn to ‘make it disappear’ - such is the awesomeness of Jean-Pierre. His stunting ability is bar none! In my recent web-surfing I found this article on him… Read more...
Song Of The Sausage Creature
Friday, August 31st, 2007As I started thinking, “Hmmm… I run the site, I’m creating blog spaces on our site for our team, maybe I should have one. So now that I have the site up, what should I write about?
The first thing that popped into my head was to present one of the coolest motorcycle stories around. Hunter S. Thompson’s Song Of The Sausage Creature.
About Me: BeemerMonkey : AKA Todd
Thursday, August 30th, 2007This post is a little about yours truly…
I’ve been working here at A&S since Feb. of 2004. I currently run the websites (A&S BMW Motorcycles and A&S Powersports) run Marketing/Advertising, handle a lot of other little technical tasks, as well some other general business process analysis and design issues (especially as they relate to the internet operations and the parts and accessories department).
How I ended up here at… Read more...
Getting Ready For The Desert
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007My first post on my brand spanking new blog is about my pending ride across NV to attend the BUB Speed Trials in Wendover NV. BMW is throwing down some cash on some pretty cool events there, mainly because Andy Sills (Mr. High Speed BMW) is going to be running a pretty intense turbo-charged, chain-driven K1200S to attempt to set yet another record.
If you ride a… Read more...
5 Hip Chics on Motorcycles
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Here’s a fun motorcycle trip going on right now! A couple of local girls are off on a 10 day adventure! Read their blog: http://5hipchicsonmotorcycles.blogspot.com/
Engines pumping - A reader submitted video
Saturday, June 16th, 2007There’s one word to describe this video - RAD!
Comprised of photo’s taken by Joe Salas of 4theriders.com at the River City Beemers recent skills improvement day at Thunderhill, Richard Turk created this awesome slideshow! I love it!
Fiery Sunset - A reader submitted blog
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
As promised, I’ll always post fun stories and pictures you send in! Here’s a great story from a local friend and member of the Gold Country Riders chapter of Women on Wheels.
“The summer of 2006 - Four of us women, all on BMW’s went on a 10 day, 4000 mile trip from Roseville, CA to… Read more...