April Airhead Mtg.

This evening was the monthly "meeting" of our Airheads Beemer club. It is actually referred to as "Barley Therapy" as it is held at the local microbrewery. There was a pretty good turnout and George Rahn, who used to own the BMW dealership in Fairbanks until 2008, showed all the other riders up by arriving on his Royal Enfield. The roads were still pretty wet with large patches of ice but he made it out without any mishaps. He has a number of sidecar rigs including a Cozy on his Royal Enfield but for some reason he chose to arrive on two wheels. When asked why he rode the simple answer was the car doesn't work. For anyone who hasn't met George, he is a bit eccentric but very knowledgeable about the old Beemers. His shop has a lot of old "R" and "K" bikes laying around mixed with a bunch of newer Enfields and a whole pile of "stuff". It sort of looks like a motorcycle junkyard. He is currently a dealer for Royal Enfield but still does a lot of work on the older BMWs. I had talked to him in the past about my valve issue and he said that he would just replace everything with OEM parts and call it good. "After all, how long do you plan to keep the bike?" I guess that wasn't the solution I was looking for but probably a reasonable question.