October Club Mtg. Minutes & News
Catch up on the latest club news from the October meeting minutes HERE.
We are excited to announce that new volunteers have stepped forward to serve as board members for 2025. Alex purred up on his exquisite vintage Bimoto . . . Joe M. was awarded the BMW MOA medallion service award . . . birthday cake was served for Joe M. and Ken K. . . . rally financials summary . . . and lively maintenance discussion ensued. We are taking Banquet venue and entertainment suggestions for our annual February 2025 festivities. Thanks to Mosites dealership for hosting and providing the pizza.
ChampU Online Learning FREE for BMW MOA Members
INVEST IN YOU A new partnership between the BMW MOA Foundation and CHAMPIONS RIDING SCHOOL provides BMW MOA members the opportunity to train online to improve their riding skills for FREE! A special discount on the popular online training course, CHAMPION HABITS: THE CORE CURRICULUM, reduces the standard $99.95 fee to only $39.95 for MOA members. And, a guaranteed rebate from the MOA Foundation upon completion of the program allows BMW MOA members to gain online learning and improve riding skills at NO COST! Not to mention a possible disount on your insurance.
https://www.bmwmoa.org/news/640018/ChampU-Online-Learning-Free-for-BMW-MOA-Members.htm
ChampU is a complete video-based, online digital curriculum that mirrors the 2-Day ChampSchool and shares the same goal: make you an awesome motorcycle rider. The in-person 2-Day ChampSchool is a ton of fun, but it’s expensive ($3,000) and only available at a limited number of locations.
ChampU solves both of those problems by making Champions Habits (the techniques, approaches, skills, and the mindsets of the best riders in the world) available to any rider, at any location at an affordable price. World-class riding instruction is just a click away.
Jack Riepe Photos and Interviews
"Riding, writing, chasing adrenaline, and cultivating friends like wildflowers. Whether he hit the road on two wheels or four, instead of exhaust, he left a trail of smiles and laughter. He never belonged to himself. Always you."
Daughter Katherine's Memories and Tribute962.29 KB
Our own Four Winds photo collection of the inimitable Jack the Reipe - court jester of his beloved moto-fans and friends. He was a featured guest speaker at our 2015 and 2016 Four Winds rallies.
Author… Humorist… Speaker
Jack Riepe was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, and began his writing career as a political publicist. Exhausting that sector’s truth and moral inspiration in a few brief years, Riepe moved on to corporate public relations, specializing in business travel issues for major trade associations. He became associate publisher of Business Travel Executive Magazine in 1988, introducing a humor column to an industry that elevates solemnity to a virtue.
Riepe wrote Politically Correct Cigar Smoking For Social Terrorists in 1998, a collection of short stories and essays defining this social ritual and redefining male sensitivity. It was followed 13 years later by Conversations With A Motorcycle, the author’s account of his first two years in the saddle. Regarded by many as a legitimate Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel), serious riders and discerning readers relate to Riepe’s sense of humor de noir.
Riepe writes about stuff that has happened to all of us — in romance, travel, marriage, business, illicit affairs, first arrests, and every aspect of common life — he just admits it happened to him… And he’s not afraid to go into detail.
Riepe is a columnist for the BMW MOA’s Owners News as he is a devotee of German motorcycles that move at the speed of light. He is a frequent speaker at motorcycle rallies and claims to vacation in a South American Witness Protection Program. He supports the legal profession and gets divorced every seven years. - Susan Stepanski
Obituary video great older photos of a younger Jack - and Halloween!
Interview Mainline Public Television "Authors Speak" 2020 - half hour of the real Jack sounding rather professional
DesMoine 2018 rally interview
FuelStop Chats Episode 22 in 2021
Chasing the Horizon 2018 podcast 0:10:30 start time with Wes Fleming Episode 40, Dec. 2018
Club Meeting pro video by Jill Frenchie. Jill Mernick Frenchie. One of my first video "jobs" was recording our beloved Jack at the monthly motorcycle breakfast - eat & wrench 11 years ago - as always he was enthusiastic and funny.
Jack's Facebook page
Welcome to the Four Winds BMW Riders club, founded in the early 60's by a small group of BMW enthusiasts in western PA. The first Four Winds Rally was held in 1967. We host the longest consecutively running BMW rally in the country, predating the existence of any national BMW club. We're located in the Pittsburgh metro area and enjoy excellent riding here and in Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland.
Nationwide "When and Where" lists to plan your adventures for the year and try keep up with which events might be re-scheduled.
