Excellent, Gary!
I translated this lil' piece o' text that I made for the danish beemer club:
You know you're a BMW enthusiast:
- if your wife has to ask you to move the BMW R23 in the living room, so that she can watch "Oprah".
- if you talked your BMW friends into coming along, so that you can bring the huge tent, the laptop, the folding chairs and ditto table, plus the mini tv, in the sidecars.
- if you own more than 20 black t-shirts with the BMW Motorcycle Club Logo print.
- if your best shoes are good, sturdy biker boots.
- if you applied for and got the extra loan to pay for the last service check-up.
- if you buy your 3-year-old niece a BMW Club tee.
- if you're only sunburnt on a visor-shaped area around your eyes.
- if your idea of real art is a photo of your BMW R1150GS parked somewhere in Costa Rica or North Africa.
- if you get your best sleep in a big rented hut with your wife, so that you've got room for the luggage, too.
- if you don't really care about good weather. What else have you got a full fairing for?
- if you think that God invented winter to test your riding skills.
- if you've cancelled your subscription of "Home Garden", because there weren't any motorcycle pics in the magazine.
- if you wake up in the middle of the night and worry about your bike.
- if you can recognize a beemer sound in the distance and be able to tell model/year, but still can't remember the name of your brother-in-law.
- if you can remember at least 5 cell phone numbers to the beemer club buddies, but can't remember your own telephone number.
- if your touring expenses exceeds the expenses to the mortgage.
- if you think it's pretty normal to have the front fork lying on the kitchen table.
- if you think that the oil stain on the garage floor is your Mercedes' way of keeping you from being able to afford new tires for the beemer.
- if you start your beemer in the garage and just sit there when the weather's bad.
- if you've got more photos of your beemer (with varying backgrounds) than of your children.
- if you get hit by a car and break your leg in three different places, but still ask the police officer if the beemer's okay.
- if you keep a safe in your garage just for some of the more expensive spare parts for the beemer.
- if you find out where the BMW parts dealers are located when going on holiday.
- if all the links in your browser are BMW-themed.
- and if all of your shelves are creaking from the weight of the various BMW club magazines, Haynes
manuals, Clymer manuals, and BMW motorcycle magazines and books.
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