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How Many Is Enough? Author’s Essay #3
By Stuart A. Kirk Author's Stable of Motorcycles “How many bikes are enough?" asked Bob, my philosopher friend, one morning as we were eating donuts at the Santa Fe BMW dealership. It seemed like a straight-forward query, but I had no answer. I recalled later that...
Kudos for OCD!
A traveler wrote a nice letter to the BMW ON magazine about a positive experience he had at our shop last summer. It got published in the August 2020 Issue! This is it below: A Great shop in Santa Fe Last summer, I was staying in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a long and...
All Girls Track Day
Arroyo Seco Raceway in Deming New Mexico put on their annual "All Girls Track Day" August 8th. Frances and Adah - the only female members of Kraut Racing - took this seriously and left the men behind. Women can go do a track day and help each other to accomplish tasks...
Track Days and Racing Start Up Again!
After waiting all year, Sandia Speedway opened up and the club SMRI put on a track/race weekend with a Race School on Friday the 14th of August, Track Day the 15th and the Law Tigers 1st Round Championship on Sunday the 16th. In July the club put on a "trial" track...
“Riding Alone”, Essay by Stuart Kirk
At the beginning, I had to ride alone. In my mid-forties and under the spell of a quixotic impulse, I bought a new red 1991 BMW K75S. But I was unprepared to ride. I couldn’t test ride the Beemer or ride it home, because I didn’t have a motorcycle license. Besides, I...
Author’s #2 Essay in Series – Riding to Nowhere
"Non-riding friends may seek altered states of consciousness through yoga, meditation, jogging, bicycling or other engrossing hobbies, not to mention alcohol or drugs. But none of these have as the essential component of moving briskly through space on an...
Local Author starts New Book with a Series of Essays on his Motorcycling
Stuart Kirk began riding at 19, but then abandoned motorcycling for 25 years. As he describes in his recent book, Revved! Obsessions of a Midlife Motorcyclist (available from Amazon and from OCD), he resumed riding with a passion, averaging 20,000 miles a year, from...
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Holiday Closures
We will be closed Monday May 25th for Memorial Day and again Friday May 29th. We will be open 9am - 6pm Tuesday - Thursday May 26-28 Have a safe and happy holiday and many thanks you for your business!
Podcast from Sandia Motor Speedway
Podcast with Kraut Racing and Rust is Gold Racing is Live A brand new episode of the Rust Is Gold Racing#Podcast featuring Marc Beyer and Frances Sayre Link to Podcast http://www.rustisgoldracing.com/kraut-racing-smri-road-racing-wrap-up-ep-29/ has been posted! This...