{"id":8653,"date":"2025-09-17T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?post_type=moa_podcasts&#038;p=8653"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:34:03","slug":"a-u-t-o-matic-rick-kallmayer-rits","status":"publish","type":"moa_podcasts","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/moa_podcasts\/a-u-t-o-matic-rick-kallmayer-rits\/","title":{"rendered":"A-U-T-O-matic: Rick Kallmayer (RitS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8653\" class=\"elementor elementor-8653\" data-elementor-post-type=\"moa_podcasts\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23a9a482 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"23a9a482\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a757f48 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2a757f48\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Rick Kallmayer has ridden motorcycles for more than 50 years and owned more than 50 bikes. But his latest is a departure from all the rest \u2013 it\u2019s his first with an automatic transmission. Rick talks about why he bought a Honda NT1100, how he likes it, and why he thinks automatics will grow in popularity.<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Embed Player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/38251370\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/f06823\/time-start\/00:00:00\/hide-playlist\/yes\/download\/yes\/font-color\/000000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"192\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8654 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8654 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rick_kallmayer_rits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Riding Into The Sunset<\/em>\u00a0is brought to you by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwownersnews.com\/\">BMW Motorcycle Owners of America<\/a>\u00a0and hosted by journalist &amp; author Ed Housewright. Reach us by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:podcast@bmwmoa.org?subject=RITS\">podcast@bmwmoa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Kallmayer has ridden motorcycles for more than 50 years and owned more than 50 bikes. But his latest is a departure from all the rest \u2013 it\u2019s his first with an automatic transmission. Rick talks about why he bought a Honda NT1100, how he likes it, and why he thinks automatics will grow in popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5859,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"podcast":[78],"class_list":["post-8653","moa_podcasts","type-moa_podcasts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","podcast-riding-into-the-sunset"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/moa_podcasts"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}