{"id":9040,"date":"2026-01-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:10:31","slug":"shop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/shop-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got word from George that he\u2019s putting the shop up for sale. No clue when it will sell, but he said he\u2019s out no later than the end of 2026 due to his wife retiring from teaching at that point. Not real excited about the idea of not just losing a friend and mentor (he says they\u2019re moving to a North Carolina beach), but also a super friendly space to work in and keep my lift, tools, parts, bikes, etc. Chatted with Ted about it, he\u2019s got some ideas on how I can continue to support the MOA with content, but I\u2019m actually kind of alarmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking of options. Dave maybe? (I visited his shop, he doesn\u2019t have space and his situation seems tenuous.) Steve? Jinks&#8217; shop in Fredericksburg? I\u2019m trying hard to be glad for George but it\u2019s hard in the moment\u2014feels a lot like when I got laid off by the robber baron CEO back in 2016. I was really counting on his support throughout this year of riding the Airhead and with my luck, he\u2019ll sell the shop on the first of February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One night last week we got about three inches of wet, heavy, slushy snow\u2014then a coating of about a quarter-inch of ice on top of that. The next evening we got another inch of snow, but it was light and powdery. The first batch of snow we had to scrape to the side of the driveway with shovels, but the second round I cleared away with my backpack leaf blower. We got another snowstorm at the end of the week (Friday, 10 Jan), but it was only a couple of inches. I should have cleared the driveway and the cars on Saturday, but I didn\u2019t have anywhere to go. Clearing it away on Sunday with the leaf blower required a bit of extra time and effort. I need to remember to get gas to create fresh gas\/oil mix for the leaf blower\u2019s two-stroke engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9041 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9041 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_snow_drive-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><I>A snowstorm on 11 January 2025 was our third in a week. No chance of getting the bike out on a day like this!<\/I><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George breaks some big news about the shop, and it snows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}